In a GFS scheme the daily backup tapes should probably be replaced each year or so and the weekly and monthly tapes (assuming the monthly tapes aren't archived) accordingly. Read this tutorial to find out so much more. 

IT today can power multiple areas of the business, but security concerns often result in IT managers spending most of their time on administration and troubleshooting.  This white paper discusses how you can put IT on auto-pilot with the private cloud to transform your IT services. 

The Smartphone market is characterised by increasing competition on one hand and healthy growth prospects in the medium-term on the  other. Barriers to entry are high for most players, owing to the global nature of the  mobile industry and the consequent financial strength required to enter the market. 

This video will look at areas to cover with the cloud provider, including possible adjustments to firewalls and other perimeter defenses such as IPS, and how to ensure the changes don’t violate security policy. 

EMC's new VNXe series storage systems in conjunction with the company's Unisphere storage management are designed to address IT staff's demand for substantially improved "usability" in storage solutions for small and medium sized business. Read this white paper to learn more. 

Listen to this discussion about how the new DXi6701 and DXi6702 provide investment protection and a future proof feature set, as well as set a new standard for value and deliver unique distributed deduplication. 

It is important for the IT Manager to know the basics of formalized project management. Why? Because every organization needs to be able to implement change and almost all important changes are defined or implemented through project teams. 

This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend. 

This White Paper is intended to help organizations who are attempting to set up an enterprise architecture practice. It shows how organizations can use a modular, iterative, and incremental approach in order to develop an architectural capability that is otherwise a large and complex undertaking. 

A Fluid Data architecture automates data management at a more granular level to adapt to storage admin needs. Detailed information about each block is captured in action, providing system intelligence inside the volume. A sophisticated data movement engine uses this metadata, or data about the data, to intelligently store, recover and manage data. 

This case study explains how Quantum DXi3500 Saves Virtual Iron Time & Money with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs. 

More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.