Contributed Editorial

  1. Guest Column: New NEO Tape Libraries Satisfy Continued SME Cravings For Cost-Effective Backup And Archive 11/12/2009
    Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) face some tough choices right now. Disk-based backup is definitely on the rise and has many appealing features, but it can come with a price tag that these organizations simply cannot afford and may not meet all levels of data protection needs. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  2. Guest Column: Next Generation Deduplication Platform Delivers On Promise Of Green IT With Operational Savings 11/12/2009
    September and October are the traditional months that many midsize businesses start to forecast what projects they hope to accomplish in the upcoming year and then put together budgets in support of those plans. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  3. Next Generation Deduplication Platform Delivers On Promise Of Green IT With Operational Savings 11/12/2009
    September and October are the traditional months that many midsize businesses start to forecast what projects they hope to accomplish in the upcoming year and then put together budgets in support of those plans. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  4. Guest Column: Storage Virtualization Takes Steps Toward Removing Barriers To Broader 11/12/2009
    Anyone wonder why storage virtualization is still growing relatively slowly while server virtualization platforms like VMware have gone on a tear? If so, a look at the licensing strategies that these two respective virtualization technologies have adopted provides some insight into why. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  5. Storage Virtualization Takes Steps Toward Removing Barriers To Broader Adoption 11/12/2009
    Anyone wonder why storage virtualization is still growing relatively slowly while server virtualization platforms like VMware have gone on a tear? If so, a look at the licensing strategies that these two respective virtualization technologies have adopted provides some insight into why. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  6. Guest Column: Delivering On The Corporate Ideal Of Integrated Application And Database Protection 11/1/2009
    The role of backup and recovery for corporate databases is evolving. Backup and recovery windows for databases are shrinking, or gone, while corporate expectations for database availability and recovery continue to rise. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  7. Don't Get Caught In The Data Rip Tide When Litigation Comes 10/28/2009
    Well, it is great to join my colleagues David West and Dipesh Patel in the ranks of CommVault bloggers. I've been ruminating over this inaugural post for the past two months while I've been presenting at our nationwide Innovate8 information and data management road show.
  8. Granular Recovery For The Enterprise MS Exchange Environment 10/22/2009
    Microsoft Exchange email and backup administrators are continually faced with the problem of trying to backup and recover Exchange data in a reasonable amount of time, whether that is to meet a shortening backup window or satisfy new recovery time objectives that call for faster disaster recovery and business continuity. By Tim Anderson, DCIG LLC
  9. Guest Column: Granular Recovery For The Enterprise MS Exchange Environment 10/22/2009
    Microsoft Exchange email and backup administrators are continually faced with the problem of trying to backup and recover Exchange data in a reasonable amount of time, whether that is to meet a shortening backup window or satisfy new recovery time objectives that call for faster disaster recovery and business continuity. By Tim Anderson, DCIG LLC
  10. Guest Column: Disk-Based Backup Does Not Magically Break The Corporate LAN Bottleneck 10/22/2009
    It's easy for organizations to believe that disk will solve their backup problems. But some organizations are starting to discover that while disk solved some of their backup problems, they are still not realizing the full reductions in backup times and improved performance rates on their application servers that they may have initially expected. If an organization finds itself in this predicament, then it probably behooves them to take a closer look at their backup architecture and determine exactly how much backup traffic is going across their corporate LAN. By Jerome M Wendt, DCIG LLC