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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 ]
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.
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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 ]
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Electricity use in data centers is skyrocketing, sending corporate energy bills through the roof, creating environmental concerns and generating negative publicity for large corporations. "Going Green" means looking to technologies like virtualization, energy-efficient chips and racks, and implementing policies that extend beyond the data center to all of your organization's employees.
