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How will platform and content access interruptions affect productivity, revenue, and compliance-related exposure? This document will analyze common consequences of such interruptions and discuss why successful SharePoint...
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Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight...
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Gain access to accurate information and visibility across your small to mid-sized company from efficient integrated IT systems - and use that information to make...
Optimize Business Growth with IT: Tune Your Servers for Competitive Advantage by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
The information in this paper will help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to learn how to perform IT needs assessments and make important...
Information Security Magazine, January 2009: Look Who's Coming to Dinner--the Security Steering Committee by Information Security Magazine
This special issue of Information Security Magazine explains the ins and outs of security steering committees. Learn who needs to be there, why they need to be there...
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This month's issue of Information Security Magazine is centered on Data Protection. We've got articles covering Data Loss Prevention solutions and how they work in...
ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP by Hewlett-Packard Company
face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information...
Webcast and Solution Demo - Data on the Edge: Protecting Your Business Information with Lumension Data Protection by Lumension
device usage and data encryption, and assessing data loss risk. In today's borderless enterprise, sensitive information is more at risk than ever before from both external and internal threats. Financially motivated criminal organizations are...
Get the Facts on Information Availability: Essential Data Protection, Recovery and Resiliency for Banks by Vision Solutions
The power of an information availability solution lies in its ability to transform any nonproductive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of...
HIPAA and Beyond: How to Effectively Safeguard Electronic Protected Health Information by Lumension
then using best practices and Lumension Security solutions to improve your overall security posture. In the world of information security, well-defined security programs are the forests, and regulations like HIPAA, SoX and PCI are the trees. And too many...
How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated Information Encompassing All Your Data by Oracle Corporation
organizations to make even better business decisions is by simplifying the extraction of specific, actionable information from large volumes of data. This paper will argue that the key to enabling midsize organizations to make even better business...
Guide to Better Decision-Making for Your SMB Through IT by SAP America Inc
align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions. Market conditions and customer demands shift, and it's your people...
Oracle ONE - News for Midsize Businesses - Autumn 2008 by Oracle Corporation
Read this issue to learn how to ensure that your information systems are secure and stable enough to protect all your information assets. Find out more about how Oracle can help ensure your...
Hitting the Moving Target of Operational Excellence: Identifying and Obtaining the Information Needed for Continued Success by SAP America Inc
grown to be larger than small businesses but aren't yet large or Fortune 1000 businesses, getting access to the right information is important for CIOs who craft and implement IT strategy or for senior operating executives who provide strategic direction and...
Information Security: DataDrain - How DLP tools can mitigate incidents and offer insight into where data lives by Symantec Corporation
it's going, how it is being used; they can also sometimes enforce protective policies. In this article by Rich Mogull of Information Security Magazine and former analyst for Gartner, learn how Data Loss Prevention solutions help companies understand where...
Information Security Magazine: March 2009 - Sky-High Risk? by Information Security Magazine
This month's issue of Information Security focuses on risk management. We'll cover many important topics, such as: Cloud Computing - cost savings vs. security concerns...
Podcast: 10 Things Small Businesses Must do to Protect & Secure Data by Symantec Corporation
In this podcast, learn the definition of Lifecycle of Information Management and best practices and strategies for prioritizing critical information. In addition, SMBs can learn more about...
HP Enterprise Virtual Array tiered storage solution for Oracle: Aligning storage performance and availability with the business value of information by Hewlett-Packard Company
Together HP and Oracle offer a comprehensive suite of information management tools to help efficiently capture, manage, retain, and deliver information over time. This yields a highly integrated...
Preparing for e-discovery - The litigator and the information professional responsibilities by Hewlett-Packard Company
of process, technology and e-discovery best practices will help an organization deal with the growing amounts of information and legal and regulatory requests that draw on that information. However, critical to the success of the approach is ongoing...
Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations by SAP America Inc
44; and even predict what's occurring in their company. BI helps your organization turn data into useful and meaningful information and then distributes this information to those who need it, when they need it - thereby enabling them to make timely and better-...
Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance by Proofpoint, Inc.
A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations. This paper examines...
Why You Need Email Encryption: Use Case Scenarios by Proofpoint, Inc.
on how data is stored, processed, and transmitted. Adopting best practices to protect the sensitive or private information valued by your company, customers, employees and partners adds a new complexity to email security.

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Business Brief: Business Continuity - Are You Always Open for Business? by Oracle Corporation
explains how Oracle solutions for mid-sized organizations provides a secure, easily accessible, and always available information infrastructure. Helping mid-sized organizations ensure business continuity. Controlling costs and making the best use of scarce...
iSeminar: Meeting the Challenges of Compliance by Oracle Corporation
with limited IT resources. These challenges include: ensuring data and communications security; maximizing system and information availability; enhancing data visibility; and optimizing process efficiently and transparency to prove accountability.

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Data footprint reduction can be done by eliminating or deleting out-dated information by moving data from primary and on-line storage to off-line, removable media such as magnetic...

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backups.

Do it!

The most important habit of effective backup is to make effective backups. "Effective" means regular backups of all the information you need to preserve at the appropriate intervals.

This is especially critical with remote...

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the author: Brien M. Posey, MCSE, has previously received Microsoft's MVP award for Exchange Server, Windows Server and Internet Information Server (IIS). Brien has served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and was once responsible for the Department of...
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Data deduplication methods: Block-level versus byte-level dedupe by Lauren Whitehouse
means the vendor has done some reverse engineering of the backup application's data stream to understand how to retrieve information such as the file name, file type, date/time stamp, etc. This method reduces the amount of computation required to determine...
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Secure DAS without breaking the bank by Kevin Beaver
to make things right if basic internal controls aren't in place. Perform a user permissions audit and scan for unstructured information that everyone on the network has access to. Then lock permissions down and even segment your network in order to keep critical...
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Using Dump for Linux/Unix data backup by Rick Cook
of Hanoi backup scheme is easy with dump.

For more information on the Tower of Hanoi and other backup schemes, check out this related article on tape rotation strategies.

Dump is fast.

Because it is based on blocks, not files, dump is extremely fast.

However, dump...

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High performance computing demands special backup approach by Alan R. Earls
or data volume generated by HPC applications can be very large when dealing with files containing seismic or genomic information. "Those files can be incredibly large," says Gartner analyst David Russell. "Traditional backup approaches may not be adequate...
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