Learn about how Psomas, a leading consulting engineering firm, overcame challenges with its legacy disaster recovery and backup strategy. Upon implementing Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage gateway, the company was able to cut tape infrastructure costs by 60%, speed restore times, and improve nearly every aspect of its DR and backup strategy. 

The movement from tape-based to disk-based backup is well underway. Now that it is economically feasible to replace a broken tape-based system with disk-based backup, choices exist among a number of vendors with varying approaches to disk-based backup as well as data deduplication. 

This paper explains that while traditional storage management solutions lag behind the requirements being placed on the storage environment, IBM Tivoli® storage management solutions have evolved to meet these needs. Read on to learn how IBM solutions help organizations manage the influx of data, while optimizing performance and reduce expenditures. 

Learn how to properly configure VMware iSCSI Software Initiator and connect it to iSCSI SAN in this comprehensive, illustrated guide. Access the many advanced features for shared storage by following these steps to enable them in your vSphere environment. 

Explore the new storage features in VMware vSphere 5.0 that can help your organization reduce complexity while achieving greater scalability. Discover how Storage DRS simplifies provisioning of VMs and monitoring of the storage environment with smart virtual machine placement and load balancing mechanisms based on I/O and space capacity. 

ExaGrid is a cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solution that replaces tape in your nightly backup process, enabling faster and more reliable backups at a price comparable to a new tape library. ExaGrid offers the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication purpose. 

The 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide rated the ExaGrid EX13000E “Best-in-Class” out of 37 different deduplication solutions for its functionality and capability. All ExaGrid appliances rated as “Recommended” scoring a 9.8 in technical support. ExaGrid rated as “Excellent” for hardware across all products. Read on to learn more. 

This white paper is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the white paper provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication. 

ExaGrid’s disk-based backup with deduplication product line provides the only architecture in the market with a post process whereby you’re able to keep a full backup. Check out this resource to learn how. 

This white paper introduces a new server backup solution that can help meet today's biggest backup and recovery challenges. Designed to allow real-time disk-to-disk backup while keeping management costs low, this technology can both reduce your backup window and ensure your data is secured. Read on to learn more. 

This analysis report highlights the benefits of deploying NetApp storage alongside desktop virtualization software. Explore best practices from organizations that have already implemented NetApp storage in conjunction with their desktop virtualization initiatives and gain insight on the cost savings they experienced. Learn more here. 

Check out this white paper to learn about the latest trends in disaster recovery and business continuity planning. This paper, featuring the survey results of companies across the globe, discusses recent developments in the DR market space and also attempts to discover the underlying causes of DR failure.