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• Consider secondary storage devices for your backup strategy

  A secondary storage device could be an important element of your data protection platform. Analyze accessibility, speed, scalability and cost before jumping in. Continue Reading

• How do secondary storage and primary storage differ?

  Having primary storage and secondary storage is a good way to tier your workloads and ensure solid data protection. So, what should you expect from both platforms? Continue Reading

• Backup snapshots and replication supplement standard backup

  Traditional backup or data snapshot and replication technologies alone don't meet the data protection and DR needs of modern enterprises. Combine them all together and they do. Continue Reading

• Actifio

  Actifio is a software vendor in Waltham, Mass., that specializes in copy data management (CDM). Continue Reading

• Create a backup image in 7 easy steps

  Learn how to generate an image-based backup using our step-by-step instructions. Just remember to perform this activity in a test system to avoid wiping out source data. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • Actifio
  • Druva
  • LTO (Linear Tape-Open) tape
  • LTO-9 (Linear Tape-Open 9)

  • Acronis
  • cloud-to-cloud backup (C2C backup)
  • disk backup or disk-based backup
  • Veritas NetBackup (Symantec NetBackup)

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• Druva

  Druva is a cloud data protection and management software company based in Sunnyvale, Calif.Continue Reading

• A data protection and backup podcast primer: Tips, trends, products

  Backup and recovery are important areas of focus. Take the time to peruse our collection of podcasts that detail key segments of the market and the big risks to your data.Continue Reading

• How do I know if cloud-based archiving is the right choice?

  If you don't need to access old data much, cloud archiving could work out well. That's just one consideration, though, for deciding which archival platform to employ.Continue Reading

• LTO (Linear Tape-Open) tape

  LTO (Linear Tape-Open) tape is an open-format tape storage technology created by Hewlett-Packard (HP), International Business Machines (IBM) and Seagate Technology.Continue Reading

• LTO-9 (Linear Tape-Open 9)

  LTO-9 (Linear Tape-Open 9) is a future tape format from the Linear Tape-Open Consortium.Continue Reading

• Backup strategy for small business starts with best practices

  Small businesses can't afford to go without a solid backup strategy. Thankfully, there are many backup for small business options, from tape to disk to cloud.Continue Reading

• Acronis

  Acronis is a data protection software vendor that spun off as a separate company from Parallels in Singapore and became an independent company in 2003.Continue Reading

• cloud-to-cloud backup (C2C backup)

  Cloud-to-cloud backup, or C2C backup, is the practice of copying data stored on one cloud backup service -- commonly referred to as software as a service (SaaS) -- to another cloud.Continue Reading

• disk backup or disk-based backup

  Disk backup, or disk-based backup, is a data backup and recovery method that backs data up to hard disk storage.Continue Reading

• Can integrating data protection and management work?

  While you may want to jump on the data management and protection train, consider first how combining the two in one product will affect your systems and users.Continue Reading