Disaster Recovery Reports

EZINE: The March 2009 issue of Storage Magazine includes a cover story announcing the winners of the Midrange Arrays Quality Awards. Also in this issue, get information about remote office backups, disaster recovery plan testing, deduplication, and an eye-opening editorial on crucial data that often isn't being backed up properly.

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Knowledge of data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated. This presentation transcript details re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; Additionally, it highlights a solution that provides superior protection and substantial paybacks.

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 20 Mar 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Knowledge of data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated. This presentation transcript details re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; Additionally, it highlights a solution that provides superior protection and substantial paybacks.

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 20 Mar 2009

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: As there are many ways of using VMware technology, there are just as many methods available for protecting this innovative technology. System administrators and IT technologists can use this paper to determine one of three recommended solutions for protecting VMs. Each of these technologies has relative advantages and disadvantages.

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

WEBCAST: In their second comparative challenge, The HP StorageWorks EVA asked three teams of high school students who had never configured a storage array to run timed tests on EVA, NetApp and EMC to see which one is easiest to use. EVA was the clear winner

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 16, 2009

WHITE PAPER: HP protects the integrity of your data and helps you regain access to it. We have a range of change-ready, cost-effective, and trusted solutions that provide the appropriate level of protection based on your specific business requirements.

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2008

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: As a result of its relationship with Symantec, Citizens is achieving substantial business value. The Alchemy Solutions Group conducted a Total Operational and Economic Impact (TOEI) analysis of the different solutions deployed and quantified business value. Read this paper to see what they found.

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009

WEBCAST: It is critical to choose the right data protection solution, one that is complete, one that not only protects the physical world, but is also finely tuned for the virtual world. The current release of NetBackup delivers award winning solutions for VMware.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 6, 2009

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

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: In this technical brief, IDC examines HP Thermal Logic, a holistic approach to improving power and cooling efficiency in the IT infrastructure, designed to help companies reduce energy consumption, reclaim unused datacenter capacity, and extend the life of their datacenter.

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: One approach being used to reduce complexity and TCO in the data center is the implementation of new management software for blade servers, increasing business value and trimming expenses that vex IT budgets and divert important resources for transformational projects.

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This report compares the performance of HP's 8Gb FC solution alone versus it's performance in conjunction with the Simple SAN Connection Manager. The results are remarkable! The Simple SAN Connection Manager took half the time to configure and 2/3rd fewer configuration step to deploy a FC SAN compared with configuring each component separately.

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

EZINE: The January 2009 issue of Storage magazine is highlighted with a cover story on how best to select a disaster recovery planning site. This issue also includes features and columns on solid state disk, killing infectious data, consolidated archiving, fast disk drive rebuilds and green storage.

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 | Published: 26 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining only current active data in production environments improves service levels, increases availability and improves disaster recovery initiatives. Read this paper to learn how archiving allows organizations to reclaim valuable capacity, reduce risk and lower costs.

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 | Published: 24 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations worldwide are leveraging the benefits of virtualization to create flexible IT environments that reduce costs and improve business agility. These are among the many benefits of shifting to solutions from HP, Intel and VMware. Learn how your organization can benefit from complete virtualization solutions from HP, Intel and VMware.

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2008

DATA SHEET: Designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, the ioDrive is the world's most advanced NAND clustering technology with performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today's hard disks, giving you the power to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by up to one thousand times.

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

EZINE: Innovation was the byword for storage vendors in 2008. See which products came out on top in this issue of Storage. Other topics covered include deduplication, multitiered disaster recovery, and storage in a down economy.

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 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

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