True Cost of Tape Backup
[ Source: 3X Systems ]
April 2009-
Companies frequently assume that their current backup solution or backup management process can be retained at no cost to the company. However, in the case of tape backup, the reality is that the cost of “doing nothing” can often be greater than the cost of a new solution. In fact, the analysis conducted in the 3X Systems and Glomark-Governan white paper found that for many companies, eliminating the labor of managing a tape backup would ...
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.
10 Mobile Security Requirements for the BYOD Enterprise
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
An enterprise mobility strategy needs to include more than the provisioning and security services made available through mobile application and Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions.
To meet the mobility and security requirements of road warriors and other mobile users, enterprises need to look at deploying a solution for mobile content management.
An effective mobile content management solution supports Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, enables authorized users to share files of ...
Evaluating Cloud File Sharing and Collaboration Solutions
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
Consumerization has had a broad impact on IT-users are bringing in their own devices and subscribing to their own applications without waiting for the IT department' permission. Users want and need to be able to access documents from multiple devices and are subscribing to consumer applications like Dropbox to share files between devices and collaborators.
This creates a tremendous challenge for IT, which is in charge of managing and protecting corporate information assets, ...
Putting IT Back in Control of BYOD
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
Osterman Research conducted a survey of 760 individuals with regard to the BYOD issues they face in their organizations. Personally owned Apple iPhone and iPads, as well as Android smartphones and tablets, are more common than their company-supplied counterparts.
The research also found widespread use of third party, cloud-based storage and file synchronization offerings that are sometimes used with IT's blessing, but more often not. Dropbox, for example, is used in 14% of 1,000+ employee organizations ...
Secure File Sharing and Collaboration in the Cloud: Maximizing the Benefits While Minimizing the Risks
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
The rampant use of free, cloud-based dropbox-type of applications has created new security vulnerabilities for enterprise organizations. Employees using mobile devices are increasingly taking advantage of these services to share confidential or protected information and collaborate with people outside the organization-without providing adequate security, tracking, or visibility for the IT department.
Employee use of unmanaged cloud-based services puts your organization at risk for a data breach or non-compliance with industry and government regulations.<...
The Need for Enterprise-Grade File Sharing and Synchronization
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
Cloud-based file-sharing and synchronization solutions are among the most popular applications used in the workplace.
Many of these solutions, classified as "consumer-focused" because they are typically deployed by individual users and not as part of a coordinated IT plan, offer tremendous usability. By synchronizing files across a variety of platforms-desktop, laptop, smartphone and tablet-these tools enable users to have near real time access to all of their content from any platform and any ...
Best Practices for Secure Enterprise Content Mobility
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
The proliferation of mobile devices and the popularity of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are creating new security challenges for enterprises. Employees are using devices such as iPads and smartphones to access and store business data. And they're relying on email and consumer-grade file-sharing services to share and access this data. As a result, enterprise data has never been easier to access and more difficult to secure.
To secure mobile devices while enabling ...
Media Drives and Fragmentation
[ Source: Accurate Vision ]
January 2008-
Disk fragmentation is a process whereby files are constantly being broken into multiple pieces, so that they will fit into available spaces on a drive. From the tests conducted as described in this report, the authors are convinced that drive fragmentation is one of the major culprits that impede the performance, stability and productivity of NLE systems.
Fragmentation appears to be similar to dirt on a VTR head: the more it builds up, ...
Remote Data Management & Backup With Snap EDR
[ Source: Adaptec ]
January 2008-
Managing remote data effectively requires dealing with networks variability, dissimilar computing platforms, security needs and data integrity and implement process automation to overcome the lack of trained IT staff at remote locations. Advanced remote data management and movement technology, such as that incorporated into Adaptec Snap EDR makes it possible to cost-effectively solve the challenges of managing data at remote offices. This white paper exemplifies on the issues, requirements and approaches to effective remote data ...