SmartBiz IT Research Library

PODCAST - Dick Benton, senior consultant with Glasshouse Technologies, answers frequently asked questions about outsourcing disaster recovery in this podcast.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Premiered: November 11, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | NAS | SAN | SMBs | Storage Best Practices | Storage Hardware | Tape Backups

VIDEOCAST - Watch this videocast to learn how the access-centric StorageTek T-series tape drives provide you with the industry's fastest access to data (T9840D) and industry-leading capacity (T10000B) tape drive utilizing earlier generation media.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Premiered: October 23, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | NAS | SAN | Storage Virtualization | Tape Drives

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Backup services can save hardware and staffing costs, but beware of surprise fees.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Operational Support Systems | SLA | Storage Best Practices | Storage Security | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This edition of the EMC Select catalog, presents a consolidating view of the entire lineup of carefully selected best-in-class third-party products. Explore the available products-organized and quickly determine where they fit within your environment.
Posted: September 16, 2008 | Published: September 16, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Data Encryption | Data Replication | Data Storage | SAN | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This Product Profile, details the criteria recommended for comparing and contrasting enterprise-class SCO VTL solutions from different vendors.
Posted: September 15, 2008 | Published: September 15, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Disk Backups | RPO | RTO | SLA | Storage Capacity | Virtual Tape Libraries

WEBCAST - The new HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays offer the best price-performance features for direct attach environments, small clusters, and entry-level and mid-range SAN environments.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Premiered: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Clustering | NAS | NAS Software | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper learn how sequential performance provides customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.
Posted: August 7, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Data Management | Data Warehouses | Fibre Channel | Load Balancing | Network Performance | RAID | SNMP

VIDEOCAST - View this Videocast, featuring renowned storage expert, W. Curtis Preston, as he deconstructs the common backup system and points out certain mistakes that may be hampering your backup operations. View this Videocast to learn more.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Premiered: June 30, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | Disk Backups | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Provisioning | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

VIDEOCAST - In this videocast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help build a better backup system.
Posted: June 27, 2008 | Premiered: June 27, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Security | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Deduplication has become an essential tool to control exponential data growth. This article will describe the techniques being used today to deduplicate data and will highlight considerations for choosing the best technology for your environment.
Posted: June 26, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Continuous Data Protection | Data Replication | Data Security | Enterprise | Storage Industry | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization Software | Virtual Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - St. Thomas University needed to do something to shorten their backup windows and make everything more reliable and more robust, so they chose Quantum DXi™ appliance.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Fibre Channel | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Most SMBs face an ongoing challenge in managing the software that their business people use every day, the key solutions to this software management challenge include technologies such as imaging, virtualization and native installation.
Posted: June 17, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Best Practices | Desktop Applications Management | Desktop Management | Security | SMBs

WEBCAST - Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, replication, and encryption.
Posted: June 9, 2008 | Premiered: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | WAN

WHITE PAPER - IT directors and storage administrators will be interested in this research that details five disk-based data protection solutions from emerging data protection vendors.
Posted: May 1, 2008 | Published: March 20, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Protection | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Virtual Tape Library

JOURNAL ARTICLE - If there's a lesson to be learned from the 2007 Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year, it's that vendors can't rest on their laurels.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Business Continuity Planning Software | Disk Storage Systems | Storage Appliances | Storage Hardware