Straight Talk About Disk Backup with Deduplication

Are you dealing with backup problems and considering disk backup with deduplication? Depending on the architecture you choose, you could either improve backups or hit 10 potential pitfalls you’d be stuck with for years.

In this webcast, you will learn the key disk backup challenges how to overcome them first-hand from Jayme Williams, senior systems engineer at TenCate, who recently upgraded his company’s backup environment – twice. Jayme will be joined by Marc Crespi, ExaGrid VP of Product Management to help you learn:

• Key technical attributes to assess in disk backup with deduplication systems
• Questions you should ask to avoid mistakes and solve backup problems permanently
• How to avoid problems including:
  
  • Ever-expanding backup windows as your data grows
  • Expensive forklift upgrades within months or years
  • Reduced productivity due to longer restores and critical system downtime

When: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 @ 11:00 am ET (8:00 am Pacific)

Optimizing Data Protection with a Tightly Integrated Backup and Recovery Platform

Featured Speakers:
Jeff Crum - Senior Product Manager, ExaGrid Systems
Tony Davids, Regional Product Manager, Symantec Corporation
 
Ongoing data growth, shrinking backup windows, and more demanding requirements for fast, efficient disaster recovery have resulted in a greater strain on IT professionals to provide the necessary data protection for their organizations.  Join experts from Symantec and ExaGrid Systems to learn how the integrated combination of Symantec NetBackup and ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication have helped IT organizations achieve gains including:

• Up to 90% reduction in backup windows
• Dramatically reduced restore times
• Seamless scalability as data grows without costly forklift upgrades
• Elimination of tape backup problems and headaches
• Fast WAN-efficient offsite disaster recovery

5 Keys to Virtual Backup Excellence

Hear IT customer case studies and learn the 5 'must haves' for virtual environment data and application protection, including how the combination of Veeam Backup & Replication software and ExaGrid’s disk backup with deduplication solution enables you to:

• Leverage disk to backup data up to 90% faster than tape
• Stop guessing - verify the recoverability of every backup, every time
• Meet aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs) by restoring virtual machines in minutes - not hours

Eliminating Backup Pain: Why Architecture Really Matters

If you're looking to permanently eliminate backup and recovery pain as your data grows, you may be unaware of how backup architecture can make a difference.

IT professionals who want to solve problems of long backup windows, time-consuming restores, slow and unreliable offsite disaster recovery, or tape management headaches face a choice between architectures which can either temporarily eliminate your backup problems, or permanently eliminate them.

This webinar will discuss how IT permanently overcomes backup challenges, including a discussion of how architecture really matters in backup. A case study presented by Sean Graver, storage architect at Concur, a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, will help you learn how Concur now has faster backups and restores along with cost-effective scalability to handle data growth.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:
•    Get fastest backups, and keep your backup window from expanding as data grows
•    Quickly restore databases, files and VMs
•    Eliminate rip & replace pain and product obsolescence
•    Eliminate tape with WAN-efficient offsite disaster recovery
•    Protect your backup budget up-front and over time

7 Keys to Effective Backup, Cost Reduction, and Data Protection for Government Organizations

Speaker:  Jon France, Sr. Systems Engineer, ExaGrid

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?

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

Hospital Case Study: Overcome Data Protection Challenges, Increase Retention & Restore Data in Seconds

As more and more healthcare organizations broadly adopt Electronic Health Records (EHR) and face unprecedented data growth, IT staff find it increasingly difficult to optimize data protection and disaster recovery processes.   

Data growth, long backup times, virtual server sprawl, cost reduction, unreliable tape backup systems and HIPAA penalties for non-compliance are just some of the issues and pressures healthcare IT organizations are facing.

This webinar will discuss how hospitals overcome these challenges and get faster, more reliable backup and disaster recovery using disk backup with deduplication.  A case study presented by St. Johns Riverside Hospital will share how the hospital cut backup times by 50%, increased retention from one week to three months, and restores data in seconds.  

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Permanently shorten your backup window as data grows
• Instantly restore files and VMs
• Gain fast, WAN-efficient offsite disaster recovery with rapid restore
• Eliminate the risks of system downtime or loss of critical data needed for patient care.
• Protect your IT budget up-front and over time by avoiding costly forklift upgrades and product obsolescence

Go from Backup Pain to Gain

Keys to Better Backup and and Disaster Recovery in a Virtual World with Veeam

Learn how to confront tedious tape backup practices that are becoming obsolete in the face of the the move towards server virtualization. In this presentation, you'll learn how to:

• Create the fastest backups and restores for your virtual servers, both locally and at secondary sites
• Eliminate the problems of tape backup
• Achieve better storage utilization and scalability
• Scale seamlessly as data grows with the lowest TCO and with no forklift upgrades

Simplify Disaster Recovery for Virtual Environments

Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Time: 8:30am PT | 11:30am ET | 4:30pm GMT

Duration: 45-minutes

Speakers: Marc Crespi, ExaGrid & Daniel Lord, Quest Software

With increasing pressure to spend less and become more efficient, IT organizations find it increasingly difficult to optimize data protection processes. The growing pains of virtual server sprawl, explosive data growth, long backup times, and offsite disaster recovery are just some of the issues organizations are facing.

This webinar will discuss scalable disaster recovery (DR) and backup that will help your IT team achieve faster backups, simplify DR and protect your VMware applications and infrastructure data.

In this webinar, IT organizations will learn:

• ‘Must haves’ for virtual environment data and application protection
• How software and hardware can be combined for the best and most scalable application and data protection
• How some organizations have successfully used the software-hardware combination for better virtual environment data protection saving time and money

5 Keys to Better Backups

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:

• Top 5 problems that justify the move from tape to disk
• ExaGrid vs. competitors
• Customer stories

You’ll hear IT professionals 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.