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Data Protection for Remote Offices and Branch Locations Learn why enterprises are using "hub and spoke" topology to consolidate data protection to reduce risk of data loss and dramatically improve operational efficiency. Learn how branch locations with limited IT resources and budget can have the same high level of data protection as the main data center. Remote management and centralized dashboards give IT managers the ability to monitor and manage data protection enterprise-wide. Learn more in this informative white paper.

Enterprise Data Protection for TSM UIC Medical School cut its backup window by 50%. A leading telco reduced restore times by 90%. In this white paper, learn how SEPATON has built its data protection platform to provide the mount points, flexibility, and high performance needed in an enterprise TSM environment.

Enterprise Data Protection: Scale vs Sprawl What's the best strategy to deal with exponential data growth in your backup environment? The answer may surprise you. In this informative white paper, Evaluator Group analyst, John Webster analyzes the cost of growing enterprise data protection environments by adding new systems vs scaling performance and/or capacity of a single system image. Drawing on interviews with enterprises facing this challenge and a detailed assessment of the costs associated with each strategy, this paper provides critical advice for handling data growth without adding unnecessary costs and complexity.

Enterprise-Class Deduplication Technology - Ten Key Questions For large enterprise organizations with “big data” environments to protect, most deduplication technologies fall short. Savvy IT professionals need to ask the questions that ensure they choose an enterprise-class deduplication technology, such as: "How well does this technology deduplication Oracle, SAP, SQL and other large databases?" "How efficiently does this technology deduplicate non-file backups, TSM Progressive Incremental backups, and Symantec OST environments? "What are realistic expectations for capacity reduction?" Download this paper for answers for an in-depth look at the challenges and solutions associated with deduplication in a large enterprise environment.

Maximum Capacity Reduction – Secrets of Efficient Data Deduplication DeltaStor™ software is a next-generation data deduplication application for the SEPATON® data protection platform that enables enterprises to store more data online at a cost that is comparable to physical tape systems. DeltaStor leverages SEPATON’s patented DeltaScale™ architecture to enable the industry’s fastest backup and restore performance and highest deduplication ratios. By changing the economics of data storage, DeltaStor software allows enterprises to reduce risk, handle exponential data growth, cut backup times, and significantly lengthen online retention periods.

OST and SEPATON Learn how the SEPATON S2100-ES2 can help you leverage the benefits of OST in an enterprise environments. Get fast backup performance, efficient replication, advanced data protection management features.

SEPATON Survey 2011 SEPATON 2011 Data Protection Survey results

Ten Steps to Right Size Your Next Data Protection Purchase Choose a backup and recovery solution that is right for your enterprise To be effective in today’s large, complex enterprise data centers, the POC process should be part of a selection process that can mitigate risk of backup and recovery failure, avoid costly upgrades, and protect your investment by helping you to quantitatively determine the best backup and recovery solution for your needs. Learn the importance of assessing how the backup and recovery system will perform in your current environment under realistic conditions. Review the system’s usefulness over time—how well it will handle growing data volumes and increasingly stringent service requirements. Factor in the vendor’s expertise and ability to provide service and value to your organization.

DeltaRemote Replication Software DeltaRemote Replication data sheet provides an overview of the capacity optimization benefits of SEPATON's bandwidth-optimized remote replication software.

DeltaStor Deduplication Software This data sheet describes how DeltaStor deduplication software for SEPATON S2100 data protection appliances delivers next-generation, global deduplication. Enabled by SEPATON's unique ContentAware™ technology, DeltaStor software efficiently deduplicates massive data volumes without slowing backup or restore performance.

S2100-DS3 Remote Office Data Protection SEPATON S2100-DS3 extends the data protection power of the DeltaScale architecture to remote offices and branch offices.

Secure Erasure Option Download this data sheet on Secure Erasure™ - a licensed option for SEPATON S2100® data protection appliances that delivers guaranteed, auditable erasure of data on virtual tape cartridges.

SEPATON S2100-ES2 Enterprise Data Protection Platform Learn more about how the SEPATON S2100-ES2 data protection appliance delivers enterprise performance, deduplication, and grid scalability.

Support Services Download the SEPATON support data sheet to learn more about our comprehensive technical support services for enterprise data protection environments.

Podcast - Evaluator Group on Enterprise Data Protection Scale vs Sprawl In this podcast, Evaluator Group analyst, John Webster discusses the cost of growing enterprise data protection environments by adding new systems vs scaling performance and/or capacity of a single system image.

Video: Eliminating Data Protection "Sprawl" Many enterprises are struggling to stay ahead of data volumes growing at up to 60 percent compounded annually. Adding new backup systems every time they need more performance or more capacity quickly becomes unweildy and inefficient. This "sprawl" in the data protection environment is a significant cause of complexity and cost. Watch this brief video and learn how to handle exponential data growth without causing "sprawl". SEPATON expert, Jim Montgomery discussed the importance of scalability and single system capacity in managing enterprise data protection.

Video: OST Tutorial SEPATON S2100-ES2 and OST

Video: Protecting Databases in OST Environments SEPATON OST expert, David Jones explains the challenges of protecting large databases in an OST environment. Watch this brief video for answers to key questions, such as: •Should you migrate all backup to OST or maintain some data in a NetBackup/tape environment? •Can you protect your Oracle databases with OST without adding complexity? •Is there a simple way to maintain high performance backup and recovery without disrupting ongoing operations? .

Video: Streamlining TSM: Eliminating Primary Disk Pools Exponential data growth is forcing many enterprises with TSM backup environments to buy more and more costly primary disk in order to meet their backup windows. Watch this informative video from one of SEPATON's TSM experts and learn how you can meet your backup windows with ease while dramatically reducing or even eliminating your primary disk pool.

Webcast: Enterprise Data Protection for Branch Locations Discover how enterprises can extend their enterprise data protection to branch locations.

Webcast: Improving TSM Backup and Restore Performance - Simple, Cost-Saving Techniques TSM backup processes can be dramatically improved. Learn how to shorten completion of TSM Housekeeping, reduce TSM primary disk pools, and improve performance in a simple, cost-effective strategy.

Data Protection at Your Fingertips: The Power of Enterprise-class Dashboards From the Gartner Files: Recommendations for a Backup and Recovery Dashboard. In this informative article, Gartner spells out the critically important role that dashboards and reporting play in helping IT managers maintain visibility and control over these complex environments. It details the types of data and information that IT managers should monitor in a centralized operational control center to ensure they have an accurate view of their data protection environment.

ESG: SEPATON S2100-ES2 and DeltaStor: Scale-Out VTL and Deduplication Today, many VTL solutions are limited in their ability to scale performance and/or capacity to meet the special needs of enterprise data centers. To use them in a large datacenter, enterprises may have to modify their backup processes, add multiple systems, or perform a forklift upgrade. Each of these options adds disruption, inefficiency, complexity, and cost. According to ESG “The ability to scale dynamically may be the greatest differentiator of VTL solutions suited for enterprise deployments.” Download this ESG white paper to learn how enterprise-class “scale-out” VTL systems are designed from the ground up to efficiently, economically, and seamlessly scale both performance and capacity—without disruption or forklift upgrades.

IDC Event Flash: SEPATON Launches DS3 to Strengthen Remote Office Data Protection IDC analysts Nick Sundby and Daniel Bizo Analyze the SEPATON S2100-DS3 This IDC Event Flash analyzes SEPATON's S2100-DS3 backup target appliance, a solution that it is positioning as a remote-office backup target that can replicate to a central data center in a hub-and-spoke configuration. The document also examines the evolving market demands that are driving future developments in data protection.

Storage Strategies Now: Data Reduction: Realizing the Benefits of Deduplication and Compression Deduplication and compression of primary and secondary data brings a lot of benefits to an organization. Whether it is saving on the amount of disk space consumed by the backup process or on expenditures for additional storage capacity, the data reduction market is growing. It is becoming a necessary capability for most organizations when they look for backup software. There is confusion, however, in how different vendors implement their data deduplication – whether inline or post-processing is better, whether data should be compressed in variable length or fixed length blocks, and what the advantages of compressing data from the get-go are. Dispel that confusion with this white paper.

Taneja Group: SEPATON and the Database Data Protection Challenge Enterprise data centers are experiencing huge challenges around massive data growth. This environment requires enterprise IT to provide high levels of storage performance, protection, scalable capacity and control to mission-critical data environments – but they must do it in the face of constrained space, budgets and management overhead. Much of this storage challenge occurs around business-critical databases. Large enterprise depends on databases for their business applications, and the databases depend on fast and secure backup and recovery service level agreements (SLAs). Critical information must be carefully protected and frequently backed up for fast restores and must remain highly available for disaster recovery and compliance. Learn more in this informative white paper.

American Institute of Physics Challenge: Cut restore times while enabling growth

Baptist Health System Challenge: Improving TSM Housekeeping processes, controlling fast-growing data volumes.

Biopharmaceutical Company Challenge: Biopharmaceutical company faces exponential data growth in NetBackup environment

Brookhaven National Lab Challenge: Shrink backup/restore times without adding complexity

Chemical Manufacturer Challenge: Leading chemical manufacturer implements a faster, more reliable, hands-free backup system with SEPATON.

Construction Company Challenge: One of the world's largest construction companies faced exponential data growth, increased complexity in massive TSM environment.

Energy Services Company Challenge: Shrink backup/restore times

Foxwoods Resort & Casino Challenge: Eliminate tape to optimize limited staff resources .

Luton Borough Council NetBackup environment improves performance and efficiency with S2100-ES2 data protection platform.

Optelecom - NKF Reduce 48-hour full backup to meet ISO 9001 obligations

Satellite Radio Company Challenge: One of the largest satellite radio companies in the US needed to control exponential data growth in NetBackup environment.

University of California at Merced Challenge: Protect rapidly growing data volumes simply

University of New Hampshire Challenge: Cut backup times, meet stringent RTO requirements, reduce capacity requirements

Victaulic Challenge: Reduce backup window and increase data retention time

Weis Markets Challenge: Cut data recovery time.

Wireless Communications Company Challenge: Largest US wireless company meet RTO and RPO in Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) environment with 100% backup reliability.