White Papers

  1. Top 10 Considerations For Scaling A WAN Acceleration Solution 3/26/2007
    Security and compliance concerns are creating increased pressure to remove data out of branch offices and to implement robust business continuity plans. At the same time, new WAN acceleration technologies have emerged that deliver order of magnitude performance improvements across a wide breadth of applications. These two factors are creating a “perfect storm” in the IT industry, which is elevating WAN acceleration from a tactical fix to a strategic enabler of key business initiatives. Submitted by Silver Peak
  2. Best Practices In SAN Migration 3/26/2007
    The purpose of this paper is to give the Storage Administrator or Storage Architect a general purpose, “best practices” guideline to help him/her through a migration from one Storage Area Network to another in the least intrusive manner. The idea is to give the user a base to start from and to invoke the thought process when taking on such a challenge, though not to provide a step-by-step procedure that answers all questions. RubySky Technologies
  3. Getting A Business Return From Snapshots 3/26/2007
    White Paper: TrueSnap
  4. Getting A Business Return From Snapshots 3/26/2007
    RELDATA TrueSnap software, part of its embedded TrueBlock software platform, delivers a simple way to create, present and manage snapshots of heterogeneous operating systems and applications within a single management console. By easing the administrative overhead normally associated with snapshots, RELDATA allows snapshots to become part of a comprehensive data protection and data management strategy. Submitted by RELDATA
  5. Top 10 Questions About The Active Archive Appliance 3/26/2007
    PowerFile has attempted to pick the top ten questions about the Active Archive Appliance’s (A3) approach to solving the archive storage problem and address them in this article. A3 is an industry first in bringing enterprise data reliability, scalability, and utility, yet definitively better economics and peace of mind in long term data access through the harnessing of consumer-proven storage underpinnings (DVD) in its subsystem. Submitted by PowerFile
  6. Nexsan Assureon SA: Compliance And Security For The Rest Of Us By Mark Bowker, ESG 3/26/2007
    Digital archives are not only growing in capacity, but also in the number of individual objects (defined as files and associated metadata) that are being stored and managed by IT. The Assureon SA is a CAS storage appliance capable of protecting, retaining and searching up to 20 million documents that is designed to be a simple plug and play solution for small and medium businesses. Submitted by Enterprise Strategy Group
  7. Reducing Microsoft Exchange Backup Window By 80% And Imaging Mobile PCs Remotely in Five Minutes With Symantec 3/26/2007
    Quality Built gathers and manages large amounts of data gathered during the construction of homes. This information is critical to its patent-pending risk assessment systems to accurately identify and track construction quality issues, and the services Quality Built provides to its customers. Protecting large volumes of construction data and keeping that information flowing between its data center and inspectors in the field is critical. Submitted by Symantec Corporation
  8. Email Mining: Emerging New Business Application 3/26/2007
    There's a new application coming soon to a corporate email system near you. It's a logical extension, experts say, of the increased emphasis on the archiving and searching of email these days, driven by regulatory compliance and legal discovery. The latter have become cold, hard realities in today's corporate world. This coming new application is called "email mining," because it's all about extracting knowledge from a company's rapidly expanding email stores, using specialized email archiving solutions. Submitted by Auragen
  9. Maximize Your WAN's Worth 3/20/2007
    It started out as a simple point-to-point WAN connection between Elephant Pharmacy’s first retail location and its corporate office in 2004. It has grown to be a network that connects all three Elephant Pharmacy locations and offers many additional benefits for the retailer. “It” is a WAN provided by New Edge Networks. However, this WAN is more than just technology — it provides Elephant with competitive advantages. Used with permission from Integrated Solutions for Retailers magazine
  10. The Challenges Facing IT With Snapshots 2/6/2007
    IT organizations are facing increasing pressure from the business units to fully protect vital data and meet shrinking backup windows. In addition, regulatory and compliance needs, combined with unrelenting growth of data stores, demand that IT maintain accurate and time-sensitive copies of production data for protection, reporting, business intelligence, testing, and application development uses. Submitted by RELDATA, Inc.