Stephen J. Bigelow

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Corporations face a glut of data. It's increasingly difficult to know what data is available, what data is critical to the business and how best to manage overall data assets. Data classification is a critical first step on the road to information lifecycle management, allowing business to better understand the information that they actually have More...
Nov 3, 2005
There is little doubt that continuous data protection continuous data protection (CDP) technology has an important future in enterprise IT deployments. Analysts and vendors alike feel that CDP will eventually become as ubiquitous as RAID and will change the fundamental way that global enterprises protect their data. The transformation is More...
Sep 26, 2005
Continuous data protection (CDP) is a supplemental backup technology that allows IT staff to recover the maximum amount of data in the absolute minimum time. CDP addresses three key issues of data backup: backup window, recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). Downtime occurs any time that a production system is taken offline More...
Sep 26, 2005
Continuous data protection (CDP), also referred to as "continuous backup" or "time addressable storage," tracks and records changes to enterprise data on the fly in real time. CDP creates a running journal of storage activity, with a new entry generated each time a change occurs to the system. This record is so detailed, it can track write operations or even More...
Sep 26, 2005
TECH CLOSE-UP
Backups are certainly part of an overall data protection scheme, but backups themselves are no longer enough. Whether you're collaborating with remote offices on the far side of the world, or taking holiday sales orders over the Web, there's no time to take busy production systems offline for backups. Downtime to recover terabytes of More...
Sep 26, 2005
At this point, continuous data protection CDP products are currently available (or in development) from a selection of relatively small but aggressive vendors including -- in no particular order -- Storactive Inc., Mendocino Software, Revivio Inc., Asempra Technologies, TimeSpring Software Corp., XOsoft, and Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp). (NetApp More...
Sep 26, 2005
One of the best ways to gauge a technology is to hear feedback from users employing products in actual production environments. Continuous data protection (CDP) is so new that most vendors were extremely hesitant to offer user feedback. Storactive Inc. and Revivio Inc. proved to be pleasant exceptions -- quickly arranging input from a variety of their More...
Sep 26, 2005
Data Compliance Podcasts
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Siemens Sees Lower TCO, Better Performance and Quick ROI with DB2 9 by IBM
their SAP applications. He will also tell you that DB2 9 is IBM's hybrid data server optimizing management of xml and relational data
WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Data Loss Prevention Best Practices by Cisco Systems, Inc.
key protocols, a high-performance, intelligent data loss prevention (DLP) solution is a must-have for today's organizations. Read this white paper to learn the best practices for DLP. There are two key capabilities required for content filtering: high performance and the ability to accurately scan nearly anything. Let's begin with the former. With today's ever-increasing bandwidth requirements
Data Conversion Solution - Rapid Implementations by Infosolve Technologies, Inc.
of reasons that you would want to convert your data. ▪ Data acquisition from another/existing business ▪ Part of a data warehouse load process ▪ Migration to a new system from an existing legacy data system ▪ Part of a business process re-engineering ▪ Consolidation of existing data systems Data conversion gives you the ability to use the data meaningfully. A vast majority of the legacy data that is converted
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Always Be Open for Business: iSeminar by Oracle Corporation
attain business continuity by creating a data infrastructure that is always secure, available and accessible, despite potentially disruptive circumstances. Is it possible to have business continuity with low administration and maintenance costs? This internet seminar addresses the key challenges mid-sized organizations must overcome to deliver reliable business continuity:

Podcast: Highlighting Data Deduplication and Disk Backups by Data Domain
Expert Podcast, W. Curtis Preston highlights data deduplication technologies - the features, the benefits and how different solutions differ from each other. In this Expert Podcast, W. Curtis Preston highlights data deduplication technologies - the features, the benefits and how different solutions differ from each other.

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