Best Practices Show Direct eDiscovery Payback

If you think eDiscovery means sifting through e-mail archives, you're only part right. A new survey sponsored by Symantec sheds light on data retention and eDiscovery practices that reveal how the growing amounts of information is making compliance with legal challenges for information tougher.

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Cybersecurity Survey: Despite Losses, Enterprises Making Progress

Symantec Corp.'s latest State of Security report for 2011 examines the state of over 3300 enterprises' cybersecurity efforts, and like last year's survey, IT puts security squarely at the top of its list of business risks (according to 49 percent of respondents), followed by "IT incidents caused by well-meaning insiders" at 46 percent. Symantec emphasizes that those risks are "ahead of traditional crime, natural disasters, and terrorism."

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Co3 Offers New Approach to Data Loss Management

Let’s face it -- at some point the tools you’re using to prevent data loss won’t be enough and your data will be breached. It’s not if but when, and it can occur because of a concerted hacking attack or because an unsuspecting user responds to a Facebook message from a “friend.”

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New Compuware Test-Data Manager Protects Mainframe, Distributed Data from Single Interface

From all my years in testing mainframe applications, one thing I always knew: the best test decks came from the best data -- and the best data was in your current production files. Those records had valid Social Security numbers and account numbers and department codes. I could try to generate such test data files, but that always proved onerous.

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IT Prefers Private Over Public Cloud

When enterprise IT managers were asked about their top priorities and concerned about moving enterprise apps to cloud environments, one thing stood out: they prefer private clouds over public clouds.

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Two Tools to Improve Your Productivity

We’re always trying to get our applications running at peak performance. What are you doing to maximize your own performance of everyday tasks?

For me, it boils down to two key products.

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DataCore - The Switzerland of Storage Virtualization Solutions Providers?

Storage managers are often pressured to buy storage from a single vendor. That, in turn, leads to being pinned down to a particular vendor’s virtualization management solution.

I hate having my options limited. I want to pick best-of-breed hardware and solution. Mix-and-match is my motto. When it comes to storage virtualization software, DataCore seems to share my values. It’s new SANsymphony-V dynamically relocates workloads across pools of any type of storage equipment -- including SSDs -- and from any vendor. Because it sits high-enough up on the interface ladder, DataCore’s director of product marketing Augie Gonzalez told me, any new storage device you add can work instantly with SANsymphony -- no updates needed.

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SMBs: Cost vs. Quality, End-of-life Policies Highlighted in New Survey

Sometimes when you put cost over other factors, you end up getting what you paid for -- trouble.

That’s just one of the conclusions I drew from an online survey of over 500 IT managers at small businesses in the U.S. sponsored by HP and conducted by Wakefield Research. When asked, “How often, if ever, does your company place cost concerns above the best solution when budgeting for IT?” 22 percent answered “All the time.” Over half (56 percent) responded “some of the time.”

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