Contingency Planning White Papers

WHITE PAPER: When the economy is moving forward, most executives focus on growing sales. But when the economy slows down, that focus shifts. This timely white paper explains 10 Secret Strategies to Recession-Proof Your Business.

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper takes a look at the different components of an effective security plan, and provides a perspective on how enterprises that are serious about their information security budgets should rethink their security plan.

Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 02 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the impacts of a disaster can result in loss of or lack of access to data, applications, and work facilities. This paper explains five key steps to consider when implementing a program for your company.

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 25 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Find out how renting pre-owned IT equipment can help your business succeed in completing projects.

Posted: 14 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: Learn about the seven types of hard questions you are likely to see on the CISSP examination and the best approaches for solving them.

Posted: 03 Apr 2006 | Published: 01 Mar 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a comprehensive, best-practices approach to business resilience and risk mitigation. Common types of risk and the steps organizations must take to develop an effective risk mitigation strategy are discussed.

Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: When most IT Pros and CIOs think virtualization, the first thing that comes to mind is server consolidation using server virtualization. However, there is a lot more to virtualization than just "consolidating your servers with VMware." In this analysis, we'll help you to understand the different types of virtualization and which works best for you.

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise records management (ERM) is an important initiative for many organizations today. Learn about the diversity of records management requirements at the enterprise level and why other solutions fail to meet these requirements.

Posted: 01 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2006

WHITE PAPER: Business continuity is a big issue for IT managers. Overland Storage provides the tools and solutions for Server Message Block (SMB) IT managers to implement a complete and cost effective Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program.

Posted: 16 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: Before deploying any of the new Microsoft 2007 products, learn how EMC solutions dramatically reduce customer costs, support enterprise-level availability, and enhance the security and management of messaging systems.

Posted: 30 May 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2006

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses that dollars and time currently consumed by existing tape libraries can be far better utilized by moving to disk back-up with deduplication.

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document introduces the many security measures currently in place within the Iron Mountain data protection architecture to prevent unauthorized access or damage to customer data.

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 | Published: 23 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper will introduce the concept of Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) that makes it possible to easily adapt a system backup to fit new hardware by enabling a means for reconfiguring drivers.

Posted: 25 Feb 2008 | Published: 25 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how Amanda compares to other backup products. It will help you understand some key Amanda differences and how to evaluate and transition to Amanda.

Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 08 Jul 2008

WHITE PAPER: Find out how to identify potential security risks and review various storage technologies and business operations that balance the security requirements of long term archiving with overall cost and operation of the archive.

Posted: 06 Sep 2006 | Published: 24 Aug 2006

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this business continuity survey was to learn what these executives were doing about business continuity, and how it figured in their overall IT strategy.

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 04 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Having a business continuity plan in place is crucial to surviving an unforeseen catastrophic event. This white paper details some important concerns and suggestions for making sure your enterprise's critical operations can withstand a crisis.

Posted: 05 Apr 2007 | Published: 07 Feb 2007

WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) software provide integrated, cost-effective, automated site recovery and testing for enterprise data centers.

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: The call to protect corporate data in less time and for less money has inspired a whole new way of thinking about backup - a complete backup redesign. This paper explores a better way to backup and protect data and applications - disk-based application.

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Timmons Group is a leader in the civil engineering industry; however, their storage requirements were growing at an unprecedented pace. Read this case study to learn how this company was able to overcome their challenges with innovative SAN solutions.

Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 02 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: Customers are confronting the confusing number of options and configurations when it comes to backing up and restoring their network attached storage servers. This paper addresses this by describing the best practices for protecting and recovering NAS devices utilizing the Network Data Management Protocol.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Employing home agents allows you to expand and improve your call center team. And they can be a form of insurance to keep your business running if disaster strikes. This white paper contains best practices for developing a Home Agents program.

Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups.

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 | Published: 30 Jan 2009