PODCAST - W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the various options available today for backing up virtual machines including VMware's VCB, third-party products, and the ways that backup software products are evolving to ease virtual machine backups.
Posted: September 2, 2009 | Premiered: September 2, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Disk Backups | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - During this webcast, our speaker will discuss ways to ensure IT governance is instituted at the enterprise for PPM success.
Posted: September 2, 2009 | Premiered: September 2, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Cost Benefit Analysis | Executive Management | IT Governance | Project Portfolio Management | Strategic Planning

PODCAST - This podcast will review the steps CIOs can take to select top projects with the most value to the business, map resources and finally fill in the gaps.
Posted: September 2, 2009 | Premiered: September 2, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Metrics | Cost Benefit Analysis | Enterprise Resource Management | Project Portfolio Management | ROI | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.
Posted: August 31, 2009 | Premiered: August 31, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Replication | Data Storage | Storage Best Practices | Storage Hardware | Strategic Planning

PODCAST - Because network attached storage (NAS) is file-based (rather than block-based) storage, it is particularly suited for storing the types of unstructured, file-based data that is a challenge for many storage pros today. This FAQ podcast answers key questions about NAS advantages and implementations.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Premiered: August 26, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disk Backups | Economic Environment | NAS | Storage Best Practices | Strategic Planning | Structured Programming

PODCAST - W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the options currently available for performing replication as part of a backup strategy for virtual machines, benefits and drawbacks of using replication in a virtualized environment.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Premiered: August 25, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Replication | Disk Mirroring | Economic Environment | SMBs | Storage Best Practices | Storage Replication | Strategic Planning | Structured Programming

PODCAST - In this expert podcast, find out why many companies are turning to business process management (BPM) to automate processes, optimize workflows and improve operational efficiency and agility.
Posted: August 20, 2009 | Premiered: August 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Activity Monitoring | Business Performance Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Process Reengineering | Operational Support Systems | Quality Control | SOA | Strategic Planning | Systems Operations | Workflow Software

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

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

WEBCAST - This webcast explores a phased approach to consolidating application management solutions, aligning IT infrastructure with business needs and reducing costs.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Premiered: July 27, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Economic Environment | Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | ROI | Server Management | Software Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Strategic Planning | Systems Management | TCO

WEBCAST - Server virtualisation is an ever more important tool for reducing costs, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Premiered: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Data Security | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization | Strategic Planning | Structured Programming

WEBCAST - This Webcast can help you put your business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) needs into perspective with application strategy tips offered by Ray Wang at Forrester Research.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Premiered: June 25, 2009


Topics:  Application Outsourcing | Application Performance Management | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | ERP | ERP Software | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - Check out this webcast to learn the business and technical issues that drive privacy protection requirements and how to safeguard confidential data by leveraging data masking techniques as part of an overall integrated data management strategy.
Posted: February 24, 2009 | Premiered: February 24, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Continuous Data Protection | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Security | Data Storage | Information Management | Intrusion Prevention | Risk Management | Security Best Practices | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - View this mediacast and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.
Posted: February 20, 2009 | Premiered: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disk Backups | Economic Environment | Solid State Disks | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - In this program Gartner Research Vice President Ted Fredman and DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher discuss the data quality issues facing business today as well as the solutions that can solve these problems.
Posted: January 6, 2009 | Premiered: January 6, 2009


Topics:  Data Quality | ERP | Marketing | Risk Management | Sales | Strategic Planning | Supply Chain Management