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Expert Advice - 20 Practical Tips on Authentication and Access Management from Practiced Professionals by Imprivata
process. Read these 20 expert tips and pointers to get a handle on how to manage authentication and access management within your organization. The threat of a data breach and the need to address regulatory compliance are forcing many organizations to...
How to Protect Your Enterprise's Critical Data Wherever It Is by Iron Mountain Digital
read this white paper to discover tips and advice for creating a comprehensive data protection strategy and solutions that can help you accomplish this. There is more data in your organization than ever before and its value keeps multiplying...
Podcast: Getting Set for e-discovery by SearchStorage.com
expert Podcast provides survival tips and advice for coping with e-discovery from legal expert Craig E. Bertschi. Download this Podcast for an important Q&A session with Craig and Jo Maitland of SearchStorage.com to get the answers to the most pressing...
Energy Efficient Data Center by APC
microsite features independent expert advice from industry analysts, proven best practices, and a series of videos exploring the Green Data Center of the future. Also included are the tips you need to increase efficiency throughout the data center, ranging from...
SharePoint E-Zine Volume 8: Must-have Free SharePoint Tools and Add-ons by SearchWinIT
SharePoint chores. Also included is expert advice on the following topics:

  • How to avoid five common SharePoint traps
  • Tips to build scalability in SharePoint governance
  • How to set criteria for mandated upgrades

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    E-Guide: Less is more: The real value of data deduplication and virtualization for your business by Data Domain
    bandwidth requirements, better data reduction, and more. The benefits of data virtualization are also discussed. Data deduplication is a relatively new technology that has made its way into many data storage environments. But what makes it a justified...
    eGuide: Get More Out of Your Data Protection Plan by Hewlett-Packard Company
    This eGuide offers the practical advice storage pros need in order to get more out of their data protection plan, an increase overall IT efficiency. Every storage pro is looking to do more with less, especially in today's economy. This eGuide offers the...
    Storage Decisions Data Deduplication Virtual Seminar by Storage Decisions
    On June 30, 2009, backup and recovery expert W. Curtis Preston brings the popular Storage Decisions Deduplication Seminar to the virtual world. This live, one-day online workshop features how-to advice on the hottest technology in storage. Get...
    10 Essential Steps to Oracle & MS-SQL Security & Compliance by Guardium
    contains hundreds of practical tips and examples for protecting sensitive information and passing audits smoothly...
    How to get mainframe MIPS under control: Tips for shrinking your mainframe processing costs by BMC Software, Inc
    opportunities to do so. This expert podcast explains how to use specialty processors, load balancing, and compression database software for this task. Today's economic climate means that data center pros need to make the most of existing resources. In...
    eGuide: An in-depth look at data deduplication methods by FalconStor Software
    deduplication. You'll learn the pros and cons of each, and will benefit from independent expert insight that will help you get the most out of the approach you take with data deduplication technology. Data Deduplication has dramatically improved the value...
    E-Book: The Midmarket CIO's Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning by Compellent
    guide, midmarket CIOs are offered expert advice and resources on a full range of issues associated with disaster recovery planning -- from virtualization and applications to outsourcing and affordable solutions. Disaster recovery (DR) is, without argument, one of...
    Deduplication School: Reduce Storage Needs by Eliminating Redundant Data by Data Domain
    do more with less. As a result, data reduction technologies like data deduplication, which reduce storage needs by eliminating redundant data, are a tool most organizations are already considering.

    The technology is ready and the concept is a no-brainer...
    Storage Magazine Online May 2009: Put Dedupe to the Test by SearchStorage.com
    test various systems against your data so you can make the right decisions. Plus, check out features on recession-proof storage tips, four-tier storage design, and Continuous Data Protection (CDP). Deduplication is the 'it' backup technology in 2009. But...
    eGuide: Making IT Automation a Reality by Hewlett-Packard Company
    expert E-Guide offers beginner tips and real-life examples for automation planning and deployment, you'll also learn proven techniques to avoid or resolve common pitfalls, so you can reap all of the perks of IT automation. Automating server...
    Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
    Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that perhaps one size fits all.

    Indeed, the range of storage...
    Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
    Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that perhaps one size fits all.

    Indeed, the range of storage...
    SAP on Linux: Basics, Migration Tips and How to Get Started by Red Hat
    Expert Podcast explores the pros and cons of running SAP on Linux, and explains how to create a migration plan from other operating systems. Running SAP on Linux is an increasingly popular option these days. Though SAP has supported Linux for about 10...
    Best Practices on Meeting PCI Version 1.2, an E-Guide by VeriSign® Enterprise Security Services
    be introduced in PCI version 1.2 and how your company will be affected by these changes. In addition, it will cover Visa's Payment Application Best Practices that spell out how payment application developers - and their applications - can meet the...
    eGuide: A Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Performance, Disaster Recovery, and Backup by Microsoft
    to you by SearchWindowsServer.com and Microsoft, you will discover how to effectively manage performance and backup strategies for Hyper-V. Learn how your organization can monitor Hyper-V performance in a comprehensive and cost-effective manner...
    Start your vacation early: Data protection on today's budget by Thales
    how to focus on the real threats to data, and what actions you can take today to make a meaningful contribution to stopping data breaches. This is must read advice for storage and security professionals. Cut through the hype and get the advice you need to...
    Database Encryption for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Thales
    Data Encryption, implementation tips, and benefits to data security and compliance. Database security expert Rob Walters talks about his experience with Transparent Data Encryption and cell-level encryption as part of Microsoft SQL Server 2008...
    A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets: A Global Financial Institution Case Study by Hitachi Data Systems
    on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million in savings by reducing physical storage capacity 40 to 60 percent. One of the world's leading global financial...
    eGuide: Performance tuning SQL Server via queries, indexes and more by Microsoft
    SQL errors. This collection of tips and expert guidance will have your SQL Server environment running at peak performance. All database administrators, whether new to the profession or seasoned pros, recognize the importance of performance tuning. Read this E...
    Building a Service-oriented Data Protection Strategy by Storage Decisions
    Explore this presentation for tips and best practices on how to overcome this challenge. Data protection is not a one-size-fits-all strategy. Different data protection methods, ranging from WAN-based data replication and clustering to tape backup and...
    Podcast: Customers Re-architect Data Protection Processes with Data Deduplication: Symantec Backup Exec and Data Domain by Data Domain
    changes in storage requirements and the efficiencies that can be achieved by deployment of new technologies as it relates to enterprise level backup and DR practices. Learning about data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting...
    Webcast: Customers Re-architect Data Protection Processes with Data Deduplication: Symantec Backup Exec and Data Domain by Data Domain
    more about re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; this webcast also highlights a solution that provides superior protection and substantial paybacks. Learning about data protection and backup planning...
    Hitachi's Approaches for an Increasingly Cost-Conscious Data Storage World by Hitachi Data Systems
    efficiency to their data centers and to drive costs out of, and value into, their storage infrastructures. This white paper relies on ESG research to demonstrate this, showing users are focusing on storage strategies and priorities that promise to...
    Server Virtualization, Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery by Storage Decisions
    Explore this presentation to learn tips and tricks on building an accessible BC/DR strategy server virtualization and the storage products that enable efficient, flexible green and virtual data centers. Server virtualization has the potential to bring...
    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
    focus on moving backup data rather than creating the backup and moving data at the same time.

    Use data reduction technologies to shrink the backup task

    Data reduction techniques like data deduplication, conventional compression and delta differencing to reduce the amount of data that must be backed up. Smaller backups will execute faster, resulting in a shorter backup... More...

    FAQ's
    Data replication for backup best practices
    need for many organizations. In this interview, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses synchronous and asynchronous replication, deduplication and management best practices. His answers are also available below as an MP3 download.

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    How has server virtualization affected the backup window and backup capacity?
    a survey of people who have 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... More...

    What are the drawbacks of using a virtual tape library (VTL) for data deduplication?
    Other products like Avamar or Asigra have a software capability. And while these have a lot of play in smaller production environments, they have limited reach into enterprise environments where scale and performance requirements are really high.

    Another potential drawback is that, with the... More...