Disaster recovery and remote office replication are top-of-mind issues for IT professionals, with frequent natural disasters underscoring the fallibility of tape-based backup strategies. This paper highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. 

An effective governance program will determine what kinds of data are inputs, outputs or byproducts, and will enable the company to quickly distinguish and process data elements accordingly. Read this paper to learn more. 

It sounds simple, but just try to figure out who accessed your confidential data yesterday. IT management standards insist on it, compliance standards require it, but can you deliver? 

This whitepaper discusses the issues involved in sharing files between Macs and Windows servers and compares the options for successful integration. It is intended for systems administrators, technical evaluators and decision-makers who are considering upgrading or purchasing Group Logic's ExtremeZ-IP solution for the first time. 

Read this study for a thorough review of the file-based storage market. It describes technology while establishing use cases, analyzing the opportunity, and putting forth assumptions about the future. 

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. 

"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory -- and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management. 

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. 

"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory -- and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management 

Read this white paper for a discussion of the key issues related to encryption for both email and file transfer systems, some of the leading statutes that require sensitive content to be encrypted, and suggestions for moving forward with encryption. 

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. 

This article contains a number of technical diagrams describing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features, upgrade considerations, and benefits. Many of these resources are visual representations of recommended solutions. They include poster-sized documents available in formats including Microsoft Office Visio 2007 files, PDF files, and XPS files.