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. 

Thinking of making the move to “total enterprise virtualization?" Here are some interesting points of view about virtualization you should know coming from the vantage point of a storage virtualization pioneer, DataCore Software. 

According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this videocast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data. 

Disk-based backup systems fundamentally change the way we do backup and recovery. But the key is to treat disk as disk and not as tape. Solutions need to recognize the intelligent features of disk and take advantage of those features. This podcast explores how to leverage the advantages of disk for best possible backup performance and maximum ROI. 

Facing exponential data growth and lengthening backup times, Victaulic Company's tape backup systems could no longer provide the performance or capacity they needed for efficient data protection. For a cost comparable to tape, Victaulic Company implemented a SEPATON S2100-ES2 virtual tape library (VTL) with DeltaStor data deduplication software. 

In this Podcast, backup expert, Mark Bowker, addresses how this technology helps leverage your storage, network, and computing resources. 

Read this whitepaper to learn about how Double-Take Backup reduces the window for data loss, is more efficient than tape, and less costly than tape or other replications solutions. 

This case study examines South Jersey Healthcare’s use of EVault Software to streamline their backups and speed up their disaster recovery process. 

Discover some of the challenges you'll face when compliance mandates a retention policy that just doesn’t make sense, and learn about some alternate solutions to backup and archiving you may not have considered yet. 

To evaluate the performance of its solutions, FalconStor commissioned Demartek to validate the performance of the FalconStor VTL solution and its deduplication solutions - as they come from the factory, without any special tuning adjustments. The sustained performance of these solutions is impressive and was measured using conservative data. 

This document describes the Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup using Symantec NetBackup software. 

Review the comparisons in this paper and learn the various ways that moving to disk-based backup and data protection solutions – as onsite software, SaaS or managed service – can be the smart move for your company.