This case study illustrates how Sun World International, a mid-sized grower in California, shifted its competitive strategy to capitalize on analytics and gain real-time insight into the competitive market. Learn how it gained a 5% reduction in harvesting costs, a 20% reduction in fuel usage and an eight-fold increase in profit per acre. 

At the NERSC Center in California, tape is simply seen as extremely efficient, cost-effective, scalable—and reliable—storage. With over 13 PB of data on tape (growing at around 60% p.a.) and decades of history, NERSC has the facts to prove tape’s capabilities; so much so that it does not employ additional copies. 

In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

In this expert e-guide, discover the best and worst practices for email archiving, and review an essential checklist for ensuring that Exchange archives remain compliant. 

Check out this first 2012 issue of Storage Magazine for in-depth analysis of the factors you need to consider when choosing the best type of DR site for your organization, including balancing costs against risks. 

By following established best practices, you have the opportunity to both reduce the risks associated with a data breach and improve the overall efficiency of your media management program. Check out this E-Guide to learn the five key Best Practices Areas that your organization needs to know about, and more. 

This white paper is here to provide you with a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft's Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) and Peer Software's PeerSync and PeerLock for replication and synchronization, and outlines the best use cases for each of these solutions. 

This white paper delivers best practices for helping you with network planning and expansion. From design considerations to business needs, get the information you need to build a successful network plan. 

Whether you are just starting a compliance program or need to fine-tune your existing process, this document will help you understand the steps involved in becoming GIPS compliant. It is not a substitute for the Standards themselves. It is designed to help you understand the value of compliance, what’s needed to achieve it, pitfalls to avoid. 

Check out this presentation transcript featuring insight from ESG Senior Analyst David Chapa for today's best tape vaulting practices. Find out the cost of available tape vaulting services, learn how offsite tape storage costs are determined, discover how to negotiate SLAs and whether or not to encrypt tapes before shipping them offsite. 

Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn’t working. What’s needed is a modern approach to data that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance without sacrificing data consistency or integrity. View this webcast to learn best practices for modern data management. 

This paper outlines how SAP Business ByDesign supports subsidiaries as a single, integrated business management solution, delivering the best of SAP software on demand. Read this and learn about its benefits, including improved customer satisfaction and higher operational efficiency, fast time to value and reduced risk, better decisions and more. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project.