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White Papers
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A Comparison of Disk-based Data Protection Techniques
The volume of data created and stored by organizations continues to grow at amazing rates. Driven by continued automation of many business processes, and expansion of customer facing systems, the sheer quantity of data is causing problems for most IT departments. This white paper takes a look at the factors that companies need to consider when selecting disk-based data protection solutions.
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Critical Data: Managing Your Data Based on its Value to Your Organization
The first step in creating a solid data protection practice evaluating the value of your organization’s data. This paper focuses on “Mission Critical." Any loss will undoubtedly damage your business - for even short periods of time. “Damage” may refer to lost revenues, degradation in customer service, or other negative consequences such as stock value loss or damage to your brand.
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Data Protection: Evaluating Your Business Requirements and Classifying Your Data
The business of business is business, not IT. Your data protection practices, like your other business practices, should be aimed at managing your business assets because a simple analysis of your data can produce extraordinary results. This paper discusses an approach to evaluating data at a business level, and implementing a data protection strategy that safeguards your organization based on the value of its data.
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Evaluating Deduplication Solutions: What You Should Really Consider
Understand deduplication, and how it can be implemented - single instance storage (SIS) vs deduplication, fixed vs. variable block, inline vs post-process, source vs target-side, and ratios and retention periods. In this paper, we will explain what elements you should consider and how the right decision will make your life easier.
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Keeping it Simple: How to Protect Growing VMware Environments
Depending on the third-party backup application in use, achieving adequate data protection for each virtual machine (or a whole VirtualCenter environment) can be either straight forward or a decidedly complex process. This white paper explains why you don’t need to understand VCB internals or labor over complex scripts to create comprehensive, flexible backup policies.
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Case Studies
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Backup Brings Peace of Mind Data Protection to The Mind Research Network
MRN’s research is expensive, and patient populations can be nearly impossible, to reproduce. Despite the value of data, a “hope and a prayer” could summarize the old approach to safeguarding data. Lacking a consolidated data protection strategy, research was greatly risked. With each unit responsible for managing its own data, backups were often ignored because it interrupted the researchers’ work.
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Backup Delivers Cost-Effective and Simple-to-Manage Data Protection for O’Reilly Media
Faced with three geographically separate backup sites and an outdated backup solution that was slow and expensive to upgrade, O’Reilly required a new backup solution. The ideal solution could handle offsite backups, work well in a heterogeneous IT environment and scale with the company’s data growth.
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BakBone Helps DeLorme Map an Easy-to-Use Deduplication Plan Available with NetVault
Faced with the increasing cost of tape libraries and a small staff to manage data, DeLorme needed a new solution that would require less time and staff to manage and would be cost-effective. “We were spending too many hours purchasing and changing tapes rather than focusing on our other needs in the IT department.”
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BakBone NetVault: Backup Provides VMware and Data Protection for The Latin School of Chicago
The Latin School of Chicago’s previous backup software did not meet their needs and took staff up to four hours daily to manage. Additionally, catalogs occasionally became corrupted and required lengthy rebuilds. They set out to find an easy-to-use, reliable solution -- one that could reduce administration time, recover fast, and support VMware and heterogeneous environments with large data volumes.
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Data Protection Headaches Removed for L.A. County Office of Education Technology Outreach Department
Los Angeles County Office of Education Technology Outreach Department (LACOE/ITO) needed a solution that would easily integrate with their existing environment and be able to protect six terabytes of data across multiple platforms. LACOE/ITO is required by compliance standards to protect and store all of their data.
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Research Reports
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Taneja Group Technology Analysis: Next Generation Best Practices for Data Protection
Too often vendors focus on speeding up backup, but in reality, the pursuit should be all about speeding up recovery – to the point that it is instantaneous. As we’ll see, integrated instant protection and recovery can turn backup into a technology that extends the capabilities of your infrastructure with a single solution in place of what used to be many.
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Technology Briefs
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Enterprise Management Associates Reviews BakBone NetVault: Solid Solution for Real and Virtual World
Businesses are looking for ways to reduce data protection costs without reducing effectiveness. They want to offer greater protection and scale with the needs of business. Companies of all sizes are entertaining options that compete with their current solutions at a greatly reduced price. In this time of tremendous change and pressure on managers to reduce costs, options are slim.
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Tech Analyses
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Taneja Group Opinion: BakBone's Core Strategy
From its beginning BakBone has stressed a comprehensive approach to managing and protecting data, and continues grow through internal development and acquisitions around real-time backup protection, enterprise messaging and a data-centric approach to centralized policies. This Opinion will briefly present these choices in terms of solving some difficult challenges around data protection, availability, centralized administration and compliance.
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