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Because of the vital role that HIPS plays in a proactive, defense-in-depth strategy, the process of selecting the right HIPS - one that provides the required protection while addressing operational security concerns, and minimizing the impact on IT resources - is an important one. This white paper identifies twelve critical questions that organizations need to consider when selecting a HIPS product, including: How long will it take to deploy? Where does it stop the attacks? How quickly can it be updated with filters? What kinds of reports are provided? And others
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The majority of discussion on pandemic preparedness focuses internally on what can be done to limit the impact a pandemic would have on organizations. While this is an essential component of preparedness, this article suggests that enterprises need to look externally as much as internally to understand the impact a pandemic might have, and to prepare an appropriate response.
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The data protection system must be regarded as a 'mission critical' element of any modern data center. The design of any data protection system must, as far as possible, eliminate single points of failure so that data can be recovered to an acceptable state and point in time in the event of data, server or site loss.
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Traditional disaster recovery infrastructures including tape backup, image capture, high-end replication and hardware clustering have failed to keep pace with business requirements for recovery speed and integrity at a reasonable cost. Budgetary constraints and the high cost and complexity of established recovery solutions mean that most organizations can afford to protect only a fraction of their total server infrastructure – typically only their most business-critical server workloads. This common protection scenario leaves the majority of the server network underinsured in the event of downtime or disaster.
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In a world of growing regulatory requirements surrounding data privacy, IT and businessmanagers must safeguard the data in their care to the utmost of their ability. Here’s how to ensure that data privacy is maintained in the data storage environment.
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Access to corporate applications and data is obviously vital to help keep your business running as usual. A wide range of concerns – ranging from a snow storm that prevents people from coming to work to site failures that can prevent access to information systems – can quickly disrupt business processes. The business impact itself can be significant, leading to poor customer service, loss of credibility and brand, as well as loss of revenue and market share. Your business needs to consider remote access as a key element of its continuity planning to ensure their employees can continue to work remotely should disaster strike at the corporate office.
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With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. If your organization trusts and relies on digital information, it’s imperative that you have the proper systems and technology in place to defend against data loss. If data loss does occur, recovering it must be done quickly and efficiently. Enterprise data protection has grown up. The complexity and increasing regulation of data protection requirements have created a wealth of new products and solutions. These newer solutions for redundancy and data protection generally have a common attribute—greater reliance on IP-based WAN services to implement the data protection scheme. Data protection solutions require the ability to move data quickly and cost-effectively across the WAN.
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Gaining an understanding of Web performance requires a careful examination of performance from the entire spectrum of customer connectivity. The Web performance that customers experience is one of the vital components determining the success of an online business.
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Without an effective plan in place, disruptions to business operations or government services can cause substantial financial loss, unnecessary personal or property damage, and serious impacts to communities. Business continuity planning (BCP) and organizational procedures for continuity of operations (COOP) can be strengthened and enhanced by means of proven wireless solutions. Preparing effectively for catastrophic events, power outages, weather-related incidents, and similar threats requires forward-looking procedures, a responsive communication network, and a framework of supporting technology.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has started to move beyond departmental deployments and into an important competence and infrastructural technology. This is especially true for large and mid-size organizations.
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What a difference a year makes—not just for ExaGrid, but also for the disk-based backup market in general. Over the last 12 months, ExaGrid has watched the sales and implementation of its disk-based solutions grow significantly while the industry has witnessed the maturation of disk-based solutions as a whole. Disk-based data protection is still an emerging market, but user comfort level with—and implementation of—these types of solutions continues to increase. Disk-based backup products have become more widely available and, importantly, are being used by more and more organizations—big and small. In fact, in the mid- and small enterprise markets where ExaGrid predominantly plays, ESG Research finds that users are more likely to replace entire tape-based data protection infrastructures with disk than they are in larger organizations where tape investments are significantly larger.
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A system failure renders a system inoperative. Causes can range from the failure of a single disk drive to a fire in the computer room. These catastrophic events can cause not only a system to fail but destroy the system and perhaps even an entire data center. Such events don’t happen every day, but it only takes one catastrophe to destroy a business.
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Disasters of both the man-made and natural varieties -from hurricanes, wildfires, and floods, to “brown outs†and network failures- all bring home the need for data protection and the ability to recover quickly from outages and site incidents to resume operations. Organizations must ask themselves unpleasant “what if †questions in order to determine their vulnerabilities in the face of these potential disasters, which can impose unacceptable interruptions on business and services.
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As Web-based applications have become critical to many business operations, a number of enterprises have grown frustrated with the performance and reliability of the applications and have turned to outsourcing some aspects of Web applications management and support. Akamai pioneered the approach of offering application acceleration as a service rather than as a hardware-based solution. To assess and quantify the business benefits of Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator (WAA), IDC conducted in-depth interviews with IT staff members of eight organizations using WAA. A structured set of questions was used to capture the costs and benefits directly associated with WAA. The study is based on standard IDC return-on-investment (ROI) methodology, which is used to calculate the benefits of cost savings, increased productivity, and revenue realization.
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Tags: Business Continuity, Storage
Why plan for business continuity (BC) when everything is going fine? Because that is realistically the only time you can effectively plan for threats. Otherwise, you are merely reacting to a problem. It is exactly when things are at their best that planning for the worst makes sense. Though hindsight is 20/20, the sooner developed and more reasonable the plan at the outset, the more likely it will work when you need it. Even organizations that believe they have an adequate plan in place can’t sustain crippling damage because they have not incorporated both proactive and reactive strategies into their business continuity planning.
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Most IT professionals know or suspect that virtualization of computer systems may have an important role in their organization’s evolving infrastructure—though where and how are likely under investigation. Some organizations will decide that virtualization isn’t necessary. Others will find that they want to implement it in places, but not across the board. Still others will move to implement it on a large scale.
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A growing number of organizations are embracing disk-based backup solutions to improve backup performance, eliminate tape media management issues and improve the speed and reliability of recovery operations. This ESG Lab report explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte level data de-duplication to provide space efficient capacity optimization, fast and reliable backup and recovery performance and WAN-optimized remote replication using a virtualized pool of network attached disk capacity that works with existing backup software, policies and procedures.
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As energy resources become more scarce and more expensive, electrical efficiency isbecoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of largeUPS systems. There are three subtle but significant factors that can materially affect acompany’s cost of operating a UPS system and particularly the electrical bill. Unfortunately,the people who specify systems often fail to recognize these factors, which leads toincreased costs to the owner because operational efficiencies are not correctly considered.This paper discusses the common errors and misunderstandings in evaluating UPSefficiency. UPS efficiency curves are explained, compared, and their cost implicationsquantified.
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Today’s supply chain is, of course, the primary processing mechanism of everymanufacturing company. But it’s more than that: Its multifaceted, multicompany,multinational structure makes it the most complex management challenge found inany enterprise. Supply chain management no longer means just making sure thatthe right resources and the right materials move to the right place at the right time.Today, it also means ensuring that the entire chain of events involved in producinggoods and distributing them to customers satisfies customers, minimizes costs andmaximizes profit.
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The instant and obvious benefits of WiFi have made WLANs a big success in public, private, and enterprise sectors. Unfortunately, the adoption of correct security measures for WLANs is lagging far behind the fast pace at which these networks are being deployed. The presence of WiFi in most laptops and handhelds, the simplicity of independently installing WiFi networks, and the ease of exploiting wireless vulnerabilities have together escalated the risks manifold. Even organizations that do not own a WLAN are equally at risk.
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