Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks has been replaced with botnets. This paper examines the history of attacks of malware and the defenses needed to counter these attacks. 

VMware offers market leading solutions that help businesses address their virtualization needs. Dell and VMware have a long history of collaboration. Read this white paper to learn more. 

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. 

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance?  This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size.  Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. 

To succeed and thrive, today’s organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions. 

This report from Ovum warns that enterprises need to recognise that they will need to move to IPv6, even if they have IPv4 addresses available. They should treat IPv6 like any other disaster recovery plan. 

Arnold Worldwide is a Boston-based global advertising agency. They needed to replace its existing SAN with virtualized storage. Read this case study to learn how Arnold successfully addressed their DR and scalability needs, but also reduced its data center footprint and slashed its power and cooling costs. 

Depending on the size of an enterprise, a job scheduler may manage thousands of individual mission-critical business processes every day. Access this resource for a brief history of the job scheduling marketplace and to learn what to look for in job scheduling software, including a checklist with which to evaluate your options. 

Each year, the Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editorial teams – as well as a group of independent storage experts and IT pros – select the enterprise data storage Products of the Year in five categories. The February cover story announces the winners and why these new and enhanced products stand out from the pack. 

Despite being so important, the process to create the annual report, the 10-K and the 10-Q is still stuck in the Middle Ages. This paper explores the history of annual reporting, the process of manually creating the annual report, and how to bring this process into the 21st century. 

Entrusted with managing massive volumes of data, Santa Fe Partner's small IT staff knows the importance of security and data availability. Recently, they were looking for a file synchronization tool that would help the company manage market and transactional data as well as allow data transfer for DR. Read on to learn about the solution they chose. 

Disaster prevention is often better and easier to implement than disaster recovery. In Microsoft Server 2008, there are several new built-in disaster prevention capabilities to help you avoid trouble. One of these is accidental object deletion protection. 

This paper offers a high-level discussion of the benefits of Oracle Solaris running on Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series and T-Series, and drill-down information on specific optimisations and advantages for increased reliability, security and virtualisation.