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Symantec Report Takes Aim At Persistent Myths About IT Risk
4/1/2008
IT Risk—encompassing security, availability, performance, and compliance elements—has become a critical issue for executives and boards of directors. Yet some common myths about IT risk persist, and they need to be dispelled if IT risk is to be managed effectively. Submitted by Symantec Corporation
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A New Way To Store And Recover Government Data
4/1/2008
Information is the lifeblood of government. It is no surprise, then, that improving data availability, recovery, and storage utilization are among the top concerns of organizations in the public sector. For government agencies, SaaS can dramatically reduce costs by eliminating licensing fees, maintenance costs and troubleshooting expenses while reducing the amount of labor needed to install, update and repair software housed on agency computers.
Submitted by Symantec Corporation
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Protection For Every Endpoint
3/31/2008
Symantec Endpoint Security solutions protect an organization from known and unknown threats and enforce security policies on laptops, desktops, servers, and mobile devices. For systems and networks, a combination of antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, intrusion prevention, device control, and networkindependent
access control provide comprehensive security. Submitted by Symantec Corporation
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Preventing Data Loss: Ten Imperatives
3/31/2008
When considering which technology to implement to realize your data governance objectives, it is important to gauge the effectiveness of the solution against the ten imperatives of data protection. These imperatives are: visibility, control, auditing, security, performance, scalability, ease of installation, ease of use, ease of integration and low total cost of ownership. Additionally, any system for controlling access to unstructured data has to provide sufficient automation to make the process continuous and accurate. Submitted by Varonis
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Understanding Advanced Backup Reporting
3/31/2008
This article looks at how backup reporting solutions, far from being “just another tool to manage,” can resolve a fundamental problem caused by complexity and high data volume and demand at large data centers. Submitted by Symantec Corporation
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Four Golden Rules Of Successful Data Migration By Celona’s Tony Sceales And Data Migration Expert John Morris
3/31/2008
Your company is implementing a new set of applications that better meet your changing business requirements. Or else you have been instructed to remove duplication and inefficiency in your IT infrastructure. Not all migrations are equal. Many migrations are fairly straightforward and motivated purely by
technical or IT drivers. For example, at the storage level companies might need to migrate their data to cheaper forms of storage, and at the database level they might need to mirror data to another disk. At the application level, however, data migration can be very complex in large enterprises because it needs to span both technical and business issues.
Submitted by Celona Technologies
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Using Software To Reduce Hardware Requirements By Bruce Naegel, Symantec Corporation
3/31/2008
Today’s IT organizations are up against a wall. It’s not just that data centers are running out of space. Or that power and energy costs are escalating. Or that corporate social responsibility initiatives demand greater efficiencies throughout IT. It’s also that few IT organizations can afford to simply rip and replace their data center infrastructures to address space, environmental, corporate responsibility, or any other issue. After all, if the capital costs of doing so were not enough to prohibit such dramatic action, then the potential risk to business continuity likely would be.
Submitted by Symantec
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Four Steps To Improving Storage Utilization By Sean Derrington, Symantec
3/31/2008
Managing storage resources has never been more challenging or critical. After all, according to many analysts, storage is growing at an estimated 50-60 percent, or more, annually for the average company, even as storage utilization rates remain at an alarmingly low 30 to 40 percent. At the same time, storage resources are often spread across multiple geographic sites as well as virtual environments, making end-to-end visibility difficult.
Submitted by Symantec
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iSCSI: The Low-Risk Path To SAN Storage By Paul Massiglia, agami Systems, Inc.
3/28/2008
As small businesses grow, their information technology needs inevitably grow, as does their dependence on IT. IP-based SANs (IP-SANs for short) eliminate the cost and complexity barriers to SAN adoption by SMBs, but using them effectively requires the right type of storage system.
Submitted by agami Systems, Inc.
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Optimizing Your Approach To Wide-Area File Access By John G. Kelly, GlobalSCAPE
3/27/2008
Today’s business climate requires that IT management to find the most efficient and cost-effective means to provide instant, concurrent access to even the largest files over WANs while at the same time optimizing their networks. This article will explore what is needed and what factors are creating this shortfall.
Submitted by GlobalSCAPE
