5 reasons to abandon tape-based backup solutions

Why Use a Converged Network: A Customized Paper | How Desktop Virtualization Can Accelerate Upgrade Plans

Having trouble viewing this email? View in a browser window In this issue: 5 Reasons to Abandon Tape-Based Backup Solutions Why Use a Converged Network: A Customized Paper How Desktop Virtualization Can Accelerate Upgrade Plans SharePoint 2010: IT Professional Evaluation Guide Migrating Linux to IBM Power: Best Practices How to Optimize Business Analytics Today 5 Reasons to Abandon Tape-Based Backup Solutions Tape-based storage solutions are woefully inadequate in terms of restore time and have become very costly to scale out to accommodate the explosive growth of many firms' application needs. Also, many firms are looking to mitigate the risks associated with the loss and security of their data on physical tape cartridges once it leaves their premises. IDC is witnessing a sea change in customer behavior with regard to backup and recovery strategies. Tape-based storage solutions will remain installed in many customer environments primarily for long-term archive; however, tape will be de-emphasized as a primary means for backup and recovery.   Why Use a Converged Network: A Customized Paper For years, IT organizations have heard all about the benefits of converging their networks. For those who have put off network convergence -- perhaps due to the tight budgets necessitated by the recessionary economy of the past few years -- now might be the time to reconsider as the economy stabilizes. And for those who have converged parts of their infrastructure, there may be additional opportunities to simplify operations as new services such as disaster recovery/backup and IP videoconferencing are rolled out.   How Desktop Virtualization Can Accelerate Upgrade Plans Due to many of the hardware and software complexities this paper has already touched on, IT managers worldwide are desperate for a means to break the never-ending treadmill of rip-and-replace every three to five years. This has naturally led many firms to aggressively pursue application and desktop virtualization, not only as a means to accelerate their client OS migrations but also as a more innovative way of delivering applications and desktops -- and ultimately services -- to their anytime, anywhere workers.   SharePoint 2010: IT Professional Evaluation Guide This evaluation guide is designed to give IT Professionals an introduction and overview of the features in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 that are most pertinent to installing, managing, and configuring the SharePoint farm. It begins with a brief introduction and a summary of what's new, followed by a more in-depth discussion of the most relevant features. The ultimate goal of this guide is to provide the IT pro with the understanding necessary for installing and evaluating SharePoint 2010.   Migrating Linux to IBM Power: Best Practices With its 2010 launch of a new generation of Power Systems servers and blades based on the POWER7 processor architecture, IBM has extended its market lead and elevated system performance, throughput and energy efficiency to unprecedented levels that far outpace competitors. Most importantly, the new architecture also provides the foundation for the integrated PowerVM virtualization solution to deliver unrivaled scalability, flexibility and robustness. As a result, enterprise workloads deployed in PowerVM virtual machines (VMs) not only run faster on POWER7-based platforms, but they can also scale further and be optimized more efficiently.   How to Optimize Business Analytics Today Larger businesses have always had the advantage of having more resources to throw at problems. Organizations -- large and small -- are gathering and storing enormous amounts of information. But typically, only the big companies have been able to take full advantage of this data, extracting insight for business advantage. Read this eBook to see how mid-sized organizations can now better use information to drive business decisions to lower costs and improve profit. To avoid any problems with your newsletter delivery, please add newsletters@response.webbuyersguide.com to your addressbook. Get the week's most important IT security information in your inbox each Monday afternoon. Stay on top of trends and what you need to know to be a success. Subscribe to Security Product Update today! You are subscribed to this newsletter with the e-mail address dwyld.kwu.wyldside@blogger.com. If you no longer wish to receive Web Buyer's Guide Member Update, unsubscribe here. Copyright © 2011 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy