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NOVEMBER 2008 |
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FEATURES |
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TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS |
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Find out more about this month's Storage Magazine advertisers by clicking on the company names below to contact them and request more information on their products and services. |
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Articles by Author: W. Curtis Preston
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Five things that mess up your backups
- Nov 2008
Data backups are still job No. 1--and problem No. 1--for most storage managers. In this article, backup guru W. Curtis Preston describes the five most prevalent backup system problems and explains what you can do to prevent or remedy them. |
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The skinny on data deduplication
- Sep 2007
There's been a flurry of debate about deduplication--both for and against-- that has generated fear, uncertainty and doubt. Simply put, deduplication technologies identify and eliminate redundant data, significantly reducing capacity requirements. But not all dedupe apps work the same way. You'll need to know which one best fits your data protection environment. |
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Corral virtual server backup
- Jun 2007
The popularity of VMware virtual servers has grown significantly in the last few years, prompting questions about how to back them up. In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems, W. Curtis Preston writes about the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods of protecting virtual server data. |
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New backup strategies
- Jun 2005
In the final installment of his series on disk-based data protection,
W. Curtis Preston describes how options such as snapshots, replication, continuous data protection and data reduction backup can improve the backup process. |
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Pros and cons of VTLs
- Apr 2005
For disk-to-disk backup, virtual tape libraries (VTLs) treat disk as tape and offer many advantages compared to disk-as-disk backup targets. But VTLs aren't perfect, and there some caveats about the technology that you need to know before implementing a VTL. |
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D2D Backup: Disk's dual role
- Feb 2005
In part one of a three-part series on disk-based backup, we describe how SAN disk-as-disk and NAS disk-as-disk work, as well as the pros and cons of each configuration. |
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