Tag Archives: data protection

Data Deduplication Approaches

In our last post, we discussed disk staging—how inserting disk in front of the tape library eliminates many of the problems of tape for backup.  In today’s post, excerpted from “Straight Talk About Disk Backup with Deduplication,” we discuss various … Continue reading

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Consolidating Data Protection at the Disk Backup Appliance

An excellent article in InformationWeek by Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump, just caught our attention. It’s entitled,”Consolidation at the Disk Backup Appliance,” and it makes a compelling case for IT to continue using multiple best-of-breed backup applications or utilities, … Continue reading

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Veeam Backup Academy Training and Certification for Virtualization

Veeam Backup Academy: Free Data Protection Training and Certification for Virtualization Veeam recently announced an exciting new resource called Backup Academy. This program is designed to educate IT staff with little or no virtualization experience and who have system support, … Continue reading

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Ensure Data Restoration and Prevent Data Loss with Disk-Based Backup

C&S Installs ExaGrid to Ensure Data Restoration to Prevent Another Catastrophic Data Loss Anyone in IT who’s been through the ordeal of data loss – not just a file, a folder, or a server, but multiple servers – can relate … Continue reading

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Primary Data Storage Integration with Local & Remote Data Protection

ExaGrid Issued U.S. Patent for Integrating Primary Data Storage with Local and Remote Data Protection This week, ExaGrid announced our 4th patent, #7,925623, for a “Method and Apparatus for Integrating Primary Data Storage with Local and Remote Data Protection.”  This … Continue reading

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Data Protection: Traditional Backup vs. Snapshots

Can Data Protection Snapshots Replace Traditional Backup? Being in the disk backup space, when I’m talking with customers about disk backup with data deduplication, I periodically get asked by whether the use of primary storage snapshots with offsite replication can … Continue reading

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Disk Backup Appliance Helps Eliminate $150K in Data Protection Costs

People using disk backup with data deduplication appliances to replace tape invariably see tremendous operational gains in backup speed, reliability and IT productivity. However, due to the nature of backup, it is often challenging to show a measurable ROI for … Continue reading

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How Disk Backup Provides Better, Faster Offsite Disaster Recovery

In part 1 of our “5 Ways Disk Backup Can Help Your Business” blog series, we discussed how a disk-based backup solution helps businesses get faster backups as their data grows and in part 2 of this series, we discussed … Continue reading

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