Information Management

In general, governance simply refers to the way that corporations follow business practices that conform to rules. Executives put these rules in place to help balance their own best interests with that of employees, customers, suppliers, governments, and other stakeholders. Naturally, some people may find certain rules inconvenient. However, in this age of mobile devices, remote workstations, elevated security threats, cloud storage, and increasing regulations, companies need excellent IT governance…. Read More

Can you name the oldest kind of storage medium that’s still commonly in use today? According to Storage Newsletter, it’s magnetic tape, a vintage technology that was invented in the 1920s to record sound. One of the reasons that so many companies still store data on tape is simply because it’s cheap and reliable. Kept under the right conditions, magnetic tapes can last for decades. Some companies still have thousands of… Read More

In our experience, many companies have relied upon a one-size-fits-all approach to data storage. Sooner or later, that approach grows inefficient, expensive, and in some cases, unworkable. This is particularly true if a company has not reanalyzed their storage needs for some time. Many of our new clients have concerns about performance, security, and costs. When we analyze and categorize our client’s data, questions about efficient, secure, and affordable data… Read More

Conversations between a DataEndure SME backup engineer and customer can go like this: I need to revamp my company’s backup-and-restore solution. The script I’ve been tweaking all along is getting too complicated and error-prone. But while I’m ripping and replacing, where can I get some of that virtual recovery stuff I’ve been hearing about? We’d be happy to show you, but first let’s map out your current situation. Which of your applications… Read More

NetBackup is an enterprise-level backup and recovery solution developed by Veritas. It supports a variety of platforms, including many versions of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Tru64, Solaris, Windows, and Unix. NetBackup uses a central master server to manage both clients and servers that contain the backup media. The current version of NetBackup is 7.0, which uses NetBackup OpsCenter to manage multiple NetBackup environments. OpsCenter replaces NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM), which was… Read More

Today, backup technology can be very complex. Backup is no longer a matter of choosing a few physical servers and copying your data. You need to look at your recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) and determine what kind of backup plan is right for your organization. Also, you need to evaluate your infrastructure and IT team to figure out if you have the in-house resources and… Read More

Like patients who may not visit the dentist until their teeth hurt, we hear from many IT executives who really didn’t prioritize data recovery plans until they suffered a loss and couldn’t get all of their data back. After a natural disaster or malicious hacking attempt, no new client ever comes to us and says that in the past they did too much to create and test out detailed recovery… Read More

The answer is yes. Throughout my career, I have watched the industry move away from spinning disks to flash technology. Just in the past two years, I saw a big shift towards flash. There are many reasons behind this move. One of the biggest reasons is cost. Costs of Solid State Drives (SSDs) are dropping, making them more affordable, while the capacity of the drives is increasing. That is why… Read More