Data Management Reports

CASE STUDY: When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga., bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money behind an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. This white paper gives the details.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2005

WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

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

ANALYST BRIEF: Storage consolidation brings many applications together to a single storage pool. It improves storage utilization, simplifies management, and increases reliability in well implemented SANs. While consolidation makes it easier to manage, provision, and backup your data, how do you manage different application service level requirements?

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Storage consolidation enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. But how does an organization ensure that consolidation does not cause performance issues? To avoid performance utilization problems administrators should provision storage so that loads are balanced across resources evenly.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is as an introduction to data deduplication, answering the what, how, and where of this storage technique. Data deduplication is a method of reducing the amount of duplicate copies of data on your system. It makes a whole lot of sense - instead of storing multiple copies of an item, stores the data once.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: Is deduplication right for you? With all the industry excitement about data deduplication, this is a question you need to ask. This paper reviews the specific benefits of deduplication and how you can evaluate your organization's data in terms of deduplication's potential advantages.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper describes the best practices for managing tape media throughout its lifecycle to minimize data loss. Best practices include the implementation of proper processes, user training and tape handling.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: This report provides a clear understanding of the capabilities a successful data loss prevention solution must deliver. It also incorporates insight into the capabilities that companies require from their solution.

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 | Published: 10 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many organizations that rely on desktop solutions to house data are frustrated with their lack of flexibility and scalability. This paper shows how online databases are an alternative to desktop products, combining speed and ease of use with the collaborative functions required to power organizations' unique business processes and performance.

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 | Published: 24 Feb 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript shares with you some of the best ways you can deal with the security challenges associated with your mobile workforce - including data loss and system unavailability.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In today's economic environment, it is imperative that companies begin addressing ways to manage all information assets in an integrated, holistic way. Philip Howard, Research Director for Bloor Research, and Chris Baker, Senior Vice President at Oracle, discuss best practices for obtaining a fully integrated Enterprise Data Management platform.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: In a relatively short span of time, Network Attached Storage [NAS] has become a popular, widely implemented technology given its many attractive features and benefits. This whitepaper details four techniques for managing network attached storage, including file management simplification and data access without server intervention.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this paper Sandeep S. Desai and Cynthia Babb explain about the IBM and Enterprise data management, how to protect privacy, what's at stake and data privacy in a sap environment.

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 | Published: 11 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how the costs associated with recovering email messages from Microsoft® Exchange Server backups can be significant and also provides us with the practical information on how to minimize those costs.

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many businesses use the Exchange email server because of its full feature set and integration with Microsoft Office via the Outlook email client. But Exchange has one glaring drawback - it is very difficult to restore messages, mailboxes, and other data. Ontrack® PowerControls™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server solves the problem..

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this document George Crump explains key components in leveraging virtualization at DR site, some of the do's and don'ts, and how to get the most out of that investment.

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 | Published: 30 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper proposes a 5-step approach to automate an accounts payable operation, describing the typical costs of processing invoices manually and the saving that can be achieved with each of the incremental steps.

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 | Published: 03 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn how employees and partners are engaging with IT assets and intellectual property.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

BROCHURE: This webcast discusses how IBM Maximo will expand its role in the implementation of IBM E2E IT Data Center and Facilities Management.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 30 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Small business networking begins with a secure, reliable, fast data network foundation. This paper fleshes out 7 ways small business networking can transform your company.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

DATA SHEET: The PowerVault DL2000 is the first of Dell's TierDisk family of products, designed to provide cost-optimized solutions for secondary storage environments for data protection and data management.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009

DATA SHEET: The Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2000 family helps reduce the cost and complexity of backups and restores, freeing up valuable resources that you can apply to make innovation a daily business practice.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: The Intelligent Data Management (IDM) approach is used to simplify IT with products, services, and partnerships that make it easy and affordable for SMBs to manage and leverage their information from creation to end of life.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009