backup and recovery - News, Features, and Slideshows

• How to choose between scale-up vs. scale-out architectures for backup and recovery

  There is a lot of discussion in the storage industry in regard to "scale-up" versus "scale-out" architectures for backup and recovery operations. More and more organizations are reducing or eliminating the use of tape by deploying disk-based appliances that use deduplication. But the architectural approach used by the appliance vendor can make a significant difference to the performance, scalability and total cost of the selected solution.

• Riverbed Whitewater: Data deduplication for cloud storage

  Cloud storage seems like such a no-brainer for backups and disaster recovery, it's a wonder that more businesses aren't taking advantage of it. If you're concerned about cloud outages, cloud storage costs, data loss, data security, or the ability to push your nightly backup sets up the Internet straw, Riverbed Technology's Whitewater appliance may make cloud storage easier to embrace.

• Disaster recovery trial by fire... literally

  On a Sunday morning last year, John Brooks received news no one wants to hear. There'd been an electrical fire in the basement of a New York City office tower - where his law firm has an office.

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  Infographic: How Australian organisations are protecting critical business information

  This infographic looks at the current backup and recovery practices of IT managers and CIOs as well as their predictions and plans to protect their valuable information for the future. Find out: How much and where data in organisations is growing the fastest, the top 5 back up challenges organisations are facing and what the road ahead holds for backup and recovery strategies.

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  Backup and Recovery Options for Microsoft Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint Server 2013 on Dell PowerEdge VRTX Using Dell PowerVault DL4000

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  PlateSpin Forge Cuts Administration Costs by 80 Percent for Meizhou

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  Backup and recovery best practices with Tintri VMstore