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GENERAL BACKUP PURCHASE CONSIDERATIONS
This buying guide helps you understand the most important considerations involved in backup product selection, identifies specific points of interest for each main backup product category, and presents a series of basic product specifications that will help you pick the best product for your organization.
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ENTERPRISE-CLASS TAPE LIBRARIES
Tape remains the quintessential backup technology for many organizations, offering relatively low media costs, broad backup software support, and convenient off-site storage potential for disaster protection. But picking the best tape library for enterprise deployment is a serious challenge.
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ENTERPRISE-CLASS DISK ARRAYS
Selecting the right disk array for your enterprise isn't easy. Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this chapter focuses on the specific considerations of enterprise-class disk arrays. You'll also find a series of specifications to help make on-the-spot product comparisons between vendors, like 3PARdata Inc., EMC Corp., Hitachi Data Systems Inc. (HDS), Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM and others.
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VIRTUAL TAPE LIBRARY SYSTEMS
VTLs provide the benefits of disk storage in a system that emulates a tape library to existing backup software. But VTL selection demands careful consideration. Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this guide outlines specific considerations for VTLs. You'll also find a series of specifications to help make on-the-spot product comparisons between vendors, like Copan Systems Inc., EMC Corp., FalconStor Software Inc., IBM, Sepaton Inc. and more.
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CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION SYSTEMS
Busy IT organizations are employing continuous data protection (CDP) technologies to guard data on the fly, essentially eliminating the backup window and allowing granular file and system restoration -- sometimes down to the individual disk write operation. This section of the Guide focuses on the specific considerations for CDP products. You'll also find a series of specifications to help make on-the-spot product comparisons between vendors.
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WAN OPTIMIZATION AND WAFS PLATFORMS
Maintaining servers and applications at remote locations is often problematic, and remote office backups are frequent problem areas for non-IT staff. Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this guide focuses on specific considerations for WAFS and WAN optimization products. You'll also find a series of specifications to help make on-the-spot product comparisons between vendors.
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LOCAL AND REMOTE BACKUP SOFTWARE
Backups guard against data loss by copying selected data, applictions or systems to secondary media located on a tape library or disk array -- even sending data to another physical storage facility across a WAN. This guide focuses on the specific considerations of backup software products. You'll also find a series of specifications to help make on-the-spot product comparisons between vendors.
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