12 March 2010
Friday
Cloud storage service-level agreements (SLAs) will often detail guarantees on uptime but that is usually not the case with data availability and protection. Negotiating the SLA is key.
Having second thoughts on cloud storage implementation? Read about five best practices covering what you need to know on service-level agreement (SLA), pricing, and setting it all up.
Market research shows that cloud storage adoption has been slow to pick up and what little activity there is lies with cloud data backup.
Cloud storage has been around for some time now and more and more cloud providers have come up. This guide tackles the major hardware and software advancements in the private cloud storage space.
When it comes to protecting data there is an almost incestuous relationship between storage and security technologies. It's almost impossible to plan a data protection strategy without incorporating security elements throughout the lifecycle of the data.
Data explosion is putting a lot of pressure on storage resources, and it has become imperative for CIOs to deal with it effectively.
Hitachi Data Systems' APAC CIO Summit offers insights into the best practices, storage strategies and technologies to help enterprises prepare for growth in a recovering economy.
Second edition of IT Inspiration Awards honors Asia Pacific companies and CIOs for their brilliance in technology innovation and usage at Hitachi Data Systems’ Annual APAC CIO Summit.
Can enterprises take an old data center and make it more energy-efficient and give it more capacity? Can it avoid spending millions of dollars on a new data center by extending the life of existing assets? Steven Sams highlights some issues plaguing data centers today and the choices they can make.
For the past five to six years, EMC Corp has increased its data center efficiency and reduced costs without any extensive upgrade. Par Botes, CTO for the Asia Pacific and Japan, talks about the rewards and insights they have gained from these projects.
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Backup and archiving have changed over recent years partly riding on advances in technology. When do you perform backup and when to archive? What are the technical and operational considerations that need to be looked into for each. This paper looks at Simpana Software as a platform for achieving both.
This paper looks at Simpana as a platform for seamlessly extending local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from our integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance.
The move to cloud computing is not easy, and its important to get it right the first time. Curtin University of Technology with the help of Optus Business, Alphawest, Cisco, EMC, and VMware, takes the first steps that will provide Curtin with an on-demand access to a fully virtualized private data center.
Asian sports associations looking to improve performance (winning gold medals) can take a leaf off the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA)'s book, when it comes to blending the best in both athletic and IT infrastructure.
