12 March 2010
Friday
Very few SRM companies offer products designed to simplify the task of storage management while providing the extended visibility. Solutions currently available tend to be far outside the budget range of the majority of businesses, and SolarWinds sees the opportunity to change the dynamic within the SRM market.
As organizations look for ways to lower costs, while still gaining from the benefit of shared storage technology, the choice between an iSCSI and FCoE solution continues to be pitted in IT boardrooms. How is the battleline forming? We ask David Dale, NetApp's industry standards director and chair of the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum.
Contrary to popular belief that the slowdown of the global economy in 2008 would also retard the process of information generation, the pace of digital information being created actually skyrocketed during this period. This includes information generated and transmitted over the Internet, phone networks and airwaves.
With more and more organizations adopting virtualization technologies, enjoying cost savings and simplified server management in datacenters, Virtual Machine (VM) backup and recovery has become a major challenge to IT administrators. This article discusses how to re-evaluate their backup strategies and provide VMs with the same safeguards as physical servers.
Virtualization and Cloud Computing have well and truly exploded, bringing with them a fresh breed of nasties for businesses to fend off. Compliance initiatives have continued to dominate our radars, especially in the credit card and online banking spaces where the challenge of securing customer’s electronic data has become a major focus in the boardroom.
For businesses and government organisations to fully realise and protect the inherent value of the data within their service, they have to recognise the need to eliminate deployment of multiple point solutions and embrace a unified approach to data management. If they do this they are in a position not only to reap the benefits in terms of business continuity and disaster recovery.
There are signs of cautious recovery in many economies, providing the nudge that companies needed to shift from their hunker-down mentality to a more positive one focused on renewed investment in technology. But many CIOs will still keep an eye on cost efficiencies as IT budgets remain flat.
What are the data storage trends that will have the biggest impact on SMBs in 2010? How will data storage technologies change?
Despite the drive to improve efficiency and reduce costs, businesses are still regularly investing in unnecessary IT processes. Chad Lian Country Manager, CommVault in Malaysia, considers the hidden implications of data storage and demonstrates how, without sensible management, something as simple as sending an email could still be impacting on a business’ bottom line a year from now.
While global economic recovery is still uncertain in 2010, the growth rate of storage and the demand on storage infrastructures continue to intensify. Instead of continuing to add more storage systems, capital or operational investments must be maximized to the fullest extent and be more cost-effective and sustainable. Here's how...
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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.
