March 24, 2011
Thursday, March 24th, 2011 Growth is something that most businesses strive for. In order to accomplish it, however, you’ll need to have the right systems in place. Having a scalable IT solution like the one NetApp provides is one part of this equation. Your company’s IT architecture should allow you to: 1. Simplify backups so…Read More »
October 21, 2010
Most companies commit too much of their budgets to backups, and trends in data growth mean this problem will only get worse. As more systems generate more data – with company growth and expansion contributing – your storage requirements will become increasingly expensive, ultimately diverting resources from projects with ROI potential to storage management operations that don’t…Read More »
October 11, 2010
What’s your strategy for coping with rapidly growing storagerequirements? If you’re just hoping that storage media will keep getting cheaper as the amount you have to store increases, you’re only thinking about a symptom … and you aren’t even treating it. Eventually, your organization will have a real problem – in the form of floor space…Read More »
August 30, 2010
This is the three-part goal of any storage managementoperation. You have to comply with relevant regulations, be prepared to bring our company back to normal following a catastrophe and do it all while spending as little money as possible. This is possible … all of it. You just need to find the opportunities for improving efficiency throughout…Read More »
August 9, 2010
Do you treat compliance as a cost to be contained? A business requirement to be completed with as little investment as possible? If this is how you approach such measures asSarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA, you’re missing an opportunity to turn your compliance program into a chance to drive ROI. Think about your backup and archiving operation: the changes…Read More »
July 26, 2010
Regulatory requirements, prudent business practices and the fear of disruption make enterprise-wide backups a necessity in today’s business environment. And you don’t want to cut out what might be important. After all, you want anything that can make a return to business as usual to be available. You can have this while accelerating your backups and…Read More »
April 17, 2010
The challenge before most storage system administrators is pretty straightforward: where are you going to put your data? While the answer may seem obvious, think about the trends affecting your storage management environment. The amount of data being created is growing rapidly, and your company’s requirements are poised to skyrocket. Incremental datacenter changes won’t provide a real…Read More »