Demystifying Virtual Server Data Protection -- Best Practices and Technologies, by Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO. Server virtualization continues to be a popular industry focus. This Industry Trends and Technology Perspectives white paper from the StorageIO Group provides the answers you need to protect your data in a virtualized environment.

Taneja Group Opinion:  This paper provides an overview of how Quantum’s choice to allow customers more than one deduplication approach in a single product is unique in the industry. This provides the flexibility to deal with the mixed backup workloads that are so common in most enterprises, configuring the best deduplication policy for each as they all flow through the same appliance.

ESG Lab believes the combination of policy-based deduplication, enterprise-class performance and scalability, along with comprehensive management and services provides a unique approach for optimizing data protection and recovery strategy in the enterprise.  ESG Lab confirms Quantum’s move into the enterprise space with the DXi7500.

The advent of data de-duplication, combined with disk-based backup systems, continues to change the landscape of backup and recovery environments. Conventional disk systems are well suited for short retention with frequent access, and tape is well suited for long-term retention with infrequent access. For many, data duplication technology fills the gap between the two, providing comparable performance to conventional disk but providing more cost-effective medium-term retention.