August 06, 2010 - (Free Research) Will you be able to achieve the huge data reduction ratios that data deduplication vendors are touting? In this FAQ guide, analyst Jerome Wendt answers the most common data deduplication questions he's hearing today.
August 18, 2010 - (Free Research) Check out this FAQ podcast featuring W. Curtis Preston to learn all about laptop and desktop backup – including how it’s just as important as enterprise data backup, best practices, products available and more.
November 17, 2009 - (Free Research) This expert podcast provides you with 10 steps for organizations that currently use Lotus Notes/Domino to determine if Google Apps is a good fit. Learn how to select a pilot project, calculate ROI and estimate training requirement to assist you in your decision making.
July 15, 2010 - (Free Research) Join Vice President of Gartner Research, Dave Russell as he discusses recent developments in disk backup in this 7 minute interview recorded for you to listen at your convenience.
August 31, 2010 - (Free Research) Join Founder and Lead Analyst of DCIG, Jerome Wendt, as he answers the most common data deduplication questions he’s hearing today – including the technology’s benefits, dedupe products to watch out for, target dedupe on a virtual tape library and more.
March 05, 2010 - (Free Research) Advanced virtualization efforts are helping companies cut costs in their disaster recovery (DR) planning. This podcast features a tutorial to help you leverage your virtualization efforts and get the most out of your DR strategy.
December 03, 2009 - (Free Research) In this podcast, learn how to implement a cost-effective, efficient disaster recovery (DR) plan with virtualization. Discover 4 different DR methods that work with virtualization to help prevent future disasters. Learn how to plan for DR by defining requirements and assigning application inventory to service levels.
February 15, 2010 - (Free Research) There is a lot of discussion these days around recovery point objective (RPO). Many users want to backup their data more than once a day. What’s stopping them from achieving that? This podcast will answer that question and many more and reveal solutions.
May 14, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this FAQ featuring W. Curtis Preston, which outlines how Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape differs from other tape media, the various generations of LTO and the pros and cons of this backup technology. Also learn about the newest model, LTO-5, being released this year.
June 09, 2010 - (Free Research) In order to fully understand present and future advancements in RAID technology, start with the basics principles of what makes RAID such an effective enterprise storage technology. This podcast discusses everything RAID including the different levels, basic principles, benefits and drawbacks of leveraging RAID, the 2010 market trends and more.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Every business wants to store more backups in a smaller footprint but today’s increased data growth has thrown a wrench into the mix, making this goal more difficult to achieve. This mediacast helps by outlining a backup solution that provides 80% - 99% less backup LAN bandwidth and accelerates backup using your existing infrastructure.
March 04, 2010 - (Free Research) SMBs using virtualization often face additional challenges in managing and protecting their data. This instructor-led mediacast addresses the importance of data protection and the best ways to integrate this type of software into your virtualization initiatives.
December 18, 2009 - (Free Research) In this podcast Q&A with expert Greg Shields here about how to take the first step with taking on a server into your infrastructure.
August 31, 2010 - (Free Research) This podcast explores the key features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Find out how this technology compares to its predecessor and gain insight into the benefits you can expect to achieve from using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows 7.
November 25, 2009 - (Free Research) Access this paper now for a detailed look at the processes that operate at the solution, file system, and system hardware levels of the Quantum’s DXi®-Series disk backup solutions.
June 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to SANs. The Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software.
May 28, 2010 - (Free Research) As the number of VMs in a virtual environment grows above 40, many organizations tend to over-allocate CPU, memory, and disk resources. Download this free trial of VKernel Optimization Pack (Virtual Appliance) to right size your virtual machines, reclaim wasted storage and server resources, and uncover abandoned snapshots, disk images, VMs.
July 12, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper provides a list of the Top 10 ways you can improve SQL Server performance with the hardware you already own.
March 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Unified storage is one of the technologies that IT managers are using to improve their storage efficiency as well as to improve business flexibility and lower the total cost of storage. Read this IDC report to learn about the features and business benefits of unified storage as well as the EMC Celerra unified storage platform.
February 04, 2010 - (Free Research) The February 2010 issue of Storage magazine online unveils the 2009 Storage Products of the Year. 3 winners are named in 5 categories – Backup and DR Hardware, Backup and DR Software and Services, Disks and Disk Subsystems, Storage Management Tools and Storage Networking Equipment.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Rather than just physically adding solid state disk to its hardware offerings, Compellent has integrated SSD into its existing block-level tiered storage management system, overcoming the major challenge of solid state adoption: ensuring easy and optimum usage of the premium IO capabilities of SSD.
June 10, 2010 - (Free Research) This podcast provides an overview of strategies for improving storage efficiency. Gain insight into how these approaches can reduce infrastructure costs while increasing resource utilization.
