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Moving from Cloud Archive to Cloud Preservation – CloudLanes Briefing Note

Posted on April 27, 2017 by George Crump

The cloud is an ideal storage area for the 90 percent of an organization’s data that is not active. Moving this data to the cloud frees up on-premises storage requirements as well as data center floor space. The problem is…

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Encryption, FC, ISCSI, NFS, Replication, S3, SMB, Virtual, VTL
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A Decade of Data Domain

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Colm Keegan

A decade has passed since Data Domain began selling its first appliance and started evangelizing the virtues of data deduplication as an enabling technology to reduce the torrents of backup data in data center environments. The term “deduplication” was not…

Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, DataDomain, EMC, EMC NetWorker, VMware, VTL
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STORServer Upgrades and Extends Backup Appliance Line

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Eric Slack

When disk drives started to become economically feasible for backup, virtual tape libraries (VTLs) were the solution most manufacturers came up with to incorporate the benefits of disk into their existing tape-oriented environments. Since they were built around legacy backup…

Tagged with: Backup, Bare-metal restore, IBM, STORServer, TSM, Virtual Tape Library, VMware, VTL
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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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