In acquiring Diligent, IBM adds game-changing de-duplication technology to its data protection arsenal. De-duplication makes backup and recovery faster, more efficient, and, yes, more green. This has significant value for organizations in their pursuit to protect and make readily available massively growing volumes of data.
This ESG Lab report examines the ease of installation and deployment of direct and SAN attached systems running IBRIX Fusion scalable network-attached file system software. Scalable capacity, performance for a wide variety of workloads and high availability are also explored.
ESG Lab tested the Cisco MDS 9000 Network Accelerated Serverless Backup and found that it improves backup performance, enables the consolidation of backup servers, works seamlessly with existing backup and recovery software including CommVault, Computer Associates, and Legato, supports both disk and tape targets, and accelerates backup performance over long distances using tape acceleration which enables remote office backups.
"The State of Continuous Data Protection" SearchStorage.com Australia 5/6/2008
"CDP is effective as a function, but it is not likely to replace other backup tools. It is really best as a feature in other backup products," says Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
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"HP Brings Storage, Servers Into One Rack" CIO 5/6/2008
Managing many terabytes of storage is far different from taking care of a few hundred gigabytes on a PC, said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters.