Data Protection

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New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by F5 Networks
of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. Read this white paper for information on such a plan. Enterprise data protection has grown up. With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can lead to a loss of data, a
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This paper will compare and contrast the benefits of all new disk-based data protection options to allow you to select the best technology for each of the data types to be protected in your environment. Over the past 40 years of computing, the standard way of protecting primary disk storage data was to backup that data onto one
Reducing IT Budget Costs with Data Protection by InMage Systems
successful data backup in your business. Although IT professionals realize the importance of data protection and that minimal downtime is critical to their business, it often is overshadowed by more critical initiatives to tackle. Justifying additional data protection is difficult with today's backup and replication solutions that many use
Protecting Stored Data Part I by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
This videocast provides the latest information on data protection technologies and provides best practices for applying appropriate protection services to data assets. The best metric for measuring business resiliency is "time to data" -- the amount of time required to restore access to business critical
Cool Vendors in Data Protection by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
and storage administrators will be interested in this research that details five disk-based data protection solutions from emerging data protection vendors. This research details five disk-based data protection solutions from emerging data protection vendors. IT directors and storage administrators responsible for backup/recovery and
Securing Data in Motion-Part Two by Symantec Corporation and Iron Mountain Digital and Websense and Lumension Security and Utimaco Safeware
In part two of this data protection video series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the steps to take in order to ensure your data is properly secured. Data protection has and always will be a top concern for organizations in today's enterprise. As more
Top Reasons to Look at CA Recovery Management to Address All Your Data Protection Needs Podcast by CA
This podcast discusses how CA Recovery Management release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges. This podcast discusses how CA Recovery Management release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges. Mat Dickson, VP of Development answers questions that go beyond common discussions on managing data growth,
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
These optional premium features include Virtual Disk Snapshot and Virtual Disk Copy. These data protection features provide real-world benefits for data backup and data management.

The Virtual Disk Snapshot premium feature includes the following capabilities:
  • 1) Data protection by providing a readily available point-in-time image that
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Backup Exec - Best Practices for Implementing a Centralized SAN-Based Infrastructure by Symantec Corporation
and discovery, easy-to-configure SAN support, or efficient disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection, Symantec Backup Exec 12 provides market-leading Windows data protection and recovery to support your growing enterprise
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) Trial by Microsoft
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is designed for the Database Administrator or the IT generalist and uses wizards and workflows to help ensure that you can protect SQL data-without requiring an advanced training. Whether you are deploying or migrating
Best Practices: Protecting SharePoint Data by Storage Magazine
SharePoint's collaboration framework is gaining in popularity, but it has a number of data protection challenges that can result in significant levels of complexity rather quickly. SharePoint's collaboration framework is gaining in popularity, but it has a number of data protection challenges that can result in significant levels of
Maximize Availability with Oracle Database 11g by Oracle Corporation
Attend this Webcast to learn how innovations in intelligent data protection and availability in Oracle Database 11g makes implementing high availability the natural byproduct of a common sense approach to system design. Your business needs to be online 365 days a year. If applications can't access critical
The Case for Data Protection Service Level Agreements Over One-Size-Fits-All Backup Strategies by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
This PowerPoint presentation defines data protection service level agreements. A system of data protection service level agreements is an effective approach to tailor backup appropriately to the needs of the company's business units. This PowerPoint presentation is from a Storage
Gartner Names "ExaGrid Cool Vendor" in Data Protection by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Cool Vendors in Data Protection report points to a focus on new and less-expensive disk-based backup options that make the use of disk for faster backup and recovery a more viable option than traditional backup-to-tape methods. The "Cool Vendors in Data Protection"
Managing Unstructured Data: 10 Key Requirements by Varonis
This white paper takes a practical approach to identifying the right enterprise-wide data protection solution for your specific business. Learn more about these ten imperatives to know when evaluating a vendor offering. Research has shown that more than 80% of all business information comes from, "unstructured data." For example,
ProtecTIER: Changing the Game With An Enterprise-class Disk-based Data Protection Solution by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Diligent Technologies' ProtecTIER platform is the first enterprise-class disk-based data protection solution that enables customers to effectively increase the capacity of disk systems by 25 times or more. Read about this world-class solution here. Diligent Technologies' ProtecTIER platform is the first enterprise-class disk-
Enabling Economically Viable Long-Term Disk-Based Data Protection by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Diligent's ProtecTIER platform is an enterprise-scale comprehensive data-protection solution that produces dramatic data reduction, allowing for an increase in the effective capacity of a given disk array of 25x or more. Diligent's ProtecTIER platform is an enterprise-scale comprehensive data-
Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft Applications by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows servers is the gold standard in Windows® data protection, providing cost-effective, high-performance, disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery. Companies today face the ever-increasing challenge of managing the explosive growth of valuable data. Symantec Backup Exec™ 12
Oracle Data Guard 11g: The Next Era in Data Protection and Availability by Oracle Corporation
Read this paper to learn how Oracle Data Guard 11g redefines what users should expect from a disaster recovery solution. Read this paper to learn how Oracle Data Guard 11g redefines what users should expect from a disaster recovery solution. Data Guard delivers:

  • Reliability-
Perspectives: Call in the Feds by Information Security Magazine
A national data protection law would help curtail identity theft and could boost international relations. What our country needs is a national data protection law--one that individual states and industries could opt to expand. This law would define baseline
ExaGrid: A Scalable Approach to Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
this Taneja Group white paper to learn some key criteria to consider when evaluating disk-based data protection vendors and how one company matches up against these criteria. Now that we're several years into the adoption phase of enterprise disk-based data protection, it is evident that users have high expectations for their disk-based solutions. If
Preventing Data Loss: 10 Key Imperatives by Varonis
This white paper describes the Varonis approach to data protection, it centers on the notion of data governance -- a comprehensive means to see, control and audit all aspects of unstructured data access. With 80 - 90% of data being stored on file servers, and the accessibility to those servers being shared
Viewpoint September 2008: Bug Finding is Ethical and Necessary by Information Security Magazine
in Bug Finding: Ethical and Necessary. Plus, a principal security analyst discusses Upfront Data Protection. Bug Finding: Ethical and Necessary
Regarding Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum's "Is Vulnerability Research Ethical?" (Face-Off, May 2008), the question may as well be: "Is it Ethical to Force Automobile Companies to Crash Test Their Cars?"

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EMA Whitepaper: Simple, Reliable, Fast De-duplication Data Protection Platform by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
This document looks at how a virtual tape library utilizing a clustered gateway and data de-duplication can assist data centers that face such challenges, and such devices provides data center managers faster backups and recoveries. While Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) are now a fundamental element of the data center
ESG - A Compelling Disk Backup Story by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
they offer. Over the past few years, disk-based backup has truly blossomed. Although, disk-based data protection is still an emerging market, user comfort level with--and implementation of--these types of solutions continues to increase. Disk products have become more widely available and, importantly, are being used by more and more organizations--big
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Pros and cons of DASD options by David Boyes
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Fine tuning hot aisle/cold aisle rack arrangements by Steve Madara
to the air units keep the data center floor from being truly redundant. That is to say, if one of the air units failed, the return air from the hot aisle would not be properly cooled for re-use.

Very good question and observation. As each data center layout is a little different More...

Dec 19, 2005
Drying out servers after a sprinkler discharge by Lance Harry
of a small electrical fire in our data center, our sprinkler systems were activated and now we're dealing with a clean up. How do we properly dry out our servers after a sprinkler discharge?

There are a number of issues you are probably dealing with as a result of a small fire in the More...

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