Drop Backup Pains and Get Protection Gains with Virtual Tape Libraries

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With data backup requirements soaring as a result of growing quantities of data and protection requirements, companies are finding tape archives simply too slow to keep up. It's not uncommon to find nightly backups still running when the dayshift arrives. Worse, it's simply impractical to fork-lift in a new backup solution in the middle of today's furiously churning IT datacenter.

Fortunately, a solution has appeared in the market in recent years that has only gotten more attractive as time passes: the Virtual Tape Library (VTL). As disk prices plummet, it's increasingly practical to simply back up to inexpensive "near-line" disk storage instead of tape. Backups run an order of magnitude faster, and disk deduplication technology can vastly reduce raw storage requirements. Best of all, because a VTL looks like an ordinary tape drive to your legacy hosts, you need not forklift anything. Just swing a cable from your legacy tape hardware to the multi-ported VTL.

But there are a lot of factors to consider when choosing a VTL. Foremost is compatibility with your existing backup software, followed closely by the new hot requirement of information security: encryption-at-rest. VTLs also offer a bewildering array of interconnect methods and optional back-end archival solutions, including the burgeoning Cloud.

In this webcast, IT technologist Mel Beckman and Dell’s Marc Mombourquette demystify VTL technology and explain its inner workings. Here is what we'll cover:

You'll then have an accurate roadmap you help you make intelligent VTL deployment plans.

Because there is a VTL in your future.

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Presenters

Mel Beckman has built two regional Internet service providers and is currently president of Beckman Software Engineering, a technical consultancy specializing in large-scale, high-bandwidth networks. His past clients include Apple Computer, the City and County of Santa Barbara, DuPont Displays, IBM, Loral Federal Systems, United Airlines, the US Department of Agriculture, and the US Department of Energy. Mel has presented seminars on computer programming and network technology throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Marc Mombourquette is a product manager for the Dell DR series of Disk Backup and Deduplication Appliances. Marc also has held various other positions in the Dell Data Protection group including Marketing Manager for the Managed Services Program and Product Marketing Manager for Dell AppAssure. Marc joined Dell Data Protection through the acquisition of AppAssure in February 2012. Prior to Dell, Marc spent several years working for a variety of companies in the data protection space. Marc is based in Boston, MA.

Joe Leslie is Product Manager for Dell Data Protection and has over ten years of experience building and delivering industry leading data protection solutions.  He helps customers protect business-critical data in their physical, virtual, application and cloud environments by utilizing Dell data protection software and appliance solutions.