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Continuous protection
- Jun 2004
Do you want to rid yourself of a backup window or two? Continuous backup--also know as continuous data protection--is changing the rules by backing up in real time, or close to it. |
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Best Practices
- Mar 2007
Data protection is now much more specialized due to increased user expectations and new technology options. We need to rethink the way we approach risk and risk-related services. |
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Best Practices
- Jan 2007
Business-impact analysis and planning is a necessary first step in preparing a disaster recovery plan. Without it, the likelihood of either overspending or coming up with an incomplete solution is highly probable. |
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Best Practices
- Nov 2006
We can learn from manufacturing processes and use a supply chain to storage to better align it with strategic business goals. To implement this model, a storage services plan needs to be multidimensional and encompass performance, availability, data protection, data movement and migration, and data retention. |
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Best Practices
- Jul 2006
If your shop is inundated by a steady stream of requests for more storage, you need to get control of your company's storage consumption. To understand the problem, you have to examine the overall request and provisioning process and recognize the roles that data management and protection policies play. |
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Best Practices
- May 2006
Storage tiers are the first step toward true information lifecycle management. But they're only a small step—the key to ILM success is aligning your data with its business value. |
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Best Practices
- Jan 2006
Disk-based backup can help companies struggling with the inefficiencies of tape, but you may experience sticker shock at the cost of moving to disk. Data-reduction technologies can trim backup data down to size, and make the price of disk a little easier to swallow. |
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Best Practices
- Jul 2005
Aligning policies and processes is a significant stride toward building a consolidated service provider model. |
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Best Practices
- May 2005
Is your firm's DR plan more talk than action? Here are 10 reasons why your DR plan could be in trouble. |
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Best Practices
- Jan 2005
If you think data is growing at a fast rate now, wait until new technologies like RFID and XML take hold. |
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Best Practices
- Jul 2004
Whatever backup technology you use, you still need to follow the fundamentals. Here are 10 simple rules for better backup. |
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Integration
- May 2004
This November, a new portion of Sarbanes-Oxley will go into effect. Here's how to set up the right storage management practices so your organization will be ready. |
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Integration
- Jan 2004
Tips on how to plan a disaster recovery initiative that helps you get the most bang for your buck. |
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Integration
- Nov 2003
Creating a model for backup capacity will assist you in forecasting your storage needs for a given budget cycle. This way, you can consolidate your storage purchases and save big bucks. |
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Integration
- Sep 2003
The key to avoiding common backup nightmares that plague most storage managers is having clearly defined backup reports. |
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Integration
- Jul 2003
Can you describe your backup, retention and disaster recovery policies? And do they correctly address your business needs? |
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Integration
- Mar 2003
What's better for backup: tape or disk? Both, actually, and here's why. The answers may surprise you. |
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Integration
- Jan 2003
A look at data archiving and the strategy you'll need to ensure you're saving the right information. |
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