backup - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Add 8TB storage to Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi 3 with external Seagate hub

  Seagate's packing an 8TB hard drive in its new external Backup Plus Hub, which can be hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 3 or Chromebooks for expanded storage.

• Dedupe delivers for Vita Group

  Deduplication has help extend by at least by a year or two the storage hardware used for backups at retailer Vita Group, according to its IT manager.

• TasWater archives to deal with data deluge

  Tasmanian bulk water authority TasWater is implementing tiered storage to better manage its growing data volumes.

• Symantec responds to customer complaints about Backup Exec beta

  Commercial and Industrial Property (CIP) IT manager Julian Moorhouse was concerned about changes to the beta version of a security backup software product but never expected that his comments posted in an online forum would lead to a meeting with Symantec.

• Backupify opens up its cloud-to-cloud backup to more SaaS vendors

  Backupify, a cloud-based backup service offered for SaaS platforms including Salesforce and Google Apps, may expand to many other SaaS platforms through a developer kit designed for quick and easy integration.

• Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync

  Wouldn't it be cool if you had a "magic" folder on your PC, one that automatically synced its contents with the Web, your other PCs, your cell phone, and other devices?

• Safely dual-boot Windows 7 and XP

  QUESTION My PC dual-boots Windows XP 32bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Every time I work in XP I lose all my restore points in Windows 7.

• When the backup drive gets full

  Rat74136's external hard drive is full. He asked the Answer Line forum how to keep backing up.

• 15 free security and backup utilities

  Lock down your PC.

• Six ways to botch your backups

  Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sidekick customers. As a system administrator, if there is one thing you absolutely have to get right, it's backups. Here are six ways to botch them.

• To tape or not to tape, that is the question

  Mention Shakespeare and everyone spouts "To be or not to be." Mention backup, and the question becomes, "To tape or not to tape?" Is tape dead, or do tape-based backup systems still have a place in the modern small business?

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  Infographic: Backup and recovery benchmark comparison

  This infographic looks at the results from backup and recovery system testing done by Principled Technologies to find out how the providers compare in their performances. Find out: which provider proved to have superior scalability even for the largest virtual environments, how the competitors performed in SAN transport backup and high-VM-count environment backup and how you can prepare successfully for the unavoidable failures that occur in an enterprise business.

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  PBBAs tap into key data protection trends to drive strong market growth

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  NetIQ Disaster Recovery High Performance or Affordable? Pick Two.

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  Multicolor Steel Protects its Business with PlateSpin Forge