Storage Magazine Online is starting off the New Year right – specifically, by covering a few of the major topics, issues and technologies you’ll likely be hearing about quite frequently in 2011 like new storage strategies and hybrid cloud storage. 

Access this customer case study and discover how an organization within the entertainment industry deployed HP software to implement a network monitoring solution to reduce network outage risks and performance issues for flawless operations. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

W. Curtis Preston discusses the issues surrounding restoring deduplicated data in this podcast. 

<p>In this eBook you will learn about the efficient, economical ways to address the small business storage issues outlined above without busting the small business budget or hiring an IT department.</p> 

This white paper discusses the procedures for upgrading your Oracle database,— particularly focusing on using Oracle’s real-time data integration software, Oracle GoldenGate— along with the results of such upgrades. 

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more. 

Access this e-guide to uncover how CIOs can solve the data quality issues they are faced with today. Gain insight on how to ensure that the delivery of actionable information is timely, relevant, accurate, and consistent, and an innovative new role emerging among businesses – the Chief Data Officer. 

<p>This paper uncovers tips for choosing a cloud hosting provider and explores where and when to use cloud solutions, specific issues enterprises should raise with hosting providers before selecting a vendor, and ways in which SSL from a trusted certificate authority can help enterprises conduct business in the cloud with confidence.</p> 

Enterprises have successfully controlled their IT budgets and server sprawl issues with the help of virtualization technologies, but what’s next? Increasingly, organizations are turning to storage consolidation for virtualized server environments in order to reduce data center costs and inefficiencies. 

This webcast demonstrates how Kettering Health Network replaced an enterprise-wide legacy interface engine with InterSystems Ensemble in just 4 months, resolving critical legacy interface issues and establishing an IT platform that will satisfy future needs and projects. 

Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this guide focuses on the specific considerations of enterprise-class tape libraries. You'll also find a series of specifications to help make on-the-spot product comparisons between vendors like Quantum Corp., Hewlett-Packard Corp., IBM, SpectraLogic Corp., and more. 

Kevin Beaver, information security consultant with Principle Logic LLC, outlines security issues to consider when deploying cloud or online backup.