Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. This paper explains 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans. 

The need to access and evaluate key performance indicators (KPIs) to enable revenue growth, cost cutting and containment, product and service innovation, and risk management is driving organizations of all sizes to continue to adopt BI and analytics solutions at a rapid pace. 

Constant product innovation has contributed to a thriving equipment-manufacturing industry, however, fewer time-saving tools are available to QA than developer groups. As a result, testing is becoming an innovation barrier. This paper examines the innovation barrier: its causes, effects, & what’s needed to restore the vigorous pace of innovation. 

This paper is the second in a two-part series exploring the innovation barrier – the point at which testing can no longer keep pace with development in the equipment manufacturing industry. It examines the innovation barrier’s symptoms – from slowdowns in development to mounting quality issues – and the potential impact on equipment manufacturers. 

Storage Magazine Online June 2011 – Managing Storage for Virtual Servers 

Today's organisations are struggling to manage not only the physical aspects of their infrastructure, but also the virtual ones. This video examines a virtual appliance that can simplify data centre management by integrating physical and virtual tools and processes. 

Traditional, manual intensive approaches to application performance management are no longer adequate. In this demo watch the proactive solution set of CA Mainframe Application Performance Management 

This expert Podcast, featuring Jerome Wendt, President and Lead Analyst of DCIG, Inc. puts an end to the confusion by offering insights to the most commonly asked questions he hears in the field today. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

The pressure on businesses to develop strategies which embrace environmental sustainability has increased dramatically in recent years, driven both by concerns about the long-term availability of fossil fuels and the impact of  corporate activities upon the environment. 

This expert IT Briefing provides an overview of data deduplication and explains why this technology has so much potential. Download this IT Briefing to learn more. 

This Forrester Research Inc. research report examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) of extract, transform and load (ETL) software. 

In this white paper, we will look at some of the key changes that will be revealed with the new version of Exchange and how these changes will impact the messaging environment.