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Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 simplifies and automates workstation and server backup and disaster recovery processes in Windows and Linux environments and across physical and virtual platforms. It also simplifies migration and deployments. It's the complete disaster recovery solution for minimizing downtime and increasing IT productivity.

Found it useful for myself [URL="http://www.slideshare.net/Acronis/continuous-data-protection-2149693"]http://www.slideshare.net/Acronis/continuous-data-protection-2149693[/URL] There is an examination of the two data protection solutions that will always complement a CDP investment – near-continuous data protection (near CDP) and traditional file-and-folder – and show where each is best applied.

Deduplication used to be an exclusive tool of the large enterprise, with an imposing cost, a daunting learning curve, and – with file-only deduplication – a limited ability to use deduplicated data to restore a failed machine. Until now, deduplication has been too expensive to implement in any but the …

Percept Technology Labs, Inc. is an established, independent product test and consulting company. Percept's testing demonstrates that Diskeeper keeps its promise to maintain clean, defragmented hard drives while not affecting overall system performance.

This paper details the purpose and benefits of a ground-breaking technology alliance between NAND Flash hardware leader Apacer Technology Inc, and storage performance technology innovator Diskeeper Corporation.

All SQL Server databases, over time, experience "internal" fragmentation of its data. In SQL Server, there are several ways to defrag internal fragmentation. Unfortunately, internal fragmentation is only part of the fragmentation problem.

This document will explain the behavior and benefit of implementing Diskeeper defragmentation software with intricate modern hardware technologies such as RAID, NAS and SANs. SANs, NAS devices, corporate servers, and even high end workstations and multimedia-centric desktops characteristically implement multiple physical disk drives in some form of fault tolerant disk …

Going Green with Diskeeper: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate benefits in performance, cost, time to complete, wattage consumed for each test and overall KWH consumption by using Diskeeper defragmentation software.

This IDC White Paper looks at the savings and benefits that system software and disk defragmentation can provide to customers. It also examines the savings that were achieved by three enterprise customers using a simple model over one year. These customers were selected by Diskeeper for analysis by IDC.

While there is little dispute among IT professionals regarding the impact of disk fragmentation on system performance, no independent guidelines exist to recommend the frequency of defragmentation across an infrastructure. Some IT professionals use defragmentation as a measure of last resort, defragmenting only after system performance has sufficiently degraded to …

Depending on your perspective, [I]virtualization’s [/I]purpose is to afford divergence and convergence. It affords the division of logical objects that should be separated, and/or the consolidation of objects that should be grouped together. The technology’s recent explosion coincides with the trend of consolidating systems on to fewer, but more powerful …

The mathematics of accidental file erasure is alarming.A PC user is likely to spend an average of one hour in a frantic effort to recover the file (or files, or an entire directory) before turning to the help desk. Just two occurrences per day – a conservative estimate for a …

Resolving issues with file system performance include numerous solutions, primarily hardware related, from use of faster disks, a greater number of disks, distributed storage, SANs, and on the bleeding edge extreme, petabyte-worthy technologies such as cluster file systems. It can also lead to “workaround” handlings such as reinstalling software, re-imaging …

Despite all the advances of recent times, the disk remains the weak link. And with the ongoing explosion in data storage as well as the massive size of modern disks, that link is growing steadily weaker. As a result, fragmentation exerts a severe toll on enterprise performance and reliability, one …

In today’s environment of bigger disks storing not only larger files but more files than ever before, the effects of fragmentation worsen markedly with each day’s use. To keep up with same-day performance degradation, disks must be defragmented in real-time.