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Achieving PCI Compliance at the Point Of Sale Using Bit9 Parity™ to Protect Cardholder Data by Bit9, Inc.
data is a potential target, and recent data indicates that 4 out of 5 cardholder breaches occur at the point of sale.

In response to this evolving threat, the major credit card companies (American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide...
The Alarming Shift in Cybercrime: How Organized Attacks Now Target Your Wallet by Blue Coat
just by the user checking the latest news or sports scores.

Many websites of businesses, agencies, and medical and educational institutions that may not have been originally designed with tight security in mind are also being targeted for their databases...
Portable Panic - The Evolution of USB Insecurity by Lumension
s USB devices. Cyber-criminals and data thieves are increasingly using removable media to introduce malware and steal information from computers. One only need read the news regularly to see that USB devices are involved time and time again in today's...
The New Generation of De-duplication Technology Offers Clustered Architecture and Linear Performance Aggregation by FalconStor Software
and executives face explosive data growth, driving up costs for primary storage as well as storage for backup and disaster recovery (DR). Nevertheless, IT organizations continue to seek solutions to reduce storage costs and footprint while...
One of the Top IT Trends for 2009: Greater Data Center Efficiency by Tideway Systems
Learn the benefits of effectivce Data Center optimization and how implementing dependency mapping technology makes it possible to give IT a clear understanding of exactly what is in the data center, and how it relates to business applications. Recent...
Data Deduplication Beyond Backup by Storage Decisions
expect to see in future systems. Data deduplication has had a profound effect on backup operations, enabling companies to store more backup data than ever on easily accessible disks. This allows fast backup restores, and has allowed companies to...
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...
A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets: A Global Financial Institution Case Study by Hitachi Data Systems
institution embarked 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...
Oracle ONE - News for Midsize Businesses - Autumn 2008 by Oracle Corporation
you against downtime and data losses - it will benefit your productivity and operational efficiency too. Download now to find out how Oracle can help you ensure business continuity in this issue...
Podcast: Customers Re-architect Data Protection Processes with Data Deduplication: Symantec Backup Exec and Data Domain by Data Domain
and DR practices. Learning about data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated. Download this podcast to learn more about re-architecting your data protection processes...
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...
HP Dynamic Deduplication - achieving a 50:1 ratio by Hewlett-Packard Company
that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and also establishes how a 50:1 deduplication ratio may be achieved. In these days of rampant data growth, a technology that can...
Hitachi's Approaches for an Increasingly Cost-Conscious Data Storage World by Hitachi Data Systems
find ways to add 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...
Top 10 Reasons Hackers Use the Web for Attacks by Blue Coat
ocean, identity theft and corporate data compromises aren?t news. Hackers have been using the Internet to attacks corporations and individual users for a while now.

This white paper lists the top ten reasons hackers are able to utilize the accessibility of...
Overview Webcast - Storage Strategy for a Down Economy: Stop Buying Storage by Symantec Corporation
business will continue to generate data. IT organizations can expect to manage 40-60% more storage in the coming year and do so with less budget.

What if you can improve storage utilization by 40%?
What if you could avoid purchasing any new storage in 2009?

The good...
Solution Sheet: Xenos DSR™ - Document Storage Reduction Solution for ECM by Xenos Group Inc.
the Xenos DSR, document storage reduction solution for enterprise content management (ECM). The amount of high-volume content such as statements, bills, policies, and correspondence, often referred to as High-Volume Transactional Output (HVTO), being produced...
The Advantage of VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) Protection and Data Domain Deduplication by Data Domain
by a comprehensive approach to data backup, recovery and offsite disaster recovery. Read this white paper and learn how Server consolidation with VMware technology minimizes your server footprint with 70-80% reduction in operational and capital...
Midsize Business News: Cost-control and Process Flexibility by Oracle Corporation
In this white paper, we're taking a closer look at how cost control goes hand-in-hand with process flexibility. Your IT infrastructure can help, with integrated, automated processes that enable your staff to get things done faster. Midsize companies have their size and agility on their side. To make the most of your agility advantage...
McAllen ISD simplifies its messaging, storage and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86% by Dell, Inc.
Check out this case study to see how Dell teamed up with Mc Allen Independent School District to simplify its messaging, storage, and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%. CHALLENGE

McAllen Independent School District (MISD) needed to consolidate two separate, legacy email systems and...
Book Chapter: SAN for Dummies Chapter 14 Continuous Data Protection by FalconStor Software
In this chapter on Continuous Data Protection, you will learn how to use recent technical innovations to instantaneously recover data while enhancing overall data protection to make it faster, easier and more efficient. In this chapter on...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
their servers and streamline their data centers, resulting in as much as a ten-fold boost in resource utilization. The software also reduces the cost of setting up a disaster recovery site, as companies can run mirrored systems on virtual servers...
Tipcast: Do you really need continuous data protection? by FalconStor Software
an in-depth overview of continuous data protection (CDP). Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) that CDP products typically deliver is discussed in this tipcast, as well as how existing data protection software works with CDP...
Tipcast - Continuous data protection: Near vs. Real CDP? by FalconStor Software
differences between continuous data protection and near-continuous data protection, and highlights the evolution of near-CDP. This tipcast also discusses the pros and cons of true continuous data protection. This PDF of a recent tipcast highlights the...
The Role of Security Management in Achieving "Continuous Compliance" by CA
financial reporting, security and data privacy. But there are also tremendous business performance opportunities that can be fueled by the new requirements. This paper details the benefits of continuous compliance, which include reduction of risk and...
IDC White Paper - Online PC Backup: Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Solution by Iron Mountain Digital
at the need for laptop and desktop data protection and, based upon recent IDC research, the key requirements firms should consider in evaluating enterprise-level online PC backup solutions. Laptops and desktops, once forgotten corporate...
Secure Copy Version 5.0.2 - Data Migration solution by ScriptLogic Corporation
Getting data moved over to a new server is more than merely copying the most recent files and folders to that machine. File security, permissions, shared folders and local groups facilitating access need to be maintained. Product...
Optimise Deduplication with Data Domain SISL™ Scaling Architecture by Data Domain
help gain an order of magnitude more data reduction than traditional local compression such as LZ or gzip for backup users. But to be cost-neutral when compared to a tape automation system, the deduplication system needs to be CPU-centric and require very few disk...
Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
This IDC white paper will look at how the IT industry is changing from static x86 server configurations to a more integrated approach. The introduction of modern solutions, such as blade architectures, allows systems to accommodate both physical and virtual migration which promotes uptime and efficient resource usage. This IDC...
Dedupe-Centric Storage by Data Domain
again negate any benefits of the data reduction. All of these requirements make it very challenging to build a storage system that actually delivers the full potential of deduplication.

Deduplication has leverage across the storage infrastructure for...
ESG: Data De-duplication & Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems by Data Domain
as their primary defense against data loss events is troubling. This report recommends they consider data de-duplication to complement and even replace their tape systems. Disasters will happen. They can range from a file being lost, to a data center being...
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
Tape Encryption FAQ
can you protect your tapes once they leave your hands? Pierre Dorion, Data Center Practice Director with Long View Systems Inc., answers today's most common tape encryption questions. His answers are also available below as an MP3 download.

Table of contents:

>>Why should I encrypt tape?
>>Can you explain the... More...

Are there any instances where data deduplication will not provide any benefits? Superior benefits?
a lot of new images being created, then you'll see very little benefit from data deduplication. In that case, you're better off just running differential or incremental backups.

As far as areas in which data deduplication can provide superior benefits, databases have a lot of redundant data and... More...