February 2010 - (Free Research) Simpana® from CommVault® enables IT to leverage a single solution that integrates backup, archive, replication and storage resource management across physical and virtual servers. Simpana helps IT deal with the challenges associated with critical backup recovery issues within a virtual infrastructure.
July 2009 - (Free Research) James Brissenden, Sr. Strategy Consultant at GlassHouse Technologies, discusses the issues surrounding restoring deduplicated data in this podcast.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Several issues intersect in a broad set of choices and outcomes involving an IT organization's storage requirements. This research highlights some of the most important questions driving Gartner's 2009 research agenda in the storage space.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Twenty years old, RAID has become a standard and transparent feature. What is RAID, and how does this technology fit into the storage landscape? This expert FAQ podcast answers common questions about RAID, explores the different levels of this technology, and overviews the implementation stages and obstacles.
February 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?
January 2010 - (Free Research) Maintaining some form of business continuity plan is imperative for your business. Designed to provide a way for an enterprise to continue business operations in the event of a business interrupting catastrophic disaster, business continuity plans can protect your data and business operations if the unthinkable happens.
February 2010 - (Free Research) As cloud technology takes shape it can be difficult to define the capabilities and benefits of this technology, however, there are two areas of cloud computing that have some very persuasive benefits: cloud storage and cloud backup/recovery.
November 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper will discuss how the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud"- along with a consolidated view that manages the infrastructure - is quickly becoming a reality due to market and end-user demand. You'll also learn what questions to ask yourself to assist in creating an organizational strategy for the best management approach.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Slow application response times and other accessibility issues negatively impact overall productivity and delay business processes. Read this paper to learn how Precise can help solve this problem and in doing so, cut operating expenses by resolving application performance problems more quickly, reducing the impact to the critical business process.
July 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.
February 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.
February 2010 - (Free Research) With the introduction of basic email retention and discovery features in Exchange 2010, some organizations are delaying or canceling the deployment of third-party email archiving solutions. But can Exchange adequately address these three critical business issues? And what about organizations that aren't planning to upgrade anytime soon?
January 2010 - (Free Research) Following are the Top Five Business Reasons organizations tell us they are deploying the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family in their virtualized environments.
December 2009 - (Free Research) Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) should be major components of any risk-management strategy. After all, no business wants to be caught unprepared for unforeseen events such as floods, fires, terrorist attacks, power outages or other disturbances. That's why planning and regularly testing BC and DR programs is essential.
December 2009 - (Free Research) Critical to any successful implementation of desktop virtualization is to understand how desktop virtualization can help and which implementations will be most successful. Read this transcript for an overview of desktop virtualization, several virtual desktop solutions, and the operational efficiency gains possible with desktop virtualization.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper for a discussion of how CA Storage Management Solutions for z/OS Mainframes manage data, information and its supporting infrastructure simply and efficiently, enabling companies to align information to ever-changing business needs.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Blue Hill Data Services faced an enviable challenge: constant growth and expansion. Chief among the company's many growth issues was finding more cost-effective and efficient ways of accommodating and managing the 100,000 data tapes it handled. Read this brief paper to learn how CA solutions provided the answer.
February 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.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Learn why you can’t afford to wait on storage virtualization and get some great storage virtualization implementation tips in this podcast.