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School District Consolidates Backup Systems, Reduces IT Workload, and Lowers Costs

whitepaper Tracy Unified School District in northern California wanted to streamline the work involved in daily backups and file recoveries. The small IT staff spent an inordinate amount of time backing up e-mail messages and documents every day for the...

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 May 2008]

School District Adopts New File Backup System, Expects to Save $100,000

whitepaper The San Francisco Unified School District needed a reliable method for backing up important files. The district had used tape backups, which relied on schools to manually change tapes and check data. But even when files were recorded properly...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

Municipality Reduces Backup Time by 96 Percent, Gives Users File Restore Capabilities

whitepaper In August 2004, the department began testing the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), a disk-based backup application that provides near continuous data protection by backing up data changes at the byte level.

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

Improving Backup Performance with Defragmentation

whitepaper Since backup is basically a file-by-file copy process, disk fragmentation has a huge impact on backup times. This white paper from Diskeeper Corporation outlines tests conducted to determine the performance increase that can be realized by...

Tags: data quality, file, backup, diskeeper corporation

[24 Apr 2008]

Backup-to-Disk: The Key to Recovery Management - Building the Foundation for Effective Operational Recovery Management

whitepaper Finally, it reviews the key criteria an enterprise B2D product should support: concurrent read/write, Network Data Management Protocol(NDMP), direct file access, and single-step recovery. IT identifies five immediate benefits of B2D, from faster...

Tags: removable storage, recovery, backup, san nas

[14 Apr 2008]

HP OpenView Storage Data Protector A.05.50 and HP StorageWorks File System Extender Server Integration White Paper

whitepaper It provides functionality for backing up and restoring File System Extender databases and system files, volumes, and configuration files. This paper provides guidance for HP OpenView Storage Data Protector A.05.50 and HP StorageWorks File System...

Tags: back-up

[03 Apr 2008]

IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server, Version 8.2

whitepaper In response, some companies set arbitrary storage limits, but such limits may result in loss of valuable information or excessive file duplication to prevent such IBM DB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server, Version 8.2, solves these problems with an...

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

Backing Up and Restoring Data on HP-UX EVFS Volumes Using HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 6.0

whitepaper For enterprise customers, backing up and restoring data stored on HP-UX Encrypted Volume and File Systems (EVFS) volumes are critical. It discusses two successfully tested scenarios for backing up and restoring data, and one scenario for backing up...

Tags: back-up

[14 Feb 2008]

Far from quiet on the virtual front

Comment The acquisition of Acopia by F5 brings it into the storage market and into file virtualisation in particular. Being acquired by Citrix gives XenSource heavyweight backing and strengthens its position in the enterprise market.

Tags: viridian, xen, vmware, virtualisation

[05 Sep 2007]

Choosing a Backup Solution to Protect Data for the Small Business

whitepaper Often this is just a small amount - a deleted email, a small file - but a catastrophic equipment failure could to lead to the loss of all of the data. Backing up the data is a task that every business owner should take seriously.

Tags: back-up, loss, employees, protect

[01 May 2007]

Open File Backups: How BackupAssist Handles Open Files in Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003

whitepaper BackupAssist provides two different technologies for backing up open files in Windows environments - Snapshot Technology and Conventional File Copy. Without having open file protection in the backup solution mission critical data files can be missed.

Tags: files, file, backup, backup solution

[02 Feb 2007]

Why Disk-Based Backup Is Better Than Tape-Based Backup

whitepaper When it comes time to reclaim a lost file, folder, or even perform a complete disaster recovery, disk-based Backup for Workgroups will give the user super-fast and stress-free file restoration. It is not a product originally designed for tape, then...

Tags: back-up, disk, backup, file

[22 Jan 2007]

Backing Up Exchange With Data Protection Manager

whitepaper DPM uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to create disk-based protection and recovery for file servers in an Active Directory domain. Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 can be used to help a person to protect his Exchange Server data.

Tags: directory services, exchange server, protection, active directory

[20 Oct 2006]

Backing Up File Systems With Hierarchical Structure Using SAS/CONNECT

whitepaper SAS programmers' routinely backup data files between local and remote systems to avoid loss of data. People also back up data files regularly from development systems where files are purged periodically.

Tags: back-up, stored, host, files

[12 Sep 2006]

Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery on a System With Zones Installed

whitepaper Backing up file systems means copying file systems to removable media, such as tape, to safeguard against loss, damage, or corruption. Restoring file systems means copying current backup files from removable media to a working directory.

Tags: disaster recovery, file, media, copying

[26 Aug 2006]

Unilever scales an Iron Mountain

Unilever scales an Iron Mountain

Case Study We had back-up to our file and print servers which didn't work 100 per cent of the time and some staff were using removable media. We had numerous incidents where individuals thought they were backing up their data only to find they hadn't.

Tags: unilever

[21 Aug 2006]

Tech giants cheer patent system overhaul

News Specifically, it would shift to a "first to file" method of awarding patents, which is already used in most foreign countries, instead of the existing "first to invent" standard, which has been criticised as complicated to prove.

Tags: patent trolls, patent, patents

[07 Aug 2006]

Redmond has 'road to Damascus' open source conversion

News The conversions will be based on Microsoft's Open Office XML, the XML-based file formats that will be the default setting in Office 2007, due next year. Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, OpenDocument has emerged...

Tags: opendocument, open source, office, microsoft

[06 Jul 2006]

Integrity Virtual Machines: Best Practices for Using Files as Virtual Mass Storage

whitepaper For example, the mapping of a virtual storage device to a file on the VM Host is referred to as 'File backing storage. With file backing storage, any file on a mounted file system can be used as a storage device on a Virtual Machine (VM).

Tags: back-up, machine, virtual, disk

[23 Jun 2006]

EC dithers over OpenDocument approval

News According to sources familiar with the issue, Microsoft's drive to get its own file formats standardised may deter the EC from backing OpenDocument. The European Commission is reluctant to recommend the OpenDocument file format, even though the...

Tags: opendocument, xml

[08 May 2006]

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