PODCAST - Many organizations need to archive their email messages, but it can be a complicated process to employ. In this expert podcast, get advice on implementing a successful email archiving system for your environment. Learn how to avoid common archiving mistakes and how to tell the difference between backup and archiving.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Premiered: August 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Storage | Electronic Discovery | Email Archiving | Email Archiving Software | Email Management | Storage Management | Storage Management Software

WEBCAST - Many companies use electronic documents to conduct business, but there is only so much storage to hold all of this data. This expert webcast discusses how to archive messages without having to manually delete items on a monthly basis. Get practical archiving strategies to control your electronic information and meet compliance regulations.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Premiered: August 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Storage | Email Archiving | Email Archiving Software

EZINE - Best practices, people, processes, and procedures combine with technology tools, hardware, software, networks, services, and facilities to enable a virtual data center. The importance of this chapter is to understand how all these elements coupled with existing and emerging technologies can be applied to improve IT service delivery.
Posted: August 21, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization | Virtualization Security

EGUIDE - Data breaches run rampant and there is very little information about how to build a practical, effective data security program. We'll detail the steps to take and the technologies available to keep your organization's most valuable information assets safe. Read on to learn more about protecting the database without threatening the budget.
Posted: August 19, 2009 | Published: August 19, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Security | Data Storage | Database Management | Database Security | Encryption Standards | Information Security

EBOOK - Data storage backups are a necessary element of data protection plan, but they're often the biggest source of security woes. Learn everything you need to know about keeping your backups secure in this tutorial.
Posted: August 19, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Continuous Data Protection | Data Encryption | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Disk Backups | Tape Backups

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Most companies allow far too much data to reside on expensive primary storage. In this presentation transcript, Anne Skamarock Research Director, FOCUS, discusses the most effective methods for reducing and managing the data footprint on primary storage -- including tools and techniques.
Posted: August 19, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Management | Data Management | Data Storage | Hardware | High Availability | Storage Appliances | Storage Capacity | Tiered Storage

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Thin provisioning is not new, but there is still confusion about how it works and how to best use it in the data center. In this presentation transcript, Jeff Byrne, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group and Christine Taylor, Analyst, Tenaja Group, outline the various approaches and technologies behind thin provisioning.
Posted: August 18, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Physical Security | Data Center Power Management | Data Management | Data Storage | Database Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines the new capabilities and performance enhancements that NetApp / IBM N series clients can now realize with TSM 6.1 in two key enterprise backup and restore scenarios for network data storage.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

VIDEO - There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert videocast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Premiered: July 23, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Hardware | Storage Security | Strategic Planning

PODCAST - There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert podcast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Premiered: July 23, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Hardware | Storage Security | Strategic Planning | Structured Programming

WHITE PAPER - When a full backup of the city's 125-plus servers became impossible overnight on a legacy tape system, Burbank went looking for a better answer. The city chose Quantum's DXi7500 Express disk-based backup solution with deduplication technology.
Posted: July 22, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Compression | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup

WHITE PAPER - This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Migration | Data Storage | IT Managers | NAS | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - The goal of this white paper is to discuss the role of caching, describe in detail how object caching and byte caching works, and show how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.
Posted: June 29, 2009 | Published: December 17, 2007


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Bandwidth Management | Caching | Data Quality | Data Storage | Proxy Server Hardware | Proxy Server Software | WAN

ANALYST BRIEF - Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Recovery | Data Storage | iSCSI SAN | SLA | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment products in the US. Having implemented the Data Domain and Luminex solution they have been able to successfully meet DR goals and achieve significant yearly cost savings.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Replication | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Mainframe Server Hardware | Microsoft Exchange | ROI | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Media | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN