Parallels touts that its software includes a built-in suite of tools like Kaspersky antivirus software and Acronis disk backup.

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First, the professional installer had enabled automatic backup between the primary disk partition and a backup disk partition on the same physical disk.

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Founded in 2003, StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides disk based backup, disaster recovery, data protection, migration, and security solutions to businesses of all sizes.

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With five working days a week, an IT manager can assign each disk to a daily backup.

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That is, disk drives would start to replace traditional tape backup systems.

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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.

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Runner-up: The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus represents the wave of the future of network storage, combining left-brain network backup with right-brain media serving with the hard disk already inside.

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After you configure your backup, Google zips your data into an archive that you can download and store on a hard disk under your bed or in a bank vault in Geneva.

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