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How flat backup can simplify your data storage environment

Is your backup data becoming unwieldy? In this video, W. Curtis Preston makes the case for flat data backups and their power to ease and quicken the restoration process.
Erasure coding vs. RAID: Benefits and challenges

There is still a place for both RAID and erasure coding in today's computing environments. Explore each technology's use cases, drawbacks and best practices.

Buffington: Data protection plans should contain technology 'spectrum'

A comprehensive data protection plan must feature more than backup. Archiving, snapshots and replication are just a few of the technologies that organizations should consider.
EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management sneak peek

The eCDM product, announced at EMC World 2016, helps cut back on redundant data. It may also mean EMC breaks into the relatively new copy data management market.
Backup and archive with cloud storage applications

Get the most out of your data center's cloud storage plan through the use of backup applications, object storage and a multi-cloud architecture.
Instant VM recovery best practices

Instant VM recovery seeks to narrow the time it takes to recover data. This Tech Talk video with expert Brien Posey provides guidelines for getting the most out of the process.
Why is a tape backup system still so popular?

Many facilities are reintroducing tape. George Crump discusses why a tape backup system can be an effective platform for your organization.
Crump: Backup and data protection trends in 2014

George Crump of Storage Switzerland discusses this year's hottest backup and data protection trends.
Crump: A robust data protection strategy includes more than backup

George Crump discusses why your data protection strategy should include more than just data backup and encompass snapshot and replication.
Preston: As hard drive capacity grows, so does risk of data loss

Independent backup expert W. Curtis Preston discusses concerns about RAID rebuild times and how they relate to hard drive capacity.
Tech Talk: Classifying backup, disaster recovery and archiving

In this Storage Decisions Tech Talk, Jon Toigo discusses backup, disaster recovery and archiving.
Tech Talk: Backup and disaster recovery plan best practices

In this Storage Decisions Tech Talk, Jon Toigo offers some best practices for backup and disaster recovery planning.
Buffington: Keep backup and archive distinct, but coordinated

ESG senior analyst Jason Buffington said EMC has been far from quiet on the backup and archive front.
Schulz: Look for common tools in backup and archive

Greg Schulz of Storage IO said to look for ways to rely on common tools for backup and archiving, which can save money and simplify your operation.
How Windows Server 2012 dedupe affects backup

Backup expert Brien Posey explains how Microsoft Windows Server 2012 native deduplication affects backups.
Use storage snapshots as an alternative to traditional backup

In this video, learn more about storage snapshots, how they work, and how to use them as an alternative to traditional backup and score more benefits.
Toigo: Learn to use disk wisely as a backup option

In this Storage Decisions video, Jon Toigo discusses how to maximize the disk storage you have and make spinning disk a more effective backup option.
Bandwidth limitations are a concern with cloud backup

Learn how not to fear bandwidth limitations when choosing a cloud backup option. In this video, Ben Woo discusses moving data to the cloud.
Toigo: Erasure coding as prevention for bit rot

In this Storage Decisions video, learn about erasure coding, a data protection method that can help reduce the risk of data errors.
Data deduplication technology implementation approaches: Dedupe and disk backup

In this video, W. Curtis Preston, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert, explains why disk is used in a data backup system and why it builds a strong foundation in a data storage environment.

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