PODCAST - Stringent laws and regulations are forcing businesses to look at data in a new light. Added to compliance challenges is protecting disparate data, while reducing overhead costs associated with legal discovery. In this podcast, IDC looks at high level trends in compliance, solutions that industry-leaders are employing and how to mitigate data risk.
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Premiered: September 3, 2009


Topics:  Compliance Best Practices | Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Auditing | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Regulatory Compliance | Security | Security Audits | Security Best Practices | Storage Best Practices | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Spectra Logic, with 30 years experience in the field of high technology, is committed to protecting data - your data. Spectra has extensive expertise with all forms of backup, and therefore understands the continuing and increasingly important role of tape in protecting data. To that end, Spectra Logic has set itself a goal: Tape Without Pain.
Posted: September 1, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Damaged or worn out tape cartridges can force you to recreate lost data, which can be costly or even impossible. How do you know which cartridges should be retired? This paper details how a cartridge memory chip inside a storage tape cartridge provides a wealth of information on the remaining viability of that cartridge.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 26, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Storage | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor FDS in an EMC NetWorker environment. The document is intended to provide an architectural overview of FalconStor FDS being used with EMC NetWorker and the benefits of a combined solution.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Storage | Disk Backups | Tape Backups

PODCAST - Deduplication can decrease the physical spend on data center footprint, power, cooling, and physical tape and media costs. This podcast defines deduplication and explains how it can make your data center more efficient. It will also shed some light on what factors you should evaluate when considering a deduplication strategy.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Premiered: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Storage Best Practices | Storage Spending | Tape Backups

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

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - Join noted backup expert W. Curtis Preston LIVE online on September 17, 2009 for a 3-part presentation on backup planning for 2010. Get expert tips on where to add efficiency to your backup operations now -- and gain valuable information on the biggest backup trends being deployed in IT shops as we move towards year end.
Posted: August 7, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Electronic Discovery | Storage Best Practices | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - Join noted backup expert W. Curtis Preston LIVE online on September 15, 2009 for a 3-part presentation on backup planning for 2010. Get expert tips on where to add efficiency to your backup operations now -- and gain valuable information on the biggest backup trends being deployed in IT shops as we move towards year end.
Posted: August 7, 2009 | Premiered: September 15, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Electronic Discovery | Storage Best Practices | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

ANALYST BRIEF - This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison - using a backup/recovery and archive scenario - between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: February 29, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

ANALYST BRIEF - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: July 21, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Encryption Standards | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - With the introduction of HP Dynamic deduplication and low bandwidth replication (LBR) on HP D2D2500, D2D4000 and D2D4100 Backup Systems, the way data protection can be implemented has been transformed. This whitepaper explains the terminology and concepts behind these technologies and establishes some sizing rules through worked examples.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper describes how mainframe users can effectively switch from physical tape (or hybrid disk/tape) to a modern mainframe Virtual Tape solution with Data Domain deduplication storage.
Posted: July 7, 2009 | Published: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Remote Backups | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data protection and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data center.
Posted: June 23, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | IT Managers | RPO | RTO | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Published: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | IT Spending | Remote Backups | RPO | SLA | Storage Infrastructure | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

VIDEO - Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication replication as a disaster recovery technique.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Premiered: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Remote Backups | Storage Management | Tape Backups