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I asked my colleague Daniel Pradelles to give you an update on privacy and data protection at HP. Enjoy reading. Jeannette HP leads the way on the Accountability path… “Privacy and data protection. These words should provide a sense of safety and trust on the personal data processing and...
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A month ago I wrote about the 8 ways of protecting VMware that Data Protector 6.1 is offering and I promised to go into detail on each of them. After a month of vacation and travel I finally get to start the series. I want to start with the most basic one - Suspend virtual machine. There are things to...
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The Data Protector 6.1 software release in January 2009 provided a number of new features – including the flexibility of eight different methods for protecting and restoring VMware environments. From methods inherent to VMware, such as Suspend VM, ESX snapshot, and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB...
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Much is written about the intended business benefits of many products on the market with special attention lately to anything that will help businesses lower costs. The real results are when customers can share HOW they accomplish this with real-life examples. Continental Airlines is a great example...
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Economic conditions do not seem to be impacting the continued adoption of backup to disk technologies. In a recent study we commissioned with Forrester Consulting, 90% of enterprises said they were already using backup to disk (56%) or planned to within the next 12 months (34%). With data continuing...
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We know that although the economy has slowed, the demands on your business haven’t. Large and small companies alike are finding it harder to make the financial commitments needed to enhance or even maintain their backup infrastructures. While the temptation is to make quick fixes, the fact is, such fixes...
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By Harald Burose Remote and branch offices provide a challenge for the backup administrator particularly if there are no IT resources in the remote office. Traditionally a small tape library like an MSL would have been placed in the remote office for backup. Tapes would be taken offline from the library...
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By Brad Vincent As we all know, the pricing of data protection solutions varies widely from one vendor to another. And with so many different licensing schemes and policies, it can be difficult for customers to determine what a solution will cost in the end. Initial quotes are easy to obtain, but what...
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By Tim Nolte IT departments are responsible for the safekeeping of huge amounts of information about their business, their intellectual property and even their customers. Increased criminal sophistication in exploiting this information means protecting it is not only more difficult, it is more important...
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We’ve all heard the buzz about deduplication in recent years. But what is deduplication really, and what’s the benefit? An official definition would be the intelligent elimination of redundant data, in order to optimize storage capacity. But the challenging part for users is that it can be implemented...
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By Natasha Sandoval The launch of HP Data Protector software 6.1 and especially its new capabilities around VMware protection have spurred lots of interest among both customers and HP partners. And there is a good reason for it: the complexity around data protection in the virtual server environments...
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By Billy Naples Given these difficult financial times customers are struggling to do more with less. This includes virtualized server environments. If you thought 15 VMs per physical host was good enough. Think again. Customers are telling me they have to get 20-25 VMs per physical host this year. There...
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By Harald Burose This week we had a major launch of HP Data Protector 6.1, see http://www.hp.com/go/imhub . A key message of the launch is protection in the virtual environment. Data Protector provides solutions for various hypervisors from Integrity VM, Hyper-V environments to XEN. Specifically for...
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By Jen Tisevich Today, HP announced a new strategy aimed at helping customers change the economics of technology by revisiting how they produce, distribute and consume technology resources. The state of the economy only adds additional pressure to choose technologies that will reduce costs and deliver...
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By Brad Vincent Many of us in the HP Information Management team get daily questions about when a particular platform, application, or OS version will be supported on Data Protector – or (even better!) when a specific combination of those aforementioned items will be supported. And even for those...