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Are You Ready to Handle the Challenges of Modern Backup?
By: TechTarget Data Backup
Type: eBook
Data backups have evolved to the point that they are hardly recognizable. For many organizations, the days of producing a nightly backup to tape are over. Exponential data growth and the need for near real-time data protection have driven organizations to abandon legacy backups in favor of next generation disk-based solutions.
This E-Book is a primer on modern data protection techniques. Explore topics, like:
- The types of backup targets available today, from tape libraries and VTLs to deduplicating disk arrays, integrated backup appliances and the cloud
- The capabilities that backup software platforms offer today
- Backup challenges IT teams face, including backing up large amounts of data, mobile device backup and BYOD, virtual server backup, and slow restore times
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E-Brief: Capacity Planning for Virtualized Infrastructure
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: EBRIEF
Explore current trends and tools for capacity planning in this expert e-brief. Discover how you can maximize server space and overcome top challenges of capacity planning to increase server utilization and ROI with tips for:
- Must-have features in capacity planning tools
- Avoiding common mistakes
- Effectively utilizing management tools
- And more
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eGuide: Expert Tips for Deploying Secure Messaging Technologies
By: TechTarget Security
Type: White Paper
The security of electronic communications has been hampered by too many standards and deployment options, making email, instant messaging (IM), and other web-based methods prime targets for hackers.
This eGuide discusses the critical importance of securing these messaging systems and looks at various methods for protecting the information that is transmitted via these technologies. Check out this eGuide and learn how encryption, user education, and other security strategies can effectively safeguard your company's data and resources.
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Securing the enterprise application layer: Expert Guidelines
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eGuide
If you're a security professional, the focus on application security in IT these days may leave you feeling out of the loop. Yet, in many cases, application security pros rely on the infrastructure team to provide a secure foundation. Find out how securing a naming and directory service will help build a solid platform that application can trust.
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E-Book: Technical Guide on Web Application Firewalls
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eBook
Web application firewalls are becoming critical data protection and compliance tools that any security decision maker must understand. SearchSecurity.com presents a comprehensive guide to Web Application Firewalls in which experts examine evaluation criteria, deployment considerations and management issues.
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How to balance cost vs. convenience during replication implementation
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eBook
Access this exclusive disaster recovery handbook about replication for insight from industry pros such as Brien Posey and Paul Kirvan, and learn about replication tools today, asynchronous vs. synchronous replication, and replication for virtual machines. Read on to arm yourself with the replication know-how needed to navigate this space in 2013.
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Step-by-step guide to implementing cloud-based DR
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
In this exclusive e-guide, expert Brien Posey explains 6 steps and factors to consider when implementing cloud DR. Learn how to adapt this technology to fit your specific needs and find out more about each of these key considerations.
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Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: Ezine
With the mushrooming of disaster recovery technology in the past few years, your excuses for not having a DR plan are falling away. Use this Essential Guide to learn how to take advantage of new technologies that make the disaster recovery provision and planning process easier than it’s ever been.
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Expert FAQ: Solve your top VM backup concerns
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
Explore virtual backup best practices and get answers to frequently asked questions in this expert e-guide. Gain tips and strategies for optimizing your backup processes for virtualized environments to ensure comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery.
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Your expert guide to data protection strategy: backup, replication, snapshots and virtualisation
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
We walk you from the basics of backup methods to the pros and cons of different ways of protecting data and key issues in virtual machine backup.
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Backup fundamentals in the age of cloud
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we look at backup fundamentals like choosing incremental or differential backup as well as using snapshots to replace traditional backup. We also provide an overview of strategic considerations for backup in the age of the cloud as well as surveys of the key backup products for SMEs and enterprise deployment.
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Modern Data Protection Is More Than Backup
By: TechTarget Data Backup
Type: eBook
This exclusive e-book takes a look at how data protection is changing today. Download now to learn how and why backup is converging with other IT technologies and how copy data management differs from traditional backup.
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It's hyper converged-with-everything in today's datacentre
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we look at the key hyper-converged vendors and their products, as well as hyper-converged tailored to disaster recovery, backup, cloud functionality, and the software-defined hyper-converged products available.
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Presenting the Upsides and Downsides of Server Virtualization to Management
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
Convincing top management of the benefits of server virtualization is crucial to the success of your virtualization project. This e-book breaks down the pros and cons of server virtualization. Access now to discover advice on to present the best business case to top management.
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Best practices for remote data backups
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
This guide provides tips and best practices for your organisation's offsite data backups. It addresses questions you need to ask to determine which remote backup approach is the right fit for your organisation. In this e-guide, discover which remote backup strategy is right for your organisation.
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Virtualizing your Exchange Server: Fact vs. fiction
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
Find out what's fact and what's fiction about virtualizing your Exchange Server. What steps should you take, and how can you ensure success? Explore all these questions and more in this e-book.
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Designing a redundant backup solution
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Access this expert E-Guide to learn about designing a redundant backup solution and transitioning from tape to a disk backup appliance. Read on to explore the evolving case for disk-based backup.
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DR Planning: Top 10 tips
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This expert E-Guide explores the top ten DR tips from John Toigo to help navigate DR planning more efficiently and shows you how to justify your DR initiatives by analyzing critical DR data.
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Eliminate LUNs with VM-aware storage
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
Access this guide to learn what products classify as VM-aware storage, how they're implemented in virtual environments and what benefits they can bring to storage and virtualization administrators.
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Backup still fundamental but the cloud changes things
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we round up the key ways backup has changed since tape was king and look at developments such as backup appliances, the use of the cloud as a backup target and even the need for backups to protect your workloads in the cloud.
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E-Guide: Achieve the benefits of virtualized mission-critical applications
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
In this expert e-guide, find out about the many benefits of virtualizing your mission critical applications such as improved hardware utilization and efficiency. Also, discover where to virtualize your applications to maximize these benefits.
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A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to on-site, off-site and cloud-based disaster recovery
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
With businesses becoming increasingly dependent on data to function, being able to recover quickly from an IT systems failure is critical. In this 14-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at the various options available when implementing disaster recovery.
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FAQ: 8 burning questions regarding data protection today
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: EBRIEF
This SearchDataBackup.com e-brief featuring backup expert Brien M. Posey covers how IT can protect mobile data, the pros and cons of managing your own recovery site and the most recent advances in the virtualization market.
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E-Guide: Expert Strategies for Virtualization Capacity Planning
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
Explore this e-guide to learn about common mistakes and issues overlooked when it comes to capacity planning. In addition, find out the best ways to approach capacity planning in your virtual environment.
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Data Center Servers and Storage E-Book Chapter 4: Reallocating Unused Server and Storage Hardware
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
With a bit of planning, a specific tiering-out of your system priorities and a dash of virtualization, you can breathe new life into your old servers -- even as you bring in replacements with all of their powerful new capabilities. Read this e-book to learn more.
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Why it's time to strengthen your data protection strategy
By: Flagship Solutions Group
Type: Product Overview
Take a look through this overview to learn about an approach to defending both offline and local copies of your data against ransomware threats.
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Focus: Disaster recovery planning and virtualisation
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
We take a good look at how features and functionality built into popular virtualisation environments can help with disaster recovery planning, testing and execution.
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How to implement a successful DR plan for the cloud
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This e-guide recaps the keys to successful DR planning and explains why more and more companies are incorporating the cloud into this essential process. Discover six questions you should ask when evaluating providers and explore three types of cloud-based solutions to consider. Read on to learn more.
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Combining Virtual Server Backup Methods for a Complete Strategy
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Discover the benefits of virtual server backup vs. traditional data backup methods and learn how you can combine the two approaches for a complete (and free) VM backup strategy.
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Disaster Recovery E-Brief
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Featuring a detailed list of everything you need to establish an effective DR strategy, this resource featuring expert Paul Kirvan has all of the information you need to get started developing and managing a successful DR plan. Read on for today's best practices and newest DR strategies.
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Virtualization Backup Tools
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: EBRIEF
This expert briefing offers information on how physical and virtual backups differ and offers advice for integrating these two essential processes. Download now to assess the drawbacks and benefits of backing up your VM, as well as key criteria for evaluating your market options.
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Experts answer: Should you go all-in on HCI technology?
By: Dell
Type: eGuide
In this expert guide, learn how hyper-converged infrastructure has grown and matured over the years, as well as some top considerations buyers should have on their checklist when shopping for these systems. Read on to then learn what factors are moving the storage industry away from hard disk drives, and towards HCI.
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Disaster recovery has never been so easy or important
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
Disaster recovery has never been more important because at the same time that digital transformation has made most modern enterprises entirely dependent on their IT systems to function, cyber attackers have stepped up their capabilities to go after sensitive data wherever it is found, with most IT leaders reporting major systems outages.
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An essential guide to cloud storage
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: Essential Guide
Cloud backup and disaster recovery services have matured and are now viable alternatives for enterprise data protection environments. Hybrid approaches can effectively integrate on-premises systems with cloud storage services.
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Secure Efficient and Flexible Capacity Tier for Veeam Backups
By: DataCore Software Corporation
Type: eBook
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Hybrid Flash: The Essential guide
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Essential Guide
This guide offers a comprehensive survey of the hybrid flash storage market. We give the lowdown on hybrid flash products from the big six storage vendors and the startups and specialists. Plus, we take a look at what's best for virtual desktops: All-flash or hybrid?
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IT Handbook: Exchange Virtualization for VMware
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
VMware has received a lot of attention for its flexibility and reliability, but that doesn't guarantee it's the best hypervisor for your Exchange environment. This IT handbook examines how VMware compares to Microsoft and Citrix and discusses tools and tips to help you navigate the Exchange virtualization process with ease.
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Backup deduplication: a complete guide
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
There are many elements to consider in picking the backup deduplication technology that fits best. How do zone-level and block-level deduplication compare? What about inline versus post-processing deduplication? What are the differences between deduplication and compression? Check out this complete e-guide to backup deduplication.
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Why you should have a disaster recovery testing plan in place
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
With this guide, gain a better understanding of why a disaster recovery testing plan is important, how to efficiently conduct tests, and some tools and terms that you will encounter along the way.
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E-Guide: Backup and dedupe trends and use cases
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This E-Guide provides insight into the new ways that organizations are dealing with data proliferation and the technology advancements that have prompted interest in them.
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Top 10 Backup Challenges and Expert Recommendations to Address Them
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Access this expert eGuide to learn about the backup challenges that companies struggle with today, and how to address them.
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DRaas and the key decision points in DR-as-a-service
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we look at the key decisions you'll need to make about the blend of DRaas your organisation wants, which of the key cloud providers are best for which elements of DR service delivery, the pros and cons of moving elements of disaster recovery to the cloud and which to keep closer to home, and the 12 key steps to DRaas deployment.
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E-Guide: Steps to securing your file transfers and meeting compliance requirements
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eGuide
Security has become a main issue with the swift way we have started working, making data transfers less safe. Read this expert E-Guide and learn the steps necessary to secure your managed file transfers and meet compliance requirements.
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Expert Checklist: 11 Steps for Aligning Your BC/DR Program with Business Needs
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This e-guide provides an expert checklist for developing a successful business continuity program, designed with the specific needs of your organization in mind.
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IT Definitions: Storage Special
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide, we have put together a list of key definitions in storage and data protection to help you make sense of the fast-evolving storage technology landscape. From software-defined storage to non-volatile memory express (NVMe), we hope this extensive list of definitions will help you succeed in an increasingly data-driven world.
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine Volume 32: Public vs. Private: Comparing Cloud Architectures
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: Ezine
Before committing to a public or private cloud architecture, evaluate the benefits and especially the tradeoffs associated with each. Also in this issue, determine what needs are most important when planning your virtual applications, and find out how to monitor the performance of applications in the cloud.
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Containers and storage 101: The fundamentals of container storage
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we look at the basics of Docker storage and backup, key containers capabilities in storage vendors' offers and how containers can be incorporated into the private cloud environment.
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Focus: Private cloud
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
The private cloud is often viewed as a stepping stone for enterprises keen to tap into the business agility benefits of cloud without ceding total control over where their applications and workloads run. For some organisations, such deployments act as a test bed environment, where they can work out where best to run their workloads.
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CW APAC, November 2021: Expert guide to storage management
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this handbook, Computer Weekly looks at how firms are rising to the storage challenge and Lenovo's viewpoint on the Asia-Pacific region's market opportunities
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Focus: on premise virtualisation
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
We take a closer a look at the virtualisation of on-premise resources, and find out why it remains such an important process for enterprise datacentre owners to go through.
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Backup Solutions For Today's Data Center
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This expert E-Guide explores the different data backup and storage systems available, and which ones will really eat up your storage budget. Read now to learn more.
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A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to hybrid cloud
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Essential Guide
Computer Weekly looks at how to find the best hybrid cloud provider for your organisation, the impact of hybrid cloud on the infrastructure manager and how Microsoft is catching up with the cloud market with Azure.