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Integrated Disk and Tape Backup and Recovery With the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System and HP Data Protector Express 3.5 SP2: This white paper describes how to use the HP D2D Backup System and Data Protector Express to combine the speed and flexibility of disk based backup and recovery with the transportability and durability of tape based backup and recovery. It provides an example of how to implement automated and scheduled...; Tags: Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Recovery, HP StorageWorks, Service Pack 2, Tape Backup, Backup System, Backups; White papers 2008-02-01
Next Windows Home Server release due this spring: Next Windows Home Server release due this springI have my share of gripes with Microsoft, but....WHS is a BRILLIANT product.I used the OEM version from NewEgg (around $175) on an old 2.53 Ghz server I have that was running Windows 2003 Server.The backup system is the cats meow. The...; Tags: Backups, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Home Server, backup system, WHS, backup, server; Discussion threads 2008-01-07
School District Consolidates Backup Systems, Reduces IT Workload, and Lowers Costs: Tracy Unified School District in northern California wanted to streamline the work involved in daily backups and file recoveries. The small IT staff spent an inordinate amount of time backing up e-mail messages and documents every day for the district's 22 schools and could spend days recovering accidentally deleted files...; Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Backup System, School District, Backups; Case studies 2007-11-01
IP Telephony Serves as Backup System for Omron's East-West Call Centers, Critical for Maintenance Operations: Omron Field Engineering wanted to roll out IP telephony and set up backup system at call centers in Tokyo and Osaka, to reinforce the disaster proof measures of those call centers, which receive calls for the maintenance and repair of mission critical financial and automated train station systems. Omron installed...; Tags: Telephony, Call-center, Omron Corp., Backup, IP Telephony, IP, Backup System, Avaya Inc., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), VOIP, Telecommunications, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking; Case studies 2007-08-01
Choosing a Backup Solution to Protect Data for the Small Business: Computer problems happen and so does data loss, but good backup systems can protect. Every day employees spend hours working away at their computers and sooner or later some, or potentially all, of that work may be lost. Often this is just a small amount - a deleted email, a...; Tags: Small Business, Backup System, News, Backups; White papers 2007-03-09

HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System: A Safety Net for SMBs: The advent of Serial ATA or SATA-based disk-to-disk backup changes the outlook for groups with limited IT resources, providing an inexpensive disk-based technology that can speed up both backup and recovery, streamline both processes, and deliver reliable, automated backups with substantially greater recoverability. HP has taken advantage of this technology...; Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Backup System, Small And Medium Business, Backups, Serial ATA, Smb/Sme, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-02-01
Best Practices in Managing the Data Capacity of the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System White Paper: The HP StorageWorks D2D Backup solution is targeted at small and mid-size businesses who are finding it difficult to manage several standalone tape drives and want to consolidate, automate, and simplify the whole backup process. The HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System emulates LTO2 tape autoloaders or standalone LTO2 tape drives...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Backup System, Best Practice, HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System, HP StorageWorks D2D Backup Solution, HP D2D Backup System, Backups, Utility Computing; White papers 2007-02-01
HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System: Reliable, Consolidated Data Protection: Easy-to-install and easy-to-use, this new disk-based system automates daily backup for up to four servers, and allows restoring users' files in minutes instead of hours.; Tags: Data Protection, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Backup System, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Utility Computing, Data Management; Webcasts 2007-01-01
iDIBS: An Improved Distributed Backup System: iDIBS is a peer-to-peer backup system which optimizes the Distributed Internet Backup System DIBS. iDIBS offers increased reliability by enhancing the robustness of existing packet transmission mechanism. Reed-Solomon erasure codes are replaced with Luby Transform codes to improve computation speed and scalability of large files. Lists of peers are automatically...; Tags: Backup System, iDIBS, Backups; White papers 2006-04-26
Datatrieve Online Backup System (exe): Using Datatrieve's custom-built software, you can perform backups of individual machines, networked machines and laptops as regularly as you want. The data is first compressed and encrypted on your machine, then sent to our server facilities at 2 separate UK locations.; Tags: Backup System, Machine, Data, Backups; Software downloads 2005-12-09
School District Adopts New File Backup System, Expects to Save $100,000: The San Francisco Unified School District needed a reliable method for backing up important files. The district had used tape backups, which relied on schools to manually change tapes and check data. But even when files were recorded properly, tapes often failed. To back up users' files reliably and inexpensively,...; Tags: District, Microsoft Corp., Backup System, File, School District, Backups; Case studies 2005-09-09
A sea of bits: A sea of bitsNever enough!Unfortunately, users will never have enough storage capacity.I can remember when we made the swap from double-density to high-density floppy disks.from de Century 100 washing machine looking storage device to the Century 200.When the Quantum Bigfoot was the greatest of the Greatest. (1.2 Gb, that was...; Tags: Backups, backup, storage, storage capacity, backup system; Discussion threads 2004-10-25
When Plan B doesn't work, go to Plan C: Pray: According to a CNN report, a system failure is what led to a loss of communications between air traffic controllers and pilots which in turn resulted in some near misses between aircraft. In the report's last sentence however, hides an important moral that is frequently overlooked in business continuity planning. ...; Tags: backup, backup system, business continuity; Blog posts 2004-09-15
Legato NetWorker Provides Automated Backup System for CSA, Ensures Backup Reliability, Reduces Overhead Costs: Entering it's fifth decade in space, the Canadian Space Agency CSA has a long tradition in space-based atmospheric and environmental research, and has developed leading technology in telecommunications and direct-broadcast satellites. CSA wanted to replace its eclectic backup system with a single, standardized one that was compatible with the Agency's...; Tags: Legato, Overhead Cost, Backup System, Legato NetWorker, Backups; Case studies
Backup System Keeps Core Data and Applications Accessible 24/7, While Delivering Peace of Mind: The Royal Victoria Hospital provides health carefor patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Royal Victoria's backup system plays a central role in meeting this expectation. When its backup window grew to 20 hours, the hospital had to make a change. Royal Victoria chose NetWorker because of its...; Tags: Legato, Hospital, Backup System, EMC Corp., Royal Victoria Hospital, Backups, Healthcare; Case studies
EMC Legato NetWorker and NetWorker Management Console Provide an Automated Backup System, Ensure Backup Reliability, and Reduce Overhead Costs: Entering its fifth decade in space, the Canadian Space Agency CSA has a long tradition in space-based atmospheric and environmental research, and has developed leading technology in telecommunications and direct-broadbast satellites. CSA was having trouble backing up, storing, retrieving and managing its data. CSA wanted to replace its eclectic backup...; Tags: Legato, Overhead Cost, Backup System, EMC Corp., Backups, Storage, Hardware; Case studies
NetWorker Replaces Manual Backup System, Saving India's Largest Broadband Satellite Communications Company Time and Money: Hughes Escorts Communications Ltd. HECL, formed in 1992, is a joint venture between Hughes Network Systems HNS and Escorts Ltd. HECL used to back up client data manually, which was not only time-consuming but prone to human error. As HECL grew, it knew it couldn't continue backing up all of...; Tags: Broadband, Backup System, EMC Corp., NetWorker, Backups; Case studies
Compass Public Charter School Simplifies, Speeds Up and Automates Backup With HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System: The Compass Public Charter School is a public charter school and has 274 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The goal for the Compass Public Charter School was to easily and inexpensively automate the backup of student, teacher, and administrator files, reduce tape costs, and enhance the educational experience of...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Backup System, Compass Public Charter School, Backups, Utility Computing; Case studies

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Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1: The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot!According to the story the 2.1 firmware also contains...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...; Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25