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

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

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines key aspects of information security companies should look for in SaaS solutions to protect information and ensure business success, focusing on three essential elements instrumental to achieving this goal: data privacy, access control and business continuity.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Business Continuity Planning | CRM | Data Center Management | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Software as a Service

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

CASE STUDY - Read this brief case study to learn how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM faced the challenge to implement the next stage of a strategy for faxed order communications to accommodate key seasonal spikes in demand while avoiding unnecessary capacity expenditures.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: December 28, 2007


Topics:  Business Continuation Services | Business Continuity Planning | Capacity Planning | Communications Software | Communications Systems | Fax Machines | Fax Services | Fax Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will focus on the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and the pain points caused by the uncertainty of SAP's product roadmaps and the difficulty of integrating their products. It will then outline some effective business intelligence strategies.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Published: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Development | Business Intelligence | CIOs | Enterprise Architectures | Product Life Cycles | SAP (Product) | Surveys | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Decision-making by companies has enormous room to improve both in terms of efficiency and quality; it will have to for companies to keep pace in an increasingly competitive global business environment.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Dashboards | Decision Support Systems

VIDEO - According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this videocast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Premiered: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | NAS | Remote Offices | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization Software

PODCAST - In this expert podcast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Premiered: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Laptop Computers | NAS | PDA | Remote Offices | SAN | Server Virtualization | Smart Phones | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Security | Storage Service Providers | Storage Virtualization

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this transcript, W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Posted: June 30, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | NAS | Remote Offices | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization Software

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Check out this solution brief to see how the joint Blue Coat and VMware solution enables IT organizations to consolidate servers and perform disaster recovery operations in real-time, without the risk of performance degradation due to latency or limited bandwidth.
Posted: June 29, 2009 | Published: December 26, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Bandwidth Management | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Recovery | RPO | RTO | Server Consolidation | VMware

WEBCAST - Learn how Dell has designed and integrated the Dell EqualLogic Virtual SAN with VMware® vSphere 4.0 with to help you save money and get more virtual.
Posted: June 24, 2009 | Premiered: June 9, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Cloud Computing | High Performance Computing | Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | Operating Systems | Private cloud computing | TCO | Virtual Machine | Virtualization Security

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

EGUIDE - In today's dynamic economy it is important for CIOs to be thinking about how to strengthen their organization and position themselves for success for a future economic upturn and growth. Read this guide to learn how a company can make changes to IT that generate real business value.
Posted: June 18, 2009 | Published: June 18, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Intelligence | CIOs | Economic Environment | Infrastructure Management | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization

PODCAST - Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Premiered: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | IT Best Practices | Server Virtualization | VMware