Understanding the Difference between the Burst and Sustained Performance of Flash Solid State Disks

More frequently IT departments are looking at Flash as an efficient and cost-effective method of increasing transaction rates and supporting more concurrent users without having to add servers or alter their applications...

Can Windows 7 Help You Prepare for Litigation? Advances in E-Discovery Readiness

Upgrades and system changes allow IT departments to streamline efficiency and gain functionality for companies of all sizes, but many are considering an additional factor when making the change to Windows 7: litigation p...

Real-Time Access to Disparate Information -- an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Until recently, many organizations were able to conduct day-to-day operations without providing their employees with real-time visibility into data ensconced in various silos. However, there are a number of urgent busine...

Top Four Trending Demands Changing the eDiscovery Market Forever

In these strained economic times, there is intense pressure on the eDiscovery process to improve operational performance, while processing increasingly large amounts of data faster, with less labor and lower costs and ov...

Best Practices for Designing and Deploying E-mail Archiving Solutions

E-mail is the major application for healthcare organizations to communicate with members, partners and internally.  However healthcare organizations, given compliance and regulatory requirements, face challenges wit...

To Err is Human, to Secure is Divine: Confronting Human Error as an Insider Threat

With reports of insider breaches continuing to make headlines, it’s clear that organizations are still struggling to protect high value targets such as databases, key operational systems and highly sensitive informatio...

Encryption and Compression for Enterprise Storage Solutions

Information security – protecting the contents of information stored on standard disks, tape, or the newer flash-based solid state disks – is an ever growing concern among enterprise IT organizations, in companies of...

Social Media Staffing Considerations: Starting the Conversation

Social media exposes an organization to the community like never before. Assembling the team that drives this effort – and equipping it to be effective and successful – depends upon addressing a broad set of strategi...

CTR In-Depth Review -- AccelOps v1.5 Data Center Monitoring

 Former senior editor of Computer Technology Review , Mark Brownstein, reviews AccelOps latest datacenter monitoring software/service , giving it the editors choice award. Read the full review...

Ten Tips for 2010 Disaster Recovery Planning

Double-Take Software offer ten tips for tackling disaster recovery planning in 2010.

1. Getting Started

Typically the first step of getting started with business continuity planning (BCP) is to organize the BCP stakeholder...

Best Practices and Procedures for Building Effective Email Policies

Implementing email retention, compliance or e-Discovery software can be one of the most important tasks an organization performs.  Without a solid policy behind the software investment, companies risk wasting time a...

Top Five Data Security Trends for 2010

With 2009 behind us, we look forward to what the next year might bring. The question of what changes might be coming in terms of data security begs answering.  The ongoing battle between hackers and the teams defend...