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The Human Cost of Data Backup Sprawl

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Many large enterprise data centers have taken an “add another system” approach to dealing with rapid backup data growth, writes Eric Silva of Sepaton. With this approach, they have simply added more single-node, disk-based backup targets every time they run out of capacity, or fail to meet their.

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Backblaze Completes 500 Petabyte Data Center

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Online backup provider Backblaze has a blog post announcing that they have completed a 500 petabyte data center, at the Sungard facility just outside of Sacramento, California. Storage backblaze'

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Data Tape: Dying a Slow Death or Already Dead? » Data Center.

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Data Tape: Dying a Slow Death or Already Dead? Data Tape: Dying a Slow Death or Already Dead? Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape. I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology.

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EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio » Data Center Knowledge

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EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. EMC NetWorker 8.1

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Data Centers Should Trust Emergency Power to UL 1008 Listed Automatic Transfer Switches

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When utility power at a data center fails, automatic switchover to an emergency backup power system that enables “business-as-usual” is the ideal scenario, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO. But sometimes that doesn’t happen because the transfer switch itself fails.While automatic transfer switches. Industry Perspectives'

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Optimizing your Data Center with the Cloud

Eric D. Brown

Some view the cloud as a place to store data while others view the cloud as a replacement for their data center. Regardless of how an organization views or uses the cloud, there is no question that every organization can find a way to make the cloud a part of daily data center operations.

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Video Demo: Eaton 93PM UPS for Data Centers

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Eaton recently introduced the 93PM uninterruptible power supply (UPS), which provides backup power for data centers. In this video, Eaton Product Manager Jason Anderson provides an overview of the 93PM and its features. Eaton Power UPS'