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

WHITE PAPER - This paper by The Radicati Group examines the issues caused by exploding e-mail growth and presents key capabilities that e-mail archiving solutions must have to help you improve mailbox and e-mail storage management, e-discovery and data protection.
Posted: August 3, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Continuous Data Protection | Electronic Discovery | Email | Email Archiving | Email Management | Email Security | Information Management | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Microsoft Exchange | Regulatory Compliance

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 - Organizations that have yet to implement an e-mail archiving solution have a new decision: use an on-premises or cloud-based (sometimes referred to as Software as a Service or SaaS) solution? The latter is more viable when the archive service is delivered by a reputable, well-established provider such as Iron Mountain.
Posted: July 22, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Continuous Data Protection | Electronic Discovery | Email Archiving | Email Management | Email Server Software | SaaS ERP | Software as a Service

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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SMBs

EZINE - A trend in storage product messaging these days is the theme of self-healing storage - the ability of a system to detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. In this month's cover story, independent storage expert Marc Staimer explains how and how well they work. This electronic issue also includes features on storage efficiency...
Posted: May 28, 2009 | Published: May 28, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | RAID | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Media

WEBCAST - Safeguarding your data from malware and other Web threats takes a layered approach. In this TechTalk webinar Blue Coat Technical Marketing Engineers will lead a discussion on how the Blue Coat ProxyAV works with the ProxySG to create a community-watch based security.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Premiered: March 24, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Malware | Network Security | Phishing | Spyware | Virus Detection Software | Virus Protection

WHITE PAPER - Security has always been an important part of any IT infrastructure. This white paper has tips to help improve your awareness of some of the more important risks threatening your Microsoft infrastructure.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Hackers | IT Infrastructure | Malware | Microsoft Certified Professional | Microsoft Certified Solution Developer | Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer | Microsoft Certified Trainer | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Operations Manager | Password Authentication Protocol | Password Management | Passwords | Patch Management | Security | Security Threats | Worms

WHITE PAPER - In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.
Posted: May 8, 2009 | Published: May 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Microsoft Exchange | NAS | RAID | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

VIDEO - Chris Watkis, IT Director of Grey Healthcare Group wins the Best Practices in Storage Award at the 2008 Tech Forum Conference. Grey Healthcare Group, one of the world's top five healthcare communications companies, leverages FalconStor VTL with Deduplication to improve backup and recovery performance, optimize their storage environment, and..
Posted: March 31, 2009 | Premiered: March 31, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Virtual Tape Libraries

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript highlights a solution that helps eliminate wasteful data and creates a more efficient storage infrastructure by reclaiming crucial storage space.
Posted: March 27, 2009 | Published: February 25, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Most analysts, including Enterprise Strategy Group, agree that performing only a periodic backup leaves data at risk, and they find that this is a major concern among the IT professionals they survey. The answer to this concern is Cisco Small Business Network Storage Systems (NSS) and Cisco Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files software.
Posted: March 25, 2009 | Published: March 25, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Network Security | Security | Security Infrastructure | Vulnerability Assessments