Experts Unplugged: Cloud Storage Gateways

Join us and learn:
-Challenges of backing up virtual environments
-The pros and cons of the various available options

Mobile workers and edge devices are more exposed than ever.
Join us and learn:
-Why this is a concern for all companies
-Challenges unique to mobile workers
-How to minimize these exposures

Do Small to Medium Sized Businesses even need archiving, or is it something only for large enterprises? W. Curtis Preston seems to believe pretty strongly that almost any company needs archiving, and he'll explain why in this webinar.

In this Experts Unplugged episode, Stephen Foskett of blog.fosketts.net, discusses things to consider when implementing storage for virtual environments. Watch and learn what an I/O blender is.

In this webinar, Scott Baker, Product Manager for Backup Exec, does a deep dive into the new features of Backup Exec 2012.

In this Experts Unplugged episode, W. Curtis Preston discusses the importance of deduplication in backup systems.

In this Experts Unplugged episode, W. Curtis Preston discusses the advantages of using a cloud gateway in your environment.

In this episode of Battle of the Bloggers, 14 bloggers, at Tech Field Day 7, discuss the challenges of managing a virtual environment.

In this episode of Battle of the Bloggers, 14 bloggers, at Tech Field Day 7, debate whether or not one should virtualize everything.

The more business you do, the more data spreads throughout your branch and remote offices, increasing the risk of data loss. IT teams need to be prepared with a proactive disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Today, that means incorporating data deduplication for capacity optimization and faster recovery.
Join us to learn how global deduplication and high availability (HA) streamline and enhance recovery in multiple location infrastructures. This webinar will feature renowned storage expert/blogger W. Curtis Preston and FalconStor's Director of Product Marketing, Mike DiMeglio.

Topics of discussion will include:
-The connection between data deduplication and business continuity
-Choosing the right deduplication solution
-Capacity optimization as the foundation of multi-tier recovery
-How to centrally manage DR and deduplication across your IT infrastructure
-Benefits of global deduplication, including extended data retention, faster local restore, easier archiving, and a smoother transition to cloud-based storage and DR

Learn about the latest trends in high performance, scalable storage for virtualization from independent IT analyst, Stephen Foskett, and hear how Fusion-io technology combined with the award-winning Nutanix converged compute + storage architecture is enabling virtualization without a SAN for greater simplicity with 10x price/performance of traditional server and storage architectures.

Speakers:

Stephen Foskett, Independent IT Analyst and Principal Consultant at Gestalt IT
Tiffany To, Director of Product Marketing, Nutanix

In this Experts Unplugged episode, W. Curtis Preston discusses the merits of both disk and tape in backup design.

You will learn:
-Areas where tape continues to do better than disk
-The realistic role that tape plays in today's data centers
-Why it is important to use disk in your backup design

In this Experts Unplugged episode, W. Curtis Preston discusses why it is important to distinguish between backups and archiving.

Approximately 25% of companies have infinite retention policies and over 50% of companies still rely on their backup software to perform e-discovery requests.

Watch this video and learn:
-What e-discovery requests look like
-Why backups don't fulfill archive requirements
-Why companies need to stop using backups as archives

In this episode of Battle of the Bloggers, Robin Harris, Tony Bourke, Bill Hill and W. Curtis Preston discuss the future of RAID. This event was recorded at Tech Field Day 8 in San Jose, CA.

Are rumors of the imminent death of RAID premature? Why is RAID a problem? What options are there?

In this Experts Unplugged episode, W. Curtis Preston discusses the challenges and solutions for backing up virtual servers.

Learn the challenges of backing up and recovering virtual servers.

Learn the methods that do and don't work to solve this problem.

The spread of high-performance virtualization platforms has leveraged data center infrastructure like never before, but how do you back it all up? How can you quickly recover a virtual environment when disaster strikes? Which backup tools will best meet your needs?

Join this exclusive webcast to hear from W. Curtis Preston, an expert in backup & recovery technology, and hear from Marc Crespi of ExaGrid Systems. Presenters will discuss the latest virtualization platforms and data deduplication techniques, and attendees will learn:

-How to pick tools for backup and recovery in todays virtualized data center.
-How data deduplication impacts the virtualized data center.
-How Continuous data protection (CDP) can help in virtualized environments.
-How to leverage the latest technologies for VM High Availability and rapid VM restore capabilities.

W. Curtis Preston interviews Marc Crespi, VP of Product Management at Exagrid, and asks him some direct questions, including why they architected things the way they did and how they can claim to beat tape on cost.