DATA STORAGE, BACKUP AND RECOVERY

Addressing the challenges of data protection
Mehran Hadipour explores some of the drawbacks of data protection technologies and provides a checklist of aspects to consider when choosing a solution.
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Appreciating the invisible – applying service principles to data protection
How to use service level agreements to demonstrate and prove the value of backup and data protection services. By Drake Pruitt.
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Archiving has a nasty sting in the tail – ignore it at your peril!
Information lifecycle management is now a mission critical requirement for many businesses, says Mark Maby.
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Bare media exposed
Steve Tongish comments on the potential short and long term risks of using bare optical meda.
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Can removable disk technology supersede tape, fixed disk and hybrid solutions?
…Asks Iomega’s Andre Armstrong. He may be biased, but does he have a point?
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Can you afford multiple disk drive failure?
Why standard RAID systems may not offer enough protection, by Axel Boehme, Tandberg Data GmbH.
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Clustered storage vs. storage virtualization: is there a winner?
Philip Crocker compares the two storage solutions.
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Comment: Pay ‘tape monkeys’, get peanuts?
Many companies choose to manage their data backup and disaster recovery in-house, as they believe it is less risky than outsourcing. Peter Hough explains why he believes this is a misconception.
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Contingency access to encrypted data
How do you ensure that encrypted data can be quickly accessed in situations where the original key is not available?
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Continuous data protection comes of age
Mark Ferelli explains how continuous data protection helps businesses meet their recovery time and recovery point objectives.
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Data recovery checklist
The way that storm-damaged media is handled initially can have a major impact on whether data can be recovered from it.
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Data virtualisation: the basis of file area networking
File area networking offers opportunities for managing data availability. Paul Phillips overviews the technology…
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Demystifying data de-duplication: choosing the right solution
This article examines eight key criteria to use when evaluating data de-duplication solutions.
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Designing today’s SANs
Storage networking has undergone rapid change with new technologies constantly being introduced. Tom Clark provides a SAN roadmap.
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Disk-based backup and restore: reaching the next level
Alexandre Delcayre looks at the advantages of using a Virtual Tape Library solution for data protection and disaster recovery.
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Drowning in data…
Jim Lee explains why managing the data life cycle is becoming one of the most critical IT continuity challenges.
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Duplicating the success of data deduplication
How local instance networking overcomes disaster recovery difficulties associated with single instance storage.
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Emerging technologies - the future of business continuity
Keith Tilley gives a brief overview of the technology trends for 2004 which will have an impact on the business continuity industry.
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E-mail recovery? Don’t rely on your backup!
Operational backups of e-mail, whilst a critical part of the IT infrastructure, fall short in the support of business processes, says Andrew Barnes.
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Eight reasons to increase backup spending when the economy slows
Viewpoint by Bud Stoddard, president and CEO, AmeriVault Corp.
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Examining data replication and data mirroring technologies as part of a disaster recovery plan
Ravi Chalaka lists the essential considerations.
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Fixing the backup and recovery problem
Rob Nieboer addresses the three biggest pain points of data protection. 
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Future trends in data lifecycle management
Is cost-effective data lifecycle management just a dream? Geoff Hough attempts to answer this question.
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Intelligent data protection in today's enterprise
Intelligent data protection in the enterprise means designing backup, recovery and archiving procedures around the service level requirements of the application. But how is this achieved? George Symons explains.
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IT continuity for the small and medium sized organisation
Don Chouinard outlines the essential steps that SMEs must take to protect their operations.
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IT disaster recovery planning – choosing the right backup strategy
Eric Schott provides advice for those new to IT continuity.
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Managing the life cycles of backups
Backup data has its own lifecycle and it needs to be managed to maximize IT resources.
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Microsoft launches System Center Data Protection Manager
Microsoft takes on the tape industry: aims to enable businesses of all sizes to take advantage of disk-based backup. White paper on DPM available.
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New technologies tackle remote office backup
Ed Walsh gives his view of the latest developments in back up technologies.
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Preventing critical data loss
Having an up-to-date inventory of computing assets is crucial to effective data protection; but many companies fail in this area. By Dr. Jim Kennedy.
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Protecting against catastrophic data loss
Breece Hill has provided a list of five things small to midsize businesses need to know about data protection.
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Protecting critical data from loss or theft
It’s a matter of due diligence says Dr. Jim Kennedy.
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Protecting virtual infrastructures with data replication
What is the best way to protect virtual servers and keep them highly available?
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Putting the case for tape…
As far as disaster recovery is concerned, tape is a dead technology. Not so, says Imation…
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‘Self-service’ storage: has its moment arrived?
What are the requirements for enabling a self-service storage environment in the data center?
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Seven reasons why Serial Attached SCSI will be the new enterprise storage standard
A white paper supplied by Infortrend Corporation.
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Speed versus accuracy in backup and restore
Don Chouinard explores this important issue.
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Stop banging that drum…Tape is going to be around for some time
Disk-based systems for daily backup needs and tape remaining the long-term retention medium of choice is the perfect marriage, says Chris James.
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Storage virtualization: enabling better business continuity
It is important for BCM professionals from both sides of the business-IT divide to understand the benefits of virtualization in the data storage space, says Steve Beck.
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Striking the balance between storage security and availability
Any good strategy for data storage protection includes a strategic balance between information availability and information security.
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Successful backups are not enough
Data protection requirements have moved on from the purely technical question of ‘Did the backup work?’ So, how do we bridge the gap between the technical and business definitions of success? Jim McDonald explains.
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Surviving unplanned downtime…
Ian Masters explores the specific data protection issues faced by small and medium sized enterprises.
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Take the ‘compliance self-diagnosis test’…
AXS-One offers ten challenging questions to help assess your organisation’s compliance readiness.
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Take your head out of the sand…
Server-centric backup and disaster recovery plans are no longer effective says Roelou Barry, CEO of Attix5.
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The bonding between bandwidth, backup and continuity
Organisations today are facing a growing problem when backing up data from remote sites. Mark Lewis explains how wide-area data services technology can help.
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The clustered revolution: a paradigm shift in the storage industry
Sujal Patel plots the evolution to clustered storage.
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The future of enterprise data back-up and recovery
A new approach is required to protect business critical data often stored outside the reach of conventional enterprise back-up mechanisms.
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The reinvention of backup and disaster recovery
Beth White explains why she believes that deduplication is the key enabling technology for future backup and DR techniques.
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The risks of e-mail mismanagement
e-mail storage and management are set to become one of the most important business critical issues.
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The tape debate
Thinking about what backup strategy to use? Scratch tape from your list, says Dr. Jerry Smith.
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Trends in data recovery management
The rise of tiered storage architectures has created an opportunity to change the way enterprises protect and manage backup data.
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Trustworthy records management
Steve Tongish explains why archival storage technologies should be integrated into a long-term data storage strategy.
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Unified storage – more than just SAN/NAS
There is only one way to produce an effective, affordable, user-friendly unified storage solution says Stefan Schaefer.
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What happened to ILM?
Information lifecycle management seems to have lost its status as a ‘hot topic’ but does mean that the concept has been rejected? Steve Tongish investigates.
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Why data protection must be central to any business continuity plan
Chris Ross explains why a data protection strategy and backup regime are vital aspects of business continuity plans.
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Why virtual machines need virtual storage
The ability to move live running virtual machines between servers presents some interesting new challenges from a storage perspective.
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Will 2006 be the year of storage virtualization?
ONStor’s Jon Toor explains why he believes that 2006 may be the year that use of virtualization technologies really takes off.
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