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Data Storage

Deduplication Technologies and Strategies to Obtain Significant Storage Savings


Sponsored by Symantec Corporation


Deduplication technologies and strategies can produce storage savings for your organization. Listen to this podcast for expert advice on how you can employ these strategies and begin saving today.

Dell NX4 Improving Storage Efficiency with File-Level Deduplication & Compression

Sponsored by Dell | EMC


Join this webcast to learn more about the benefits of deduplication and compression that are built-in to the Dell NX4 storage array that supports NAS, FC, iSCSI, and how it can help you tackle these challenges and maximize your storage efficiency.


Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage

Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.


NAS


IDC White Paper – Online PC Backup: Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Solution


Sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital


This paper looks at the need for laptop and desktop data protection and, based upon recent IDC research, the key requirements firms should consider in evaluating enterprise-level online PC backup solutions.


ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers’ information retention strategies.

Storage Architectures

Create a Smarter Storage Strategy
Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.


This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.


Backups

Understanding the HP Data Deduplication Strategy: Why one size doesn’t fit everyone


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.

Email Archiving: Planning, Policies and Product Selection – Chapter 3


Sponsored by SearchExchange


It’s critical to identify the key features when selecting an email-archiving system for risk reduction. The most important part of the process is defining the company’s email-retention goals and policies. This chapter will discuss several tips for choosing the proper email-archiving product features for your organization.

Deduplication Technologies and Strategies to Obtain Significant Storage Savings


Sponsored by Symantec Corporation

Deduplication technologies and strategies can produce storage savings for your organization. Listen to this podcast for expert advice on how you can employ these strategies and begin saving today.

Dell NX4 Improving Storage Efficiency with File-Level Deduplication & Compression


Sponsored by Dell | EMC

Join this webcast to learn more about the benefits of deduplication and compression that are built-in to the Dell NX4 storage array that supports NAS, FC, iSCSI, and how it can help you tackle these challenges and maximize your storage efficiency.

File System Inventory Summary Report: File Storage Usage for a Mid-sized Technology Company


Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory — and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management

Smart Move: Spend Less While Improving Data Protection


Sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company

The data protection market has evolved with a number of alternatives that can save costs. One type of solution is a disk-based backup solution. Implementing a disk-based backup solution can save up to 40% when compared to traditional tape backups.

Centralized Data Backup: Proven Strategy for WAN based backup


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.

With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.

Riverbed Steelhead Product Family

Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.


What’s the Riverbed difference? Speed. Scalability. And simplicity. Discover it for yourself and get the facts about the entire family of Steelhead solutions from Riverbed. Companies of all sizes depend on the Riverbed Steelhead product family to accelerate the performance of applications over the WAN.

RAID

IDC White Paper – Online PC Backup: Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Solution

Sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital

This paper looks at the need for laptop and desktop data protection and, based upon recent IDC research, the key requirements firms should consider in evaluating enterprise-level online PC backup solutions.

ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers’ information retention strategies.

Disk Backups

Disk and Tape Square Off Again – Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison – using a backup/recovery and archive scenario – between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.

ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP

Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers’ information retention strategies.

Smart Move: Spend Less While Improving Data Protection


Sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company


The data protection market has evolved with a number of alternatives that can save costs. One type of solution is a disk-based backup solution. Implementing a disk-based backup solution can save up to 40% when compared to traditional tape backups.

Continuous Data Protection

Dell NX4 Improving Storage Efficiency with File-Level Deduplication & Compression

Sponsored by Dell | EMC


Join this webcast to learn more about the benefits of deduplication and compression that are built-in to the Dell NX4 storage array that supports NAS, FC, iSCSI, and how it can help you tackle these challenges and maximize your storage efficiency.

Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.

Centralized Data Backup: Proven Strategy for WAN based backup


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.


With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.

Re-architecting Disaster Recovery Solutions Leveraging WAN Optimization Technology


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical component of IT and risk mitigation strategies, and compounded in difficulty by ever growing data volumes, distributed computing, and new technologies.

Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.


Did you know it’s possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this whitepaper from Riverbed on cost-savings through WAN optimization, you’ll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months.

Storage Consolidation

Data Center Virtualization and Efficiency: Server, Network and Storage Perspective

Sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.


Watch this webcast to gain insight into how data center virtualization technologies are contributing to dramatic increases in efficiency and reduced capital and operational expenses. Discover current trends driving the virtualized data center.

Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape

Disk and Tape Square Off Again – Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison – using a backup/recovery and archive scenario – between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.

Smart Move: Spend Less While Improving Data Protection


Sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company


The data protection market has evolved with a number of alternatives that can save costs. One type of solution is a disk-based backup solution. Implementing a disk-based backup solution can save up to 40% when compared to traditional tape backups.

Capacity Planning

Dell NX4 Improving Storage Efficiency with File-Level Deduplication & Compression


Sponsored by Dell | EMC

Join this webcast to learn more about the benefits of deduplication and compression that are built-in to the Dell NX4 storage array that supports NAS, FC, iSCSI, and how it can help you tackle these challenges and maximize your storage efficiency.


Storage Virtualization Software

Making the Case for SAP Virtualization


Sponsored by Arrow ECS HP Group and Intel


In this videocast, learn how SAP customers are getting started with virtualization technology, and find out why some companies are virtualizing mission-critical SAP applications.

SAN

IDC White Paper – Online PC Backup: Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Solution


Sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital


This paper looks at the need for laptop and desktop data protection and, based upon recent IDC research, the key requirements firms should consider in evaluating enterprise-level online PC backup solutions.

ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers’ information retention strategies.


Storage Best Practices

Dell NX4 Improving Storage Efficiency with File-Level Deduplication & Compression


Sponsored by Dell | EMC


Join this webcast to learn more about the benefits of deduplication and compression that are built-in to the Dell NX4 storage array that supports NAS, FC, iSCSI, and how it can help you tackle these challenges and maximize your storage efficiency.

Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.

Create a Smarter Storage Strategy


Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Disk Storage Systems

Disk and Tape Square Off Again – Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison – using a backup/recovery and archive scenario – between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.

Smart Move: Spend Less While Improving Data Protection


Sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company


The data protection market has evolved with a number of alternatives that can save costs. One type of solution is a disk-based backup solution. Implementing a disk-based backup solution can save up to 40% when compared to traditional tape backups.

Storage Virtualization

Securing Sensitive Information: An Examination of Information Security Issues, Methods and Securing Data With LTO-4 Tape Drive Encryption

Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

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.

Understanding the HP Data Deduplication Strategy: Why one size doesn’t fit everyone

Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.

Disk and Tape Square Off Again – Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison – using a backup/recovery and archive scenario – between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.

Data Center Virtualization and Efficiency: Server, Network and Storage Perspective


Sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.


Watch this webcast to gain insight into how data center virtualization technologies are contributing to dramatic increases in efficiency and reduced capital and operational expenses. Discover current trends driving the virtualized data center.

Create a Smarter Storage Strategy


Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

File System Inventory Summary Report: File Storage Usage for a Mid-sized Technology Company


Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory — and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management

Tape Backups

Securing Sensitive Information: An Examination of Information Security Issues, Methods and Securing Data With LTO-4 Tape Drive Encryption


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

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.

Disk and Tape Square Off Again – Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison – using a backup/recovery and archive scenario – between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.

Storage Spending

Create a Smarter Storage Strategy

Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

File System Inventory Summary Report: File Storage Usage for a Mid-sized Technology Company


Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory — and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management


Storage Management

Securing Sensitive Information: An Examination of Information Security Issues, Methods and Securing Data With LTO-4 Tape Drive Encryption


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


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.

Understanding the HP Data Deduplication Strategy: Why one size doesn’t fit everyone


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.

Disk and Tape Square Off Again – Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison – using a backup/recovery and archive scenario – between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.

Best Practices for Deploying an SAP Landscape Using the c3000 Blade Enclosure and the EVA4400


Sponsored by Avnet, HP and Partners

Discover best practices for deploying a 250-user/250-GB three-tiered SAP ERP landscape in an HP BladeSystem c3000 blade enclosure with HP ProLiant BL460c blade servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 4400 disk array, and an Ultrium 448c tape blade with HP Data Protector software.

Create a Smarter Storage Strategy


Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

File System Inventory Summary Report: File Storage Usage for a Mid-sized Technology Company


Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory — and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management

Centralized Data Backup: Proven Strategy for WAN based backup


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.

With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.


Email Archiving Software

Email Archiving: Planning, Policies and Product Selection – Chapter 3


Sponsored by SearchExchange

It’s critical to identify the key features when selecting an email-archiving system for risk reduction. The most important part of the process is defining the company’s email-retention goals and policies. This chapter will discuss several tips for choosing the proper email-archiving product features for your organization.


Email Archiving

Email Archiving: Planning, Policies and Product Selection – Chapter 3


Sponsored by SearchExchange

It’s critical to identify the key features when selecting an email-archiving system for risk reduction. The most important part of the process is defining the company’s email-retention goals and policies. This chapter will discuss several tips for choosing the proper email-archiving product features for your organization.


Backup Software

ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers’ information retention strategies.

Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.


Remote Backups

Centralized Data Backup: Proven Strategy for WAN based backup

Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.

With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.

Re-architecting Disaster Recovery Solutions Leveraging WAN Optimization Technology

Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.


Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical component of IT and risk mitigation strategies, and compounded in difficulty by ever growing data volumes, distributed computing, and new technologies.

Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Did you know it’s possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this whitepaper from Riverbed on cost-savings through WAN optimization, you’ll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months.

Riverbed Raises the Ante Again in WDS with RiOS 5.0


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Do your remote workers have a desire for higher performance computing? In this paper by the Taneja Group, learn how Steelhead appliances from Riverbed, with its enhanced RiOS 5.0 operating system, provides a number of improvements across major areas of WAN optimization, delivering LAN-like functionality to your WAN.

Riverbed Steelhead Product Family

Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.


What’s the Riverbed difference? Speed. Scalability. And simplicity. Discover it for yourself and get the facts about the entire family of Steelhead solutions from Riverbed. Companies of all sizes depend on the Riverbed Steelhead product family to accelerate the performance of applications over the WAN.


Storage Systems

File System Inventory Summary Report: File Storage Usage for a Mid-sized Technology Company


Sponsored by F5 Networks, Inc.

"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory — and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management

Best Practices Guide – Intel® Xeon® Edition: VMware Reference Configurations for Midsize Companies


Sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation

This white paper proposes a spectrum of reference configurations using Sun servers based on Intel processors, the broad range of Sun storage systems and appliances, and the VMware suite of virtualization products to configure cost-effective information systems for these businesses.


Data Replication

Understanding the HP Data Deduplication Strategy: Why one size doesn’t fit everyone


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.

Deduplication Technologies and Strategies to Obtain Significant Storage Savings


Sponsored by Symantec Corporation


Deduplication technologies and strategies can produce storage savings for your organization. Listen to this podcast for expert advice on how you can employ these strategies and begin saving today.

Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.


Storage Hardware

Dell NX4 Improving Storage Efficiency with File-Level Deduplication & Compression

Sponsored by Dell | EMC


Join this webcast to learn more about the benefits of deduplication and compression that are built-in to the Dell NX4 storage array that supports NAS, FC, iSCSI, and how it can help you tackle these challenges and maximize your storage efficiency.

Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.


Storage Resource Management

Securing Sensitive Information: An Examination of Information Security Issues, Methods and Securing Data With LTO-4 Tape Drive Encryption

Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company

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.

Understanding the HP Data Deduplication Strategy: Why one size doesn’t fit everyone


Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company


This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.

Developing A Universal Approach To Cleansing Customer And Product Data


Sponsored by SAP America Inc


Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this
is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.

Centralized Data Backup: Proven Strategy for WAN based backup


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.

With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.

Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization


Sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Did you know it’s possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this whitepaper from Riverbed on cost-savings through WAN optimization, you’ll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months.