| Recent Vendor Reports on Data Storage |
ESG White Paper: Intelligent Tiered Storage: BlueArc's Implementation
| sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
WHITE PAPER:
This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008
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Email and Data Archiving Health Check
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
ASSESSMENT TOOL:
Need help narrowing in on what you need for increased business reliance on email, e-Discovery risk, backup risk and/or archiving need? Take the health check from Sun and Symantec and get your optimum health results for your data retention system.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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What's Cool about Columns
| sponsored by ParAccel
ANALYST REPORT:
This paper will define what column-based relational databases do and how they do it, and where they have advantages (and disadvantages) compared to traditional approaches. This in turn will lead to a discussion of the sort of environments for which columns are best suited.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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E-Guide: Mainframe Storage Overview
| sponsored by Data Domain
EGUIDE:
There are many advantages to using a mainframe to back up all of an organization's data to streamline backup and disaster recovery (DR) operations. This SearchStorage.co.UK E-Guide, sponsored by Data Domain, provides an overview of mainframe storage systems as well as using mainframes for data backup.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009
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E-Guide: An Overview of Mainframe Storage
| sponsored by Data Domain
EGUIDE:
There are many advantages to using a mainframe to back up all of an organization's data to streamline backup and disaster recovery (DR) operations. This SearchStorage.com E-Guide, sponsored by Data Domain, provides an overview of mainframe storage systems as well as using mainframes for data backup.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009
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A Technical Review of Caching Technologies
| sponsored by Blue Coat
WHITE PAPER:
The goal of this white paper is to discuss the role of caching, describe in detail how object caching and byte caching works, and show how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2007
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Exchange and SharePoint: Best Practices in Unified Data Protection Today
| sponsored by Mimosa Systems
WEBCAST:
Changing data protection standards are taking traditional Exchange back-up with simple file storage systems and making way for managing data proactively with a new technology to meet legal requirements. This webcast explains how your organization can meet legal and business needs while protecting essential data.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Top Five Strategies for Getting an Email Archiving Project off the Ground
| sponsored by Symantec Corporation
DATA SHEET:
Proactive archiving reduces business risks, lower costs and increases efficiency. This quide has five strategies recommended by Symantec for building the case for an archive and rationalizing your requirements of
an email archiving system.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jan 2008
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Driving Efficiency and Green Efforts Within Your Data Center
| sponsored by Data Domain
WEBCAST:
In this webcast, ESG analyst Brian Babineau examines how data deduplication can effectively contain the costs associated with massive data growth, improve capital and operating efficiencies and bolster green initiatives.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Data Deduplication: It's more than Just a Box on the Network
| sponsored by FalconStor Software
WEBCAST:
This session will discuss the various operational and design factors that go into making the right technology decision for deduplication.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Stepping Up to Deduplication with Simpana8
| sponsored by CommVault Systems, Inc.
WEBCAST:
This brief webcast provides a basic overview of CommVault's inline, embedded deduplication capability. It will cover how we dedupe, how our approach differs from traditional appliance-based dedupe and several use cases for implementing deduplication within your organization.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Data Deduplication Beyond Backup
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
VIDEO:
In this TechTalk, W. Curtis Preston, Executive Editor for TechTarget's Storage Media Group and independent consultant, discusses the state of deduplication for primary storage, the pros and cons of the different approaches, and what we should expect to see in future systems.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2009
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Live Q&A with W. Curtis Preston
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
WEBCAST:
Please join us for today' Live Q&A with backup and recovery expert, W. Curtis Preston. This interactive Q&A session will provide attendees with the opportunity to have all backup and recovery questions answered by Mr. Backup himself.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Implementation Advanced Uses and Testing Part I
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
VIDEO:
The first session starts with an explanation of why we are using disk in the backup system, as it will build the foundation for later discussions.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2009
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Implementation Advanced Uses and Testing Part II
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
VIDEO:
Preston explains the differences between the different types of dedupe, including source and target, hashing vs. delta differentials, inline vs. post processing and local vs. global deduplication. He continues with an explanation of some advanced uses of deduplication and finishes the session with some thoughts on how to test deduplication.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2009
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Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning
| sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WEBCAST:
Disasters can strike at any time, is your company prepared? This webcast defines types of disasters, how much damage they can cause U.S. businesses, and provides you with key questions in planning a disaster recovery (DR) strategy.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Video: Four Principles for Reducing Storage TCO
| sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
VIDEO:
Watch this video summary, which outlines methods of quantifying storage infrastructure costs and identifying those that can be reduced. It also presents techniques, developed over several years and hundreds of customer engagements, for reducing those costs and helping you create a lean, dynamic storage environment that's economically sustainable.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 24 Jun 2009
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Case Study: Lime Pictures Implements its Vision with Quantum StorNext
| sponsored by Quantum Corporation
CASE STUDY:
This case study highlights the challenges faced by an independent production company and the benefits achieved through the adoption of Quantum's StorNext digital workflow solution.
Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2009
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Enhanced Data Protection and Manageability of Virtual Servers Using CommVault® Simpana® Solutions
| sponsored by CommVault Systems, Inc.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:
CommVault<sup>®</sup> Simpana<sup>®</sup> software's Universal Virtual Server Agent helps address the challenges in a virtual environment based on VMware<sup>®</sup> Virtual Infrastructure, VMware Virtual Server, Microsoft<sup>®</sup> Hyper-V™ server and Microsoft Virtual Server Environments.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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Deduplication Calculator
| sponsored by CommVault Systems, Inc.
ASSESSMENT TOOL:
Data deduplication is a smart approach to handling continued data growth with minimal budgets. Utilizing this Deduplication Calculator, you'll discover how much time and money you can save by implementing CommVault<sup>®</sup> Simpana<sup>®</sup> software.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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The Dollars and Sense of Online Backup
| sponsored by Concentric
WHITE PAPER:
Businesses today face unrelenting data growth. IT staffs are struggling to ensure data availability under tight fiscal constraints. The unreliability and intensive management of traditional tape-based backup has forced backup administrators to create manual, error-prone processes in order to protect their data. Concentric has the solution!
Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009
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Open Storage- ZFS for the DataCenter
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
VIDEO:
With ZFS, developers reevaluated the idea of a file system and a volume manager. It's data management architecture that is optimized for managing bits on both disk and flash. ZFS provides file and block systems, but you have common data services like RAID, mirroring, snapshots, quotas, reservations, and all the features needed to manage data.
Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 01 Jun 2009
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Case Study: BCEE Luxembourg - Document Migration and Simplified Workflow
| sponsored by Xenos Group Inc.
CASE STUDY:
The Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat, Luxembourg (BCEE) is one Luxembourgs leading financial institutions. BCEE's mission is to offer their clients optimum service while promoting the economic and social development of Luxembourg. Read this case study to learn how BCEE adopted Xenos's d2e document transformation solution to manage..
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009
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Can Your SharePoint® Backup Harm Your Business?
| sponsored by AvePoint, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper is intended for IT Professionals who are responsible for helping companies evaluate, plan and execute data backups for SharePoint. It will address a multitude of questions about backup and recovery.
Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 May 2008
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Xenos/EMC Case Study: St. James's Place finds new xPression for its document creation and delivery
| sponsored by Xenos Group Inc.
CASE STUDY:
The St. James's Place (SJP) Wealth Management Group offers a wide range of high quality wealth management services to businesses and individuals. This case study shows how SJP worked with Xenos and EMC Document Sciences to implement an integrated document solution (IDS) that enables the creation, formatting, control, transformation, storage..
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009
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Case Study: Ingram Entertainment Implements Improved ROI and Reliability for Mainframe Data Protection
| sponsored by Data Domain
CASE STUDY:
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.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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