June 07, 2010 - (Free Research) The June 2010 cover story of Storage magazine provided insights on where solid state makes sense in today’s storage environments. This month’s issue also reveals the winners of our latest Quality Awards survey for backup and recovery software, best practices from W. Curtis Preston for backing up Microsoft SharePoint and much more.
June 15, 2010 - (Free Research) This report documents the extent of the cost savings opportunity if DB2 9.7 is employed. The findings are based on the combined five year costs for databases, storage systems, database servers and supporting personnel, calculated for use of Oracle 10g and DB2 9.7 in large-scale SAP Business Suite 7 installations in three companies.
February 24, 2010 - (Free Research) There has been great interest in the subject of Windows 7 in recent months, perhaps most strongly from organizations that passed over Windows Vista and are looking at a migration from Windows XP.
September 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You’ll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.
June 11, 2010 - (Free Research) In many firms, multiple brands of middleware have been deployed as different teams have selected the one they felt best suited their needs. And now, many are taking on Business Transaction Management. Continue reading to learn how organizations need a unified view across all their messaging and transactional systems and how Nastel can help.
August 24, 2010 - (Free Research) There are numerous exasperating problems and issues with today’s data protection solutions. Both restore/recovery and backup have serious problems that are not getting better. The answer is in the Cloud BUR.
August 19, 2010 - (Free Research) The issue of data protection is now paramount, and awareness of the issue has moved well up the food chain to the executive ranks. However traditional back up technologies are no longer ideal to meet today’s 24/365 business requirements. Read this white paper to learn how to stop doing backup.
August 16, 2010 - (Free Research) The goal of this white paper is to provide an introduction to the key areas involved in developing an e-discovery capability and to help organizations plan to become better prepared for the rigors of the e-discovery process. Should e-discovery be a top priority for your company? What can the right e-discovery capabilities do for your company?
February 11, 2009 - (Free Research) Despite progress in Virtualization, much development still remains. With predications that virtualization will become pervasive, this research highlights forthcoming challenges and strategic issues facing IT planners.
February 25, 2010 - (Free Research) The goal of this white paper is to provide an introduction to the key areas involved in developing an e-discovery capability and to help organizations plan to become better prepared for the rigors of the e-discovery process. Should e-discovery be a top priority for your company? What can the right e-discovery capabilities do for your company?
July 21, 2009 - (Free Research) Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
June 18, 2010 - (Free Research) Nothing in virtualization is as simple as it first seems. Smaller IT organizations have neither the expertise nor bandwidth to resolve frustrating virtualization issues. This paper will briefly examine those unintended problems, current industry workarounds, as well as industry solutions.
December 03, 2009 - (Free Research) Scope creep kills innovation. Over $1 trillion is spent each year on R&D, and 60% of the projects fail due to requirements issues. By using requirements management best practices you can achieve 2x higher profits and 6x faster development cycles.
February 25, 2009 - (Free Research) IBM recognizes the need to not only consolidate data center storage, but also to reduce the amount of array capacity required to store multiple copies of business-critical information. Read this article for information on how data center storage issues can be addressed using innovations such as data deduplication.
August 16, 2010 - (Free Research) This advisory guide will discuss both strategic and tactical considerations, to assist in decision making to select and apply deduplication technologies in line with different organizational needs.
August 04, 2010 - (Free Research) Virtualization, the convergence of data and storage networks, and the evolution of how and where people work are all changing the way the data center should be designed. This e-book examines the issues and offers strategies for developing a data center network that will stand the test of time and emerging technology.
June 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Backup makes up 30% of the IT expenditure, yet it is fraught with issues. This white paper addresses the areas a CIO needs to focus on to get a better handle of his or her backup environment.
July 28, 2010 - (Free Research) The need for archiving electronic records, including electronic mail [email] continues to grow. Large volumes of electronic records, including email, increased storage limitations, government regulations and legal implications have made the need to archive information a critical business issue. Is there a preferred storage format?
May 05, 2010 - (Free Research) RAID has been a mainstay of data protection for decades, but now its days may soon be numbered. In the May 2010 cover story of Storage magazine, Marc Staimer details the various issues of traditional RAID today and highlights how alternative technologies aim to address these problems. More...
