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Whitepaper - Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition

The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 (ABR10) family of software solutions allows organisations to create server and workstation backups: either for rapid restoration in the case of a disaster, or for testing and development purposes. The ABR10 software portfolio provides backup capabilities for OS, data, applications, and settings, and the ABR10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition extends this technology to Virtual Machines (VMs). Product functionality is based on Acronis' patented disk-imaging and bare-metal restore technologies which can back up an image of an entire system and settings, and enable rapid restoration of the entire system or selected files. The growth of server virtualisation has necessitated specialised backup technology to address virtualisation-specific backup challenges and Butler Group is impressed with ABR10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition's ability to address these, particularly the range of options for managing the backup process, the licensing structure, the range of virtualisation platforms supported, and the introduction of deduplication capabilities to help with the optimisation of corporate storage.

Source: Acronis Software Published Date : 29/08/2009 Posted Date : 31/08/2009 Length : 10

Whitepaper - Meeting the Challenges of Disaster Recovery

Data is widely considered to be one of an organisation's greatest assets, but in recent years, the need to access data at nearly any time of the day or night has grown from a wish-list item to a must-have reality. In fact, the health of your businesses depends on it. It's not just internal users who demand constant access to data. Many organisations place a large percentage of their data in customer- and partner-facing line-of business applications. As a result, when a server goes down, it may not affect just your organisation, but customer and partner organisations as well, with the potential result of both lost revenue and a diminished reputation.

Source: Acronis Software Published Date : 28/08/2009 Posted Date : 31/08/2009 Length : 11

Whitepaper - Hidden Costs of Virtualization

Virtualization has moved into the enterprise mainstream. Until recently, virtualization solutions tended only to be used to consolidate data center servers. However, that has changed and, today, virtualization is recognized as a technology that can provide substantial benefits to businesses of all sizes in all sectors of industry. What is virtualization? In simple terms, it is a technology that allows a single computer to act as multiple computers. In a virtualized environment, multiple virtual machines, each with its own set of virtual hardware, can run heterogeneous operating systems in complete isolation from each other on the same physical computer.

Source: Acronis Software Published Date : 28/08/2009 Posted Date : 31/08/2009 Length : 5

Whitepaper - How Deduplication Benefits Companies of All Sizes

Primary storage in small and large companies alike is growing at 50% - 100% a year. And, according to IDC research conducted in the second half of 2008, the amount of global digital data created and stored on a worldwide basis has increased over 3,000% in just three years. In addition, many multiple-site organisations are working to consolidate data assets along with system consolidations (including virtualisation) to create a less energy-intensive collection of assets that fit in a reduced physical space.

Source: Acronis Software Published Date : 28/08/2009 Posted Date : 31/08/2009 Length : 11

Article - How to Protect Your Virtual Server

As virtual machines proliferate, IT has to watch where they park their backups so that they don't bog down network performance or send licensing costs skyrocketing. They also have to be clear on what to consider when choosing a back-up technology and the options that are available in virtual server back-up.

Top Story - Seagate Releases USB Superspeed 3.0

Seagate at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas released its first USB SuperSpeed 3.0-enabled external hard disk drive, the BlackArmor PS110, which has up to three times the performance of its previous USB 2.0 products.