Disaster Recovery White Papers

What does it take to deliver Security, Privacy and Trust at Mimecast?

Although the cost-saving and simplicity of cloud-based email management is enticing, the protection and privacy of this vital and oftentimes sensitive data raises concerns among IT administrators. This white paper discusses a SaaS-based email management solution that delivers the security, continuity and archiving capabilities your organization demands.

Take an in-depth look at how this email management platform handles data access and protection to realize the benefits that a cloud-based email landscape can offer your business.

Sponsor: Mimecast North America Inc

IDC: Generating Proven Business Value with EMC Next Generation Backup and Recovery

Read this IDC analysis of ten midsize companies that have deployed EMC backup and recovery solutions to learn key IDC findings including:
- Average payback period of 7 months ROI of 450% over 3 years
- Reduced restore times from 17 to 2 hours
- Reduced backup windows from 11 to 3 hours

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Backup and Recovery Changes Drive IT Infrastructure and Business Transformation

This IDC Whitepaper provides an overview of the forces driving change within today's IT organizations and data centers and discusses how backup and recovery can enable or hinder broader IT infrastructure and business transformation.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Taking a Single-System Approach to Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving

EMC Data Domain Systems respond to many of the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support the most common method of long-term retention used today (long-term backup retention) and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Read the IDC report on how EMC is well positioned to help organizations that want to consider alternatives to tape for long-term backup retention and archiving needs.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure

Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.

Sponsor: Riverbed

Security First Insurance deepens connection with policyholders

Security First Insurance mastered customer service through its call center/web portal but needed help with email/social media. Using IBM Content Analytics and ECM software, the insurer enhances service to policyholders no matter which channels they use to get in touch.

Sponsor: IBM

Build Your IT Security Business Case

The importance of IT security to a business has never been greater. But often, investments are shelved or cutbacks are made. This can result in businesses unknowingly making compromises regarding their IT security.

In this latest whitepaper from Kaspersky Lab, you'll find useful facts, examples and business case arguments to help you get buy-in and commitment from your business.

Sponsor: Kaspersky

Top Reasons Why More People Choose EMC Backup for Oracle

It's all about choice. We are the first and only vendor to offer full DBA control of backup, recovery and replication for Oracle. This means your backup team or your DBAs can back up your Oracle environment - the choice is theirs! Either way, all backup data goes to a single deduplication backup appliance. This eliminates silos, delivers efficiency, and provides visibility to all, while allowing your backup team to maintain infrastructure control. Truly transformational!

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

Backup Transformation from the Inside

What is backup transformation and why is it so critical to an organization's health and well-being? In this Q&A, Darryl Smith, EMC chief oracle architect and veteran of the backup wars, provides an insider's view of the need for and impact of backup transformation within EMC and IT and on our business. Smith, who is responsible for all of EMC's databases, primarily Oracle but also SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, and Greenplum, describes the people and process changes EMC IT has gone through and the game-changing effects they have had. He also takes a look at what lies ahead and gives his view of backup nirvana.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

15-Minute Guide to Smarter Backup

This guide represents trends that impact backup and recovery decisions. It provides recommended steps for users to learn what to do next such as tape replacement, backup for virtualization, backup for applications.

Sponsor: PC Connection

Innovations for an Ever Broadening Data Domain Ecosystem

This white paper focuses on the four key elements of the Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture, which, in combination, provide the industry's highest levels of data integrity and recoverability: end-to-end verification, fault evidence and containment, continuous fault detection and healing; and, file system recoverability

Sponsor: PC Connection

Simplifying Data Protection

The solutions chosen by IT to protect internal systems, applications and data should not add to the complexity and challenges of meeting the 24x7 demands of the business. IT requires solutions that are not only simple to deploy, use and fit into their budgets, but most importantly ensure that systems are protected and met with the recovery time and points needed in the event of a disaster.

Sponsor: CA Technologies

CA ARCserve r16 vs. Symantec Backup Exec 2012

In this report, Network Testing Labs puts CA ARCserve r16 and Symantec Backup Exec 2012 to the test. Both products boast an abundance of new features and enhancements. See Network Testing Labs' detailed comparison and contrast of the two solutions, feature by feature.

Sponsor: CA Technologies

3 Considerations for MSPs Offering BC/DR Services

Most SMBs do not have access to remote facilities for business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR), creating an opportunity for MSPs to enter this rapidly growing market. This paper highlights key considerations when building your own BC/DR data center or leveraging cloud turnkey solutions.

Sponsor: CA Technologies

Disaster Recovery Infographic

Failure happens: IT disruptions are a common and costly business experience - read here the finding of a European Disaster Recovery Survey.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation