The cloud is used for offsite storage and backup and allows for an easier disaster recovery process.
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There also is a new feature called Storage Spaces that makes it easy to manage your various storage and backup options.
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Many computers now contain multiple HDDs for expanded storage and backup purposes.
The new Travelstar HDD is available in the HGST Hard Drive Retail Kit as well as in the award-winning Touro Mobile Pro USB 3.0 external storage solution for simple add-on storage and backup.
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The two new personal offerings come only weeks after Iomega leaned into the enterprise storage market with a line of network-attached storage servers that are aimed at basic storage and backup applications on corporate networks.
One relatively recent survey of 550 startups from BestVendor found a majority use cloud-based resources: QuickBooks (71%) for accounting, Google Analytics (70%) for BI, Salesforce.com (59%) for customer relationship management, and Dropbox (39%) for storage and backup.
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Through acquisition, Dell built up an arsenal of storage products and technologies from leading edge disk storage brands (Compellent and EqualLogic) to backup (AppAssure and Quest), archive (Exanet), and deduplication (Ocarina), spending billions along the way.
This week the company launched Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup.
Design and monitor database backup, archive and storage capacity.
The LaCie Blade Runner is equipped with 10GB of complimentary Wuala Secure Cloud Storage and user-friendly backup software.
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Likewise most backup and storage for user generated content will stay on local devices even if they can be accessed through the internet.
On-line storage is behind remote backup and disaster recovery, on-line content sharing and video streaming, among many other applications currently popular with mobile as well as home-based smart connected devices.
Designing and implementing shared IT services involves moving existing and new services to the cloud (both government or commercial hosting) to increase service elasticity, reduce system equipment footprints, free IT organizations from the expensive work of data center storage, maintenance, backup and recovery burdens.
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An industry-first, SmartSave automatically and dynamically delivers complete backup and recovery while providing additional storage space for personal files such as music, movies, podcasts and other data.
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It is secure storage that acts both as backup and allows remote access by users you have approved.
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Customers can also free up additional storage space by creating a backup bootable USB and deleting the recovery partition.
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Backed by clever marketing campaigns and a growing need for backup storage, the Zip was the surprise computer hit of 1996.
Joining the existing network attached storage line up - the BlackArmor(R) NAS 440 and BlackArmor(R) NAS 420 storage servers - these new solutions share the same suite of robust backup applications for business professionals and home office use.
And you have a certain amount of redundancy in the system as well in terms of storage you can remove, a place where pictures and backup files can reside, and a way for files to be moved around without having to play around with cables or network connections.
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Toshiba's Canvio Special Edition Portable Hard Drive provides users with spacious storage capacity and a complete, yet simple-to-use backup solution.
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Data reduction (compression and deduplication), once only implemented in backup storage, is showing up in some shops as a reality for primary storage.
The high growth of digital content is driving the need for high capacity storage to aggregate, host, distribute, manage, backup and use digital content.
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With it, students can turn their iPod or iPhone into a backup USB storage device to insure they have the documents and media they need everywhere they go.
Vega Cloud Live provides the functions like real-time synchronization of pictures and videos and smartphone personal configuration backup as well as up to 16GB of storage free of charge.
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Lenovo is already partnering with SugarSync for backup and sync, has a deal with EMC to develop network storage, and expects to offer Google services as well.
We see opportunities for market share gains (Backup and Recovery, VNXe, Isilon), we believe the networked storage market is one of the most defensible spending areas, and virtualization will continue to add to storage needs.
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Cloud storage has been around for a while, in the form of online backup services like Carbonite and Dropbox.
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Storage in the cloud is a great thing and is a key element enabling many applications including on-line backup and collaborative work as well as social networking.
While backup generators were on hand in some places, generators had to be brought to storage areas for fuel and de-icing fluid.
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