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Join SQL MVP Bryan Oliver and CEO Naj Husain as they discuss leveraging virtualization for application assurance.

Any company that relies on data intensive applications like e-mail, financial, human resource, customer management, and product development systems – and that’s every company – is experiencing data explosion. Mandated by legal compliance and required by management best practices, data protection measures including backup, storage, and retrieval, are more mission-critical than ever. On top of that, demands for high availability and fast disaster recovery are increasing. Unfortunately, enterprise-wide solutions that rely on tape backup are less efficient and more costly than ever. New disk-based backup solutions that focus on application – not just data – protection are redefining the state-of-the-art by realizing significant time and money savings through data expansion moderation, fast backup, easy data retrieval, high availability assurance, and reliable disaster recovery.

Organizations have to backup and store data. Compliance requirements demand that data be stored for periods of time. Productivity demands that data is available in case of disaster or accidental loss of work. Unfortunately, meeting those demands is getting more and more expensive as the amount of data that has to be backed up and stored multiplies.

Reducing the cost of backup and storage starts with reducing the amount of data that is backed up and stored. Data deduplication ensures that the same, unchanged files are not repeatedly backed up during nightly processes. Reducing storage capacity alone is a strong argument for implementing data deduplication, but when integrated with server-based backup processes that also include data compression, the combined backup and storage savings are compelling.

Written by Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, this white paper from AppAssure Software will cover: Data deduplication, Data management, Storage management software, Capacity planning and more!

Technical people and business people don’t always speak the same language. IT managers and administrators who understand the business goals and realities of their company are able to evaluate and select technology that will help meet goals while staying within budget. In best case scenarios, the technology they select actually saves the company money. The hard part is often explaining the benefits of chosen technology to business people who have to sign off on the investment.

This white paper outlines and illustrates how to create a business case for new technology. It uses the example of fictitious companies that is currently spending quite a bit of money on a tape-based data backup and restoration solution. While features and benefits are an important part of the case, the focus is on business advantage: cost savings through improved operations and fast return on investment.