Around-the-clock global operations, data growth, and server virtualization all together can complicate protection and recovery strategies. They affect when and how often you can perform backups, increase the time required to back up, and ultimately affect your ability to successfully restore. These challenges can force lower standards for recovery objectives, such as reducing the frequency of backup jobs or protecting fewer applications, both of which can introduce risk. High-speed snapshot technologies and application integration can go a long way toward meeting these needs, and they have quickly become essential elements of a complete protection strategy. But snapshot copies have often been managed separately from traditional backup processes. Features like cataloging for search and retrieval as well as tape creation usually require separate management and do not fully leverage snapshot capabilities. To eliminate complexity and accelerate protection and recovery, you need a solution

Download this exclusive report to learn how NetApp direct-to-tape technology can reduce the number of media servers required to support a solution, which can reduce hardware, software, and management costs by utilizing the VTL to perform tape exports.

VMware Virtual Infrastructure and CA Recovery Management (CA ARCserve Backup and CA Xosoft products) team up to deliver higher availability and risk-resistance for business-critical information and applications, while lowering management and operational costs and complexity.

This white paper provides an in-depth understanding of the integration of HP Data Protector with Virtual Tape Libraries by utilizing the Advanced Backup to Disk functionality available with the HP Data Protector software.

Learn how SARCOM, a leading IT services provider, used a virtualized HP-based SAN infrastructure linked to server blades, with point-in-time replication (full data set snapclones) and backup to tape libraries to improve storage performance, flexibility, and reliability while reducing costs and protecting data.

Surprisingly, 50% of small to medium sized businesses that have invested in a data availability and recovery solution may still be vulnerable to downtime. Download this free white paper to learn what you can do to avoid the same risk.  You'll also learn what your options are for reliable IBM iSeries data protection and recovery that make sense for your size business.

This webcast will explore the options and benefits of VTL's, give you a basic understanding of what is available in the marketplace, and help you decide if this solution is right for your organization.

Is backup and recovery unnecessarily draining your budget and resources? This report measures the TCO of an enterprise environment using various data protection models, including tape, virtual tape library, and data deduplication solutions.  Learn how each stacks up in this comparative report.

Forrester evaluates 12 virtual tape library (VTL) vendors across 58 criteria to determine a relative ranking that centers on strength of current offering as well as market strategy.  This report is a must-read for companies considering revising their data protection strategies to include VTL.

With the ability to backup/restore over 17TB per hour and achieve deduplication ratios in excess of 50:1, ESG deems SEPATON VTL solutions "outstanding". See more unparalleled results and learn how SEPATON dramatically improves data protection efficiency in the full report.

Today’s enterprise faces a convergence of data protection challenges. Addressing them means extending online data retention, enabling deduplication, and simplifying operations. This report outlines how ContentAware VTL and deduplication solutions from SEPATON uniquely address these challenges.

Deduplication is becoming an essential tool to help data center managers control exponential data growth in the backup environment. The methods used to accomplish deduplication vary widely as do the levels of capacity optimization they can provide. Some techniques are well suited to small-to-medium sized backup environments, while others are optimized for larger enterprises. This report describes the various techniques used today to deduplicate data and highlights unique deduplication considerations for enterprise environments.

This report is a must-read for companies struggling to back up their newly virtualized server environments.  Read this brief to get real-world case studies on how Sterling Testing and Kindred Healthcare have overcome the challenges of protecting VMware environments by implementing high performance virtual tape libraries (VTLs).

Download this white paper to learn the key benefits of VTL.

Tape's evolving data storage role - Balancing Performance, Availability, Capacity, Energy for long-term data protection and retention

Need a Long-Term Archive Solution? Quantum Adds LTO-5 to Scalar Tape Libraries. Find our more in this whitepaper!

This paper outlines some of the important considerations for encrypting data on tape, and is intended to help IT administrators make the right decision for their environment and their company's data security needs.

This white paper shows how upgrading to LTO-5 technology and consolidating storage onto fewer tapes enables organizations to achieve a 5yr ROI and a 17-month payback period.

Data deduplication technology represents one of the most significant storage enhancements in recent years, promising to reshape future data protection and disaster recovery solutions. Data deduplication offers the ability to store more on a given amount of storage and replicate data using lower bandwidth links at a significantly reduced cost. This white paper explains how deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, and when to choose a particular type.

Disk in the form of - that is, disk presented as tape - can be added without requiring huge changes to existing backup strategies. This is more straightforward than adding disk into an existing environment, because adding disk without the VTL interface requires complex and unavoidable changes to existing strategies.

Virtual tape library (VTL) solutions are taking hold in companies of all sizes, but not all VTLs are equipped to meet the requirements of enterprise data centers. Evaluating virtual tape technology based on a few key considerations will help narrow the field and minimize buyer’s remorse.

Cybernetics has announced the immediate availability of 3TB disk drives in all disk based backup solutions.