This Storage Decisions University Classroom explores in depth how backup technologies have evolved to address 21st century data center challenges. Discover how dedupe software has come of age, how to prevent VM backup mistakes and how cloud, vStorage APIs and source dedupe have all improved. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

What's the difference between agent and agentless backup for virtual environments? Learn how admins can simplify backup for mixed and virtual environments with agentless backup in this resource. Explore the pros and cons of both methods, and discover how admins can integrate the two techniques for the best of both worlds. 

Check out this white paper to discover the latest trends in virtual backup and recovery technology, and discover the effect virtualisation has on disaster recovery operations. Also gain insight as to what types of organisations are adopting virtual infrastructures and what virtualisation security issues are currently plaguing administrators today. 

In Joe Shonk's many virtual desktop and application journeys over the last few years, a reoccurring theme has continued to persist: storage. 

Storage Magazine Online June 2011 – Managing Storage for Virtual Servers 

The Acronis Global Disaster Recovery (DR) index is an annual benchmark of businesses disaster recovery preparations worldwide. 

Learn how you can overcome the challenges associated with effectively archiving information in today's data-intensive IT environments. Learn about different types of archiving strategies, discover an emerging method known as hierarchical storage management (HSM), receive a step-by-step guide for building a long-term, scalable data archive and more. 

Backup redesign is a must if customers are to reach their virtualization goals—without it, scaling the virtual server environment is nearly impossible. Read this comprehensive white paper to learn more. 

Access this comprehensive, multi-media resource guide to learn everything you need to know when choosing next-generation backup solutions to protect your virtual machines. 

This paper will introduce you to six medium-sized enterprise European users of the IBM XIV Storage System. Using informal and unscripted interviews, you'll follow them through their choice of the system to installation and, finally, into workload migration, live production, and daily use. 

Backup and restore solutions that once worked with reasonable efficacy in physical environments are in many cases ill-suited to accommodate the unique aspects of the new “virtual world”. Download this new white paper to learn the 6 battle-tested practices to avoid data loss.