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IntelliPRINT Dashboard Reporting by Synaptris, Inc.
Reporting 2.0 is the new web-based enterprise reporting where end-users can create, interpret, and extend their reports or analyze report data in real-time with no IT overhead. Learn more about it in this whitepaper. To manage today...
Entertainment Retailer Cuts Fraud with Real Time Data Reporting by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
hampered by long lag times in data reporting. To improve loss prevention, the multichannel entertainment retailer worked with Xavor to deploy a new point-of-sale reporting solution based on Microsoft® Windows Server System™ integrated server infrastructure...
Quest MessageStats™ by Quest Software
business-critical analysis and reporting on Exchange e-mail infrastructures. With e-mail at the forefront of corporate communications, the need for Exchange reporting and analysis has become paramount for corporate executives, I.T. directors and managers...
Leveraging Solid-State Technology (SSD) in the High Performance Storage Tier by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This SearchStorage Tech Report examines the use of solid-state drive (SSD) technology in the high-performance storage tier to help storage professionals understand and make better decisions regarding their storage infrastructure. This SearchStorage Tech Report examines the use of solid-state drive (SSD) technology in the high...
Hot Spots: A New Level of Backup Reporting by Storage Magazine
to address the need to provide reporting beyond a single backup event. More recently, reporting has moved beyond the data center. That's due to a growing concern on the behalf of executive management, who's being held accountable for compliance with...
ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance by Exanet
This report explores how scale-out ExaStore clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS. Typically, customers have implemented storage area networks (SAN) to meet the performance and high availability requirements of their mission critical applications. Recent...
Green IT Best Practices: A User Testimonial Calculate and report on carbon emissions with confidence by IBM
demanding full accountability and reporting on greenhouse gas reductions and carbon offsets. This webcast tells how IBM customer, C-Lock uses IBM Software and the IBM Business Process Accelerator to automate manual processes and develop a real-time...
10 Key Considerations for Email Archiving by Agilysys-HDS
The SearchStorage Tech Report “10 Key Considerations for Email Archiving” helps you narrow down the available email archiving products by asking 10 important questions. When examining an email archiving product, it's important to know how well it's suited to the specific requirements of the email system it's intended to protect. The...
Gartner Names "ExaGrid Cool Vendor" in Data Protection by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Cool Vendors in Data Protection report points to a focus on new and less-expensive disk-based backup options that make the use of disk for faster backup and recovery a more viable option than traditional backup-to-tape methods. The "Cool Vendors in Data Protection" report points to a focus on new and less-expensive disk-based backup...
Disaster Strikes! Is Your Business Ready? Disaster Preparedness for Mid-Sized Firms by VMware, Inc.
This report explores common minor and major disaster scenarios, shows that they are far likelier than most people think, and explains how they can affect a business. It also clarifies what true disaster recovery means. Mid-sized businesses have long struggled to protect their IT systems. Many firms are inadequately protected and...
Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
when it comes to advanced capacity reporting, predicting usage patterns, performance tuning, troubleshooting and cost management. Because backup applications deliver some of these advanced features, especially reporting, storage managers often find it...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
The growth of business-related data means IT must efficiently manage and control data-center storage. Analysis and storage consolidation helps recover wasted assets. Learn to identify and eliminate useless data. Read the white paper today. It's a no brainer - consolidating servers reduces storage management costs, requires fewer...
Cost Visibility, Chargeback, and Capacity Management in Virtualized Environments by VKernel
VKernel's Chargeback Virtual Appliance allows IT to provide its end user departments with instant reports about resource consumption and how much it costs. VKernel's Chargeback Virtual Appliance allows IT to provide its end user departments with instant reports about resource consumption and how much it costs. ▪ Meters resource...
TechTarget 2008 Media Consumption Benchmark Report: Perception versus Reality of the IT Pro and the IT Marketer by TechTarget
This report benchmarks the similarities and dissimilarities between IT pros and IT marketers when it comes to their media use preferences. Information technology (IT) buyers are finding comprehensive vendor and product information in new ways-and they're predominantly online. Juxtaposed to this reality, IT marketers still...
ESG Lab Validation Report: ExaGrid Systems Disk-based Backup with Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This ESG Lab report explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte level data de-duplication to provide space efficient capacity optimization. This ESG Lab report explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte level data de-duplication to provide space efficient capacity optimization, fast and reliable...
ITG Report: Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems as Database Server in Midsize Companies - Cost Comparisons with Windows Servers by IBM
This report examines the use of the IBM Power platform as an alternative to commodity Windows servers. Learn how the IBM Power platform offers many advantages in performance, scalability and key functional capabilities to support key database serving. IBM Power Systems offer a smart alterative to Windows® servers. Maintaining data...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise by IBM
of daily operations - from financial reporting to customer service and support. These applications collect and deliver essential information for objective analysis and timely decision making. But increased regulatory burdens and runaway data growth can...
NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices by NetApp
This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware® Virtual Infrastructure on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. NetApp® technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization. NetApp provides industry-leading solutions...
Tackling the Virtualization Chargeback Challenge by VKernel
Learn how VKernel’s Chargeback Virtual Appliance helps companies gain cost visibility and chargeback on resource utilization; recover costs of ESX Infrastructure; and measure resource consumption by applications, resource pools and clusters. The old chargeback model of users paying for physical server hardware simply no longer...
Unlimited Storage by Storage Magazine
Clemson University bets on lots and lots of low-cost storage to enhance its profile and attract top faculty. Clemson University bets on lots and lots of low-cost storage to enhance its profile and attract top faculty. Every college and university yearns to break into the top tier of the U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of higher...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite by IBM
for example, current data, reporting data and historical data. You maintain universal access to information. You rely on Oracle® E-Business Suite to drive day-to-day operations in all areas of your business - from financial management and human resources...
Forrester Consulting - Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance. Are your workers going increasingly mobile? Don't wait for their calls to slam Support when they...
Taneja Report: F5's Acquisition of Acopia Networks & the Vision of the Next Generation Data Center by F5 Networks
Server virtualization is being added to IT shops at a booming rate because IT has seen the benefits: improved utilization rates, reduced CapEx and improvements in flexibility. In this report, The Taneja Group explains it in detail. The existing non-virtualized methods of delivering application services, both locally and remotely, are...
Application Delivery Challenge by Akamai Technologies
This reports explains various topics like: The critical role of an ADC in the data center, Foundry Serveriron application delivery controller, transforming data center into a dynamic delivery center and managed services to complement ADC. This reports explains various topics like: The critical role of an ADC in the data center and the...
Case Study - How Tektronix implemented a global database archiving strategy among ever changing business conditions by Hewlett-Packard Company
and met statutory and legal reporting requirements. Implementing a global database archiving strategy sounds daunting but the benefits prove well worth the effort. One company realized years ago that data accumulation in its application databases...
Scalability Test Results for Concurrent User Sessions on Servers Running Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors by Citrix
This paper reports scalability test results for concurrent user sessions on Dell PowerEdge R805 servers running either Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Virtualization is becoming a standard method for creating flexible, dynamic data centers that can rapidly respond to changing business needs while effectively...
ESG: Disk-based Backup With Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This report presents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing of the ExaGrid backup to disk solution with a focus on ease of deployment, performance, disk capacity optimization, WAN-efficient remote replication and scalability. A growing number of organizations are embracing disk-based backup solutions to improve backup...
Executive Summary: How to Achieve Comprehensive Network Security by Q1 Labs Inc
and compliance, and compliance reporting. Security practitioners need to think about security management along three separate axes-operations, investigations, and compliance, and compliance reporting. Each of these functions is distinct, and typically...
Mastering the Risk/Reward Equation: Optimizing Information Risks to Maximize Business Innovation Rewards by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, produced this report that presents content on risk/reward lessons learned and best practices of 10 of the world's top information security leaders. For top-performing organizations, business innovation is not simply an event in time or a laboratory project to generate a new product. It is an on-going...
FAQ's
Who needs a backup reporting tool?
they're not likely to get with a backup application that has some basic reporting capabilities, such as log files.

If you're looking at backup reporting tools, you might be in an organization that has invested in more than one backup application. You might be running backups at multiple locations. You might spend... More...

Are there any benefits or drawbacks of choosing a separate tool for backup reporting compared with using a tool that's integrated with your backup software?
The backup applications usually provide some fundamental reporting on backup operations. You might have a dashboard view and some canned reports that focus on things like backup job status or media, or device error. And if you need to drill down deeper, you can go to things like error logs.

You can also... More...

Backup reporting FAQ
with the Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses the need for backup reporting, the backup reporting tools available in today's market and more. Her answers are also available below as an MP3.

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