by Kim Borg

What happens when an organization experiences rapid growth due to an expanding client base but has an aging data center – housed in a building that has reached its electrical design maximum – and a local power company that is unable to provide additional capacity? The answer lies in seeking out expert guidance – and fast.

 by Wayne Salpietro

The time has arrived that we can now deploy deduplication technology everywhere up and down the information stack — from operating systems to applications and across the storage tiers including the cloud. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Think of deduplication as an evolving technology. It is no longer the old standalone backup appliance that only a few select people with the secret password can touch. Rather, today’s deduplication technology is an entirely new and flexible tool that can save storage costs across the board. In a way, dedupe has “come out of the box.” Today there is a high performance deduplication solution that can be deployed as software (usually embedded into the storage) and has a few new features that make it flexible enough to be deployed everywhere, enabling it to optimize IT. Why everywhere? That’s easy: because data is everywhere. Dedupe saves costs and improves efficiency, so it makes sense to deploy it everywhere it can make a positive impact your business. Before we delve into the myriad benefits of dedupe, though, let’s examine why in the heck we need it in the first place.

by Ian Masters

The cloud computing model is rapidly being embraced across the IT industry. Services based on monthly billing and usage-based pricing are now commonplace for everything from email and collaboration through to business intelligence. Business continuity is no exception to this, with everything from online storage through to complete ‘recovery in the cloud’ services now available from the channel.

by Ian Masters

IT plays a fundamental role in most organizations’ day-to-day activities, underpinning how they achieve their objectives and go about their business. If and when those IT services are not available, the organization can come to a grinding halt. The discipline of business continuity provides enterprises with the planning and tools necessary to protect themselves against these problems -- everything from large disaster events such as fires or floods, to smaller IT problems such as lost data or broken servers.