Increasingly complex data center environments put an extra strain on your disaster recovery plans. How should you address performance, capacity, and management requirements and ensure your protection strategies are effective?
An inside look at changes in the disaster recovery planning process and CA's goals in developing decision support products.
Tape continues to deliver reliability, flexibility, and sound support of a multilayer data protection strategy.
Here are four steps you need to take to ensure your data is safe and recoverable when you use a software-as-a-service provider.
These best practices will help you get the maximum return from your storage budget while streamlining the overall performance and reliability of your IT infrastructure.
Backup is a necessary evil whose hard costs (including disk, bandwidth, and software) are easy to calculate. Beware these three not-so-obvious costs that can cost IT thousands of dollars.
Continuity planning has significant value to offer besides risk reduction; sadly, the benefits are rarely talked about.
Tape plays a continuing role in meeting the storage challenge.
Here's a simple solution to the disk vs. tape debate: use the technologies together and get the best of both worlds.
Storage buyers have been conditioned to look for ever-greater "value." We explain why this behavior is so risky.
Data protection budgets are in trouble because executives are getting the wrong pitch from storage pros.
De-duplication may seem like a way to go cheap on DR, but it can yield some expensive consequences.
Promises comes and go. A few have morphed into something different.
If you want to economize on storage for the massive amount of data you're accumulating, the choice is clear: tape.
Green alone isn’'t going to sell archive. Recognition of fundamental data differences must make the case.
How prepared are you for a disaster?
During a regional disaster, a large company will quickly discover that the damage to small firms in the area can dramatically reduce its own recovery
How many shops are really using server virtualization?
Why a new technology -- Intelligent Storage Element -- has our storage analyst raving
Tape issues are the result of personnel errors and processes, not of the technology itself.