Protecting Data

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Protecting Personal Data in Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise by Sybase, Inc.
several distinct advantages for protecting data. First, it requires no application or schema modifications, which means that data encryption can be implemented quickly without disturbing existing implementations. Second, it has intrinsic key management...
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...
Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data? by IBM
are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in testing environments is often overlooked. This "Privacy Gap" needs to be addressed immediately, because it...
Protecting Stored Data Part II by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
provides the latest information on data protection technologies and provides best practices for applying appropriate protection services to data assets. The best metric for measuring business resiliency is "time to data" -- the amount of time required to...
Protecting Stored Data Part I by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
provides the latest information on data protection technologies and provides best practices for applying appropriate protection services to data assets. The best metric for measuring business resiliency is "time to data" -- the amount of time required to...
Leveraging, protecting virtual machines in disaster recovery sites by Citrix
This expert webcast explains why traditional DR approaches are error-prone and expensive and how virtualizing DR can simplify the process. Watch it for best practices and key steps to create a successful virtualized DR plan in your IT shop. Achieving 100% recovery in a disaster requires a one-to-one ratio of servers and storage at the DR...
Breakthrough Data Recovery for AIX - Vision Solutions by Vision Solutions
strategy and technology to protect data and provide fast recovery for data which is lost or corrupted due to accident and malicious action. The purpose of this podcast is to provide a roadmap to the most effective strategy and technology to protect data and...
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure Symantec BE 12.5 for Windows Server by Symantec Corporation
a standard technology in many data centers today. While VMware augments hardware utilization significantly through the use of server virtualization, VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure (ESX) 3 also introduces new issues concerning the backup and...
Top Reasons to Look at CA Recovery Management to Address All Your Data Protection Needs Podcast by CA
release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges. This podcast discusses how CA Recovery Management release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges. Mat Dickson, VP of Development answers questions that go beyond common...
Best Practices for Backup by Syncsort
are more and better tools to protect data than ever before, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. With ever growing data capacities, it's critical to plan appropriately, develop efficient...
Storage Standards: A Progress Report by Storage Magazine
it much easier to manage storage and data. Four storage standards (SMI-S, XAM, encryption key management and FAIS) promise to make it much easier to manage storage and data.

Several storage standards are emerging that will help storage administrators manage...
SARCOM Simplifies Storage: Virtualization Makes Provisioning and Management Much Easier - and More Cost Effective by Hewlett-Packard Company
while reducing costs and protecting data.

Replace EMC CLARiiON storage array with a virtualized HP-based SAN infrastructure linked to server blades, with point-in-time replication (full data set snapclones) and backup to tape libraries.

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Highly Available Virtualization With Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 by Dell, Inc.
maintaining productivity, and protecting data from system failure. Combining Microsoft Hyper-V technology with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 on Dell platforms can help organizations create highly available virtualized...
The Big Picture You've Never Seen: Enterprise SharePoint Recovery by Quest Software
individuals are moving all types of data and applications to it at break-neck speed. SharePoint is Microsoft's fastest-growing product and is being adopted within organizations at an almost viral rate. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007...
Finding the ‘Right Fit' for Protecting Virtual Machine Workloads by Symantec Corporation
enables new capabilities in data protection and addresses some drawbacks of server virtualization by delivering solutions that match requirements and workloads in various virtualization deployment scenarios. A virtual machine is a single...
Disaster Recovery for Remote Offices: It's Easier to Get Right Than You May Have Thought by Overland Storage
Snap Server data protection solutions provide the simplest way to protect critical data stored on desktops, laptops, file and application servers, and Snap Servers at remote offices. Remote offices and retail locations...
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...
Case Study: Prudential Financial protects its brand with Symantec Data Loss Prevention by Symantec Corporation
and protect sensitive customer data, block and quarantine messages containing legal information and intellectual property and use workflow to efficiently delegate incident responses. Prudential Financial, Inc., a financial services leader with...
Protecting Sharepoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0 by Double-Take Software
way to protect your SharePoint data and access. As the distributed workforce grows, the need for online collaboration and document management grows with it. MSFT SharePoint® streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create...
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...
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...
Symantec Data Loss Prevention Product Overview V9 by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Data Loss Prevention delivers a unified solution to discover, monitor, and protect confidential data wherever it is stored or used. Today just about anybody can share, access, and disseminate information in unlimited...
TechNet Webcast: Protect SQL Server 2008 with Data Protection Manager 2007 by Microsoft
Data Protection Manager 2007 uses wizards and workflows to help ensure that you can protect your organization's data, and it doesn't require an advanced degree, training, or certification in storage and backup...
Data Protection Scenarios and Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
data protection for business data. Data loss can occur when users or applications accidentally delete one or more files. Data needs to be protected from virus infection. Data must be restored or recreated when a single disk drive or an entire disk subsystem...
Strategies You Can Use to Protect Against Data Loss Today by Cisco Systems, Inc.
getting into the wrong hands. Data loss prevention (DLP) is a serious issue for companies, as the number of incidents (and the cost to those experiencing them) continues to increase. Whether it's a malicious attempt or an inadvertent mistake, data...
Hot Spots: Data Deduplication Drama by Storage Magazine
by knowing where to look for it. Data deduplication for secondary storage is prompting as much passion from vendors as it is confusion for some users. Why? Because dedupe is one of those influential, crucial technologies that comes along every few years.

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Closing the Data Privacy Gap: Protecting Sensitive Data in Non-Production Environments by IBM
This White Paper explains why protecting sensitive information and ensuring privacy have become high priorities. This White Paper explains why protecting sensitive information and ensuring privacy have become high priorities. News headlines about...
Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5 for VMware 3.x: Best Practices by Symantec Corporation
software is making its way into data centers of every size. Recognizing this trend, Veritas NetBackup™ has engineered innovative, award winning data protection solutions designed specifically for VMware environments. This paper covers best...
7 Requirements of Data Loss Prevention by Symantec Corporation
of the capabilities a successful data loss prevention solution must deliver. It also incorporates insight into the capabilities that companies require from their solution. Global organizations and government agencies require more than network...
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...
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
more frequently. Disk offers far better performance than tape systems, allowing for faster data transfers as well as greater long-term reliability. Disk can accept complete backup volumes, as well as simple file copies. For example, backup software can send a full backup volume to a virtual tape library (VTL) emulating the behaviors of a traditional tape system... 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...

Are there any major drawbacks to using tape encryption?
Probably the biggest one: You lose your keys; you lose your data. This deserves the most consideration and you need to have the best possible key management.

Also, if you plan on encrypting at the client level, that may cause some issues if you have implemented deduplicaiton within your... More...

There were early concerns about scalability. Have manufacturers largely dealt with those concerns, or do scalability issues still remain?
is architected, how to manage performance and scalability, and even data destruction on the back end. How does the product remove expired data from the index? How is the index rebuilt over time? How do you add more capacity? It really becomes a much more complex proposition at the enterprise level.

So, these... More...