As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost differentiators of moving from tape to disk for data backup. 

In this presentation transcript, Peter Bachner, Site Editor for SearchStorage.com, discusses green storage with Nick Simpson, an analyst with Burton Group, an enterprise IT research firm focused on infrastructure technologies. Nick has more than 20 years of experience in storage, enterprise servers, and system software. 

In this Tipcast, the editors from SearchStorage.com will highlight tips related to why vendors of storage arrays need to rebalance their systems for SSDs, and explore why using SSDs to help run server applications faster may prove hard to deliver. 

Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks. 

W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the options currently available for performing replication as part of a backup strategy for virtual machines, benefits and drawbacks of using replication in a virtualized environment. 

GUI building tools allow developers to spend less time and money creating Java GUIs, because they can focus on creating application-specific functionality rather than coding the low-level logic required for GUIs to run. 

This report by Mark Madsen will explain what data integration is, and especially the difference between Operational Data Integration and Analytic Data Integration. It highlights the benefits of open source for data integration, and provides a series of recommendations to make the integration job easier, repeatable and more productive. 

This Webcast, presented by MarketingSherpa and KnowledgeStorm, presents findings from MarketingSherpa's new report: "IT Marketing Benchmark Guide 2005-2006: Data for B-to-B Software, Hardware & Services Marketers." Learn what IT marketers revealed about their results and budgets and real-life numbers to help benchmark lead generation plans. 

Download this interactive webinar that shows how to use Eclipse tooling and open source integration SOA tools to integrate enterprise systems and applications. 

This paper takes an introductory look at the new categories of Group Policy, but anyone moving to Windows Server 2008 technologies would do well to consider the changes and additions to the existing policy categories, too.