TechRepublic Resources
- Symantec Case Study: Everbank
- Everbank is a branchless bank that provides 24 hours a day, seven days a week Internet banking services. Since Everbank's beginnings in 1999, it has employed a variety of different tape backup solutions to protect its customers' confidential financial data. However, the bank was never completely satisfied with any of...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Financial, Tape Backup, Everbank, Backups, Security
- Case studies
- TITAN Technology Partners Manages to Maintain Secure Data Without Complexity and High Cost
- TITAN Technology Partners provides hosted and managed industry specific solutions to mid market firms. The company's service offerings include IT infrastructure planning, construction, system implementation, network engineering, training, project management, hosting, managed services support, and IT outsourcing services. The challenges were to architect a scalable, secure infrastructure for hosting a...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Partnership, Tape Backup, Human Capital Management, TITAN Technology Partners, Human Capital, Backups, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies
- Leading German University Graduates to NetApp Virtual Tape Libraries, Completely Eliminates Tape Backups
- Founded in 1829, the University of Stuttgart is one of the leading technical universities in Germany, offering a comprehensive range of subjects with a focus on technical disciplines. The university wanted to shorten the backup window. The challenge was to improve speed and reliability of restores and reduce the total...
- Tags: Tape Library, Tape Backup, NetApp, Storage, Backups, Hardware
- Case studies
- Performing Centralized Concurrent Backups With Amanda
- There are a number of enterprise tape backup solutions, such as Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software, VERITAS NetBackup, and LEGATO NetWorker, geared toward larger corporations. Many sites, especially smaller ones, don't wish to pay the license fees that some of these solutions command. For those smaller sites that want something...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Tape Backup, Amanda, Backups, Sun Solaris, Storage Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware
- White papers
- Protecting Server Data With Disk-Based Online Backup: Because Tape Backup Fails 50% of the Time!
- In this webcast, the listener will learn what he or she needs to consider when buying an Online Backup and Recovery solution for the business.
- Tags: Iron Mountain Inc., Disk, Server, Tape Backup, LiveVault Corp., Backups
- Webcasts
- Preventing Data Disasters With Online Backup: Because Tape Backup Is Not Enough
- In this webcast, the listener will learn what he or she needs to consider when buying an Online Backup and Recovery solution for the business.
- Tags: Iron Mountain Inc., Tape Backup, LiveVault Corp., Backups
- Webcasts
- sanrise Chooses StorageTek L700 Library for Its Best-of-Breed Solution
- sanrise was founded to be a managed storage solutions provider (MSSP), with services deployed in data centers belonging to Exodus Communications, the leading Internet hosting company. The concept for storagecel, sanrise's SAN offering and service delivery vehicle, was to build a best-of-breed solution and deploy it in "cookie cutter" fashion...
- Tags: Data Center, Tape Backup, StorageTek, Cookie, Sanrise, Storagecel, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- PACCAR Keeps on Truckin' With StorageTek Tape Backup Solution
- PACCAR Inc. is one of the world's leading truck manufacturers. By the late 1990s, PACCAR's data center had outgrown the manual processes used to back up the business-critical data held on its client-server systems, including more than 100 Dell Windows NT servers and more than 25 HP-UX servers. StorageTek worked...
- Tags: Backup, Tape Backup, StorageTek, PACCAR, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Minnesota Life Supercharges Backup Engine With StorageTek ExHPDM and T9840B
- With continuing growth in data volumes, tape backup processes at Minnesota Life were consuming increasing amounts of staff and IT resources. With an eye toward the future, Minnesota Life determined that it need to revamp its tape backup technologies and processes to increase staff efficiency, accelerate backup times, reduce its...
- Tags: Tape Backup, StorageTek, Backups
- Case studies
- Data Domain Case Study: Electronics For Imaging, Inc (EFI)
- Foster City, California-based EFI is the world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for commercial and enterprise printing. EFI's IT staff was spending eight-to-12 staff hours per week managing tape backups. In addition, requests for restores of end-user data were frequent. In late 2004, the management team began...
- Tags: Tape Backup, Electronics, EFI, Backups
- Case studies
- VXA Packet Technology is the New standard in Tape Backup and Data Restore – Beating out Traditional Tape Formats like DDS and DLT
- Traditional tape formats, like DDS and DLT, rely on track-based technology where head-to-tape alignment is critical for data restore. In addition, the cost for traditional tape storage devices has actually increased as their capacity and performance capabilities have increased. Conventional tape technology suffers from a reputation of less-than-perfect reliability in...
- Tags: Tape Backup, Technology, Tape Technology, Data Reliability, Backups
- Webcasts
- The Basic Backup Guide - Tape Backup Strategies for the Small-to-Medium Business
- Suppose for a moment that a virus infects your entire computer network. The virus spreads through every employee's workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your data -- it's all destroyed. How would your business recover? According to a recent disaster recovery study,...
- Tags: Tape Backup, Exabyte Corp., Small And Medium Business, Virus, Cyberthreats, Backups, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers
- Disaster Recovery 101: Keeping Your Data out of Harm's Way--A Primer for IT LAN Managers in Higher Education
- Read this white paper if you are responsible for developing a disaster recovery plan for your higher education campus or computer lab. The paper provides information about how to efficiently use tape backup technology in a world rich with Apple workstations and servers. The paper also contains...
- Tags: Education, Information Technology, Tape Backup, Exabyte Corp., Backups, Disaster Recovery, Productivity, Data Management
- White papers
- Advantages of Autoloaders: Managing Tape Backup more Efficiently and Affordably
- IS administrators who still use standalone tape drives are facing a dilemma. The amount of data is increasing, making standalone tape drives insufficient for most enterprise backup tasks. With years of experience in the automation industry, Exabyte offers several outstanding autoloaders to meet the backup needs of...
- Tags: Tape Backup, Exabyte Corp., Backups
- White papers
- Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup
- Many companies are already backing up their main and branch office systems to tape, but what they don't understand is just how vulnerable their data and their business remains. This whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup. When recoverability...
- Tags: Double-Take Software Inc., Tape Backup, Backups
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Providing for Data Protection and Faster Backups With Sun
- Named after Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of powered flight, Wright State University continues their tradition of innovation. A rich and dynamic community of nearly 17,000 students, Wright State offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and nearly 50 Ph.D., master's and professional degrees, and its School of Medicine is...
- Tags: Data Protection, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tape Backup, Aerospace, Wright State University, Backups, Data Centers, Aerospace & Defense, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Integrated Disk and Tape Backup and Recovery With the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System and HP Data Protector Express 3.5 SP2
- This white paper describes how to use the HP D2D Backup System and Data Protector Express to combine the speed and flexibility of disk based backup and recovery with the transportability and durability of tape based backup and recovery. It provides an example of how to implement automated and scheduled...
- Tags: Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Recovery, HP StorageWorks, Service Pack 2, Tape Backup, Backup System, Backups
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Virtualization of Tape Storage
- Disk-based virtual tape backup devices, when combined with removable tape for archiving, are a particularly effective data protection strategy, delivering the very tangible benefits of both disk and tape for securing data efficiently and cost-effectively at all points in its lifecycle. This paper discusses the advantages of a D2D2T strategy...
- Tags: Virtualization, Storage, Tape Storage, Tape Backup, Cybernetics, Backups
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Oracle Secure Backup 10.2 Policy-Based Backup Management
- Reliable data protection in the enterprise extends beyond simple tape backup to multi-tiered data protection strategies based on criticality of data, Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and retention meeting business and regulatory requirements. Tape media remains the cornerstone of enterprise data protection providing the most affordable, reliable media for long-term backup...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Tape Backup, Backups
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Tape Backup media's response to environmental conditions
- Being rather new to the realm of managing tape backups, I was surprised recently by hearing of someone declining to install a tape backup system because of the climate that they lived in. Apparently the area was very dry and dusty and they had been advised to stay away from...
- Tags: Backups, Nonapeptide, backup, humidity, tape backup, tape, storage, hard drive, disk
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
