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Wikitip Portal:Data Protection Welcome to Wikibon's Data Protection Portal. This Portal is a resource for IT professionals interested in understanding how to apply backup and recovery technologies to create a business capability that protects information in the most cost effective and appropriate manner. We invite you to be actively involved in the Data Protection Portal. Please join Wikibon, browse the portal and participate. You can write a Wikitip, Ask a Question or attend a Peer Incite Research Meeting. The Wikibon Data Protection Information Portal contains data protection industry research, articles, expert opinion, case studies, and data storage company profiles. Check out these Peer Incite Podcasts related to Data Protection: 1. Dave Vellante summarizes Eric Peterson of SaskEnergy's discussion about the organization's implementation of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and an incremental forever backup strategy (8:36)     Read the research notes from this meeting 2. Data De-duplication: Greasing the Rails of the Backup Window. Wikibon summarizes source vs target-based De-dupe and where each makes sense for users. (6:42)     Read the research notes from this meeting >>Join our Group >>Become a Fan >>Follow @Wikibon >>Read the Blog Wikitip Don't give up on tape just yet Tape vendors are likely to introduce a wave of new invention around technologies like data encryption and compression in response both to real high-end customer requirements and revenue pressures. These will initially come in the form of integrated disk/tape virtual tape solutions. Rather than investing in a new round of tape technology, smaller IT organizations facing less complex backup/restore requirements should consider the pros and cons of alternative disk-based backup and 3rd-party approaches to handling remote backup/restore. View Another Wikitip Browse all Data Protection Wikitips Featured Case Study P&H Mining's Journey to Disk-based Backup A data center within P&H Mining Equipment (P&H) had a problem recovering from a tape library that was too small. Recovery of files and emails was taking up to 72 hours, and IT was increasingly concerned that it would not be possible to recover from a major disaster. Rather than increase the capacity of the tape library from 500 to 1,000 tapes, P&H choose an innovative solution of a ten terabyte data de-duplication system from Data Domain. read more... Data Protection Professional Alerts Browse all Data Protection Alerts Featured How-to Note Implementing Fail Proof Backup and Recovery Implementing a failproof backup and recovery capability will protect an organization from data loss and downtime as a result of any of the following: hardware or software failure, power failure, natural disaster, or human error. There are two fundamental considerations when implementing a failproof backup and recovery capability: how quickly the organization needs to recover the data and how much data it can afford to lose. The challenge is finding the balance between data protection/recovery and the amount of investment required. This research note will provide guidelines to help make this determination. read more... Action Item: Footnotes:

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Financial giant goes green

The corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems. This effort is not viewed by the IT administration as a one-time project but rather as a perpetual process of evaluating new technology in part on its energy efficiency and introducing it into the corporate data centers to replace aging systems as appropriate.

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Planning a Green Storage Initiative

Fluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012. While technology changes have decreased footprint, power loading (amount of power required for a square foot of data center space) and heat load (the amount of heat that has to be removed from a square foot of data center space) have both escalated dramatically. The result is higher energy costs to provide power and extract heat from the data center, and lower utilization of data center floor space because of power and cooling limitations. The technology trends are toward higher heat and power loading, which will exacerbate the problem.

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