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BACKUP AND RECOVERY

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Symantec announces new NetBackup and BackupExec

Symantec announced new versions of its flagship backup applications for SMBs and the enterprise adding more support for virtual machines, a cloud storage offering and integration of snapshot and backup management.
Storage vendor Imation buys deduplication assets from Nine Technology

Imation today announced it has acquired deduplication technology from Nine Technology.
Hertz adopts Teradata Data Warehouse for real time reporting

Car rental company Hertz has announced it is using Teradata's Active Enterprise Data Warehouse environment for its business critical reporting and decision making on integrated data.
IBM expands cloud disaster recovery services

IBM has announced two cloud-based disaster recovery services for businesses: the IBM SmartCloud Virtualised Server Recovery and the IBM SmartCloud Archive.
NetApp to resell CommVault SnapProtect software

As part of a reseller agreement, NetApp will offer SnapProtect branded software, a packaging of CommVault's Simpana snapshot copies, replication and tape management software.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 marries disaster recovery and protection

Acronis has launched what it bills as the "first affordable" integrated disaster recovery and data protection platform.
Vendor-independent virtualisation courses offered

Boston-based Itsavirtualworld is proposing an online training course to help students get to grip with virtualisation
Acronis: PC users know the importance of backup

More than four in five (83 percent) of web users know how important it is to back-up their data regularly, says Acronis.
Pure-play virtualisation backup and recovery - or mixed approach?

Is it better to be a pure virtualisation player when it comes to backup and replication - or do you need your feet in the physical world too?
HP overhauls SANs, management software for SMEs

HP announced storage hardware upgrades and management software updates for SMBs. The upgrades include the ability to create a SAN using both VMware and HyperV servers as well as being able to back up SQL and Exchange servers.

Latest Features

Desktop virtualisation: How to succeed

If you've already virtualised the servers in your data centre, desktop virtualisation may seem like the next logical step. But businesses are finding that the benefits of hosted virtual desktop technologies are more nuanced. The advantages may be harder to quantify and harder to justify based purely on traditional ROI calculations.
Pairing disk with tape for enterprise backup

Enterprises today have many more backup choices than they used to have, and they?re taking advantage by pairing legacy technologies such as tape backups with newer disk-based data protection options.
Private cloud builders need to prepare for problems

When cloud computing became a topic of discussion a few years ago, public clouds received the bulk of the attention, mostly due to the high profile nature of public cloud announcements from some of the industry's biggest names, including Google and Amazon. But now that the talk has turned into implementation, some IT shops have begun steering away from public clouds because of the security risks. Data is outside the corporate firewall and is basically out of their control.
Riverbed CEO talks WAN optimisation and cloud

In an interview, Kennelly discusses the future of Riverbed and how WAN optimisation is like building a private cloud.
Ten tips for faster Microsoft SharePoint sites

SharePoint, the fastest growing product in Microsoft's history, is used to store reams of documents, meaning application performance is a key component for successful SharePoint deployment and adoption. Here are 10 steps to improve the performance of your SharePoint Servers.
Enterprises warm to online backup

Large businesses are looking more closely at online backup options as a way to ease systems administration headaches and avoid security concerns linked to physical backup procedures - is this the way forward?
Hulk and Maui - a recap

Within the next five months EMC will announce its cloud computing storage products, code-named Hulk and Maui. What do we know so far about them?
What's happening with ECM?

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) seems to be a hot topic and we've been given the views of CYA's CEO, Wayne Crandall, on the current ECM situation.
Acer marches into VTLs

Acer is entering the virtual tape library market using FalconStor's VTL software with de-duplication.
FalconStor rules the virtual tape market

FalconStor has gained EMC's Symmetrix-based virtual tape library (VTL) as the biggest VTL available in single system form.

How-tos

Case Study: On the ball

Case Study: Backup becomes a snap

Case Study: Backing up a property developer

Case Study: Diskless servers rely on NAS

Case Study: A WAN acceleration investment pays off

Case Study: A city in Kansas does tapeless backup

Case Study: Liverpool football club rules tape offside

Case Study: Ninety percent data compression at VW - and it's not de-dupe

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Featured White Papers

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Backup and recovery of large scale VMware environments

ESG research indicates that expanding virtualisation is a top IT priority. However, ESG believe that most organisations will struggle to expand virtualisation deployments without first improving virtual machine backup and recovery.
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Modernising backups to accelerate the journey to virtualisation

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Powerful backup and flexible deployment options, including enhanced software, backup appliances and backup solutions in the cloud, offer flexibility and choice in how you manage your backups, allowing you to deploy a modern infrastructure that best suits your IT requirements, business needs and environment. But how do you know which backup strategy is right for your business? Download this white paper to find out how you can leverage a fast, simple and modern backup and recovery in the way that best fits your needs.
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