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JUNE 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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Features |
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Protect Exchange data
by Jerome Wendt
Email is now firmly established as a critical application, with more than 60% of enterprises using Microsoft Exchange for their corporate email, according to Gartner. This widespread adoption of Microsoft Exchange, and growing electronic discovery requirements, make protecting it a more complicated proposition than just performing simple backups and recoveries. |
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How SANs aid backup
by Bradley W. Hughey
The primary motivation for building a SAN is often to meet a pressing need for performance, scalability or both. But today's new SAN buyers are looking for more than performance and scalability; they're interested in better ways of protecting their data, using such techniques as snapshots of SAN volumes and sometimes even relying on newer technologies to replace traditional backups. |
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The skinny on data deduplication
by W. Curtis Preston
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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New role for tape libraries
by Jerome Wendt
Tape libraries are finally assuming the role they were designed for: longterm protection and preservation of data. But as disk assumes its new role as the initial target for backups and the source for restores, tape library vendors need to shore up their abilities to interact with disk libraries and provide users with some definitive answers on encryption. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Ask the Expert
What do you think of Data Domain's products? It looks like the next step beyond VTLs. |
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Columns |
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Hot Spots: VMware opens door for next-gen backup apps
by Lauren Whitehouse
Virtualizing servers is becoming standard operating procedure in large and small companies. VMware and similar platforms are transforming data center management through server consolidation and business continuity improvements, but they're "breaking" a few things along the way, including data protection strategies. |
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Best Practices: Sorting out remote-office backup
by Jim Damoulakis
Remote-office data has always been something of a corporate orphan when it came to backup. Once upon a time, "out of sight, out of mind" might have worked, but times have changed. Regulatory compliance, legal liability issues and the cost of producing data for ediscovery make it clear remote data can no longer be ignored. |
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