VERITAS Backup Exec 10: Disk, Tape, and Multiplexing Performance Comparison
[ Source: Symantec ]
January 2008-
VERITAS Software commissioned VeriTest to benchmark both backup and restore performance, comparing disk, tape, and tape multiplexing solutions. VERITAS Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers was tested with disk and tape, and Computer Associates ARCserve 11.1 was tested with disk, tape, and tape multiplexing. This paper highlights Disk to disk data protection solutions offer performance Advantages when compared to the tape multiplexing solution that was tested. The introduction of inexpensive disk products has changed the ....
Five Fatal Myths of Data Backup
[ Source: AbilityCRM ]
February 2008-
Data loss can cause catastrophic problems to businesses. When not fatal, it can certainly be costly, time-consuming, and stressful. The best protection against data loss is to backup the data. Yet the process of data backup can be confusing and is often misunderstood. This paper addresses the most common fatal myths that our support desk encounters on a daily basis.
Introduction to Digital Rights Management - DRM
[ Source: LockLizard ]
August 2007-
This paper covers the technology called Digital Rights Management or DRM, what it achieves and how this benefits your business. It covers the demand for DRM in the protection of intellectual property and the use of encryption and cryptography in protecting and controlling digital content. It compares DRM controls against IT controls, charging mechanisms, and the use of DRM in various industries. Most importantly it covers how DRM can be made to work for your ....
Optimized Backup and Recovery for VMware Infrastructure with EMC Avamar
[ Source: EMC ]
April 2008-
Over the last decade, disk storage has been used to augment traditional backup approaches, but disk solutions that are designed to replace tape libraries and media solve only a fraction of the data protection challenges faced by enterprises. Avamar backup software solves traditional backup challenges by reducing the size of backup data at the source. Avamar does this using patented global data deduplication technology that stores only a single copy of sub-file data segments across ....
Fast-Start Failover Best Practices Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture White Paper
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Oracle describes that the Fast-Start Failover is an Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2 feature that automatically, quickly, and reliably fails over to a designated, synchronized standby database in the event of loss of the primary database, without requiring manual intervention to execute the failover. This paper describes Fast-Start Failover and describes Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices for its use.
How to Recover an Entire Laptop in Minutes
[ Source: Atempo ]
September 2008-
Nothing can slow down your day like desktop and laptop computer recoveries. There is the daily aggravation of emotional users desperate for a miracle recovery of a lost, deleted, or unsaved file. And then there are those who are disconnected from the network or traveling – some victims are not very patient.
If you would like to simplify recoveries of users files, desktops, and laptops quickly, read this tutorial. There is a ....
Multi-Customer ROI Analysis: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Enterprise Manager Database
[ Source: Oracle ]
March 2009-
In this report, discover how to:
• Increase database administrator (DBA) productivity;
• Reduce system downtime and increase availability;
• Reduce capital spending on servers by 20%;
In this whitepaper, Forrester Research initiated work on a research project that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by adopting Oracle Enterprise Manager. This study highlights the benefits and costs of deploying Oracle ....
Security vs. Disaster Recovery: Three Best Practices Of Disaster-Proof Hard Drive Technology
[ Source: ioSafe ]
January 2007-
Almost all data resides on hard drives. The lowly hard drive does almost everything well. It's good, fast, and cheap for nearly all scenarios wherever data is stored. Standard hard drives are not disaster proof. ioSafe waterproof and fireproof hard drives offer a solution to that problem.
Secure Passage Through a World of Technological Threats
[ Source: CoSoSys SRL ]
January 2008-
Business world, in its pursuit for enhanced efficiency, is opening up more and more to all devices that can improve workforce mobility and productivity. Technology has supported the need for mobility and has also provided additional means of communication. Information theft and proprietary data leakage are a reality of business world, effectively preventing all possible security breaches is becoming an ultimate concern for enterprise security experts. Endpoint security comes to complete existing security policies, aiming ....
Compliance Through Proper Tape Management
[ Source: B&L Associates, Inc. ]
June 2006-
Government privacy and accountability regulations have led to sweeping overhauls of enterprise IT environments in an effort to become compliant. Tape management and, in particular, the use of a comprehensive tape management system can be an effective tool in helping banks and other companies become compliant with many of the regulations contained within the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.