| Contributing Editorial: 10 Criteria to Selecting the Right Enterprise Business Continuity Software — Part II |
In the first part of this two-part blog series on the 10 criteria to selecting the right enterprise business continuity software, I took a look at the first four criteria. This second part covers the last six criteria and specifically examines where InMage Systems DR-Scout is at in delivering on these requirements. By DCIG LLC |
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| Contributing Editorial: Wasabi Systems: A Snake Waiting To Bite Someone |
Have you ever been out hiking, minding your own business, when all of a sudden you see something moving in your peripheral vision? Because you're not sure what you saw you stand real still so whatever it was doesn't bite you. Well, that was my first impression after I finished listening to a briefing about Wasabi Systems' VMX 2000 Series Storage Appliance given by Frank G. Logan, III, President and Chief Executive Officer of Wasabi Systems, Inc. By DCIG LLC |
08/15/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: 10 Criteria To Selecting The Right Enterprise Business Continuity Software - Part 1 |
The pressures to implement business continuity software that can span the enterprise and recover application servers grow with each passing day. Disasters come in every form and shape from regional disasters (earthquakes, floods, lightning strikes) to terrorist attacks to brown-outs to someone accidently unplugging the wrong server. By DCIG, LLC |
08/14/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: SAS Is The Next Data Center Certainty |
While SaaS (Software as a Service) gets most of the press, SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is finding its way into increasing numbers of corporate data centers. Parallel SCSI is a proven and reliable data transfer standard and serves the data center well, but all good things must eventually come to an end. With U320 parallel SCSI being the last stop on the SCSI roadmap, and with the advantages SAS has to offer over parallel SCSI, SAS is almost a certainty for the industry at large and your company specifically. By DCIG LLC |
08/07/2008 |
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| Datasheet: Spectra T50e Automated Tape Library |
The Spectra® T50e gives you enterprise capabilities in a compact, 4U
rackmount library. Built upon five generations of Spectra Logic hardware and ten generations of BlueScale® software, |
08/06/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: Data Breach Laws Go Coast-to-Coast |
magine this scenario, you are sitting in your office enjoying your morning coffee when you are called into an emergency meeting and told that a backup tape containing customer's personally identifiable information has been lost. How you react to this revelation is obviously based on what steps, if any, you have previously taken to protect the customer information of your company's clients. By DCIG LLC |
08/06/2008 |
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| Federal Evidentiary Rule-Change Creates Records Management Challenge For Corporate Attorneys |
The Federal courts initiated sweeping new evidentiary rules
governing discoverable corporate records, including rules that consider even routine voice-mail messages as corporate “records.” By Data Empowerment Group |
08/06/2008 |
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| RIM Risk Management Reaches New Heights |
RIM Risk Assessment is a problem across the records management industry, including software developers, IT professionals at Enterprise-level corporations, as well as those executive decisionmakers who oversee – but do not actively manage – records at major corporations. By Data Empowerment Group |
08/06/2008 |
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| Are We Facing The End Of Business As Usual Or The Start Of A New Way Of Doing Business? |
As 2008 continues to be overshadowed by the fallout from the US subprime market, we see banks tightening lending and consumers tightening their belts. But a market discontinuum is not universally bad news. Celona Technologies’ Charles Andrews argues that companies should hold their nerve and resist
slashing IT budgets just yet. By Celona Technologies |
08/06/2008 |
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| Deduplication: A Quick Fix Or The Way Forward For Storage? |
Deduplication has quickly risen to the top of IT agendas as a method to help reduce storage and power costs through streamlining the amount of information needing to be backed up. It also helps to address issues such as business continuity, e-discovery and compliance requests. By Iron Mountain Digital |
08/05/2008 |
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| White Paper: The What, How, And Where Of Deduplication |
Data deduplication is a method of reducing the amount of duplicate copies of data on your system. It
makes a whole lot of sense—instead of storing multiple copies of an item, stores the data once. The
system tracks where the data is, and when asked for it, provides it. By Spectra Logic |
08/04/2008 |
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| Webinar: Spectra nTier File Migrator |
nTier File Migrator is a high-performance, scalable hierarchical archive manager that simplifies access to large quantities of data stored on both disk and tape. |
08/04/2008 |
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| Data Sheet: Spectra T950 Enterprise Data Protection Platform |
The Spectra T950 enterprise-class library is designed and built to meet the stringent requirements of the enterprise for data integrity, data security
and high reliability. The T950 library reduces staff involvement tremendously, scales in throughput and capacity, and supports multiple generations
of current and future tape and disk options. Support options range from the expected 24x7 worldwide onsite support as well as advanced options,
such as an industry-first Assisted Self Maintenance (ASM) option and proactive reporting tools. |
07/30/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: Encryption And Encryption Key Management Becoming Mandates To Provide 'Safe Harbor' |
Making sure the data on that tape is encrypted, however, is not an automatic cure-all. After all, encryption is only as strong as your key management and, in some states, encrypting backup tapes is no longer enough to protect your company from future risks. In these circumstances, proper key management needs to become a critical part of any data protection strategy or you will still face the lawsuits and public scrutiny you sought to avoid by deciding to encrypt the data in the first place. By DCIG, LLC |
07/30/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: Implement Deduplication Without Throwing Money And Caution To The Wind |
Backup is about more than just deduplication ratios and faster backups. While these are important, companies also want assurance that the solution that they deploy in-house is continually developing, will help them manage their existing backup infrastructure and will scale as they grow. By DCIG, LLC |
07/30/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: Living The Storage Consolidation Dream, Part I |
Having once worked at a Fortune 500 company and watched it live the consolidation dream, I knew the reality was not necessarily the dreamy experience that vendors so earnestly promised. Yes, my company reduced its storage footprint, realized a return on investment (ROI), improved storage utilization and increased system availability — all critical components for it to justify a storage consolidation initiative. However my company only began to see some of the hidden intangible costs of consolidation once the process was under way. By DCIG, LLC |
07/30/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: Replication: The Other Half Of The Data Deduplication Equation |
The enterprise data center continues to evolve, driven by ever-growing amounts of data and new demands for data availability — local and remote. These demands are driving companies to identify alternatives to existing data protection methods with deduplicating disk-based storage systems, such as Quantum's DXi Series, becoming a preferred backup target. By DCIG, LLC |
07/30/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: Disk-Based Backup Brings An End To Elevator Joy Rides |
Anyone who thinks tape is still the right primary target for backup only needs to watch a video on NEC's website that includes a testimonial from Orlando, FL, based TLC Engineering. By DCIG, LLC |
07/30/2008 |
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| Contributing Editorial: How To Optimize Data Preservation |
The most basic function since computing began has been to preserve information.
That requirement will continue and will become even more complicated with business rules and compliance demands as well as the sheer increase in the amount of data that must be preserved. By ProStor Systems
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07/29/2008 |
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| White Paper: The Ins And Outs Of Archiving |
Many factors drive archiving. One of the biggest underlying
trends is that organizations continue to accumulate significant
amounts of semi-structured data, such as e-mail, and a lot of
unstructured data in terms of files. Structured data is part of
data bases and this information is accumulating. Companies
have an excessive amount of data and an excessive number
of relevant documents associated with that data – and this is
creating problems for them. |
07/29/2008 |
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| Prostor Infinivault |
For companies wanting to dramatically slash the cost of storing and backing up their data, ProStor InfiniVault™ is the leading data preservation storage system that properly retains data for as long as is required at the lowest possible power profile. |
07/29/2008 |
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| Guest Column: The Green Data Center: A Journey Of One Thousand Steps |
The right IT management tools can help a company reduce its carbon footprint – and save considerable costs in the process. That’s not a myth. The process isn’t necessarily simple and there is certainly additional work involved when we’re talking about adopting an enterprise-wide green strategy. |
07/28/2008 |
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| White Paper: Spectra® T950 — It's About Time: Part 1 Of 3 |
Extensive research on competing libraries and an examination of data published about storage shows that the T950 brings significant advantages to the IT infrastructure—in saving time, reducing cost, and limiting risk. |
07/24/2008 |
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| Are We Facing The End Of Business As Usual Or The Start Of A New Way Of Doing Business? |
Companies’ business priorities in turn map onto the IT solutions and strategies that support modern enterprises. And whether your business priority translates to improving your enterprise systems,implementing a business intelligence solution, or modernising your legacy infrastructure, platform or
application,underpinning all of this will be data. By Celona Technologies |
07/23/2008 |
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| Case Study: VAR Wins $1 Million VTL Project |
Imagine you are a VAR with four employees and $3 million in annual revenue. You
land a $1 million job, a great opportunity to grow your company, but with many
challenges to conquer. How will you face these challenges to deliver a solution that
will satisfy your customer and, in turn, create further opportunities? Used with permission from Business Solutions magazine
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07/18/2008 |
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