Storage Software White Papers

Traditional Backup is Dead - Are You Prepared?

Today's unprecedented data growth, datacenter consolidation and server virtualization are wreaking havoc with conventional approaches to backup and recovery. The rapidly intensifying demand for storage is putting a tight squeeze on enterprise resources-whether your organization is grappling with too much data to protect in operational windows, physical space constraints, or concerns around cloud computing, backup and recovery are becoming increasingly complex, cutting into staff time and budgets and slowing operations.
Conventional backup and recovery approaches are not robust enough to meet today's data and information management challenges, let alone those of tomorrow. A new strategy is essential.

Sponsor: CommVault

Redefining Backup & Recovery: A call to CIOs

CIOs: Backup and recovery is changing. Are you prepared? A modern data and information management strategy goes far beyond traditional backup and recovery. Re-evaluate your data management strategy and embrace new ways to store, access and protect your data through virtualization and cloud computing - all through a single point of entry.

Sponsor: CommVault

Gartner Newsletter: Traditional Backup

It's no secret that today's unprecedented data growth, datacenter consolidation and server virtualization are wreaking havoc with conventional approaches to backup and recovery. Commvault's Simpana Software not only solves these data management challenges with a truly modern data protection solution, but also builds in technology to meet future demands. Read this Gartner-CommVault co-branded newsletter to understand why modern data protection is the best alternative to traditional backup.

Sponsor: CommVault

ESG Report: Modernizing Data Protection

In order to assess the current state of the data protection market, ESG recently conducted a global survey among IT professionals familiar with and/or responsible for data protection solutions and processes, as well as potential future plans. All respondents were familiar with and/or personally responsible for evaluating, purchasing, or managing data protection technologies—such as backup and recovery software, data replication software, and disk or tape storage systems used for secondary data storage—for their organization. This report documents the findings of those results, tracks market trends, gives insight into targeted buying audiences and sheds light on the future of the data protection market.

Sponsor: CommVault

IDC Report - Critical Need for Edge Data Protection

This IDC whitepaper explores the customer challenges associated with safeguarding data on distributed desktop and laptop systems residing at the edge of an organization's IT infrastructure. IDC examines CommVault's Simpana(R) Edge Data Protection (EDP) solution in the context of CommVault's data protection, recovery, and access framework.

Sponsor: CommVault

Lowering Storage Costs with the World's Fastest Tape Drive

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. A single Oracle tape library unit can now house more than an exabyte of data1 and can offer cost savings of up to 20% compared to other tape vendors. With the introduction of Oracle's StorageTek T10000C tape drive, Oracle has raised the bar again, delivering the world's fastest tape drive and the first tape solution to offer an exabyte (one million TBs) of storage capacity in a single tape library.

Sponsor: Oracle