Eliminating the Need for WAN Acceleration Using the Cloud
[ Source: Nasuni ]
May 2013-
Data is an organization's most important asset and the ability to provide access where and when it is needed is vital to the success of every company.
Download this white paper to learn about how the cloud is an exciting new alternative to traditional WAN acceleration. Specifically:
• WAN acceleration - the good and the bad
• The cloud as the new data center
• How Storage Infrastructure as a Service changes ...
The Top Ten Headaches Caused by Remote Office Storage
[ Source: Nasuni ]
May 2013-
IT directors at growing, distributed enterprises face a number of unique challenges, particularly when it comes to storage. Nasuni has worked with hundreds of customers to alleviate the pain that today's enterprise IT departments face in trying to manage storage remotely.
We drew upon the insights and experiences of IT directors at enterprises that range from five to fifty locations and often cross multiple continents. In every case, IT has to ensure that ...
Powering Linux in the Data Center
[ Source: Symantec and DLT Solutions ]
March 2013-
Many IT professionals are drawn by the savings that Linux® brings to the data center but are concerned about the potential uptime and data protection risks that arise from trusting their business-critical applications to "free" or native software. Native Linux solutions also prove challenging with required manual scripting and lack of automated operations and management. For business-critical data center applications, the complete line of Symantec high availability, data protection, backup and recovery, disaster recovery and ...
Keys to Data Protection: Myths, Realities and Proactive Planning
[ Source: Carbonite ]
November 2012-
Through a series of case studies, Inc. and Carbonite explore the all-too-common small business ‘nightmare’, data loss – and, examine the consequences suffered as a result of being ill-prepared. Experts Pete Lamson, senior vice president for small business at Carbonite, and Philip Jan Rothstein, president of Rothstein Associates Inc., weigh-in on the importance of making data protection a business priority. With proper – and more importantly, proactive - planning, small businesses can aptly prepare for whatever may ...
How Prepared is Your Business if Disaster Strikes?
[ Source: Carbonite ]
November 2012-
Research from the Insurance Institute states that up to 40 percent of small businesses affected by disaster will never reopen. Carbonite provides 10 easy tips to help small businesses develop a solid disaster preparedness plan. Having such a plan in place, helps businesses minimize loss and disruption and return to normal business operations as quickly as possible in the event of a disaster. Through this checklist, small business owners will receive ideas on how to appropriately assess ...
Cloud-Based business continuity
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
September 2012-
Learn how HP examines the emergence of a new genertion of cloud-based continuity solutions. The paper adressess the most current challenges of enterprise-class continuity, and how traditional IT operations can be recovered to the cloud. Also the paper explores the key issues that organizations may examine when considering a cloud-oriented approach to disaster recovery (DR).
Sponsored by: HP and Intel®
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Cloud-Connected Backup and Recovery
[ Source: Evault ]
August 2012-
Go hybrid and get the best of both data protection worlds. Cloud-connected backup and recovery seamlessly combines cloud-based and onsite data protection technologies for fast, local restores and ensured, offsite disaster recovery.
Read the white paper to:
• Discover the benefits of transitioning from tape to disk
• Learn how to get shorter backup windows and faster recovery times
• Ensure your data is totally secure and easily recovered
Carnegie Mellon CyLab, Governance of Enterprise Security 2012 Report
[ Source: EMC ]
August 2012-
Company directors have a duty to protect the assets of their organizations. Now, this duty extends to digital assets, and has been expanded by laws and regulations that impose specific privacy and cyber security obligations on companies. This 2012 survey is the first global governance survey, comparing responses from industry sectors and geographical regions.
Seeding the Cloud: How Choosing the Right Model Can Be a Business Rainmaker
[ Source: mindSHIFT Technologies ]
February 2012-
The business benefits of cloud computing are clear, but for many IT decision makers, the path to cloud implementation is not. Each cloud model offers its own set of strengths and weaknesses and many business and technical factors must be considered. Choosing the right cloud provider with expertise in the cloud model and solutions you need
based on proven technology is key to achieving the increased business agility and flexibility, reduced capital and operating expenses ...
Why Cloud-Based IT Outsourcing Firms Are So Popular
[ Source: External IT ]
February 2012-
Best-of-Class Resources. Conserving Capital. Reducing Risk. Speed of transformation. These are a few of the most common reasons why companies, in increasingly large numbers, are choosing to team with cloud IT unifying specialty firms.
While every company has its own reasons for making this decision, industry surveys have identified ten common reasons that companies cite as driving factors.
This paper details the ten. The list may serve as convenient reference criteria ...
Everything A CEO Needs To Know To Select A Cloud IT Unifying Platform
[ Source: External IT ]
February 2012-
Technology may not be your specialty, or even your interest. But given its critical role in supporting a business, and the rapid transition companies are making to unified cloud solutions (to cut costs, lower risk and otherwise enhance their competitive stance), this five minute read will be time well spent.
It explains the fundamental differences between the two cloud unifying platforms (the OS33 Portal Desktop and Hosted Desktop/VDI), and does so in ...
Business continuity: How to increase workforce resiliency during disasters
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2012-
What would happen to your business if your workers were unable to perform their jobs due to natural or manmade disasters? This paper shares five critical areas in which IBM can help you build human factors into your continuity strategy to help ensure that your workforce and your business remains resilient in the face of adversity.
Business Continuity and Resiliency Services from IBM--Helping Business Stay in Business
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2012-
How do you know if your organization is proactively prepared for - and able to flexibly respond to - unplanned events? Does your business possess the resilience it needs to rapidly react to potentially costly man-made or natural disruptive events?
Read this paper to discover how IBM can help protect your brand and potential revenue should the unthinkable occur by helping you to:
• Assess your risks
• Develop a tailored business ...
Building a Disaster-Ready Infrastructure
[ Source: CenturyLink ]
November 2011-
Everyday problems, such as hardware failures and power outages, are much more common than natural disasters and can bring a business to its knees. Only companies with a disaster-ready infrastructure and solid business continuity plan can come through such events with minimal downtime and cost.
Planning for Disaster and Everyday Threats
[ Source: CenturyLink ]
November 2011-
From downtime costs to regulatory compliance, the need for strategic business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) planning is clear, but what does that mean for your organization? Find out how your organization can protect business-critical functions, minimize downtime and mitigate risk.
The Dollars and Sense of Online Backup
[ Source: SunGard Availability Services ]
October 2011-
IT functions in business are complicated enough. For the business majority, adding data protection expertise as a core competency simply does not make fiscal sense. Turning that function over to the leading solution in online backup and recovery-EVault-will save time, money and aggravation. Secure2Disk powered by EVault has the right online backup solution for companies that are serious about protecting business-critical data.
7 Key Considerations in Selecting a Colocation Provider
[ Source: SunGard Availability Services ]
October 2011-
Faced with the need to optimize every aspect of their department, IT organizations are recognizing the benefits of selecting a colocation provider for their mission-critical equipment in a data center. The time, cost savings, and quality of service a company can realize as a result of using a Managed Services provider for colocation are very appealing. With significant benefits of scale, IT Operations need to look for reliable facilities that offer uptime, power environmentals, physical ...
Security in the Cloud
[ Source: SunGard Availability Services ]
October 2011-
Cloud computing is being rapidly embraced across all industries. But this massive shift from local hardware to web-based resources is not risk- and hazard-free. Concerns about security are running high. And questions about business relevance and resiliency remain. This white paper covers strategies for addressing those questions.
Best Practices for Cloud-based Recovery
[ Source: SunGard Availability Services ]
October 2011-
Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) has been available for some time, and has leveraged a number of infrastructure options and recovery platforms. Many of these options have provided a recovery solution that is flexible, scalable, and secure. And in some cases, service providers offer fully managed solutions with the expertise to support heterogeneous IT environments.
Taming the data demons: leveraging information in the age of risk
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2011-
The cost of maintaining and protecting data can run higher than the cost to capture it in the first place.
This white paper explores the framework and advantages of a holistic approach to data risk management, and provides both IT and line-of-business executives with the ?why? and ?how? to begin putting a holistic data risk management program to work in their own organization.
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