Like many organisations, data at Bromford Group falls into two distinct groups. On one side is a Microsoft SQL database that tracks customer relationship management, records of tenants and properties. On the other side is all of the data that runs the business itself: Microsoft Exchange, corporate files, and network drives crammed with documents. 

In this podcast, Marc Staimer, president of Dragon Slayer Consulting, discusses storage virtualization technology. Find out the pros and cons of storage virtualization, when to rule out storage virtualization in your environment, and how to decide whether file-based or block-based storage virtualization makes sense in your shop. 

In this webcast, introduced by independent enterprise storage expert Stephen Foskett and Oracle’s Group Manager for NAS Storage Product Management Alex North, talk about the current state of NAS storage, and point out specific technologies that Oracle is leveraging in its new ZFS NAS platform. Watch now to learn more. 

The following five steps are some very effective ways to improve data security in a cost-effective manner and are the first steps toward readying an organization for more robust data protection measures such as DLP. 

Read this paper by Global Knowledge instructor, John Hales, to learn how to build a home lab for VMware vSphere for study. This paper is broken down into three major sections; the first and most detailed is about the hardware required, the second is about the Workstation configuration, and the third is about installing vSphere and Virtual Center. 

In this week’s issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key trends and technologies that will be on IT leaders’ agenda in 2012. Our first Buyer’s Guide of the year examines how IT consumerisation will affect business technology; and Home Office IT director Denise McDonagh tells us why government IT isn’t working. Download the new issue now. 

This E-Guide is here to help walk you through the decision-making process and determine which NAS solution is right for you. In this guide you'll learn the pros and cons of scale-out and scale-up NAS options, discover six industries that should always use scale-out systems and more. 

This brief paper details the challenges of traditional file sharing systems and highlights an enterprise collaboration tool that can better meet content management challenges. 

Organizations today need a more efficient and compliant way to transfer files as electronically shared content become more sensitive. In this paper, explore the challenges and costs of using traditional transfer methods and discover the benefits of a new solution, File Managed Transfer (MFT). 

This white paper describes the requirements - such as server-based security, data encryption, and audit trails - that secure file sharing solutions must meet in order to deliver mobile access while protecting data confidentiality and regulatory compliance. 

This webcast provides an overview of how one distribution company leveraged the Sage X3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to streamline and improve the efficiency of their business processes. 

This paper examines the benefits of Microsoft's BranchCache solution to allows branch office workers to cache content obtained from head office file and web servers locally.