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Datasheet: TurboNAS Business Series

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:21:00 GMT

Modern businesses face the challenges of dramatic growth of digital data as well as raising productivity and efficiency. To well deploy the business IT environment with a reliable, affordable, scalable, and easy-to-maintain storage center to securely store, share and back up the digital assets has become the top task for the server managers nowadays in small and mid-sized companies.

White Paper: The 5 Critical Steps For An Effective Disaster Recovery Plan

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:34:00 GMT

In today's climate, most enterprises maintain some form of business continuity plan. Business continuity plans are designed to provide a way for an enterprise to continue business operations in the event of a catastrophic disaster, such as a flood, an earthquake, or a widespread power outage, that shuts down business operations at one or more primary locations. By InMage

White Paper: A Cost-Effective Integrated Solution For Backup And Disaster Recovery

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:09:00 GMT

Recovery is something for which all businesses must prepare. Most acknowledge the need for comprehensive business continuity plans, but the expense and complexity of fully implementing these plans leads many enterprises to only partially implement them. Business continuity plans generally cover information technology (IT) infrastructure (applications and data), communications, people, and process recovery. By InMage

Guest Column: How SSDs Can Be Leveraged To Deliver Inline Deduplication For Primary Storage

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:33:00 GMT

In late January 2010 someone posted a comment in response to a blog that I wrote in the October 2009 time frame. This individual was questioning the value that an inline deduplication solution like the Exar Hifn BitWackr DR1605 provides since most of the performance bottleneck associated with deduplication is primarily in the disk I/O.

Case Study: Addison Lee Improves Service Levels With Mimosa NearPoint

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:14:00 GMT

Addison Lee is London's leading minicab company operating around the clock, 365 days a year. Founded in 1975, the company has revolutionised the private hire industry and today enjoys an unrivalled reputation for moving people and parcels in London. By Mimosa Systems

White Paper: Virtualization Support: Real Backups Of Virtual Environments

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:02:00 GMT

Asigra enables enterprises to bridge the physical and virtual worlds, without having to pick pointsolutions for each. As the virtual server market matures and becomes part of the 'new world order' of cloud computing, companies that choose to select multiple virtual server platforms inside their clouds can leverage Asigra to protect leading virtualization platforms such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Parallels, and Virtual Iron. By Asigra

Case Study: The Case For Managed Backup Services

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:38:00 GMT

Recurring revenue, attractive profit margins, customer retention, and new business opportunities-sizzling benefits that should heat up even the most tepid investor. By all accounts, the managed backup services business is getting hotter by the terabyte. By Asigra

Case Study: Synovis Life Technologies Eliminates Spam With Barracuda Networks

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:05:00 GMT

Synovis Life Technologies, Inc., is a diversifi ed medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets specialty medical products for use in thoracic, cardiac, neuro, vascular and ophthalmolic surgery. Consisting of three companies and with four offi ces throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, the company has seen signifi cant growth in the past few years. Along with this growth came a few growing pains in the technical services department, the largest of which was caused by an outside source attacking the company-spam. By Barracuda Networks

White Paper: Hardware RAID Vs. Software RAID: Which Implementation Is Best For my Application?

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:39:00 GMT

In the last couple of years, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology has grown from a server option to a data protection requirement. The first implementations of RAID in 1990 were very expensive controller boards with highperformance I/O processors that were as powerful as the host CPU.At that time, when hardware-based RAID solutions were the only option, the cost of a RAID controller limited the usage to high-priced servers. By Adaptec, Inc.

Guest Column: Email--Not Just Communication But A Legal Document Of Record

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:05:00 GMT

The Internet has become so ingrained in everyday business that I'd venture to say not many of us even think about communicating or conducting everyday business with hardcopy anymore. Tracking documents through the standard U.S. postal service mailing options (registered or return receipt) has given way to a variety of sending and receiving options for email. By James Koopmann, DCIG Inc.

Guest Column: HDS Takes The 'White Gloves' Off As It Launches New Strategy To Expedite And Simplify Data Migrations

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:51:00 GMT

The new relationship that Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) struck with InMage Systems to use InMage about three months ago had a number of immediate ramifications. It provided HDS with a new heterogeneous replication option that it could use across its own storage systems; it made HDS more competitive in customer accounts where it did not traditionally have a foothold and it provided an entr�e for HDS into next generation data protection technologies for disaster recovery. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.

Installation Review: How Scalable Is Your Managed Backup Solution?

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:03:00 GMT

If you're like most VARs and MSPs, you've got customers of all sizes, with budgets and projects of all sizes. Oftentimes, your success hinges on your ability to scale your solutions to fit your customer's requirements. By Mike Monocello, Business Solutions magazine.

White Paper: Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:02:00 GMT

This paper focuses on virtualization as it pertains to the data center; but before considering any type of data center virtualization, it's important to define what technology or category of service you're trying to virtualize. By Alan Murphy, F5 Technical Marketing Manager, Security

Case Study: Kronos Consolidates Backup Efforts Using Tightly Integrated EMC Solutions

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:17:00 GMT

Kronos Incorporated helps organizations effectively manage their workforce. The company delivers integrated software and services that enable organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and enhance the level of service they provide. By EMC

Case Study: Cornerstone Group Sees Six-Fold Reduction In Backup Time And Administration

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:09:00 GMT

The Cornerstone Group of Companies provides prospecting, database management and data integration solutions. Its clients include large and respected marketers in the not-for-profit, consumer and business-to-business sectors and helps them find the best prospects available, as well as manage and enhance their databases. By Quantum Corporation

Case Study: Interbank FX Ensures Disaster Recovery And Uninterrupted Operations For Its Online Trading Business

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 GMT

Interbank FX, LLC (IBFX) is a leading provider of online off-exchange retail foreign currency (Forex/FX) trading services, offering individual traders, fund managers and institutional customers proprietary technology and tools to trade off-exchange retail foreign currency online. By InMage

Case Study: Los Angeles Federal Credit Union Improves Recovery Performance And Protects Rapidly Growing Data Sets

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:58:00 GMT

Los Angeles Federal Credit Union (LAFCU) was founded in 1936 by Los Angeles City employees to provide a source for affordable fi nancial services to their fellow workers. Today, LAFCU is a full-service fi nancial institution with over 48,000 members, offering such products as checking, savings and investment accounts, loans and insurance services. By InMage

Case Study: Florida Department Of Education Builds Technology Infrastructure For Disaster And Day-To-Day Operational Recovery

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:40:00 GMT

The Florida Department of Education (DOE) serves as the single repository of education data from school districts, community colleges, universities and independent post-secondary institutions throughout the state. In addition to tracking student performance across varying education sectors, the DOE supplies more than 2.6 million students, 3,800 public schools, and 318,000 full-time staff with the necessary support and services, and serves more than 180,000 teachers in the state. By InMage

White Paper: Optimizing Performance And Maximizing Investment In Tape Storage Systems

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:17:00 GMT

Fujifilm Data Center Services is the first vendor-agnostic, platform-neutral, comprehensive assessment for tape storage systems. Collectively, the services provide a detailed assessment of the current backup environment culminating in a comprehensive report that includes recommendations to maximize existing resources, avoid unnecessary expenditures and ensure compliance requirements are met. By Fujifilm Computer Products Division

Guest Column: 2009 Brings SSDs To The Cusp Of Being The Next Big Storage Trend

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:16:00 GMT

I am doing my weekly recap blog on what I considered the last of the three major storage trends of 2009. Over the last month I have posted a couple of blogs discussing what I considered the top two storage trends of 2009 and this week I wanted to turn my attention to what I consider third major storage trend of 2009: solid state drives (SSDs). By Jerome M. Wendt DCIG, LLC