For years Capital Bank backed up its data to tape and hand-delivered this information to a secondary, off-site location. While this strategy worked for a time, the bank wanted to move to a more automated process in preparation for growth and acquisitions. It found all that with Xiotech. 

Trying to decide if online backup, or backup as a service, will be beneficial to your small-midsized business (SMB)? John Merryman, services director for recovery services at GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the benefits and drawbacks of online backup today. His answers are also available as an MP3 download. 

In this presentation transcript, learn how to ensure your disaster recover (DR) needs are met by your cloud provider. Gain insight into the differences between standard and cloud-based DR approaches and how to incorporate your exiting DR plans. 

This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays. 

When determining a potential storage system's TCO, you must include both capital and operating expenditures, some of which are easy to calculate and others are less obvious. Read this whitepaper to identify target areas for cost savings in your new storage system. 

This paper examines several factors that limit the capacity of your data storage system and how they contribute to the true cost of storage. 

This document is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the Guide 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. 

In this very funny though obvious over-dramatization of the weakness of tape as a backup solution, see how tape can end the life of an IT administrator and a 30-minute fix that could be lifesaving. 

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. 

Regulatory compliance, legal discovery and storage management issues are driving more organizations to consider email archiving. Here's what you should know when making decisions about your organization's use of email archiving technology. 

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. 

Managed Service Providers with customers who have or are considering Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 can now offer secure, cloud-based protection and recovery for DPM 2007 data with the CloudRecovery service, created by Iron Mountain and Microsoft. Learn how this service can help your customer meet today’s requirements. 

The economic downturn is no time to compromise on data availability, especially when storage virtualization software has made it possible to eliminate costly, storage-related downtime without paying a premium.