Carahsoft Data Domain Green IT Resource Center

Enabling Intelligent Green IT Strategies

Trends in power, cooling, and space constraints, as well as corporate and government initiatives, are forcing IT managers to look for ways to reduce the carbon footprint of their datacenters. But for long-term success, green strategies must intelligently balance both green efforts and business objectives.

Data Domain provides a capacity optimized storage tier designed specifically for consolidation and recovery of data center operations; allowing agencies to better meet their COOP initiatives. With Data Domain deduplication storage IT managers can effectively contain the costs associated with massive data growth, improve capital and operating efficiencies and bolster green initiatives.

Learn how you can automate DR processes and simplify management of global data protection assets in a small, cost-efficient footprint.

Going Green Spotlight

Best Practices Guide:
Consolidate Backup and Recovery for Your Virtualized Environment

VMware offers extraordinary benefits, but it can come at the cost of extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. Data Domain deduplication storage offers a way out by reducing redundant data across VMware data backups, operating at disk speeds, and providing cost-effective replication for fast DR using backup images. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage, regardless of which backup software or scripts are involved.

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