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Local Government Experiences Improved Backups with ExaGrid
The IT staff at the City and County of Honolulu (Honolulu County) struggled with long weekly backups to tape that consistently ran into Monday mornings, causing server and network slowdowns for its nearly 8,000 users. Honolulu County employees support residents … Continue reading
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
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
As we all know, for decades, the traditional way to store offsite backups has been to make tape copies and vault them offsite. With data growth rates averaging 30% or more annually, most organizations who are still storing tapes offsite … Continue reading
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Tagged backup, cloud, data deduplication, disaster recovery, disk-based backup, ExaGrid, tape backup
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Key Considerations for Disk Backup with Deduplication
With the move well underway by IT organizations to some form of disk-based backup with deduplication, many IT professionals do not realize there are a number of factors that should be considered when making the move to disk with deduplication, … Continue reading
Manufacturer Avoids Data Domain Forklift Upgrade by Opting for ExaGrid
I recently had the pleasure of meeting with one of our customers in the Atlanta area, TenCate, and thought you would find their story of two backup upgrades within 3 years to be of interest. TenCate is a multinational company … Continue reading
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Tagged data deduplication, Data Domain, deduplication, disk backup, disk-based backup, emc data domain, ExaGrid
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ExaGrid Top Five Predictions for Backup and Recovery Market in 2013
Last week, ExaGrid released our top five predictions for the worldwide backup and recovery market in 2013. As organizations cope with data growth and look to gain greater operational efficiency and increased value from IT investments, we’ve identified the following … Continue reading
Survey of 1,200 IT Managers Reveals Widespread Dissatisfaction with State of Backup
We recently announced the results of a survey of 1,200 IT managers which revealed very interesting findings–widespread dissatisfaction with the capabilities of many existing backup systems to keep pace with requirements for faster backups, more robust disaster recovery, improved virtual … Continue reading
ExaGrid Penetrates 50 EMC Data Domain Accounts
This past week, ExaGrid announced that 50 companies and organizations previously using EMC Data Domain have selected ExaGrid’s disk backup with deduplication to either replace their Data Domain system or to handle new growth and projects where they needed more … Continue reading
Disaster Recovery Planning: Can Your Data Survive a Disaster?
Can your data survive a disaster? With the news of Hurricane Isaac hitting, many IT departments are taking another look at their disaster recovery plans. Disasters can happen at any time and to anyone. They can come in the form … Continue reading
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Tagged data backup, disaster recovery, disk-based backup, DR planning
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5 Steps for Moving Away from Tape Backup
More than 70% of data centers today are still using tape in some part of their backup process, and annual data growth rates of 30 to 60% are putting increased pressure on those aging tape infrastructures. Backups still frequently run … Continue reading