Dell AppAssure: Free Backup and Disaster Recovery White Papers
Want to explore the challenges that our backup and recovery products address and the technology behind our innovative backup and disaster recovery software? Checkout these recent research reports by Dell AppAssure and our industry expert partners. For how-to guides and other best practices information, customers should contact their account representative.
IT Business Continuity
Building higher IT business continuity in the face of disaster
Most disasters strike when you least expect them. Some – like hurricanes – give you more warning. But in either case, it’s a real problem if disaster brings your business to a grinding halt. Forces of nature, malicious acts, or even a simple mistake can have a long-lasting negative effect on your business. Download this whitepaper to learn more about some first steps and follow-up steps you can take to upgrade your disaster preparedness.
How To Guarantee 100% Recoverability of Your Backup
Download this article to gain a better understanding of how to guarantee 100% recoverability of your backup.
by George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland
Performance Analysis for Backup and Disaster Recovery Software
An independent assessment of backup and disaster recovery software solutions. In this first hand account, the author evaluates performance limitations of Acronis imaging software, ARCserve tape software, MS SQL Backup for SQL, and MIMS offsite.
by David Bourgeois, President of My IT, LLC
SQL Server Database Backup and Restore Planning
Whether a business is small, medium or large business, it must have a well-written plan for backing up the servers. Planning a backup strategy up-front and documenting not only the backup process but also the restore process, will save you a ton of time in the end. Because of its value to the company and the sensitive nature of it, the classification of data must be carefully considered in the planning stage.
Backup Redesign: Do More with Less…Really!
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.
by Joseph Hand, Sr. Director of Product Strategy at Dell AppAssure
Virtualized Backup, Replication and Recovery
Unifying Virtualized Backup, Replication and Recovery
Download this Dell AppAssure 5 Product Spotlight Report to learn more about the latest release of Dell’s AppAssure that focuses on no-compromise unification of virtualized standalone backup, replication and recovery processes.
by George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland
7 Myths about Backup & DR in Virtual Environments
In this whitepaper, Eric Siebert, VMware vExpert, dispells the most common myths about Backup and Disaster Recovery in virtual environments.
by Eric Siebert, VMware vExpert
5 Misperceptions of Agentless VMware Backup
Download this article to learn more about key 5 misperceptions of agentless VMware backup.
by George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland
VMware and Hyper-V Backup: How VM-Level Is Better Than Host-Level
In this whitepaper, Greg Shields, Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert, compares Agents vs. Agentless backup approaches and discusses how Smart Agents can offer a superior approach in protecting VMware and Hyper-V environments.
by Greg Shields, Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert
Expert Guide on Backing up Windows Server in Hyper-V
Download this whitepaper to examine what you need to know to be successful in protecting your virtualized workloads on Microsoft’s Hyper-V platform.
by John Savill, Microsoft MVP
Top 10 Best Practices of Backup, Replication & Recovery for VMware and Hyper-V
In this whitepaper, read about the 10 best practices of backing up and replicating VMware and Hyper-V servers.
by David Davis, VMware vExpert
Microsoft MVP Expert Guide: Windows Server Backup for VM & Physical Servers
In this whitepaper, read about the 10 best practices of backing up Windows Server 2008 on both virtual and physical environments.
by Don Jones, Microsoft MVP
Top 5 Requirements for Backup of Virtual and Physical Servers
In this whitepaper, read about the top 5 requirements for backup of virtual and physical servers.
by Greg Shields, Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert
Leveraging Virtualization for Application Assurance
Business continuity. Application assurance. Virtualization. The applications that are most central to the productivity of every staff person in your organization are e-mail and SQL databases. They need reliable and consistent access to those applications in order to communicate with work peers, customers, and partners.
Microsoft Exchange Backup & Restore
Assuring Successful Exchange Recoveries
Mark Arnold discusses how to develop a consistent method for validating the recoverability of Exchange and incorporating it into everyday operations to prepare for disasters.
by Mark Arnold, Exchange MVP
Configuring Microsoft Exchange for Fast Recovery
The Essentials Series: Configuring Microsoft Exchange for Fast Recovery will provide you with the tools for configuring hardware backup and restoration strategies to help return Exchange to full function with minimal downtime.
by Ron Barrett, Technology Solutions Expert
Exchange Disaster Recovery, Hoping for the Best, Planning for the Worst
Email has evolved from a convenience to a business necessity. This E-Guide from SearchExchange.com and Dell AppAssure Software offers best practices and advice for protecting your existing infrastructure from disruptive email outages.
by Brien M. Posey, Exchange MVP
3 Best Practices for Reducing Exchange Downtime
Messaging has rapidly become the one, true business critical application in use today by many, probably most, enterprises. Learn how to proactively approach disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange.
by Mark Arnold, Exchange MVP
11 Myths About Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery
With the large variety of products available for all types of businesses, it is no surprise that there are several misconceptions about backup and recovery software. Learn how to improve your backup process, reducing outage windows.
Data Deduplication / Storage Compression
Deduplication: Effectively Reducing the Cost of Backup and Storage
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.
by Dr. Varadarajan, Dell AppAssure CTO
Data Protection Technologies Explained
Discover why Dell AppAssure is the most innovative backup solution
