IT organizations are seeking new solutions that improve the operational efficiency of their business meeting their ROI expectations while consolidating the number of technologies to reduce their budgets.
Today's economy is forcing IT organizations to drill down and ask tough questions such as:

• Does my current solution portfolio provide quantifiable benefits and ROI?
• Are my vendor partners helping us meet or exceed our IT objectives?

Most corporations share a set of common goals: maximize profits while streamlining budgets. These goals are simple in concept but not always easy to achieve in the ongoing pursuit of "strategic" IT initiatives.


What if a technology vendor knocked on your door today and said, "I have a solution that":

• Is simple, quick and risk-averse to implement
• Is platform independent
• Helps provide a rapid return on investment and reduction to your budget in multiple areas
• Eliminates and reduces your downtime
• Protects your data
• Simplifies and ensures your Disaster Recovery Policies

At this point, you would most likely walk away and not believe the claims listed above. This whitepaper will examine many of the challenges and cost factors associated with data protection, and conclude with an overview of a vendor that truly has "a solution that" delivers on the above promises: InMage DR-Scout.

Research Findings Based on Surveys of IBM i and AIX Users

This report includes the input of  over 2,000 companies running AIX and IBM i Ii5/OS) environments regarding their data protection and recovery technologies and strategies. In addition to resiliency, systems optimization practices were also reviewed. .Learn how your peers are striking the balance between the sometimes antagonistic priorities of optimum IT availability and performance, service level agreements, budgets and personnel.

This white paper presents current best practices in long-term digital data storage and preservation. Although we primarily address digital archives held within or on behalf of an enterprise, the discussion is equally applicable to digital archives for public use. The general requirements and attributes of digital archive systems are presented, and comparisons are made with systems designed for other purposes, such as data backup, that are quite different. Several technical challenges are discussed, along with strategies and tradeoffs commonly made for cost and performance optimizing a digital archive system for a particular use. Finally, some examples are presented which that show how different industries have specific requirements (e.g. data security, multi-site archives and regulatory compliance) which, along with size, cost and performance requirements, affect choices in digital archive system selection.

Ensuring that the company's data is protected is one of the most essential elements to any storage administrator's responsibilities. Businesses with remote locations face the challenge of protecting mission-critical data that resides on geographically dispersed systems--often with no local IT personnel to ensure that proper backup and recovery policies are employed. This paper provides practical advice and guidance for administrators who need to protect the company's business-critical data that is located in branch offices.

Businesses with remote locations face unique challenges when it comes to a storage solution. Some storage vendors offer low-end systems that may be fine for a small branch office, while others offer large, enterprise-class systems that are really only suitable for the central office. In reality, provisioning multiple sites with storage to meet the local needs of each location, while ensuring that the storage can be managed and protected from a central site, requires a comprehensive approach with a scalable storage solution. This paper provides practical advice and guidance for administrators looking to install a Distributed NAS solution.

When an organization depends on its data, the challenge is to be able to recover that data with the minimal amount of data loss and in the shortest possible time should the unimaginable happen. While most organizations focus on disaster recovery so they can resume operations quickly after a major outage, it is just as important for those organizations to excel at operational recovery in order to have a complete business continuity plan. This whitepaper addresses the current challenges for operational recovery and introduces a fast and efficient software-based Continuous Data Protection (CDP) product, TimeData(TM), which allows companies to easily recover their data from any point in time. When recoverability matters, trust Double-Take software to protect and recover your business critical applications.

Do you have a plan and the necessary technologies to meet the data protection and recovery requirements for AIX environments on your IBM System p and i servers? This informative 10-page paper outlines the options for moving your protection and recovery plan beyond simply tape backups, including how continuous data protection (CDP) technology for AIX makes it possible to recover data to any point in time. You will also learn how EchoStream technology for AIX has significantly changed the options for both data recovery time and data recovery point.

Are you taking the right steps, or could you reduce your backup window further? Compare the 5 steps in our Free Guide to what you're doing now. You'll find answers to some of today's toughest questions on meeting backup window requirements:

• 1. Are you setting the right data protection goals?
• 2. Have you established the best benchmarks?
• 3. How can you optimize your backup model to meet your SLAs?
• 4. Have you projected your data growth accurately?
• 5. Will your technology fit all your needs?

How long would your company function without access to its CRM, ERP, or messaging data? For many, the answer is, not long. For some, even downtime of a few minutes could have enormous impact. This new white paper addresses the mission critical issues that are fast making data protection an extreme sport you have to win. Play-by-play, it outlines the Tiered Data Protection Strategy that many organizations are implementing to stay competitive - and cost-efficient.

IT never stands still - this report proves 2008 will not be an exception! Excillio Group surveyed more than 135 IT professionals to understand the top goals, challenges, and trends in data protection in 2008. Learn what your peers are thinking and planning this year, including:

• Most cited data protection challenges and solutions
• Anticipated change with greatest impact
• Top data protection priority

Industry analyst firm Storage Strategies NOW outlines the importance of having a data protection strategy that recognizes and takes into account all of your applications, data and the needs of your business. Learn how you can guarantee information availability using a Tiered Data Protection approach.

This white paper delves into market drivers and the differing data deduplication technologies in the market today.

Are you able to keep vital business operations running in the event of an infrastructure failure? View this white paper to learn how you can create a simple yet strong business continuity plan for your organization.

Like most things, a little planning and preparation can go a long way in making a business continuity or disaster recovery program successful. The best way to proceed is to breakdown the process into six simple steps so they can be easily managed.

This white paper overviews the key points of business continuity and disaster recovery and gives insight on how to go about building out a strong yet simple and effective plan. Overland Storage provides the tools and solutions for IT managers to implement a complete and cost effective BC and DR program.

Discover the many benefits of Overland’s solutions that can work in your current infrastructure and provide the right level of BC and DR tools for your business.

For any IT professional who is considering deduplication as a means to enhance data protection and storage management capability, this white paper is a must. IDC offers its most balanced assessment of the benefits and potential disadvantages of deduplication solutions. The paper includes:

• A definition of data deduplication
• Arguments for and against the technology
• The main approaches used in vendor implementations of deduplication
• Factors to consider in making an assessment of potential savings
• Future outlook and conclusion

This document provides guidance into some of the factors you should consider when evaluating storage security technology and solutions. As with any security project, acquiring technology is not the only step to properly protecting your data. Part of this process should include an evaluation of the current process and security controls in place, such as physical access controls, environmental controls, and administrative controls. NEXT PARA PLEASE: There is no single "magic bullet" that will solve your information security requirements. A comprehensive storage security plan will include inventorying your current information, assessing your current process technology, and evaluating technology solutions. Technology assessments should include consideration of the performance, cost, key management certifications, and vendor pedigree to ensure that the solution you chose will meet your requirements today and in the future.

Learn more about using the benefits of combining virtualized IP SAN storage with virtual server technologies. Centralize management and resources to reduce power consumption, simplify management, and increase storage and server resource utilization.

Learn how IP SANs solve storage challenges, how using snapshots simplifies data recovery and restoration, ways to expedite backups, and how to simplify storage infrastructure by deploying cost-effective iSCSI technology.

StoneFly's IP SANs provide centralized storage management, advanced storage services and integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to simplify storage provisioning.