Data is frequently residing on local drives, where it is not backed up. If a computer experiences a hardware problem or is lost or stolen, the consequences to the organization can include exposure to regulatory and legal risks, lost user productivity, and financial loss. Is your organization as backed up as you think? 

Unstructured data growth is straining traditional file systems and NAS architectures. IT managers are struggling to find ways to improve resource usage, while simultaneously improving service levels. This webcast highlights a file-based storage system that solves these issues and establishes a platform for future Cloud computing infrastructure. 

Getting data moved over to a new server is more than merely copying the most recent files and folders to that machine. File security, permissions, shared folders and local groups facilitating access need to be maintained. 

In this FAQ with Jeff Boles, Jeff discusses the ins and outs of file virtualization. He tells users the benefits and drawbacks of file virtualization, which file virtualization products are on the market and how they might work in specific IT shops, as well as how file virtualization affects replication or migration of files. 

F5 Data Manager helps you understand your file storage environment. This trial version will perform an inventory of your environment and enable you to run detailed reports that analyze which file types are being created, who is creating them, how quickly they age, and which resources they consume. 

There are many products that can be used to send files from one location to another. These products range from free FTP solutions, all the way up to highly sophisticated (and very expensive) industry specific solutions for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Download this whitepaper to learn more about what you should look for in an FTP solution. 

Solaris ZFS file system helps companies take advantage of open storage platforms, enhance data services, and ease administration, as evidenced by many Sun customers worldwide. 

In large networks, the sheer number of permission settings makes it almost impossible to gain a clear overview of overall security, and checking that all those permission are in compliance with corporate and regulatory standards is a Herculean task. 

This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost. 

Soon after installing EVault Software, Womble Carlyle, a top-100 law firm, realized significant reliability improvement both in its nightly backup jobs and its file and folder restores. EVault Software Agents, which are installed on the servers requiring backup, “wake up” at administrator-set times. 

BranchCache and Windows 7 Enterprise can help WAN utilization and increase responsiveness when accessing documents, web pages, and videos stored on file servers and internet sites running on Windows Server 2008. Watch this video to learn how. 

In a series of three articles, this E-Guide introduces technology from Peer Software – designed to optimize file availability and collaboration across the WAN.