As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. 

Protecting data that is not in the primary datacenter amplifies all the traditional challenges of backup - either there is not enough bandwidth to accomplish a remote backup in the window available, or the process of handling and shipping tapes is in the hands of non-IT employees. 

If all storage array vendors buy disk drives from the same small set of disk manufacturers then why is there such a big reliability gap between storage vendors? 

With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be far more reliable than tapes. When your backup completes, you know the data is secure and accessible on the disk drive. Read this paper to learn other best practices on disk-to-disk technology and more. 

Disk-based backup, deduplication, and MAID are three of the most talked about technologies in the storage industry—each is so popular that organizations often purchase them individually just to see the capabilities they can bring to their environments. Now, all three are available in Nexsan's DeDupe SG—an integrated system from Nexsan & FalconStor. 

Read this paper to learn about the driving factors behind the increasing use of laptops in business activities, the data and information security issues associated with laptop systems, the overall benefits and challenges of encryption, the overall benefits of full disk encryption, and PGP Corporation's highly effective approach. 

This paper introduces three techniques employed in the production Data Domain deduplication file system and shows how they can be used to relieve the disk bottleneck. 

This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce disk I/Os in high-throughput deduplication storage systems. These techniques are general methods to improve throughput performance of deduplication storage systems. 

This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation. 

Flash storage is now a top contender for new enterprise storage applications. The I/O randomization caused by widespread virtual machine adoption demands higher I/O performance. Faster than disks, cheaper than DRAM, flash is occupying a new layer in the storage pyramid. Read this paper to further investigate flash storage. 

EVault Software is a proven, reliable, disk-to-disk backup and recovery solution trusted by customers globally to protect mission-critical data and keep their businesses running. Advanced, patented technology ensures that you can securely protect a growing, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed network using one simple solution. 

Listen to this podcast to learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.