Data Deduplication Webcasts

5 Keys to Better Backups

Date and Time: Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 11 am ET

In selecting a backup solution, it's critical to consider the scalability of each prospective solution to ensure that it will meet the needs of your organization now and into the future. This webcast will discuss the five keys to better backups and why you should consider a disk-based backup solution that can eliminate your backup pain as your data grows.

How IT Pros Fix Broken Backup

Moving to a Disk-Based Solution with Data Deduplication

Featured Speakers:
Marc Crespi – Vice President of Product Management – ExaGrid Systems
Jim Harter - Senior Network Administrator – C&S Companies

The movement from tape-based to disk-based backup is well underway. Now that it is economically feasible to replace a broken tape-based system with disk-based backup, choices exist among a number of vendors with varying approaches to disk-based backup as well as data deduplication. Attend this webcast to learn why IT professionals chose ExaGrid over the competition.

Topics that will be covered in this webcast include:

1. Top 5 reasons to move from tape to disk
2. ExaGrid vs. competitors
3. Customer stories

You’ll hear real ExaGrid customers discuss their backup pain, why they chose ExaGrid, and how a disk-based approach has taken the "hassle out of backups."

7 Keys to Effective Backup, Cost Reduction, and Data Protection

Speakers:
Bill Hobbib – Vice President of Marketing, ExaGrid Systems
Alison Diana – Senior Editor, Strategic Content Group, Ziff Davis

Using disk for backups is an excellent way to improve performance and reliability and to reduce administrative time for managing physical and virtual data protection. For disk to be practical, however, you need data deduplication to reduce the amount of information in each backup job. The operational benefits of deduplication are clear, but how do you justify the investment and quantify its benefits?

Attend this exclusive event to learn the seven key ways disk backup can help your business, including:

• Storage Efficiency
• Faster Backup times
• Improved Recovery Times (RTO/RPO)
• Better, Faster Offsite Disaster Recovery
• Cost Savings
• Reliability
• Investment Protection

Listen in as these industry experts discuss the business imperatives and how to make a financial case for disk backup with deduplication.

8 Consideration for Evaluating Disk-Based Backup Solutions

Speaker:
Jeff Crum - Senior Product Manager - ExaGrid Systems

As more IT departments move from tape to disk backup and more vendors take varying approaches to disk backup systems with data deduplication, it’s often difficult to find the best fit for your IT environment and organizational goals.

Join us for an interactive eSeminar where Jeff Crum, senior product manager at ExaGrid, and other industry experts will share eight key technological criteria to consider when evaluating systems.

Virtualization-Powered Data Protection

Featured Speakers:
Marc Crespi – Vice President of Product Management – ExaGrid Systems
Doug Hazelman – Senior Director, Product Strategy – Veeam Software

As more and more companies broadly adopt virtualization technology, VMware users face new issues and opportunities with backup. Virtualization offers the opportunity to reduce costs while also increasing service levels, and nowhere is this more apparent than with data protection. Of course you have to have the right tools to address the new issues and turn the opportunity into reality.

Join industry experts to hear how solutions from Veeam and ExaGrid Systems are taking backup to a whole new level and using virtualization to do things never before possible.

Optimizing Your Data Protection with a Tightly Integrated Backup and Recovery Platform

Featured Speakers:
Jeff Crum - Senior Product Manager, ExaGrid Systems
Dave Elliott - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Symantec Corporation

An ongoing data explosion, combined with increased system availability requirements, has resulted in a greater strain on IT organizations to provide the necessary data protection in the face of ever-shrinking backup windows. In many cases, IT organizations have neither the people nor the hardware resources required to manage that data.

But recently, affordable technology has become available to help solve these issues. While the basic technology has existed for quite some time, only recently has it become practical from both a cost and technology perspective to implement disk-based backup as part of your overall backup and disaster recovery plan.

Join data protection experts from Symantec and ExaGrid Systems to hear how new storage backup solutions that incorporate backups to disk offer significant benefits over traditional backup media such as tape drives and tape libraries. You'll also hear how the integrated combination of Symantec Backup Exec and ExaGrid Disk Backup with Deduplication has helped other IT organizations dramatically improve their backups and restores - and at a much lower cost.

Overcoming the Challenges of Tape Backup: Customers Share Tips on Leveraging Disk Backup with Deduplication for Faster, More Reliable Backups and Restores

Featured Speakers:
Bill Hobbib - Vice President of Marketing, ExaGrid Systems
Stuart Lathrop - Assistant Vice President, The Coastal Bank
Aziz Jiwani - Network Engineer, HCC Life Insurance Company
Merel Johnson - Network Administrator, Southeastern Container

The amount of data you need to back up is growing fast. Your backup window isn't and neither is your IT budget. If you're like most IT organizations, you're facing increased data protection demands with an unreliable tape backup system, fewer IT resources, and less budget. Join a panel of IT professionals from The Coastal Bank, HCC Life Insurance Company, and Southeastern Container to learn how they're using disk backup with deduplication to optimize their data backup and recovery processes.

Hear first-hand from these organizations and discover lessons learned on how they dramatically improved backups and restores all while increasing overall productivity and lowering costs.

Essential Tips for Faster Backups & Restores in a Low-Cost IT Platform

Featured Speakers:
Marc Crespi - Vice President of Product Management - ExaGrid Systems
Paul Sustman - NetBackup Product Manager, Disk Strategies - Symantec

Amid a down economy, pressure to maintain a secure and efficient data protection environment at lower cost has forced IT professionals to carefully select and implement solutions that will integrate seamlessly within the organization's existing data backup environment. Cutting manual, labor-intensive backup processes, controlling storage costs, and increasing overall storage efficiencies are more crucial than ever. Done right, an organization can keep overall costs in check without sacrificing the performance and reliability of its data protection processes.

Join this informative eSeminar, you'll hear experts from Symantec NetBackup and ExaGrid Systems provide tips and lessons learned on how to lower costs and improve backup speed and reliability. See real-world examples of how other IT organizations have cost-effectively implemented the tightly integrated combination of Symantec NetBAckup and ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication to improve backups and restores.

Your Servers Are Virtualized... But is Your Storage and Backup Infrastructure Virtualization-Ready?

Featured Speakers:
Jeff Crum, Senior Product Manager, ExaGrid Systems
George Pradel, Director - Strategic Alliances, Vizioncore, Inc.

Hear from the experts at Vizioncore and ExaGrid Systems as they share insight as to how to optimize your IT infrastructure for virtualized data protection. Learn the keys to effectively leveraging data deduplication to better manage and protect your virtualized data at a significant cost savings.

Join us for this informative 45-minute presentation to discover the benefits of virtualization and how to overcome the backup and data protection challenges that come with the technology.

5 Keys to Driving Down Data Protection Costs While Increasing IT Service Levels: Smart Moves You Can Make Now

Featured Speakers:
Marc Crespi, Vice President of Product Management, ExaGrid Systems
Paul Sustman, NetBackup Product Manager, Disk Strategies, Symantec

Everyone is talking about controlling costs and improving productivity. In tough markets, optimizing your operations is a proven way to help weather the storm. Emerging technologies like disk backup with data deduplication are changing the way IT organizations protect critical data and IT assets, all while lowering costs and increasing IT service levels. Backup experts from ExaGrid Systems and Symantec NetBackup will uncover how these hot technologies can better protect your data, while bolstering your IT environment and your organization's overall bottom line.

Join us for a live, interactive 45-minute discussion to learn how other IT organizations are using the powerful combination of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and NetBackup software to dramatically improve backups and restores at a significantly lower cost.

How to Get More Done With Less: Transforming Storage & Data Protection in SAN Environments

Featured Speakers:
Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Trent Henson, President of TriPrima, Inc. and Acting CTO for Kardia Health Systems

With an uncertain economic climate, IT organizations face continued pressure to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with stricter recovery requirements, tighter budgets and fewer resources. Developing an efficient and cost-effective end-to-end operational and disaster recovery strategy can be overwhelming, especially for companies that still rely on outdated storage and cumbersome and unreliable tape solutions for their primary storage and data protection needs.

Join us for this informative webcast to hear how Kardia Health Systems successfully implemented its backup to disk with deduplication and a standards-based, modular SAN to more easily and affordably manage its backup and recovery operations. Discover how solutions from ExaGrid and Compellent work together to transform Kardia's data protection operations. We'll also hear from industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group on the challenges of data protection driving requirements, their impact on storage spending, and what IT organizations should be evaluating to get more done with less.

Cut Costs, Increase Protection with Integrated Backup and Recovery Platform

Featured Speakers:
Marc Crespi - Vice President, Product Management - ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Matt Hubbard - Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Symantec
Michael J. Steinhart - Senior Editor - Ziff Davis Enterprise

When IT budgets are lean, every penny counts. For data protection, you're facing challenges such as lowering costs in the face of rising data volumes, increasing automation in the face of dwindling staff and resources, shrinking backup windows, tightening data security, and ensuring that you're prepared in case of disaster. The list is daunting, but we're here to help.

Join experts from Symantec Backup Exec and ExaGrid Systems as they show you how to cut costs and improve the reliability and recoverability of backup data. You'll learn how other IT organizations are using the tightly integrated combination of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and Symantec Backup Exec software to dramatically improve backups and restores at a significantly lower cost.

Backup to the Basics: Real World Tips for Simplifying AND Improving Backup & Recovery Performance

Featured Speakers:
Marc Crespi - Vice President, Product Management - ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Michael Krieger - Market Expert - Ziff Davis Enterprise
Paul Sustman - NetBackup Product Manager, Disk Strategies - Symantec

In today's uncertain economic climate, everyone is trying to do more with less. This particularly holds true for IT organizations who need to maintain a secure and efficient data protection environment - all while lowering costs. Slashing needless labor-intensive IT backup processes, controlling storage costs and increasing overall storage efficiencies are crucial. Done right, all can have a positive impact on an organization's bottom line without sacrificing data backup reliability when a disaster strikes.

Join experts from Symantec NetBackup and ExaGrid Systems as they share proven methods to cut costs and improve the reliability and recoverability of backup data. You'll learn how IT organizations like yours are using the tightly integrated combination of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and Symantec NetBackup software to dramatically improve backups and restores at a significantly lower cost.