The ability to de-duplicate backup data — that is, back up or copy only unique blocks of data — is rapidly changing the economics of data protection. Data volumes are growing exponentially. Companies ...

One of the buzzwords this year could very well be a tool that eliminates duplicate data so businesses can optimize their backup storage capacity. Dubbed de-duplication, the process focuses on data ...

Companies both large and small are struggling to keep up with the amount of data they’re generating and storing. IT managers are searching for ways to rein in so-called “big data” before it swamps ...

Taking back control of data requires a commitment to developing enterprise-wide visibility into where data resides, how old ...

For today’s time-strapped, resource-limited small businesses, the prospect of having to write backup data to magnetic tape each night and deliver it off-site for secure storage is daunting, to say the ...

As small and mid-sized businesses adopt new strategies that seek to leverage social networking and collaboration technologies to compete more effectively in global, national or even local economies, ...

Tom Sasala, the Navy Department's chief data officer, said the service has been targeting duplicative data sets in financial systems. The Navy has a lot of data, but to optimize analytics and sharing, ...

As 2007 approaches, many storage managers are working on next year’s budget and one item that is sure to appear on the shopping lists of many is a new virtual tape library (VTL). Yet with VTLs rapidly ...