The October 2009 edition of Storage Magazine Online focuses on snapshot technologies. Snapshots offer backup managers the ability to reduce RTOs and RPOs, but one size doesn’t fit all. Storage expert Marc Staimer explains how to evaluate and choose the best approach for your environment. 

This white paper, sponsored by Concentric, discusses the critical nature of email and the importance of understanding the total cost of ownership for providing email. It also provides some examples of the cost of providing Exchange on-premise for organizations of various sizes developed from a cost model developed by Osterman Research. 

Managing email is a time-consuming, costly and legally hazardous process as administrators spend extra time backing up and recovering email to manage volume, support end-user productivity and produce stored emails for regulation or litigation. 

Xiotech’s Emprise 5000 system is a proven choice for direct-attached storage supporting a single, high-performance application. This document includes benchmark test results of a single Emprise 5000 system effectively supporting simultaneous email, database, and backup application loads -- with performance to spare. 

The modern organization has email at the heart of its communications and business processes. This makes it critical to minimize both the downtime and loss of email upon the outset of a business continuity event. Maintaining access to email while upholding risk mitigation and compliance is a challenging endeavor. 

Meeting regulatory requirements means that administrators must carve out a sound email-archiving policy; making the wrong move can be costly. In this issue, you'll learn what to do and what not to do when planning your email-archiving strategy. 

Email archiving, management and compliance solution for Exchange server that is easy to install and requires minimal administrative effort. Store all corporate email in an easily accessible central location. 

Since most malware comes from e-mail, it should be checked at the highest possible level -- the gateway. ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange brings lightweight and powerful protection for heavy-duty email servers. It offers multithreaded background scanning for higher performance, and rule-based predictive scanning. 

This paper will discuss why common practices for protecting the Blackberry environment are not the most effective, and how Marathon's everRun® software works as the better solution for achieving high availability for both physical and virtual environments. 

This webcast discusses the top five challenges in enterprise networks, data and server consolidation challenges, performance issues and solutions, best practices for network architecture management, and Blue Coat's vision for addressing these issues. 

Learn archiving tips from HP's Manu Chadha that will help you increase application performance and comply with regulatory, governance and e-discovery obligations. 

Please join Todd Pierce, VP of Information Technology, Genentech, as he explains why his organization chose Google Apps. Genentech was considering replacing its data center. But thanks to cloud computing from Google, the company no longer has to execute the expensive process. 

The proliferation of user-generated content and video sharing sites has made for a constant source of new material. However, the bandwidth demands of such media often congest WAN links. One approach is to just block flash video. This technical brief presents an alternate approach that can allow video and business critical applications to co-exist.