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Configure Bacula for Open Source Backups
By Deann Corum - Published June 25, 2009
Bacula is a popular and robust open source backup solution. Learn the basics of Bacula configuration with our simple guide. [more Business Continuity Features]

NetEx HyperIP Boosts Data Storage Recovery
By Paul Rubens - Published June 23, 2009
NetEx says its HyperIP protocol can restore data quickly from remote replication sites. [more IP Storage Features]

Virtualization and the Cloud Will Change Data Storage
By Marty Foltyn - Published June 19, 2009
Storage and IT luminaries gathered last week to discuss the future, and they agreed that it's in cloud and virtual environments. [more Technology Features]


Data Domain's Just Not That Into EMC
By Paul Shread - Published June 15, 2009
Data Domain once again says it favors NetApp over rival suitor EMC, but don't count out EMC just yet. [more Industry News]

EMC-NetApp Takeover Battle a Culture Clash?
By Paul Shread - Published June 10, 2009
On one level, the bidding war between EMC and NetApp for Data Domain appears to be a battle of East and West coast tech cultures. [more Industry News]

Dell Turns to Partners for Dedupe
By Paul Shread - Published June 8, 2009
Rather than hit the acquisition trail for deduplication technology, Dell is choosing to partner instead. [more Business Continuity News]

NetApp Bid Four Times for Data Domain
By Paul Shread - Published June 4, 2009
An SEC filing reveals that NetApp raised its bid for Data Domain twice before merger talks became public — and that Data Domain had interest from another company besides EMC. [more Industry News]

NetApp Matches EMC's Offer for Data Domain
By Paul Shread - Published June 3, 2009
The next move in the bidding war for Data Domain appears to be up to EMC. [more Industry News]

Quantum and NEC Update Dedupe Offerings
By Paul Shread - Published June 3, 2009
As EMC and NetApp fight over Data Domain, other vendors continue to roll out deduplication products to tap into the fast-growing market. [more Business Continuity News]

EMC Outbids NetApp for Data Domain
By Paul Shread - Published June 1, 2009
NetApp's proposal to acquire data deduplication specialist Data Domain has turned into a bidding war. [more Industry News]

Sepaton Adds Dedupe to Data Replication
By Paul Shread - Published May 21, 2009
Sepaton follows Data Domain and others into the bandwidth-saving market for replication solutions that get rid of duplicate data. [more Business Continuity News]

NetApp to Acquire Data Domain
By Paul Shread - Published May 20, 2009
In a shocker for the data storage industry, NetApp will acquire data deduplication pioneer Data Domain. [more Industry News]

Sun Sees Growth in Data Tape Storage
By Paul Shread - Published May 19, 2009
An old data storage technology is providing Sun Microsystems with a surprising source of growth. [more Business Continuity News]

Oracle Plans to Keep Sun's Storage Business
By Paul Shread - Published May 7, 2009
Larry Ellison says Oracle will hang on to Sun's hardware business, including the data storage and tape lines. [more Industry News]

EMC Sues to Stop HP From Hiring Storage Exec
By Paul Shread - Published April 29, 2009
HP has lured away EMC's top data storage executive, but EMC is suing to halt the move. [more Industry News]

CA Gives Away Dedupe, Backup Reporting
By Paul Shread - Published April 27, 2009
CA is making a bold move to grab share in the data backup and recovery market. [more Business Continuity News]

EMC Unveils Virtual I/O Tool for VMware
By Paul Shread - Published April 21, 2009
EMC was just one of many data storage vendors announcing support for VMware's new vSphere 4 cloud operating system. [more Management News]

Cloud Computing Poses E-Discovery, Legal Risks
By Marty Foltyn - Published April 10, 2009
The data storage industry may be all agog about cloud computing, but one attorney urged caution at this week's Storage Networking World. And FCoE was a big draw at the show. [more Business Continuity News]

Dedupe, Solid State and 6Gb SAS Headline at SNW
By Paul Shread - Published April 8, 2009
This week's Storage Networking World show seemed to focus on products that help users do more for less. [more Business Continuity News]

EMC Combines E-Mail Archiving, E-Discovery
By Paul Shread - Published April 2, 2009
EMC overhauls its e-mail archiving platform for a new era of regulatory compliance and e-discovery. [more Business Continuity News]

Data Domain Drops the Price of High-end Dedupe
By Paul Shread - Published March 23, 2009
Data Domain's new data deduplication appliance slashes the price for its highest-end features by more than a third. [more Hardware News]

Data Storage Software Sales Hang On
By Paul Shread - Published March 9, 2009
As data storage hardware sales slump, software sales hang on — just barely. [more Management News]

FTC Case Raises Data Breach Stakes
By Paul Shread - Published March 6, 2009
Are data security incidents now a federal offense? [more Business Continuity News]

E-Discovery Gets a New Startup
By Paul Shread - Published March 5, 2009
Digital Reef says its search and data indexing technology can save users a bundle on e-discovery costs. [more Business Continuity News]

HP, Yahoo Close Online Storage Services
By Paul Shread - Published March 2, 2009
The much-hyped market for online data storage appears to be winnowing, and a few high-profile names are among the casualties. [more Outsourcing News]

Data Domain Makes Dedupe Go Faster
By Paul Shread - Published March 2, 2009
Data Domain is giving users of its data storage de-duplication technology faster performance for free. [more Business Continuity News]

Zmanda Brings Open Source Backup to the Cloud
By Paul Shread - Published February 19, 2009
Zmanda's low-cost approach to data backup seems to be catching on in tough times. [more Business Continuity News]

EMC, HP, IBM Team Up On Encryption Key Standard
By Paul Shread - Published February 13, 2009
Seven IT vendors have banded together to propose an encryption key management standard, an important step toward a more comprehensive data security approach. [more Business Continuity News]

Microsoft Sees Opportunity in Mobile Phone Data Storage
By Paul Shread - Published February 10, 2009
With users more and more reliant on smartphones, PDAs and other mobile devices, protecting the information on them could become a growth market. [more Technology News]

E-Discovery Thrives in Tough Times
By Paul Shread - Published February 3, 2009
In tough economic times, one area can be counted on to grow: lawsuits. [more Business Continuity News]

Features
Configure Bacula for Open Source Backups
By Deann Corum - Published June 25, 2009
Bacula is a popular and robust open source backup solution. Learn the basics of Bacula configuration with our simple guide. [more Business Continuity]

NetEx HyperIP Boosts Data Storage Recovery
By Paul Rubens - Published June 23, 2009
NetEx says its HyperIP protocol can restore data quickly from remote replication sites. [more Business Continuity]

Virtualization and the Cloud Will Change Data Storage
By Marty Foltyn - Published June 19, 2009
Storage and IT luminaries gathered last week to discuss the future, and they agreed that it's in cloud and virtual environments. [more Business Continuity]

EMC Keeps Israel's Power Grid Up and Running
By Lynn Haber - Published June 11, 2009
The Israel Electric Corp. turned to EMC to keep its VMware environment running in case of a disaster. [more Business Continuity]

HP's Hybrid Approach to Disaster Recovery
By Esther Shein - Published May 29, 2009
HP and other data storage vendors are helping users replicate to different storage product families to save on disaster recovery costs. [more Business Continuity]

With $20 Billion Up for Grabs, Everyone's an EMR Vendor
By Jennifer Schiff - Published May 15, 2009
Data storage vendors are forming partnerships and repositioning themselves in hopes of getting a piece of the electronic medical records stimulus spending. [more Business Continuity]

The State of Open Source Storage
By Drew Robb - Published May 13, 2009
With commercial implementations and community projects on the rise, analysts nonetheless see barriers to widespread enterprise adoption of open source data storage technologies. [more Business Continuity]

Rocks Don't Need to Be Backed Up
By Henry Newman - Published March 27, 2009
Commentary: What a 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk can teach us about data backup, archiving and preservation of our history — and why it's critical that we get started now. [more Business Continuity]

Data Archiving Solution Puts Employees Back to Work
By Lynn Haber - Published March 19, 2009
In this case study, a financial services company freed up employees mired in e-discovery requests by turning to a better data archiving solution. [more Business Continuity]

Social Media — The Next Smoking Gun
By Jennifer Schiff - Published March 5, 2009
Organizations need to set up policies around the use of social networking apps like Facebook and Twitter, just as they did with e-mail in the 1990s. [more Business Continuity]

How to Keep Enterprise Data Safe and Secure
By Jennifer Schiff - Published February 20, 2009
As storage vendors debate encryption key management, experts weigh in on steps you can take to protect your data now. [more Business Continuity]

Storing Decades of Bureaucratic Data
By Jennifer Schiff - Published February 11, 2009
If you think you've got data storage headaches, wait till you see what the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration is facing. [more Business Continuity]

Storage Security Is More than Just Key Management
By Henry Newman - Published January 16, 2009
It will take a whole lot of effort to get end-to-end data security, but it has to be done. [more Business Continuity]

Obama Administration Could Mean More Compliance Regs
By Drew Robb - Published January 5, 2009
The global financial meltdown and Democratic control of the White House and Congress will likely mean new corporate accountability regulations — and more work for storage administrators. [more Business Continuity]

One Happy Backup Customer
By Lynn Haber - Published December 30, 2008
One small business had its backup problem solved, thanks to Yosemite Technologies. [more Business Continuity]

An Open Source Backup Option
By Deann Corum - Published December 29, 2008
Bacula just might be the enterprise-ready open source backup solution you've been looking for. [more Business Continuity]

Building a Storage Architecture for E-Discovery
By Henry Newman - Published December 1, 2008
E-Discovery systems pose unique challenges for storage architects if they want to keep up with data growth, performance and backup and recovery demands. [more Business Continuity]

How to Protect SharePoint Data
By Jennifer Schiff - Published November 25, 2008
For enterprises that rely on Sharepoint, Microsoft's popular collaboration platform, and want the most reliable backup and restore solution, a third-party utility is probably their best bet. [more Business Continuity]

Storage Technology for Tough Times
By Jennifer Schiff - Published October 28, 2008
With their ability to reduce storage needs, storage optimization technologies are gaining favor with end users. [more Business Continuity]

Disaster Recovery and Continuity for the Database Administrator, Part 2
By Kevin Medlin - Published October 21, 2008
There are many ways to protect your critical database applications in event of an unplanned outage or disaster — and some of them may even help your company in other ways. [more Business Continuity]

Tape's Changing Role in Data Protection
By Greg Schulz - Published October 6, 2008
Far from being moribund, data tape technology is finding new uses even as disk and solid state storage technologies gain ground. [more Business Continuity]

Disaster Recovery and Continuity for the Database Administrator
By Kevin Medlin - Published October 3, 2008
In the first of a two-part series, we look at one of the most critical issues facing any organization: making sure database applications can be back up and running quickly in case of a disaster. [more Business Continuity]

University Gives EMC an A for Storage
By Jennifer Schiff - Published September 29, 2008
The storage vendor helped East Carolina University solve everything from rapidly growing backup windows to strained power capacity. [more Business Continuity]

Storage That Really Lasts
By Jennifer Schiff - Published September 11, 2008
If you want to preserve data for the really long term, as in thousands of years, Norsam Technologies' analog HD-Rosetta disk may be your best bet. [more Business Continuity]

Making Sure Disaster Recovery Works
By Lynn Haber - Published September 5, 2008
The problem with disaster recovery plans is you never know if they'll work until you need them. How one company solved the problem. [more Business Continuity]

A Disaster Recovery Plan for Small Business
By Drew Robb - Published August 22, 2008
Faced with overwhelming IT demands on a very small staff, one small business turned to a managed service provider. [more Business Continuity]

Court Bids Paper Adieu
By Drew Robb - Published August 11, 2008
In an ambitious effort, Seattle's King County District Court has gone paperless, with the help of EMC and other vendors. [more Business Continuity]

Sepaton Makes Virtual Backup a Reality
By Lynn Haber - Published August 1, 2008
Employment services firm Sterling Infosystems turned to Sepaton for help backing up its virtualized server environment. [more Business Continuity]

Data Corruption: Dedupe's Achilles Heel
By Henry Newman - Published July 16, 2008
If you're thinking about purchasing a data de-duplication solution, you need to take a hard look at the issue of data corruption. [more Business Continuity]

Finding a Disaster Recovery Solution That Won't Break the Bank
By Drew Robb - Published July 8, 2008
As another hurricane season arrives, it's a good time to remember that an imperfect disaster recovery solution is better than none. [more Business Continuity]