Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment products in the US. Having implemented the Data Domain and Luminex solution they have been able to successfully meet DR goals and achieve significant yearly cost savings. 

The emergence of self-encrypting drives is timely in mitigating the security vulnerabilities of data-at-rest. LSI is pleased to offer SafeStore™ encryption services which combine local key management with self-encrypting drives. 

This white paper will provide a review of the core causes and costs of both planned and unplanned downtime and will then provide a detailed discussion of current options for High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions. 

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure enables end users or their hosting providers to provision and manage hundreds of individual, virtual desktops from a set of centrally administered, consolidated servers. 

VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) improves virtual server backup, but there are a number of limitations. FalconStor Software has a solution that works with VCB while overcoming these limitations. Using this solution, you can quickly and efficiently back up virtual machines and retain transactional consistency, without management complexity. 

Data de-duplication has been described as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. This document provides the background information required to make an informed data de-duplication purchasing decision. 

In this very funny though obvious over-dramatization of the weakness of tape as a backup solution, see how tape can end the life of an IT administrator and a 30-minute fix that could be lifesaving. 

Xiotech offers a fresh approach to data storage—disk drives, drive enclosures, and controllers with its Intelligent Storage Element technology: A storage foundation that sets new standards for reliability, performance, scalability, and value. 

In chapter 13 of "Storage Area Networks For Dummies," important concepts of data de-duplication are detailed. The techniques described are designed to "lighten the load" of a company's data storage infrastructure, freeing up crucial storage space, and eliminating multiple instances of the same data. 

Organizations of all types and sizes are under pressure to boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce power consumption. Compellent Storage Center - a highly integrated, feature-rich data storage solution- was designed to lower data storage TCO. Read this white paper for more details on how Compellant can save save your company millions of dollars. 

In this demo, Compellent technology professionals explain and demonstrate their dynamic capacity and thin provisioning techniqies, how they reduce TCO and energy costs, and dramatically eliminate unused storage space. 

To take full advantage of server virtualization, and create a true virtual data center, IT departments need a holistic storage solution that allows fully shared resources, easy and automated storage classification and migration and complete data protection. Read this white paper for three "must haves" to achieve those objectives.