Backup for Virtualized Servers Reports

EGUIDE: Check out this tip guide for 5 best practices to better manage your virtual servers. In this guide you'll learn how to better balance your storage workload, understand the differences between storage for virtualized servers and desktops, learn how to utilize thin provisioning, improve storage utilization and more.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

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.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup provides faster backups, faster restores, and lower total cost of backup for non NetApp data and virtualized environments. Read this brief review to learn more.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explores one such technology - a data center solution designed to help organizations achieve timely, repeatable and consistent virtual deployments - and explores how it stands up against some of today's most pressing virtualization challenges. Also included are today's best practices regarding virtual environments.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Recovery as a Service (RaaS) has been around for some time, but the emergence of cloud computing offers a more efficient, faster and cheaper platform for application recovery. Find out what you should look for in a cloud-based recovery solution, and how you can successfully implement one.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: NetApp has stepped up efforts to deliver a more comprehensive data protection solution for NetApp and non-NetApp storage environments. The company extended its capabilities via partnerships with Syncsort and CommVault, augmenting its base data protection features to meet current and prospective customer requirements.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Holtsville, New York-based CARCO Group Inc. and its three divisions provide investigative, fraud detection, and risk mitigation services to large corporations, producing more than two million reports each year. This case study explores how CARCO deployed NetApp unified storage to support their virtualized infrastructure and file workloads.

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and discusses the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution, which include simplified management, enhanced availability and cost-effectiveness.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 20 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read ESG’s report on the crucial role of storage management to simplify administration and advance virtualization adoption and benefits: efficiency, productivity and cost reduction.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

EGUIDE: This SearchDataBackup.com E-Guide talks about EMC’s deduplication technology boost from their acquisition of Data Domain in 2009, reviews the benefits of dedupe methods and offers some insight on how these methods apply to specific environments.

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 | Published: 16 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Storage in virtual environments can get tricky - with traditional backup methods unable to keep up with the demands of virtualization, new strategies are essential. This white paper from ESG introduces a new virtual storage solution designed to maintain efficiency and meet the growing demands of server virtualization. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 May 2011

EZINE: The IT in Europe virtual data centre e-zine covers the effects of virtualisation on data centres, including management headaches. Discover the challenges posed by an ever-increasing number of virtual resources and access three case studies from the Best of VMworld Europe 2011 User Awards.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Buying backup software for a virtualized environment is way more complicated than buying software for traditional servers. Before you go out and explore the different backup options available, check out the VMware backup software and vSphere backup solution checklist featured in this E-Guide.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Backups aren't always perfect, and it's not always easy to tell when they're not working correctly. Fortunately there's backup reporting software to keep things in check. Check out this expert E-Guide to learn the benefits and different types of backup reporting software available today.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: This E-Guide can help by outlining things that you can do to reduce your backup window without spending any money. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Data deduplication is one of the hottest and must-have technologies in the storage world today. For companies that haven't yet implemented dedupe into their backup systems, the interest is growing. Read this expert E-Guide to learn the dedupe backup basics for small businesses.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides solutions to help avoid downtime from planned outages, balance workloads on demand, and easily shift resources across the cloud.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 13 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data growth and regulatory requirements have made backup, recovery, and archiving critical aspects of enterprise operations. Dell Services experts can assess how effectively an information infrastructure is getting the job done and deploy integrated, best-of-breed storage solutions to help ensure the safety and recoverability of critical data.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This SearchStorage.com E-Guide will help you differentiate the two options – and offer insight into what you need to consider during the evaluation process. Read on to find out how hardware and software approaches differ, what needs to be looked at when evaluating solutions and how to make the right choice for your organization.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 08 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: By combining management of heterogeneous replication and snapshot technologies with backup operations, EMC NetWorker provides a unified "command-and-control" platform to deliver unparalleled performance and reduced complexity for mission-critical application and data protection. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides guidelines for the use of EMC Data Domain deduplication for Oracle Recovery Manager backup over a Network File System mount.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the scope of NetWorker features that enable users to flexibly combine different backup and recovery technologies and techniques to meet both common use cases as well as unique data protection demands.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This case study highlights the best practices learned from developing and deploying the VSS solution for Exchange using EMC CLARiiON storage technologies and EMC Replication Manager/SE.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: In order for virtualization administrators to achieve their prime goal, securing their virtual environment, they must carefully plan and execute an effective strategy. Access this expert e-guide to learn three crucial considerations for virtualization security and discover how to avoid common security issues.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: While virtualization may be approaching maturity in many IT shops, it's just coming of age in hospital data centers. It may prove to be a golden age, however, as the push to virtualize gains momentum on all fronts: servers, storage, backup and desktop. Access this exclusive e-guide to read virtualization success stories from four health IT leaders.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011