Taneja Group: GridBank: Comprehensive Archiving Solution [ Source: Tarmin Technologies ]
September 2008- A comprehensive archive solution can appeal to enterprises of all sizes, and large organizations with lots of data will be able to make compelling economic cases for deployment. But smaller companies should take note as well: GridBank offers a comprehensive archiving solution without requiring any custom integration, a value proposition that is attractive to companies that cannot afford to create their own solutions by integrating multiple vendors’ archive products.

Using Intelligence to Manage Your Storage [ Source: Novell ]
April 2010- According to industry analysts, unstructured data—the file-based data such as word processing, presentations, images, videos and virtual machine files on your storage—now frequently makes up the majority of new network disk space installed in an organization. This white paper explores a commercial storage management solution that provides network administrators the ability to access a comprehensive set of network storage information on a variety of server and file systems so they can plan and ...

Used Magnetic Media Data Erasure & Data Security [ Source: Imation ]
October 2008- With increasing budgetary pressures, data center managers may be tempted to recoup some of their tape investment by reselling magnetic tape cartridges which are no longer needed. The methods tape resellers use in attempts to remove the original owner's data vary widely, and are largely unsuccessful. New data erasing devices are being touted as having the ability to eliminate original customer data while leaving the servo guiding signals of higher capacity cartridges intact. Imation's laboratory ...

Alternatives for Securing Virtual Networks [ Source: Altor Networks ]
April 2009- View the "Alternatives for Securing Virtual Networks" white paper which describes virtualization security threats and challenges with virtual networks and cloud computing. Add defense-in-depth security to your virtualized data center with Altor VF virtual firewall.

An increasingly large share of data center network traffic is occurring between VMs within a virtualization server - on the “virtual network” - yet VM and network administrators have minimal ability to see or control inter-VM communication. By ...

Retail Software Developer Combines NETGEAR ReadyNAS and Egnyte Local Cloud on NAS for a Hybrid Storage Solution [ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011- The Retail Anywhere storage existing solution had become more pronounced. Remote connectivity was becoming an increasing problem, carrying frustrating levels of latency for anybody who did not physically reside in the office. The Windows file servers were aging, and some were reaching their storage capacity, while others had plenty of room. The lack of file syncing capabilities was causing version control and file availability issues. Productivity was suffering, and the company's data was at risk.

Five Ways Online Backup Keeps Your Data Safe [ Source: Carbonite ]
November 2012- Carbonite discusses the various steps taken to ensure the continual security and protection of customer data. Specifically, there are five areas of critical importance Carbonite focuses on – highly redundant disk drives, hardened data center facilities and best-in-class operations, specialized system monitoring software, world-class network security and encryption, and transparent access to your backup status. In this article, we explore each of these areas in-depth and the measures taken to uphold Carbonite’s commitment to data ...

Helping optimize storage performance availability and utilization [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- Now more than ever, IT organizations need the highest levels ofvisibility, control and automation if they are to meet demandingstorage service levels across the organization, as well as to opti-mize utilization of existing storage infrastructure.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can help, by providing the compre-hensive performance monitoring, reporting and managementtools that today's IT organizations need, all on a single platform. This white paper describes four key capabilities of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.

Consolidate and unify your recovery infrastructure [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- With data continuing to grow at alarming rates and IT environments continuing to become more distributed and complex, the strains and costs of providing data protection and recovery capabilities are getting the attention of many executives.

Gartner estimates that by 2014, at least 30 percent of organizations will have changed backup vendors due to frustration over cost, complexity or capability.

IBM solutions for cloud and virtualization in enterprise environments [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- The benefits of virtualization, from accelerated service delivery and resource optimization to reduced costs for IT resources, have spurred many organizations to move toward a virtual infrastructure. However, the nature of the virtual environment, which calls for a vast network of shared resources, has created a new set of management complexities that can impede business service delivery?and that are best handled by adding cloud-computing capabilities to the virtualized infrastructure.

This white paper ...

Bronto Software Buys Splunk versus Extending their Hadoop Deployment [ Source: Splunk ]
December 2012- Like most companies, Bronto Software manages a growing and complex IT environment. Open source software is foundational at Bronto and has become the company standard within its IT environment. When seeking to augment existing open source technologies, Bronto was faced with an immature market that often failed to provide the analytic capabilities needed to respond to critical processes and services.

Bronto needed a solution that would allow engineers to deep dive into system ...