Backup and recovery best practices are entirely different than they were 10 years ago. Downtime entirely unacceptable (sometimes fatal) and businesses are moving towards near-zero RPOs and RTOs for all business-critical applications. And the most business-critical service of all is email. This presentation transcript describes some of these technologies and offers implementation tips.

With more and more organizations adopting virtualization technologies, enjoying cost savings and simplified server management in datacenters, Virtual Machine (VM) backup and recovery has become a major challenge to IT administrators. This article discusses how to re-evaluate their backup strategies and provide VMs with the same safeguards as physical servers.

With the proliferation of virtual servers and storage, companies need to understand the implication of virtualization on the backup and recovery processes that form part of a company's disaster recovery and business continuity strategy. Yeong Chee Wai, marketing director for Acronis Asia, explains in simple terms the difference between physical and virtual environments and how to re-deploy a reliable backup and recovery strategy.

So having understoood what deduplication is and isn't, what can we learn from those who have deployed the technology earlier on? Acronis Asia's Yeong Chee Wai continues with this education process and offers three very important (and practical) best practices for data deduplication.

Why are companies looking at data deduplication technologies? Acronis Asia's Yeong Chee Wai offers insight into the drivers and motivations behind the deduplication movement.

When implementing a backup and recovery solution, IT organizations should carefully define their recovery objectives and align their technology strategy with their business requirements.

The goal of this document is to help prepare for the future challenges of protecting against system downtime when the costs of unplanned outages are increasing along with requirements for continuous data access.

This overview outlines some of the most important issues involved in retrieving data from backups, such as setting RTO, reducing data, retrieval testing and data management.