Today's economic climate has heightened the goal of every IT department to provide high-quality IT service to the business, at the lowest possible cost, while improving business outcomes. Looking outside of the infrastructure itself, there are two key challenges related to data storage: provisioning capacity for applications and reducing risk through a sound data protection strategy.

The growth of structured data from databases, e-mail and other applications has been exponential. The increasing flood of data can lead to a host of problems - failing to recognize that data storage must be managed as a critical resource often results in a very difficult environment to manage, a higher cost of ownership, less responsiveness to change and added risk to the business.

Authored by Bloor Research, this paper is about using information management software from SAP BusinessObjects for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP.

This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco® Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.

This white paper details how continuous data protection for files is important in this current day where lost data can significantly affect productivity, customer satisfaction, and, ultimately, revenue.

Grant Thornton needed to streamline IT asset management and reduce asset drift across 49 offices. The company used Computrace by Absolute Software to recover and wipe data from laptops before end-of-lease.

Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up data security requirements, the physical environment in the data center must be watched more closely.