See virtual tape library.
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Additional Resources
- Deduplication market undergoes rapid changes
- In May, I blogged about NetApp's announced acquisition of deduplication pionneer, Data Domain. The announcement triggered an unsolicted counter-offer from EMC, followed by another counter from NetApp. But after a month of offers, counter-offers and regulatory reviews, EMC ultimately outbid NetApp with an all cash offer of $2.1 billion. I believe...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System: Best Practices for Performance Optimization
- The HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System products with Dynamic Data Deduplication are Virtual Tape Library VTL appliances designed to provide a cost-effective, consolidated backup solution for business data and fast restore of data in the event of loss. To get the best performance from a D2D Backup System there are...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- NetApp buys Data Domain for $1.5 billion
- NetApp said Wednesday that it will acquire Data Domain for $1.5 billion, or $25 a share. Data Domain makes deduplication storage systems designed to cut cost and make data management easier. NetApp said in a statement that its game plan is to take Data Domain's products and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Deduplication will exist everywhere
- Most customers were just starting to get their arms around all the different deduplication approaches available in disk appliances and VTLs from vendors when backup software vendors and even non-storage related vendors began announcing deduplication capabilities. We all know the appliance and VTL vendors offering dedupe, including...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Master the Stack: Deduplication, Replication & Backup Application Integration With FalconStor VTL Open Storage and NetBackup
- Want to improve backup and recovery without losing existing automation in the environment, but don't know where to start. Symantec OpenStorage solutions enable unique integration between NetBackup and participating storage solutions. The presenter of this webcast will explain how the FalconStor Virtual Tape Library VTL OpenStorage solution, when combined with...
- Webcasts 2008-10-31
- Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance
- Virtual Tape Library VTL technology is arguably the easiest way to introduce disk into a tape-based backup infrastructure. A VTL is a set of disks that emulate tape; one sees a disk array, the backup software sees a tape drive or a tape library. The use of tape virtualization will...
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Copan's approach demonstrates why a good data archiving strategy can translate into energy savings
- Back in February, I banged off sort of a Valentine's blog to Nexsan about some of the work it was doing around MAID Massive Array of Idle Disks, which is a concept that's being applied to enterprise storage architectures in order to eek out greater power efficiency. After all, storage...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Enabling Enterprise Tape Library Support for Microsoft DPM 2007 Using FalconStor VTL: Joint Solution Enables Unified Global Management and Data Deduplication
- Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager DPM 2007 is designed to provide continuous data protection for Windows-based servers, with additional features for business-specific Microsoft workloads such as SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint. The industry-leading FalconStor Virtual Tape Library VTL solution with Single Instance Repository SIR for de-duplication complements Microsoft DPM...
- White papers 2008-06-04
- Making Use of Virtual Tape in a D2D2T Environment
- A Virtual Tape Library enables a centralized, shared backup and recovery facility for the midsized data center. Combined with tape, in an integrated D2D2T environment, a VTL also becomes an integral component in an archival architecture. By connecting a VTL to a SAN, a single VTL appliance can serve as...
- White papers 2008-05-28
- Protecting Customer Information and Improving Data Consistency
- A major national bank faced critical data accessibility challenges. Its existing IT architecture was not originally designed to handle the volume of data it was being tasked with storing, serving, and protecting. As a result, bank employees faced longer-than-usual data access times, and even then could not always verify that...
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Accelerating Backup/Restore With Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library: Selecting an Optimized, Secure Configuration to Fit Your Environment
- Virtual Tape Libraries have many benefits to an organization. From the ability to emulate more tape drives than a physical tape library, to allowing multiple backup streams to run simultaneously, thus enabling organizations to easily complete their backups within their allotted window. The choice to implement a virtual tape library...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup Using Snap Server 4500 and NetVault Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
- A disk-to-disk-to-tape solution built on an Adaptec Snap Server and a third-party tape automation device offers tremendous advantages for backup and restore of network data. This paper steps details the steps required to configure sample hardware and create a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution. Specific instances may require slight variations; in general this...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Videotron Telecom Migrates 171 Servers From Chicago to Montreal in Seven Weeks With VMware Software
- Videotron Telecom Ltd. VTL, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media Inc., supports more than 25,000 users and 600 servers for internal and external clients, offering turn-key IT solutions including managed services for its customers. When one client wanted to migrate 128 production servers plus 43 development and test servers from Chicago...
- Case studies
- Disk-Based Backup: The Next Step in Data Protection With EMC Legato
- New technologies have changed the economics of data storage, making disk-based backup far more attractive. But most organizations have a significant investment in tape-based storage. Is it time for you to make the switch to disk? And which disk backup solution is best for your needs - ATA disk array...
- Webcasts
- City of Winterthur Gains Backup Speed and 100% Data Safety With NetApp Virtual Tape Library Solution
- Located in the canton of Zurich, Winterthur is the sixth largest city in Switzerland. The city's administrative staff provides information technology services to more than 3,500 users. The City of Winterthur IDW wanted to streamline and improve backup services to accommodate 30% annual data growth and ensure 100% data protection....
- Case studies
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