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? 

This IBM white paper discusses how virtualization tools can help you build an infrastructure that is simpler, more cost efficient and more flexible. 

Most analysts, including Enterprise Strategy Group, agree that performing only a periodic backup leaves data at risk, and they find that this is a major concern among the IT professionals they survey. The answer to this concern is Cisco Small Business Network Storage Systems (NSS) and Cisco Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files software. 

The purpose of this paper is to resolve any lingering questions you may have about ping and to take your understanding to the next level. 

Even though some network servers look very much like the standalone computers that fill your of¬fice, they play a very different role in your business than desktop PCs do, and therefore their design is very different under the hood. Take a tour of the components that give a server the power it needs to handle your tough workload. 

Read this white paper for an in-depth discussion of what data deduplication is, how it works, what problems it solves, and what options are available. 

This document describes the results of work done by VMware in conjunction with Dell to create a scalable server and storage architecture for VMware View environments. 

The term “storage virtualization” has been around for a while, but many storage vendors offer differing interpretations of what storage virtualization actually is. In this paper, Xiotech, the company that first delivered optimal storage virtualization for open systems, provides a practical, working approach to the topic. 

This transcript documents a presentation featuring Brad Blake, Director, IT at Boston Medical Center. Mr. Blake will discuss how he initially started working with Data Domain as part of a VMware project. The meat of his presentation focuses on architecting deduplication and virtualisation for best of breed data protection. 

This whitepaper will provide an overview of the benefits of Storage Resource Management as a "front end" to data deduplication. We will demonstrate how an SRM tool such as Northern Storage Suite can work in concert with data de-duplication technologies to efficiently streamline data and assure optimal performance of an organization's storage inf... 

Thin provisioning is not new, but there is still confusion about how it works and how to best use it in the data center. In this presentation transcript, Jeff Byrne, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group and Christine Taylor, Analyst, Tenaja Group, outline the various approaches and technologies behind thin provisioning. 

Learn how VKernel's Chargeback Virtual Appliance helps companies gain cost visibility and chargeback on resource utilization; recover costs of ESX Infrastructure; and measure resource consumption by applications, resource pools and clusters. 

This videocast gives an in-depth explanation of archiving practices, and explains how various approaches can maximize specific areas of archiving, from eDiscovery optimization to meeting compliance regulations.