RESOURCE CENTER - On the Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, you will find storage resources from leading industry experts exploring the technologies, problems and solutions available around Open Storage and SSD.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Published: November 10, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Standards | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

TRIAL SOFTWARE - The Sun Unified Storage Simulator is provided as either a VirtualBox or VMware virtual machine that provides a simulated experience of a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System with 16 simulated disk drives.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: November 27, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Drives | Storage Replication | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WEBCAST - Protecting data that is not in the primary datacenter amplifies all the traditional challenges of backup - either there is not enough bandwidth to accomplish a remote backup in the window available, or the process of handling and shipping tapes is in the hands of non-IT employees.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups

PRODUCT DEMO - Tape export is process of moving data from virtual tape to physical tape. Tape stacking allows multiple virtual tapes to be consolidated onto a single physical tape in order to save on tape media consumption. The concept is very simple and also very useful. Please watch this video for examples of how FalconStor VTL functions.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: November 9, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Consolidation | Data Storage | Storage Consolidation | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries | Virtual Machine Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This session will look at various techniques and strategies to optimize either on-line active or primary as well as near-line or secondary storage environment during tough economic times, as well as to position for future growth, after all, there is no such thing as a data recession!
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Power Supplies | Storage Best Practices

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Discover some of the challenges you'll face when compliance mandates a retention policy that just doesn’t make sense, and learn about some alternate solutions to backup and archiving you may not have considered yet.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Recovery | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - "Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory -- and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Spending | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - A disaster recovery plan represents an organization's detailed roadmap of where to go, what to do and when to do it in the event of a disaster. Understanding what does the business need, and is it capable of addressing this need with regard to both capabilities and cost is essential in the overall planning stages.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: November 5, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - This tech report demonstrates how using Dell EqualLogic SAN Snapshots can improve data protection in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment.
Posted: November 5, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Recovery | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Infrastructure 3

WEBCAST - Learn archiving tips from HP's Manu Chadha that will help you increase application performance and comply with regulatory, governance and e-discovery obligations.
Posted: November 5, 2009 | Premiered: November 5, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Content Archiving | Data Storage | Document Management | Electronic Discovery | Email | Records Management

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Adaptec Series 5Z RAID controllers with Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection (ZMCP - pronounced “zemcap”) provide maximum protection for cached data and eliminate the substantial costs and environmental impact of complex, messy and expensive Lithium Ion batteries, while improving cache protection and cache performance.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cache | Caching | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | RAID

WHITE PAPER - Apache Solr is the definitive application development implementation for Lucene, and it is the leading open source search platform. This white paper describes the new features and improvements in the latest version, Apache Solr 1.4.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Enterprise Search Software | Open Source | Open Source Software | Search Engines | Software Upgrades

ESSENTIAL GUIDE - Virtual server technology has made one key task a lot harder: backup. In this SearchStorageUK essential guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about protecting virtual servers.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Center Consolidation | Data Recovery | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Backups | VMware

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - Assessing your organization's challenges, abilities and assets will help to determine if deploying a cloud-based data backup strategy is a better alternative than relying on an on-site data backup and recovery strategy. This tutorial spells out what you need to consider when trying deciding if cloud backup is right for your organization.
Posted: November 2, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cloud Computing | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Hybrid clouds | Private cloud computing | Public cloud computing

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - There are so many different types of deduplication: source, target, hash-based, delta differential-based, and global dedupe, for example. Read this presentation transcript for a discussion of data backup methods, data security, and data storage strategies for various environments.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Encryption | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Security | Data Storage