Storage: Data Management & Protection


Tape is Key to Containing IT Spending

If you want to economize on storage for the massive amount of data you're accumulating, the choice is clear: tape.

IBM's BladeCenter SMB-Friendly Retrofit Includes Storage Consolidation

IBM says SMB-focused storage consolidation is an idea whose time has come. Its new shared storage option for BladeCenter S aims to deliver on that promise.

Wrappers and Recovery

How prepared are you for a disaster?

Why Storage Clouds Are Worth a Closer Look

It's time to take another look at remote storage services.

Two Near-Disasters Highlight Backup/Recovery Deficiencies

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

Being an IT Hero

Too many IT shops are deploying supposed technology solutions without fully understanding the complexity and collateral effects introduced into other parts of a dynamic system.

Vendors Respond to De-Duplication Concerns (Part 3 of 3)

Vendors offer their opinions on staying out of legal hot water to where to expand the use of de-duplication technologies.

Sanity Check on Tape, VTL, and De-Duplication

VTL and de-duplication, tape versus disk -- a possible new answer looms on the horizon.

Virtual Servers and Storage: Truth or Dare

How many shops are really using server virtualization?

Archiving Efficiency: The Key to Green Storage

Manufacturers may redesign their products to improve energy efficiency, but data archival may be the real secret to green storage.

Scoop on Spectra Logic's Media Lifecycle Management

Tape issues are the result of personnel errors and processes, not of the technology itself.

Three Principles of Business Continuity

What does it take to successfully build a business continuity plan? It’s not the technology.

Deduplicaton: Five Key Questions Help You Find the Right Solution

Deduplication on virtual tape libraries is a hot technology. Before jumping in, however, you’ll need answers to five important questions.

Classify and Move: Getting Stored Data in Order

The B-tree is an endangered species … .thank goodness.

Clearview and Microsoft: An ECM Bright Spot

Clearview may the best value-add to work with MS SharePoint Server

Getting to Green: PG&E Takes Proactive Steps

Is an incentive program the right way to drive increased greenness in storage and server operations?

What's In Store for Storage 2008

Disaster recovery tends to become a focus during any period of economic uncertainty -- and 2008 will deliver uncertainty in spades if market pundits are correct.

DataCore Has Reason to Celebrate

Once dismissed by the storage industry analyst community, DataCore is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S. market. We explain why.

CA XOsoft Delivers Continuity Confidence

There's no such thing as perfect disaster readiness, but you can still make important decisions to protect your data.

Storage Security Part VI: Locking Down the Disk

One company offers a way to secure data when different classes of data have different security requirements.