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  Report Back Up Your SaaS Data — Because Most SaaS Providers Don't

  Cloud-To-Cloud Backup Is The Only Practical Option For SaaS Data Protection

  December 19, 2016 | Naveen Chhabra

  Software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud providers are popular elements of a sound business technology (BT) strategy. While the vendors provide the applications, almost all mention explicitly in their...

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  Report The Forrester Wave™: Information Archiving Cloud Providers, Q4 2016

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  October 25, 2016 | Cheryl McKinnon

  In our 28-criteria evaluation of information archiving cloud providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Actiance, Barracuda, Bloomberg, Erado, Global Relay, HPE, Microsoft, Mimecast,...

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  Report Vendor Landscape: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2016

  Comprehensive Data Resiliency Will Lead The Next Wave Of Solutions

  August 25, 2016 | Naveen Chhabra

  Today's business technology (BT) world leaves no room for downtime, so firms of all kinds must embrace the latest technology solutions to meet their data resiliency needs. I&O pros can choose from...

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  Report TechRadar™: Information Governance Enabling Technologies, Q2 2016

  Pursue Business Value And Not Just Risk Reduction When Making Technology Investments

  April 13, 2016 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Information governance (IG) is a hot topic. Yet it suffers from an identity crisis, as definitions differ across the technology landscape. Enterprise architect (EA) professionals are on the hook to...

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  Report TechRadar™: Data Security, Q1 2016

  Road Map: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

  February 22, 2016 | Stephanie Balaouras, John Kindervag

  As data volumes explode, it's becoming a Herculean task to protect sensitive data from cybercriminals and malicious actors while preventing privacy infringements and abuses — intentional and...

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  Report Brief: New Data Resiliency Approaches Render Backup Obsolete

  Expect Failure, Plan For It, And You Will Succeed At Serving Customers

  February 5, 2016 | Naveen Chhabra

  Technology service disruptions have far-reaching effects that can cost your business customers if you don't take the right approach to resiliency. Backup systems have been a staple of business...

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  Report Enterprises Continue To Operationalize eDiscovery

  Align Technology Decisions To eDiscovery Use Cases And Corporate Pain Points

  November 2, 2015 | Cheryl McKinnon

  eDiscovery is not one single technology market, and few software providers can fulfill all of an organization's needs. Enterprise architects — particularly those in litigation-prone...

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  Report Vendor Landscape: Big Data Archiving

  In The Era Of Big Data, Archiving Is A No-Brainer Investment

  August 11, 2015 | Noel Yuhanna

  Many organizations fail to see data archiving as part of their business technology agenda because they perceive archiving as highly complex and delivering low business value. However, with growing...

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  Report Market Overview: Information Archiving, Q2 2015

  Innovative Vendors Move Beyond Just Compliance To Become Sources Of Insights And Corporate Memory

  May 12, 2015 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Enterprise architects, in many regulated industries, are refreshing their approach to information archiving. As newer, innovative vendors are assessed, enterprise architecture (EA) professionals...

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  Report Archiving Platforms Evolve Into Sources Of Insight And Corporate Memory

  Seize The Opportunity To Mine Archives For Insights

  March 27, 2015 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Innovation is happening in the information archiving market. Archiving vendors have evolved well beyond email capture. Social media, cloud applications, and mobile devices are now channels that...

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  Report TechRadar™: Data Security, Q2 2014

  Tools To Define, Dissect, And Defend Your Data

  April 22, 2014 | Stephanie Balaouras, John Kindervag

  We designed this report to help security and risk (S&R) leaders develop their road map of data security technologies using Forrester's TechRadar methodology. As data volumes explode, it is becoming...

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  Report Market Overview: Information Governance For The Microsoft SharePoint Ecosystem, Q1 2014

  Third-Party Tools Extend SharePoint To Meet Compliance Needs

  February 13, 2014 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Microsoft's SharePoint can play multiple roles in your organization's enterprise information management strategy as a collaboration service, modern app platform intranet, and even the dominant...

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  Report Brief: Database Archiving Offers New Use Cases That Go Beyond Compliance And Performance

  Focus On An Enterprisewide Archiving Strategy

  February 5, 2014 | Noel Yuhanna

  Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals often pay little attention to database archiving compared with other data management functions, largely because organizations focus only on compliance and...

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  Report Hardware Trends 2013: Data-Intensive Firms Lead Adoption Of Next-Generation Computing

  June 24, 2013 | Michael Yamnitsky, Frank E. Gillett

  We drew on our recent survey of 2,330 IT decision-makers regarding hardware adoption and priorities, learning among other things that the average enterprise in our sample is managing almost 50%...

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  Report Updated Q3 2011: Backup Versus Archiving: Firms Need Separate Strategies For Each

  July 6, 2011 | Rachel A. Dines, Brian W. Hill

  "What's the difference between a backup and an archive?" and "Do I need to have separate backups and archives?" are two common questions that Forrester receives from enterprise clients. Despite the...

• For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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  Report Case Study: EMC Tames Oracle ERP Data Growth

  Informatica Helps Archive Data To Improve Performance And Lower Cost

  May 5, 2011 | Noel Yuhanna

  Like most large organizations, EMC struggles with the performance and manageability of mission-critical applications because of increased data volume and user numbers. In the past, EMC added more...

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  Report Your Enterprise Data Archiving Strategy

  Data Archiving Is A Flexible Technology That Delivers Many Use Cases

  February 23, 2011 | Noel Yuhanna

  With growing data volume, increasing data security breaches, and complex application-performance issues, most enterprises today face significant data management challenges. Keeping inactive data...

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  Report Prepare For Object Storage In The Enterprise

  Consider Object Storage In Your Archiving, Web 2.0, Imaging, And Cloud Workloads

  November 29, 2010 | Andrew Reichman

  There's a great deal of talk these days about object-based storage. It's an architecture that delivers massive scalability, rock-bottom cost, high automation, tremendous flexibility, and improved...

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  Report Database Tools Fill Gaps In Vendors' Bundled Tools

  DBAs Gain Advanced Yet Usable Features For Heterogeneous DBMS

  August 12, 2010 | Noel Yuhanna

  Vendors continue adding new and improved database administration features to their database management systems (DBMS) to automate more functions, yet enterprises with large and complex environments...

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  Report Take Advantage Of New Ways To Save Money On Database Costs

  February 23, 2010 | Noel Yuhanna

  Today, databases and related infrastructure have grown to become a significant part of most IT budgets, and continued growth in the volume of data and the number of database applications threatens...

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  Report Microsoft SharePoint Muscles Into The Records Management Market

  January 27, 2010 | Brian W. Hill

  Pervasive adoption of SharePoint isn't exactly a secret, but it may come as a surprise to some that organizations are now using SharePoint extensively for records management. SharePoint records...

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  Report Inquiry Spotlight: Archiving, Q4 2008

  December 8, 2008 | Stephanie Balaouras

  Forrester clients report that data storage is doubling every 12 to 18 months. Not only is data growth exploding, but companies also need to figure out how to retain this data for regulatory...

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  Report Q&A: Compliance Storage Demystified

  October 24, 2008 | Jo Maitland

  Relying on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for guidance on regulations turns out to be a pretty bad idea, as we are finding out in more ways than one these days. When it comes to...

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  Report Best Practices: Email Archiving

  October 17, 2008 | Jo Maitland

  With so many vendors now offering products for email archiving, getting beyond the hype to what you really need is becoming more and more of a challenge. Many of these tools were created for...

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  Report Q&A: The Future Of MAID Storage

  September 16, 2008 | Jo Maitland

  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...