Data Protection

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Today, the common approach to collecting information about computing activity across the enterprise is to use software agents installed on individual clients and servers. However, when this approach is applied to data protection management in the enterprise environment, it has proven both ineffective and inefficient.

This strategic view is the proverbial "gold" that can be mined from your data protection systems; it is the asset that will enable IT management to prioritize activity to bring activities in line with business objectives and communicate policy compliance to corporate officers and data owners.

This white paper focuses on Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) regulations relevant to data protection, and describes both best practices and automated tools used by today's leading storage managers and backup/recovery teams to meet the mandates of SOX.

An effective storage management solution must consider the role of SAN security in ensuring network and data integrity. When Direct Attached Storage (DAS) was the majority of storage, security was not an issue. By preventing access to the server you could stop access to the server-owned storage resources of disk and tape. Holes in SAN security practices can threaten data integrity and system availability.

This white paper provides: An objective approach to making decisions about data recovery technologies. (disk-based enhanced data recovery or traditional tape-based) The disk-based architectures for enhanced data recovery.

A security breach on a workhorse platform like a mainframe could be disastrous. Find out why PKWARE's SecureZIP is ideal for providing file security for data stored and transferred on mainframes.

Regulatory and business requirements are driving the need for protecting information stored and transferred electronically. PKWARE provides an introduction to protecting your most valuable asset - your data.

Most data storage devices can be broadly characterized as either fixed media or removable media. This paper briefly examines and compares magnetic tape, magneto-optical disk, and removable magnetic disks, and identifies their positioning, future trends, and market applications.

This paper explains how X1 Enterprise Edition security integrates seamlessly with an existing Microsoft network installation. It describes how X1 security features are configured and deployed, including web server security. It ends by showing how X1 and Microsoft Windows security layers work together at runtime.

Mitigate risk and lower costs by letting your disaster recovery replica server double as a server for performing an offsite backup. This informative white paper will teach you how...

This white paper address the challenges that IT professionals face when implementing a geographically distributed data configuration and the features that a comprehensive replication solution must provide to answer these challenges.

Traditional backup systems provide a critical layer of insurance, but they represent all-or-nothing strategies that do not cover the minute by minute daily data writes to the disk. Continuous data protection fills in this gap by capturing changes to data while users are working. In the event of a data interruption, administrators can automatically reconstitute the data in reverse order to a point before it was corrupted or lost.

Microsoft Windows-based applications and data are growing in size and complexity, reaching the limits of their architecture and scalability. Download this whitepaper to read the benefits of updating database applications to the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 platform with the HP Integrity family of 64-bit servers.

Data is the backbone of every organization. No matter the business, industry, or size, reliable data access is essential to operations. Should a "worst-case scenario" occur, being prepared with an appropriate disaster recovery strategy is essential. Given the potential high cost associated with data loss, reliable data protection is no longer an option; rather, it is an obligation. This white paper discusses a data protection strategy that takes into consideration the business environment, offering sophisticated features while maintaining simplicity, affordability, and reliability.

Data deduplication technology represents one of the most significant storage enhancements in recent years, promising to reshape future data protection and disaster recovery solutions. Data deduplication offers the ability to store more on a given amount of storage and replicate data using lower bandwidth links at a significantly reduced cost. This white paper explains how deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, and when to choose a particular type.

This guide provides a comprehensive look at a complete data protection and recovery solution, with valuable information to help you choose the solution that best fits your business requirements and budget, and get the assurance you need - knowing your assets are protected. Learn more today!

Planning to implement an email archiving system? There are many issues to consider – legal risks, storage concerns and data security – it can seem a complex topic!Download this guide to help you make informed decisions about your archiving requirements

Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization's undisputed IT benefits - from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery - is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it.

Virtualization is a revolutionary technology that has emerged as one of the hottest trends in the IT segment. If you are not already leveraging the server virtualization wave as a means to deploy cost effective Disaster Recovery, then use this paper as a catalyst to transform your business today: virtualization enables greater efficiencies, faster application and data recovery, and overall cost savings.

The Auxiliary IT Operation center at the Indiana University has a lot of responsibility on its plate. It is in charge of the majority of for-profit activities the university is engaged in, namely the halls of residence, parking, dining facilities, campus transportation and much more. Additionally, this unit supports many critical IT processes including the secure distribution of student photos for identification cards.

Affordable System x Express servers from IBM include features designed to keep your data safe and rapidly accessible. This e-kit includes white papers, datasheets and product guides for individual products, as well as overviews that help you compare systems and storage solutions so you can choose what works best for your business.

The need to share information has never been greater as cross-organizational business processes become deeper and more complex. The movement of digital information, both within a business and across its increasingly porous boundaries to external individuals and organizations, carries more and more risk as regulations are tightened around data protection and personal privacy.

This document describes how Likewise and Microsoft Active Directory can foster compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, a set of requirements for businesses that process payment card information. Developed by Visa, American Express, Discover Financial Services, and other members of the PCI Security Standards Council, the standard sets forth policies, procedures, and practices to protect customer account data. The standard includes specific requirements for strictly controlling access to customer data, authenticating business users, monitoring access, maintaining a secure network, and auditing system resources. Likewise integrates Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X workstations and servers into Active Directory, providing the basis to assign each user a unique ID for authentication, authorization, monitoring, and tracking. Likewise also provides group policies for non-Windows computers so that their security settings and other configurations can be centrally managed in the same way as Windows computers.

Business operations that are heavily dependent on information systems may be significantly impacted even by a brief application outage. Impact of a data loss is even more drastic. IDC estimates that in a disaster situation, the average loss is $3 million per incident and $81,000 per hour.