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)
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)
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WikitipProtecing data is equally important for small and large customersAll customers, large and small, must have in place sensible data protection strategies. Outsourcing data protection is an option that should be considered based on economics, quality, risk reduction and convenience. Large customers should endeavor to carefully consider the operational overheads associated with protecting data and understand total costs for internally managing versus sourcing such services. In general, it is best to do your own homework and not rely solely on the analysis of the service provider. As well, given potentially high switching costs, negotiating shorter contracts is advisable. Smaller customers must begin to recognize that their information is as important as large customers and outsourced data protection services provide a path to best in class data protection. |
Featured Case Study
P&H Mining's Journey to Disk-based BackupA 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. |
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Featured How-to Note |
Implementing Fail Proof Backup and RecoveryImplementing 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. | |||
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