For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Consolidated Backup Strategies For Remote Sites

by Stephanie Balaouras, October 30, 2009

A remote site can be as small as a branch office location with five employees or as large as a regional sales office with 50 employees. Regardless of a company's size, end users are creating and storing critical data at these sites. In some industries . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Market Overview: Client Management Suites

Evolving Computing Market Shifts Focus To Security And Virtualization

by Natalie Lambert, July 29, 2009

Desktop operations managers are watching their computing environment change. There are now more types of devices and more varieties of operating systems entering the enterprise than ever before. This is leading to an architectural shift, one that moves . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Use Deduplication To Store More With Less

Dedupe Your Backups Today, But Plan For Other Environments

by Stephanie Balaouras, July 10, 2009

While the cost of disk has declined significantly over the past five years, you still can't call it cheap at thousands of dollars per terabyte (TB). IT professionals struggle to keep up with 30% to 40% annual data growth while simultaneously creating . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Inquiry Spotlight: Backup, Q2 2009

by Stephanie Balaouras, June 26, 2009

Backup is one of the most critical day-to-day responsibilities for IT operations. You must have a recent backup of your critical data to recover from accidental deletions, system crashes, disk failures, and data corruption. But backup is complex, error . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Protecting Email With The Cloud

How Cloud Services Can Play A Role In Message Continuity And Recovery

by Stephanie Balaouras, Christopher Voce, June 8, 2009

Ensuring that your users can access email and keep business moving in the event of a disaster is critical, but it can be complex and costly. Traditional methods carry heavy facility, hardware, software, and personnel requirements, and the capital and . . .

For B2B Market Research Professionals

Disaster Recovery Solutions Remain High On Healthcare's Agenda  (406 KB PPT)

by Eric G. Brown, March 27, 2009

Disaster recovery solutions have been a critical agenda item for hospital IT organizations, but years of HIPAA regulatory pressure and post-Katrina lessons have brought the sector into relative maturity. However, the tail remains, and there's urgency . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

IBM's Bid For Sun Is About More Than Just Solaris And Java

Sun's Innovations Can Improve IBM's Prospects Outside Enterprise Markets

by Frank E. Gillett, March 24, 2009

Vendor strategists are calling Forrester asking what we make of the possibility of IBM buying Sun Microsystems. The conventional wisdom is that IBM wants to capture the Solaris/SPARC customer base to boost the AIX/Power business and own Java to protect . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Inquiry Spotlight: Disaster Recovery, Q1 2009

by Stephanie Balaouras, March 20, 2009

Whether it's a power grid failure, ice storm, or Category Five hurricane, when disaster strikes, IT must have disaster recovery plans in place to ensure the continuity of IT systems that support critical business processes. If IT isn't prepared, it will . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

TechRadar™ For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals: Software-As-A-Service

CRM And Collaboration Are Growing, And Many New Categories Are On The Horizon, Q1 2009

by Liz Herbert, March 12, 2009

As software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes increasingly important to firms' application strategies, sourcing and vendor management professionals are taking ownership of the research, purchasing, negotiations, and ongoing vendor relationships for these solutions. . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Inquiry Insights: Business Continuity, Q3 2008

by Stephanie Balaouras, September 22, 2008

Every year, Forrester receives more than 265 inquiries on topics related to business resiliency such as business continuity, IT continuity, IT high availability, and data backup. Between August 2007 and August 2008, 62 end users made inquiries primarily . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Q&A: The Future Of MAID Storage

by Jo Maitland, September 16, 2008

Massive array of idle disks (MAID) storage, a technology that radically cuts down on the power consumption of disk drives by spinning them down or off when not in use, has barely made a dent in the market. Despite the hype around green IT, there are several . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Five Key Storage Strategies For A Down Economy

Tips To Make The Most Of A Tight Budget In The Face Of Ongoing Data Growth

by Andrew Reichman, July 16, 2008

It's clear that the economy is on a downward trajectory, and regardless of the duration or severity, there's no doubt that belt-tightening in IT spending will be the norm for the next year. At the same time, most IT budgets were already stagnant or slow-growing . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Q&A: Top Questions About VMware Backup

by Stephanie Balaouras, Galen Schreck, July 14, 2008

Enterprise adoption of x86 server virtualization is mainstream. Deployment is no longer limited to application development and testing environments, and chances are your organization is virtualizing mission- and business-critical production environments. . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

2008 Trends In Backup And Data Protection

by Stephanie Balaouras, April 2, 2008

Backup remains as problematic as ever, but there are several emerging trends in technology and functional convergence that should address some of the biggest challenges: increasing capacities, shrinking backup windows, increasing recovery point requirements, . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service

The First Of Many IT Ops-Focused SaaS Offerings

by Stephanie Balaouras, February 19, 2008

Backup is a struggle for both enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). It's a complex ecosystem of backup software, networks, servers, disk arrays, and tape systems. Many firms have difficulty completing backups in the time available, . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

The Universe Of Corporate PC Backup Options

Protecting The Corporate PCs Is As Important As Protecting Servers

by Stephanie Balaouras, Natalie Lambert, October 16, 2007

Some of the most valuable information in the company actually resides on individual PCs — not just on well-protected servers in the data center. A lost or damaged PC, a failed disk drive, or even just an accidental deletion can lead to lost revenue, lost . . .

Backup Versus Archiving: Firms Need Separate Strategies For Each

by Stephanie Balaouras, Barry Murphy, November 17, 2006

According to the Business Technographics® May 2006 North American And European Enterprise Infrastructure And Data Center Survey, data archiving or data retention was the most important storage priority in 2006. This was driven by the need to retain . . .

Enterprises Are Realistic About Site Separation

Most Backup Data Center Sites Are Within 160 Miles Of Each Other

by Stephanie Balaouras, June 5, 2006

To guard against widespread disasters, most enterprises want disaster recovery between primary and backup data centers to be as geographically dispersed as possible. However, adequate site separation is a tradeoff between achieving enough distance to . . .

Your Best Tape Backup Encryption Options

by Galen Schreck, September 21, 2005

Following the highly publicized losses of backup tapes containing sensitive information about firms' customers, many organizations are examining their own policies and technology options for protecting data when it moves outside their corporate walls . . .

Backups Can Poke Holes In Your Firewall

by Bob Zimmerman, March 17, 2005

IT security administrators deploy firewalls to keep your enterprise data safe from intruders. However, you'll always have some important data to manage on the wrong side of your firewall. Here's how: Open and close legitimate ports in your firewall to . . .

A Data Warehouse Without Backup Is Tightrope Walking Without A Net

by Lou Agosta, February 8, 2005

Data warehouses have grown in size to such an extent that IT departments despair about completing the backup in the available time. However, designing and implementing data warehousing backup is beyond a best practice — it is a fundamental business requirement. . . .

StorageTek Takes On Fixed Content Archiving

New Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 Targets EMC And HP

by Galen Schreck, February 3, 2005

Most firms shopping for information life-cycle management solutions have overlooked high-end tape backup vendor StorageTek as a provider of complete information life-cycle management solutions. However, StorageTek aims to change that with its new Lifecycle . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Database Backup Security Matters

Reinforce Strong Security Measures To Mitigate Risk

by Noel Yuhanna, September 30, 2004

Based on customer feedback, Forrester finds that most enterprises have strong security measures for critical production environments but often overlook database backup security. Enterprises lack control over ownership of backup tapes including retention . . .

Microsoft Enters The Disk-Based Backup Market

Microsoft Data Protection Server Moves Into Low-End File Backup

by Galen Schreck, September 20, 2004

Microsoft today announced that it will enter the disk-to-disk backup market with a product called Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS). DPS targets businesses that need an inexpensive way to replicate Windows-based files for disaster-recovery purposes. . . .

Two Backup Vendors To Watch

Revivio And Data Domain Aren't Content With Tape Backup

by Galen Schreck, March 2, 2004

For years, companies have backed up critical data the same old way. Versions of tape-backup software crept into the double-digits, and vendor choices became foregone conclusions. But that's changing: Tier one suppliers like EMC or IBM will snap up cutting-edge . . .