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Closing the Data Privacy Gap: Protecting Sensitive Data in Non-Production Environments by IBM
In responding to this issue, data privacy regulations have been enacted around the world. Although the specifics of these regulations may differ, failure to ensure data privacy compliance can result in millions of dollars in financial penalties and...
IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution for SAP by IBM
The IBM® Optim™ Data Privacy Solution for SAP® offers comprehensive, proven capabilities for de-identifying test data, making the data appropriate for testing. The IBM® Optim™ Data Privacy Solution for SAP® offers...
Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data? by IBM
this Webcast to learn a proactive data privacy strategy that will remove the vulnerability within your SAP environment. Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business...
Perspectives by Information Security Magazine
Security and privacy teams must work together to protect personal information in the digital age. Information security and privacy teams within an organization must work together in addressing the lack of online privacy. It is not...
Database Archiving to the Rescue by IBM
can be a solution to information privacy laws, record-retention regulations and data growth challenges. The combination of more information privacy laws, record-retention regulations and data growth poses challenges to both database and storage...
6 Best Practices for Preventing Enterprise Data Loss by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
can follow to prevent enterprise data loss in order to protect revenue, limit customer attrition, and meet government regulatory requirements. Nearly 220 million records have been breached since January 2005, according to Privacy Rights...
The RSA® Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite Helps Microsoft Discover Sensitive Data by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
requirements and gain insight into data trends without disrupting business operations and IT resources. For a global corporation like Microsoft, the biggest challenge it faces in preventing data breaches and complying with privacy regulations isn...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise by IBM
IBM's Optim™Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise provides proven archiving capabilities. Now you can align continuous control of your PeopleSoft data with business objectives to optimize performance...
Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation
45;based security that protects data on the network, on disk and on backup media. Operating in today's global business environment presents numerous security and compliance challenges. The economic benefits of outsourcing must be coupled with...
Achieving Compliance in a Virtualized Environment by Tripwire, Inc.
resulting in the loss of cardholder data, confidential information, and personally identifiable information (PII) have substantially increased regulatory pressure. Many organizations must now comply with standards such as PCI, regulations like...
The Need for Vulnerability Management by Qualys
of business secrets, violate privacy provisions of laws and regulations, or paralyze business operations. New vulnerabilities appear every day due to flaws in software, faulty configuration of applications and infrastructure, and human error...
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...
Preventing Data Loss: 10 Key Imperatives by Varonis
describes the Varonis approach to data protection, it centers on the notion of data governance -- a comprehensive means to see, control and audit all aspects of unstructured data access. With 80 - 90% of data being stored on file servers, and the...
New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by F5 Networks
forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. Read this white paper for information on such a plan. Enterprise data protection has grown up. With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the...
Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security by Proofpoint, Inc.
pose a significant risk for data loss or leakage. This white paper will examine the new email security and compliance challenges and ways to address them. Email is the lingua franca of business today. It is the conduit that allows employees to share...
Managing Unstructured Data: 10 Key Requirements by Varonis
the right enterprise-wide data protection solution for your specific business. Learn more about these ten imperatives to know when evaluating a vendor offering. Research has shown that more than 80% of all business information comes from, "...
10 Things IT Should Be Doing (but isn't) by Varonis
the responsibility to business data owners, it is IT that has to enforce rules for who can access what on shared file systems and keep those strictures current through data growth and user role changes. Until organizations start to shift the...
Data Security Solutions by Websense, Inc.
information, protect against data, and allow administrators to manage who can send what information where and how. Protecting customer and other confidential data from malicious and accidental leaks is one of the top business and IT security...
Beyond Virtual Tape Libraries: End-to-End Data Protection with Syncsort Disk-to-Disk Solutions by Syncsort
While VTL data storage has been a popular data protection solution in recent years, the VTL solution may be incomplete for long-term needs. Read this white paper to learn why D2D backup solutions are the ideal data protection...
Remote Site Business Continuity with Syncsort XRS by Syncsort
of how to effectively protect data resources at remote dispersed sites. Read this white paper to learn about a solution that protects data at remote sites with centralized control. As companies increasingly migrate to distributed business models...
Syncsort Backup Express Advanced Protection Manager by Syncsort
Organization's need effective data protection solutions in order to meet today's business demands. Read this white paper to learn about an integrated suite of advanced D2D data protection solutions that ensure business continuity in all environ...
ESG - Understanding the Power of Data De-Duplication by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Data de-duplication has the power to revolutionize the data protection process by significantly reducing capacity requirements. Plagued by media hype and vendor FUD, this message can be easily lost. This paper serves as...
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Enterprise De-Duplication Solutions: How to Navigate the Pitfalls and Hyperbole by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
When it comes to data deduplication, the truth is often distorted. This white paper breaks through the hype and provides you with an outline on the principles of deduplication as well as tips for evaluating solutions. Data deduplication...
Full Disk Encryption - Your Best Defense against Data Breach by Wave Systems
encryption is fast becoming the data protection method of choice for organizations seeking to stay in compliance with recently enacted data protection laws. But integrating solutions for encrypting data at rest can be costly and complex. Unti... Full...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
and Virtual Disk Copy. These data protection features provide real-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
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Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
deliver complete Windows based data and system protection and recovery. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows Servers and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 are complementary solutions that deliver complete Windows based data and system...
Data Loss Prevention Resource Center by Symantec Corporation
a more in-depth understanding of Data Loss Prevention and tools which will deliver a comprehensive unified solution to discovery, monitor, and protect confidential data wherever it is stored or used. Welcome to the Symantec Data Loss Prevention...
Data Loss Prevention: Keeping Sensitive Data out of the Wrong Hands by Symantec Corporation
Data security breaches pose a serious threat. Companies need to reduce risks associated with exposing customer data, losing intellectual property, or violating compliance obligations. Learn more about DLP issues...
Health Services Provider Cares for Customers - And Their Security by Symantec Corporation
the transmission of confidential data and automatically enforces data loss prevention policies. As one the nation's largest health services organizations, CIGNA provides employers with benefits, expertise, and services that help improve the health of...
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
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...

What happens if you fill up a storage system with deduplicated data and it needs to grow?
This is really the Achilles heel of data deduplication right now.

If you have a lot of growth and wind up filling up an entire system, most products on the market today don't have the ability to add another system behind it. So, you have to invest in a new system. And that leads to... More...

What type of data reduction ratios should you realistically expect using deduplication?
There are two ways you can look at it. Most people are looking at data deduplication in conjunction with backup; backup appliances performing deduplication or even virtual tape libraries (VTL). So, looking at it in that context, you'll hear advertised ratios of anywhere from 10 to 500X.

But... More...