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Backup Buying Guide



Bookmark this Buying Guide and use it as your home base for researching the key backup technologies. This collection of articles identifies specific points of interest for each main backup product category to help you understand the most important considerations involved in backup product selection.

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Quick tutorial for evaluating backup products (Backup purchase considerations)
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Enterprise-class tape library purchase considerations (Enterprise-class purchase considerations)


GENERAL BACKUP PURCHASE CONSIDERATIONS

This buying guide helps you understand the most important considerations involved in backup product selection and identifies specific points of interest for each main backup product category.
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ENTERPRISE-CLASS TAPE LIBRARIES

Tape remains the quintessential backup technology for many organizations, offering relatively low media costs, broad backup software support, and convenient off-site storage potential for disaster protection. But picking the best tape library for enterprise deployment is a serious challenge.
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ENTERPRISE-CLASS DISK ARRAYS

Selecting the right disk array for your enterprise isn't easy. Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this chapter focuses on the specific considerations of enterprise-class disk arrays.
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VIRTUAL TAPE LIBRARY SYSTEMS

VTLs provide the benefits of disk storage in a system that emulates a tape library to existing backup software. But VTL selection demands careful consideration. Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this guide outlines specific considerations for VTLs.
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LOCAL AND REMOTE BACKUP SOFTWARE

Backups guard against data loss by copying selected data, applictions or systems to secondary media located on a tape library or disk array -- even sending data to another physical storage facility across a WAN. This guide focuses on the specific considerations of backup software products.
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WAN OPTIMIZATION AND WAFS PLATFORMS

Maintaining servers and applications at remote locations is often problematic, and remote office backups are frequent problem areas for non-IT staff. Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this guide focuses on specific considerations for WAFS and WAN optimization products.
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CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION SYSTEMS

Busy IT organizations are employing continuous data protection (CDP) technologies to guard data on the fly, essentially eliminating the backup window and allowing granular file and system restoration -- sometimes down to the individual disk write operation. This section of the Guide focuses on the specific considerations for CDP products.
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