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Tackle Data Growth Issues through the Power of Enterprise Data Management by IBM
through the power of enterprise data management. As a recognized best practice, database archiving has proven effective in managing continued application data growth. Many organizations today rely on ERP and CRM applications, which collect information from a...
Enterprise Data Management: 7 Principles for Oracle E-Business Suite Archiving by IBM
information. Moreover, enterprise data management can deliver business value and a greater return on investment from your mission-critical business applications through database archiving.

This white paper outlines seven basic principles for successfully...
Backup = Archive: Can You Tell the Difference? by CommVault Systems, Inc.
for archiving information across data management sources. Think you know the difference? If we are to keep long term data management costs down while facilitating ease of data management, recovery, accessibility and data flexibility, then a unified data...
Application Retirement: Enterprise Data Management Strategies for Decommissioning Projects by IBM
how incorporating an enterprise data management solution into your decommissioning project can help your company increase the business value of your enterprise applications. This paper describes how incorporating an enterprise data management solution...
MDM Journey: The Right and Wrong Master Data Management Strategies to Start Small and Grow Big by Siperian, Inc.
No master data management journey is the same. Read this paper to learn from the successes and failures of MDM early adopters, how to select a technology that doesn't limit MDM's evolution and to compare approaches based on industry-specific...
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
is an iSCSI SAN that helps simplify data management and delivers enterprise data protection capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage consolidation solutions. Learn more in this paper. Now small and medium-sized organizations can harness the...
An Approach to Data Management with Higher Application Service Levels at a Lower Cost by Sybase, Inc.
Cluster Edition employs a shared data cluster architecture designed to support up to 32 computers (or nodes), each running one or more instances of ASE's core database manager. ASE Cluster Edition employs a shared data cluster architecture designed to...
Best Practices: The Ultimate Archiving Challenge by Storage Magazine
while avoiding vendor lock-in. A data management paradox exists today that, if unresolved, portends serious consequences long into the future. We have more information available to us than ever before. If you fast forward 50 years or 100 years, how much of this...
VTL Data Management Issues by Storage Magazine
and cataloging the transfer of data to tape. With the proliferation of virtual tape libraries within storage environments, storage managers face an increased number of decisions in regards to managing and cataloging the transfer of data to tape.

As...
Integration Acceleration: Orange County Seamlessly Integrates CAD Design and Geospatial Data by Autodesk
CAD design and geospatial data management, the OCSD has been able to save a signi?cant amount of time on key processes and also improves accuracy of asset data, which helps it to serve customers better. Autodesk Map 3D® provides an easy way for the district...
Using a Shared-Disk Architecture for Your Data Management System by Sybase, Inc.
service levels, reduce data center costs, and create data infrastructure for future business growth...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
addresses the complexity of the HPC data management, storage, and delivery problem. The Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC stores and manages HPC data on appropriate media types and delivers data promptly and transparently to users and grid nodes,...
Oracle Coherence: Providing Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availability for Mission-Critical Java Applications by Oracle Corporation
key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy--a ‘must have' capability for applications to operate with extreme and predictable performance and scalability. This white paper outlines key steps for achieving a superior data management...
Forrester Report: Financial Impact of Migrating to a Sybase Database Management System by Sybase, Inc.
its industry expertise in database management and Forrester's Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology. TEI not only measures costs and cost reduction (areas that are typically accounted for within IT) but also weighs the enabling value of a technology in...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise by IBM
IBM Optim™is a single, scalable data management solution offering benefits across the enterprise. Now you can align continuous control of your PeopleSoft data with business objectives to optimize performance, mitigate risks and control costs. APPLY...
Deduplication: The Post—Snapshot Revolution in Storage by Data Domain
and overall, simplifying data management. However, deduplication is hard to implement in a way that runs fast with low overhead across a full range of protocols and application environments.

This white paper highlights a data deduplication system that is...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
world benefits for data backup and data management.

The Virtual Disk Snapshot premium feature includes the following capabilities:
  • 1) Data protection by providing a readily available point-in-time image that reduces restore time, especially as compared to
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Mainframe Tape Technology: Eight Myths, Realities and Best Practices by CA
tape storage can be used to improve data management and operational efficiency. This white paper shows you how to address regulatory compliance, archiving, risk management, and cost issues. You'll learn best practices to negate these common mainframe tape...
Securing Data in Motion-Part One by Symantec Corporation and Iron Mountain Digital and Websense and Lumension Security and Utimaco Safeware
In part one of this data protection video series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the tools and techniques needed to protect against data leakage. Information can escape from your organization through every end...
File Virtualization For Dummies®: How to Get a Grip on Storage Growth and Reduce Costs by F5 Acopia Data Solutions
by labor-intensive tasks, and management costs are spiraling higher.

So how do we avoid these issues? One option is file virtualization, a growing technology in many organizations today.

View this Webcast to learn how leading companies around the world are...
Vancouver Canucks Virtualize with HP and VMware by VMware, Inc.
a transformational change to their data management infrastructure. They turned to HP and VMware to reduce hardware maintenance costs and accommodate the organization's growing business needs. With HP and VMware virtualization, they consolidated 18 servers into 3...
Securing Data Stored on Tape with Encryption: How to Choose the Right Encryption Key Management Solution by Quantum Corporation
designed to protect sensitive data throughout the enterprise. Securing data from unauthorized access is a critical issue for businesses in all industries. Regulatory compliance and customer loyalty all depend on keeping sensitive information...
Ensure Upgrade Success with PeopleSoft Enterprise Archiving Strategies by IBM
purposes. Discover how enterprise data management and database archiving capabilities can help PeopleSoft sites streamline the application upgrade process to reduce downtime risks, improve performance and ensure project success...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite by IBM
control of your E-Business Suite data with business objectives. Optim's proven archiving capabilities enable you to set desired service levels for each category of E-Business Suite data - for example, current data, reporting data and historical data. You...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing...
Strategies for PST File Elimination by Mimosa Systems
for Microsoft Exchange, a disk-based data management solution which optimizes the storage capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server. Email growth is exploding, and the common practice of saving old email and attachments is overburdening email servers. Email usage...
Remote Site Business Continuity with Syncsort XRS by Syncsort
demands, and decentralized data management.

Fortunately, a new disk-based backup solution has emerged that integrates simple server backup and recovery for remote sites with centralized control, while costing much less than conventional mirroring...
The Growing Importance of Data De-Duplication by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
with an ever-growing array of data management headaches, storage concerns, and recovery needs. The bottom line is ensuring we get the right data in the right place at the right time, and increasingly, companies are turning to data de-duplication as the answer.

What is...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
(RPOs) by supporting more frequent recovery points. When properly implemented, snapshot data can be used to restore lost files or recover from more substantial data loss. Features like data deduplication are also appearing in snapshots to reduce disk storage requirements, allowing for many more snapshots and longer retention periods. Below are a series... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
as backup targets. Storage space is finite, which can limit the allowable retention period for data. Data reduction technologies like data deduplication and delta differencing can dramatically extend the effective storage capacity. Also, indexing and search are can be valuable when rapid file organization and location are needed. Below are a series of best... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
The role of tape is clearly changing, shifting away from everyday data backup and moving toward deep archiving or offsite storage, but tape is still an important element of many data centers. Storage professionals must contend with concerns about tape performance and reliability that have remained almost unchanged for decades. In... More...
FAQ's
Backup reporting FAQ
about the success or failure of a backup job. They can then ensure that the data is actually recoverable. It would be better for that to happen closer to when the backup job kicks off.

Media reports that detail what was written to the media, when the media expires, when the media will be overwritten and the media's... More...

Do you think data should be deduplicated while the backup is occurring or after it is complete?
to this. There's the post-processing architecture that accepts all the data incoming and then stores the data on disk. Then, there is the more common in-line architecture.

Personally, I'm more in the post-processing camp right now. I'm trying to fully understand the benefits of doing it in-line. My concern at the... More...

How has server virtualization affected the backup window and backup capacity?
recently adopted server virtualization, and 37% say that the amount of data they back up increased after deploying server virtualization. It's significant. You're backing up the operating system, you're backing up applications, and you're backing up data.

Then, there is the proliferation of virtual... More...