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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

CA upgrades ARCserve Replication, High Availability

CA Inc. today upgraded its ARCserve Replication and High Availability products. Version 15.2 adds multi-stream replication for high-latency networks, a wizard to assist administrators in protecting non-Microsoft and custom applications, support for updated Microsoft applications, and integrated management-console access to Web 2.0 interactive technologies and documentation resources.

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Deduplication best practices and choosing the best dedupe technology

Data deduplication is a technique to reduce storage needs by eliminating redundant data in your backup environment. Only one copy of the data is retained on storage media, and redundant data is replaced with a pointer to the unique data copy. Dedupe technology typically divides data sets in to smaller chunks and uses algorithms to assign each data chunk a hash identifier, which it compares to previously stored identifiers to determine if the data chunk has already been stored. Some vendors use delta differencing technology, which compares current backups to previous data at the byte level to remove redundant data.

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Monday, November 1, 2010

Records retention management: Arm yourself against regulatory scrutiny

Learn the 10 steps to building a strong records retention management system that satisfies e-discovery requests and protects your firm against regulatory scrutiny.

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