New “Straight Talk” book offers IT leaders and CIOs guidance on avoiding the 10 costliest mistakes of disk backup

Westborough, Mas., Jan. 10, 2013 – ExaGrid Systems, Inc.www.exagrid.com), adari ni iwọn ati iye owo-doko awọn solusan afẹyinti orisun disk pẹlu yiyọkuro data, today announced that the company has published a book offering IT professionals and CIOs straightforward and pragmatic guidance to help choose a disk backup system.

Titled “Straight Talk About Disk Backup with Deduplication,” and authored by ExaGrid’s CEO, Bill Andrews, it’s the most comprehensive guide to disk backup with deduplication available. By reading the 29-page book, IT professionals and CIOs can gain insights into the right questions to ask and which factors need to be considered when choosing a disk backup system, so that they can avoid the 10 costliest mistakes that could negatively impact their backup infrastructure for years.

“Every IT professional looking to move from tape backup to disk-based backup with deduplication who wants to avoid costly unforeseen pitfalls should get a copy of this book,” Andrews said. “From this guide, you’ll learn why disk backup with deduplication isn’t simply a commodity storage product that you think of in quick-fix tactical terms, but instead calls for a purpose-built approach and more detailed [strategic] consideration because the solution will impact your IT operations and costs for years in the future.”

With data growth rates averaging 30% or more annually, an increasing number of organizations are moving from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Depending on the disk backup architecture chosen, a backup environment can either be improved or worsened, since the former tape-based challenges may simply be replaced with new, more expensive disk-based challenges.

Drawing on experiences with more than 5,000 disk backup installations, the book describes the many technical considerations when choosing a disk backup system, such as the product’s deduplication method, whether the solution provides adequate compute with capacity to keep up with an organization’s data growth, and whether the product inhibits restores due to a lengthy rehydration process.  Making the wrong decision could mean the backup window will expand as data grows, IT will face forklift upgrades costing up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the organization’s productivity will be impacted as longer restores increase the downtime on critical systems.
The book is broken into five chapters, exploring backup to tape, disk staging, different data deduplication approaches and architectures and sizing considerations. The fifth chapter outlines an extensive list of nearly 50 questions and recommended steps IT leaders and CIOs should consider when choosing a disk-based backup product.
To obtain a copy of “Straight Talk About Disk Backup with Deduplication,” visit www.exagrid.com/straighttalk.

Nipa Imọ-ẹrọ ExaGrid:
Eto ExaGrid jẹ ohun elo afẹyinti disiki plug-ati-play ti o ṣiṣẹ pẹlu awọn ohun elo afẹyinti ti o wa ati mu ki awọn afẹyinti yiyara ati igbẹkẹle diẹ sii ati awọn imupadabọ. Awọn onibara jabo pe akoko afẹyinti dinku nipasẹ to 90 ogorun lori igbasilẹ teepu ibile. Imọ-ẹrọ yiyọkuro ipele agbegbe agbegbe ti ExaGrid dinku iye aaye disk ti o nilo nipasẹ iwọn 10:1 si giga bi 50:1 tabi diẹ ẹ sii, ti o yọrisi idiyele ti o ṣe afiwe si afẹyinti ti o da lori teepu ibile.

Nipa ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
ExaGrid nfunni ni ohun elo afẹyinti ti o da lori disiki nikan pẹlu idi-iyọkuro data-itumọ ti fun afẹyinti ti o ṣe imudara faaji alailẹgbẹ ti iṣapeye fun iṣẹ ṣiṣe, iwọn ati idiyele. ExaGrid jẹ ojutu kan ṣoṣo ti o ṣajọpọ iṣiro pẹlu agbara ati agbegbe ibalẹ alailẹgbẹ lati kuru awọn ferese afẹyinti patapata, imukuro awọn iṣagbega forklift gbowolori, ṣaṣeyọri awọn imupadabọ eto ni kikun iyara ati awọn adakọ teepu, ati mu awọn faili pada sipo, VMs ati awọn nkan ni awọn iṣẹju. Pẹlu awọn ọfiisi ati pinpin kaakiri agbaye, ExaGrid ni diẹ sii ju awọn ọna ṣiṣe 5,000 ti a fi sori ẹrọ ni diẹ sii ju awọn alabara 1,600, ati diẹ sii ju awọn itan aṣeyọri alabara 320 ti a tẹjade.

Fun alaye diẹ sii, kan si ExaGrid ni 800-868-6985 tabi ṣabẹwo www.exagrid.com.

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