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Breaking The Top Four Myths Of Tape vs. Disk Backup

Posted on January 27, 2011 by George Crump

Over the past few years disk as a backup target has become a key enhancement to most backup infrastructures. Disk is believed to be faster, almost as cost-effective and more resilient. In reality tape has its own unique value in…

Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Data Protection, disk backup, Hardware, RAID, Tape drive, Tape library, Virtual Tape Library
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Nimble Storage Briefing Note

Posted on January 26, 2011 by George Crump

Nimble Storage is a convergence device of a different sort. Instead of focusing on unifying primary storage protocols, they are unifying primary storage, backups and disaster recovery into a single device. The goal is essentially to allow storage managers to…

Tagged with: Backup, CASL, Data corruption, ExecEvent, Flash memory, Nimble, Nimble Storage, RAID, Solid-state drive
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Integrating Disk Backup With Backup Software

Posted on December 30, 2010 by George Crump

Modern disk backup systems can deduplicate data, replicate data and validate that data’s integrity without involving the backup application in the process. This is beneficial, as it allows the software application to not waste resources that may be better handled…

Tagged with: Backup, backup application, Data deduplication, Data Domain, EMC, software application, Storage
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Dedupe Benefits Mainframes as it does Open Systems

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Eric Slack

Historically, tape as a storage medium in the open systems world has had issues with performance, complexity, reliability and cost, compared with disk systems. The mainframe market has encountered many of these same issues with tape as a backup solution,…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Domain, Dedupe, Deduplication, EMC, LTO, Open Systems, Tape, Virtual Tape Library
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Backup Virtualization

Posted on March 18, 2010 by George Crump

Virtualization has changed the way many data centers operate today. Server virtualization has increased server resource efficiency, flexibility and reliability. Storage virtualization has had a similar effect on storage resources and storage management. Interestingly, the backup and data protection processes…

Tagged with: Backup, Hardware, Storage, Tape drive, Tributary Systems, Virtual Tape Library, VTL
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