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Gartner Data Center Conference Case Study: Architecting Deduplication and Virtualization for Best of Breed Data Protection

Speaker: Brad Blake, Director of IT for Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center details its decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. Mr. Blake presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference.
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Gartner Data Center Conference Case Study: Phased Rollout of Data Deduplication Brings Practical, Enterprise-wide Business Continuity

Speaker: Greg Cleveland, Principal Data Protection Technology Consultant for a leading health care organization
Mr. Cleveland shares his experience piloting a disk backup solution utilizing Data Domain deduplication and replication to consolidate data protection processes across more than 700 sites for one of the nation's leading health care organizations. Mr. Cleveland presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference.
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Symantec NetBackup (NBU) Design Best Practices with Data Domain, Part 1: Technology Overview and Benefits

Speaker: Kelley Alexander, Senior Consultant, Glasshouse Technologies
In Part 1 of this Best Practices series, a NetBackup expert provides an overview of how Data Domain systems fit in a backup environment, highlights the data protection benefits of Data Domain deduplication storage, and discusses NAS, VTL and OpenStorage system interfaces.
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Symantec NetBackup (NBU) Design Best Practices with Data Domain, Part 2: Integration and Implementation

Speaker: Kelley Alexander, Senior Consultant, Glasshouse Technologies
In Part 2 of this Best Practices series, a NetBackup expert provides specific details and guidance on the integration and implementation of Data Domain systems with NetBackup software. Local backup, remote site protection and disaster recovery topics are addressed.
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Data Protection for VMware Environments: Simplify Backup and Recovery with Data Domain and Vizioncore

Speakers: George Pradle, Senior Systems Engineer, Vizioncore; Devin Hamilton, Senior Systems Engineer, Data Domain
Senior systems engineers from Data Domain and Vizioncore provide an in-depth, technical analysis of how to address data protection challenges for VMware environments. Two case studies of large national retail firms provide specific IT benefits and ROI highlights.
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Better Options for Mainframe Virtual Tape with Data Domain and Luminex

Speakers: Art Tolsma, CEO, Luminex; Mark Slade, Business Development Director, Shoden Data Systems; Bruce Clarke, Director of Technical Marketing, Data Domain
Senior technologists from Luminex, Shoden Data Systems and Data Domain provide an in-depth look at the differences in the way that virtual tape is used in mainframe versus open systems environments. This interactive discussion finds the challenges faced by users of mainframe virtual tape and identifies the solutions that Data Domain and Luminex have to offer to solve those challenges. A representative from Shoden Data Systems, a Data Domain and Luminex partner, joins the webcast to describe a customer implementation of the joint solutions and the benefits that have been realized from its use.
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Consolidate and Simplify Backup and Recovery for Your VMware Environment

Speakers: Paul Vasquez, Sr. Technical Manager, VMware and Rich Colbert, Systems Engineering Manager, Data Domain
VMware virtualized infrastructure is becoming the defacto standard for controlling explosive server growth, reducing management costs, and increasing data availability. Backup and recovery of these virtual environments presents its own unique challenges, especially for the distributed enterprise. Data deduplication has proven to be a key enabler in the development of disk-based backup and recovery strategies for VMware virtual environments. In this webcast you will learn about this powerful solution and hear about specific deployments in two Fortune 500 companies.
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IT Disaster Recovery with Data Domain and Simply Continuous

Speakers: Chris Eidler, CTO, Simply Continuous and Shane Jackson, Director of Channel Product Marketing, Data Domain
All companies face increasing demands for protecting and recovering their data in the event of a disruption. As data sets grow, the options to move data offsite become limited and more expensive. Simply Continuous has partnered with Data Domain to provide offsite data protection and recovery services based on Data Domain deduplication storage. This joint solution offers customers an easy way to transition off of tape and provides a path to true IT disaster recovery.
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Centralizing Data Management and Protection: The CommVault and Data Domain Solution

Speakers: Tony Asaro; David West, VP of Marketing and Business Development, CommVault and Brian Biles, Co-founder and VP of Product Management, Data Domain
Tony Asaro leads this discussion about the rapid growth and lifecycle of "persistent" data and how disk-based data retention and protection architectures are further enabling companies to centralize data management and protection. In this webcast you will learn how Data Domain deduplication storage and CommVault Simpana software form a centrally-managed tier of disk-based storage for data protection, archive, replication, resource management and search.
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Optimizing Backup and Recovery For Branch Office Environments with Cisco and Data Domain

Speakers: Feng Meng, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Wide Area Application Services; Devin Hamilton, Senior Systems Engineer, Data Domain
The distributed enterprise faces many IT challenges when it comes to data management. "Server sprawl" and WAN limitations are roadblocks to server and application centralization. Branch offices are often burdened with expensive IT equipment without the requisite technical expertise. Silos of data can be left unprotected. In this webcast, Cisco and Data Domain discuss their joint solution for branch office data storage and disaster recovery using inline data deduplication and WAN acceleration. Two case studies are presented.
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Optimizing File Services with Deduplication and Virtualization

Speakers: Teri McClure, Senior Analyst, ESG and Chris Fricke, IT Administrator Senior, Clackamas County, Oregon
Maintaining online access to data in a budget-constrained environment is a huge challenge for IT administrators, and market trends point to those challenges intensifying. In this webcast, ESG describes these trends and how EMC Data Domain deduplication storage and F5 ARX file virtualization can overcome them. Clackamas County, Oregon, reviews their success deploying this solution.
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Making Data Centers More Storage Efficient and Green While Cutting Costs

Speaker: Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Storing redundant data inflates capital and operational costs and hinders efforts to ‘go green.’ In this webcast, Brian Babineau explains how data deduplication can dramatically reduce requirements for storage capacity; data center power, cooling and space; and remote office IT support while improving storage efficiency.
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Get a Grip on Storage Growth and Reduce Costs with Data Domain Deduplication Storage, Hitachi Data Systems, and VMware

Speakers: David Kennedy, Regional Sales Director at Hitachi Data Systems and Steve Wharton, Senior Systems Engineer, Data Domain
Speakers from Data Domain and Hitachi Data Systems provide an overview of the joint solution in a VMware environment and how it could be key to extracting the most value from your storage budget.
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Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems, Part 1: Technical Considerations

Speaker: Heidi Biggar, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
This vendor-neutral webcast examines the technological considerations of implementing deduplication, including a list of the key questions ESG believes every organization should ask before making any purchasing decisions.
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Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems, Part 2: Business Considerations

Speaker: Heidi Biggar, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Data deduplication technology and D2D systems provide operational and cost efficiencies that have enabled many enterprises to reduce or eliminate tape. With this transition to disk-based systems, companies are realizing dramatic increases in data manageability and greatly reduced storage and bandwidth needs. This vendor-neutral webcast examines the business considerations of implementing deduplication, including the key components of an ROI analysis and a list of questions every organization should ask potential vendors.
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Minimizing Tape in Enterprises of All Sizes

Speakers: W. Curtis Preston, Vice President, Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies; Hugo Patterson, Chief Architect, Data Domain
In this webcast, backup expert W. Curtis Preston and Hugo Patterson, chief architect for Data Domain, discuss data deduplication and other technologies that can improve your backup and data protection initiatives. From the small remote office to the mega datacenter, businesses of all sizes are minimizing their reliance on tape, meeting their backup windows and increasing the speed and reliability of restores.
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End Users Join VMware, CommVault and Data Domain to Discuss the Impact of New Technologies in the Data Center

Panelists: Jon Robitzsch, Sr. Manager of Infrastructure Systems, Interactive Communications Inc.; Rob Rees, Senior Systems Architect, ICOS Corporation; John M. Thomas, Information Technology Manager, Troutman Sanders LLP
This audio program is a live, unedited recording of an end-user panel at Storage Networking World (SNW) in 2007. They discuss how they have leveraged server virtualization, data deduplication and a unified approach to data management to the benefit of their organizations. Tony Asaro is the moderator and VMware, CommVault and Data Domain also engage in the open discussion.
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Data Domain: Nearline Storage Update

Speaker: Brian Biles, Co-founder and VP of Product Management, Data Domain
The benefits of Data Domain deduplication storage for backup applications are well known. However, there are many other uses for Data Domain systems that help IT departments of all sizes consolidate storage across backup and archive applications and across the distributed enterprise. In this webcast, the co-founder of the company discusses the evolution of nearline storage as well as Data Domain products and technology including Retention Lock software. Three customer archiving use cases are profiled along with a description of how to use Data Domain systems to protect virtualized server environments.
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