Read this tutorial to find out the latest developments in VMware backup and recovery and discover their new and advanced backup tools, if VMware Consolidated Backup is right for your business, how to install VMware Data Recovery Manager and more. 

Whether the ultimate mission is to consolidate data, virtualize the infrastructure, or improve application performance, the key to efficient storage is virtualized storage. This interactive online tutorial defines storage virtualization and explains how its benefits extend well beyond the data center. 

Data storage backups are a necessary element of data protection plan, but they're often the biggest source of security woes. Learn everything you need to know about keeping your backups secure in this tutorial. 

Data Deduplication is a vital technology to consider as part of your overall data protection strategy. Data Deduplication significantly reduces the amount of space required for backup and the network bandwidth required for replication. This tutorial explores several facets of data deduplication technology and compares vendor offerings. 

This tutorial allows you to discover the world of business analytics and optimization (BAO) by watching videotaped answers to preconceived questions. Receive insightful responses to questions such as: What is business analytics and optimization? What is an analytics-driven organization? Why is BAP so important today? And many more! 

Explore the new and improved features in VMware's vSphere 5, the next version in the ESX and ESXi and vCenter family of products, and the successor to the widely-used vSphere 4. Learn about the top 5 new features in vSphere 5 with step-by-step case studies. 

This chapter from this SearchDataBackup.com best practices backup guide walks you through the process of evaluating and purchasing backup products. This backup product buying guide lists the criteria involved in selecting backup products for each backup product category and offers product specifications that will help you compare products. 

In this tutorial, learn about the latest developments on tape storage systems, LTO-5 and LTFS, the differences between backup software vs. archiving software, and and how tape is evolving into a long-term data archiving medium. 

As more businesses deal with aging SAP systems, data archiving strategies are becoming more important. Most administrators either have added storage or migrated historical data to offline storage. But simply moving old data elsewhere isn’t ideal. Read this e-book to learn how to develop successful SAP data archiving strategies and solutions. 

This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data. 

In this tutorial on Site Recovery Manager disaster recovery best practices, learn what you need in place to use VMware Site Recovery Manager, how to test and execute your recovery plans, and if Site Recovery Manager would be a good fit for your company's disaster recovery strategy. 

The IBM XIV Storage System was designed to create a different enterprise storage reality. By listening carefully to customers—including Oracle users—IBM has designed a storage system that tackles real storage issues head-on. Read this white paper to learn more.