CASE STUDY - The ability to stay up and running in the face of a disaster can be crucial to the survival of any business. Without effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans, businesses risk lost income, lost productivity, or worse. Read this brief paper to learn about effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Consulting Services | Business Continuation Services | Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Does your organization have a reliable and cost-effective site recovery system? This presentation transcript explores how site recovery tools along with virtualization enables IT pros to deliver secure application and data availability, implement site-wide disaster recovery and automate fail-over and fail back.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: November 24, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | IT Management | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Windows Server Software

EGUIDE - Trying to decide if online backup, or backup as a service, will be beneficial to your small-midsized business (SMB)? John Merryman, services director for recovery services at GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the benefits and drawbacks of online backup today. His answers are also available as an MP3 download.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Online Backups | Remote Backups | SMBs | Software as a Service

CASE STUDY - For years Capital Bank backed up its data to tape and hand-delivered this information to a secondary, off-site location. While this strategy worked for a time, the bank wanted to move to a more automated process in preparation for growth and acquisitions. It found all that with Xiotech.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Server Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Replication | Storage Security | Tape Backups

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - In this presentation transcript, Andrew Burton, Editor of SearchDataBackup.com, and W. Curtis Preston, Executive Editor of Storage Media Group, discuss global deduplication. They will explain what global dedupe is and reveal the benefits and drawbacks that have been expressed by industry professionals.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Storage | Load Balancing | Storage Replication

WHITE PAPER - Once you decide to deploy Oracle within the data center, a continuous lifecycle begins - moving from initial development, test, and deployment, to ongoing migration, to new releases of Oracle and deployment of new features with each release. The EMC Solutions Practice for Oracle can help you get started quickly.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuation Services | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Database Administration | Oracle (Product) | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - Managed Service Providers with customers who have or are considering Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 can now offer secure, cloud-based protection and recovery for DPM 2007 data with the CloudRecovery service, created by Iron Mountain and Microsoft. Learn how this service can help your customer meet today’s requirements.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: May 31, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - As mid-size enterprises find themselves strapped for time, money and management resources, they have to find ways of doing more with less. Age-in-Place is a data management strategy that means no more tiers – the easiest and most cost effective way to manage the life-cycle of your data.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Capacity | Tiered Storage

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This transcript documents a presentation featuring Brad Blake, Director, IT at Boston Medical Center. Mr. Blake will discuss how he initially started working with Data Domain as part of a VMware project. The meat of his presentation focuses on architecting deduplication and virtualisation for best of breed data protection.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization

PODCAST - Discover the benefits of disk over tape-based storage systems. This podcast will examine a large medical nonprofit’s transition from a tape-based storage system to a disk-based system. Find out how this organisation increased backup performance, shortened RTOs, lightened management burden, cut costs and more by switching to disk-only storage.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | RTO | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WEBCAST - Please watch this presentation featuring Brad Blake, Director, IT at Boston Medical Center. The presentation will illuminate topics such as Boston Medical Center’s decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage - as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery

WHITE PAPER - Cloud storage presents Managed Service Providers an exciting opportunity to help customers accommodate data growth, but can raise doubts about security, privacy, and compliance. As THINKStrategies notes, choosing the right cloud storage partner is essential to maintaining customers’ trust.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Stewardship | Data Storage | Storage Management | Storage Standards

WHITE PAPER - Managed Service Providers working with smaller businesses can help them better protect their data with two cloud-based strategies from Iron Mountain. Learn how LiveVault and CloudRecovery can bring your customers peace of mind.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cloud Computing | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Disk Backups

PRODUCT REVIEW - EVault Remote Disaster Recovery Service (RDR) is a hosted service to help you quickly recover your key servers and data after a site disaster, and remotely access them in a secure virtual environment.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Hosting Services | Online Backups | Remote Backups

ANALYST REPORT - As improving business functionality increasingly depends on IT, CIOs find themselves between the proverbial rock and a hard place. They must find ways to bring new and dynamic value to the business with fewer resources. To meet this challenge, more CIOs are sourcing IT through vendors that offer multiple delivery options.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Online Backups | Outsourcing | Remote Backups