BakBone is Now Part of Quest Software

A leader in simplifying and reducing the cost of IT management, Quest’s innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling more than 100,000 customers worldwide to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

BakBone’s award-winning NetVault product suite makes data protection a simple, straightforward process. From real-time protection and granular recovery to powerful de-duplication, disk-based and tape backup, and application support, NetVault solutions provide seamless management of resources across multiple platforms though intuitive administrative consoles.

Leveraging NetVault and Quest’s robust data protection portfolio, IT organisations can deliver continuous, integrated data protection across complex physical or virtual environments and application platforms, achieving fast ROI and minimising the total cost of ownership.

Learn more at www.bakbone.com & www.quest.com/data-protection

How To Set Up Bare Metal Recovery for Virtual Machines

Steve’s How-To Series

How To Set Up Bare Metal Recovery for Virtual Machines: (View this second installment) We all think of bare metal recovery for physical machines, but it is just as necessary for virtual ones. In this session, Technical Support Lead Steve Adler will demonstrate how simple it is up to set up bare metal recovery for virtual machines on the NetVault: Backup VMware Plugin. Watch the full video (5:31) on our BakBone YouTube channel.

How to Set Up Deduplication

Steve’s How-To Series
How to Set Up Deduplication: View this first installment of Technical Support Lead, Steve Adler’s, insight into maximizing your NetVault investment. He will demonstrate just how quick and easy it is to set up deduplication with NetVault: SmartDisk. Watch the full video (4:02) on our BakBone YouTube channel.

White Paper: Evaluating Deduplication Solutions

Evaluating Deduplication Solutions: What You Should Really Consider (PDF) Understand deduplication, and how it can be implemented. Learn about single instance storage (SIS) vs deduplication, fixed vs. variable block, inline vs post-process, source vs target-side, as well as ratios and retention periods. Download this white paper.

Managing Data Growth

Managing Data Growth with Jerry Breedlove, Director Global IT

Listen to Jerry’s tips on storage reduction and increased performance, including thoughts on vaulting, tiering and thin provisioning. Even with massive data growth, Jerry and his team have, “…been able to keep the architecture we have in place for the last 4 or 5 years without shelling out any additional cost.” Watch the full video (3:02) on our BakBone YouTube channel.