This white paper provides an outline for conducting an audit of your existing IT infrastructure, including operations and costs, to assess where optimization could be applied. It also explores the best practices for implementing an optimized IT model to simplify IT and make it more cost-effective and efficient.

The IT industry is an ever-changing and constantly evolving entity that requires perpetual analysis of current infrastructures. And with IT budgets staying flat or...

This expert E-Guide explores the top ten DR tips from John Toigo to help navigate DR planning more efficiently and shows you how to justify your DR initiatives by analyzing critical DR data.

Putting together a disaster recovery (DR) plan can be an intimidating undertaking because of the complexity that comes along with the process. As technologies continue to become more complex, there are simply more things that can go wrong. There are, however, ways ease this crucial planning...

This brief resource tackles the data backup challenge for IT managers – and provides the results taken by 215 of your IT peers in an IDG Research Services survey.

 

 

As more data is created, the need for more storage is increasing exponentially – and the traditional approach has become inefficient with organizations facing a predicament with exponential data growth. With raising costs of storage for backup and disaster recovery, management is confronted with an ongoing dilemma.

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This white paper explores a disaster recovery solution that gives you peace of mind by removing complexity from the equation. Read on to get a detailed account of FalconStor's RecoverTrac technology and how it can help you address a full range of disaster recovery challenges.

One of the greatest data center challenges today is ensuring a smooth recovery of operations after downtime, planned or unplanned. Preparing a plan for disaster can take months but in the midst of chaos...

This two-minute video details the features and benefits FalconStor's award-winning RecoverTrac DR technology can provide your company, including: improved productivity, increased profitability and fully automated data recovery when disaster strikes.

In today’s unpredictable day and age, it’s not enough to just have a DR plan—it’s essential to have a plan that’s automated, integrated and easy to use to minimize downtime and risks associated with traditional, manual recovery...

This E-Guide is your ticket to establishing a successful disaster recovery and business continuity strategy.

The time to develop a reliable disaster recovery and business continuity strategy isn't after disaster strikes - it's before.

Check out this E-Guide to discover how you can start developing a custom-tailored DR strategy designed to meet your unique business needs today. Included in this guide is an 11-step checklist filled with must-haves for your DR plan, a breakdown of...

Storage is the cornerstone of any virtualization deployment. In this expert e-guide, discover the benefits and disadvantages of virtualizing storage systems for server administrators. Plus, find out about a tool that can help ease storage management in virtual environments.

Storage is the cornerstone of any virtualization deployment. In this expert e-guide, discover the benefits and disadvantages of virtualizing storage systems for server administrators. Plus, find out...

A virtualized storage environment can greatly simplify storage management. Access this expert e-guide to find out more about the benefits of storage virtualization and the different technologies that you can utilize to increase storage utilization.

A virtualized storage environment can greatly simplify storage management. Access this expert e-guide to find out more about the benefits of storage virtualization and the different technologies that you can utilize to...

In this presentation transcript, Andrew Burton, senior editor of SearchDisasterRecovery.com and Jeff Boles, senior analyst with the Taneja Group, discuss who should consider automatic failover, the vendors that offer products in this space, how the technology works, and the challenges associated with automatic failover.

Automatic failover for disaster recovery is an option for organizations that need a zero downtime environment, and there are a number of approaches...

Early continuous data protection products may not have lived up to the hype when they first debuted a few years ago – but CDP technology now is the future of data backup and recovery. This E-Guide outlines how continuous data protection has evolved over the years and lists 10 popular CDP products available today.

Early continuous data protection (CDP) products may not have lived up to the hype when they first debuted a few years ago – but CDP technology now is the future of data backup...

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) defines CDP as "a class of mechanisms that continuously capture or track data modifications enabling recovery to previous points in time." In part two of this tutorial on continuous data protection backup, learn how CDP is being used today, and about the latest CDP products.

Over the last two years, continuous data protection (CDP) has made its way off the overhyped technology list and is rapidly picking up steam as a useful piece of...

In part one of this tutorial on continuous data protection backup, learn about the latest CDP tools, how CDP has grown over the past few years, and the history of CDP tools and how they are evolving.

Over the last two years, continuous data protection (CDP) has made its way off the overhyped technology list and is rapidly picking up steam as a useful piece of the data backup and recovery puzzle.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) defines CDP as "a class of mechanisms that...

Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. However, data replication can quickly increase your bandwidth and storage costs. Read this white paper to learn how WAN optimization can help to solve these issues.

Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. However, as IT and business managers are well aware, data replication can quickly increase your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN...

This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments.

For years, disaster recovery (DR) and data protection practices have consisted of two different technology islands — data protection and tape backup. The processes to implement both have usually been separate and handled by different IT departments...

This paper explains in detail how data deduplication technology from FalconStor Software reduces backup storage requirements for backup and DR operations in a manner that exceeds other deduplication technologies.

IT managers and executives face explosive data growth, driving up costs of storage for backup and disaster recovery (DR). For this reason, data deduplication is regarded as the next evolutionary step in backup technology and a "must-have" for organizations that...

Data protection and disaster recovery continue to be overarching challenges for most firms. To remedy a myriad of problems with data protection as well as operational and disaster recovery, companies are replacing legacy backup methods with new approaches. Read on to learn more.

Data protection and disaster recovery continue to be overarching challenges for most firms. To remedy a myriad of problems with data protection as well as operational and disaster recovery...

Learn how easily you can transparently move existing tape libraries and VTLs to the market-leading FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution without any change to your existing data and without impacting your backup and restore operations.

Has your tape library or VTL become obsolete, or lacks the performance, functionality, and integration levels that your organization needs? Are you experiencing storage inefficiencies caused by needlessly backing up duplicate...

This presentation transcript guides you through DR implementation by outlining requirements for business continuity solutions, how VMware offers protection at every level, key ingredients in DR deployment, different DR setups and more. Read on to learn more about what works and what doesn’t in the realm of DR and business continuity.

It shouldn’t take a disaster to realize the importance of strong DR and business continuity plans for companies regardless of their size. This...

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP).

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector...

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP). All customers reported high levels of satisfaction.

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network...

This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments. For years, disaster recovery (DR) and data protection practices have consisted of two different technology islands - data protection and tape backup. The processes to implement both have usually been separate and handled by different IT departments...

Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers.

Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, backup performance bottlenecks caused by...

FalconStor Software provides solutions that can dramatically improve backup speeds while working with your current backup technology and operations. Management can be streamlined even while performance improves.

For most IT organizations, traditional server backup remains the primary means of protecting data. And despite decades of technology development in this area, challenges remain. Survey after survey shows that backup speed remains an overriding concern...

In this webcast you'll hear from Falconstor Software's Product Marketing Manager , Peter Eichers, as he discusses Falconstor storage virtualization solutions. Join Peter Eicher, Product Marketing Manager for Falconstor Software, as he discusses the following topics:

• What are the key functions and benefits of storage virtualization?
• Ten reasons to use a storage virtualization environment
• FalconStor IPStor® - a highly optimized, scalable, and flexible virtualization

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The FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) solution can be deployed in conjunction with VMware vCenter SRM to empower VMware vCenter SRM to automate and manage the DR process for the entire physical and virtual infrastructure. Read this white paper to learn more. Having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is mandatory. Most organizations recognize this - particularly those that have learned this the hard way, when a disaster caught them unprepared. DR procedures have always been...