Data Management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource. Data Resource Management is the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of an enterprise.
This white paper from SAP BusinessObjects discusses the importance of data integration and helps identify the key challenges of integrating data. Download Now
Does your business need to safeguard information, keep auditors and regulators satisfied, and improve data quality? Data governance is the answer. This informative video outlines the latest challenges and best practices in data governance. IBM data governance solutions help businesses with:• Audit and reporting • Data architecture/infrastructure • Data quality • Information lifecyle management • Metadata/business glossaries • Organizational design/development • Policy/risk management • Security/privacy/compliance • Stewardship/value creation Download Now
Research giant Forrester estimates that on average, data repositories for large applications grow by fifty percent annually. However, up to half of all that data can be duplicate or otherwise unnecessary. With no end in sight for the increase of raw data (both structured and unstructured), organizations must be ever more strategic about where and how to store enterprise information. Meanwhile, a tightening economy is putting pressure on costs, just as compliance mandates call for greater visibility into processes and data. What to do? Register for this Web Seminar to learn the four pillars of strategic storage, and how they can be used to simultaneously reduce costs, while improving speed, accuracy and accountability. The four pillars will be discussed in detail, with real-world examples of each: deep compression, database archiving,de-duplication thin provisioning. Download Now
Remove the single greatest barrier to the fast financial close – intercompany reconciliation – from the financial close's critical path while improving the quality of data by using a software solution, such as BusinessObjects Intercompany, to gain dramatic time savings with comparably little effort. Download Now
Need your business to be flexible and agile? If you depend on the assets of partners & suppliers like us, you'll enjoy this video. It shows how the IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Feature Pack for Web 2.0 uses the combined power of Web 2.0 and SOA to bring all our most important services to the forefront. Giving you immediate insight and interaction with customers partners, supplier, and retailers. Download Now
Enjoy this complimentary trial version of WebSphere Application Server Express V7. You'll see how it can provide single-step installation and configuration, wizards and default configurations, and easy to navigate documentation that includes extensive use of sample code to ensure fast and smooth start-up. Download Now
The average SMB has most of the same data protection needs as its larger competitors. But most SMBs can't afford a trained staff assigned specifically to storage management and protection. As a result, when they buy storage management software they look for solutions that are both less expensive and easier to use than traditional products. Download Now
Choosing a solution for Vulnerability Management (VM) is a critical step toward protecting your organization’s network and data. Without proven, automated technology for precise detection and remediation, no network can withstand the daily onslaught of new vulnerabilities that threaten security.
The ability to make quick, well-informed decisions is critical to competitiveness and growth for most companies. Read the white paper to see how Data warehouse solutions can deliver business insight across virtually any business process or function. And also how they're particularly valuable for understanding sales, profiling customers and analyzing business costs. Download Now
Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows is your Windows-based backup and recovery utility that allows you to get back to business after a system crash rapidly and minimize downtime. Download this demo software to learn how Acronis True Image Echo Server can help you restore an entire Windows server in minutes after any unforeseen event (Note: THIS FREE DOWNLOAD IS APPROXIMATELY 164mb.)
IT executives barely have time to keep track of the technology in their own environments; finding the hours in the day to stay abreast of all the new technology solutions in the marketplace is next to impossible. At some point, however, those in the data center corner office are bound to hear about solutions that can deliver near immediate payback and benefit other IT initiatives. Download Now
This document explains IT Search's ability to instantly search all the data generated by applications, servers and network devices in your IT infrastructure. Download to learn more today!
According to Forrester, organizations spent $1.5 trillion globally managing IT last year. 75% of this was spent on silos, legacy systems that still don't get answers to the most important questions: troubleshooting outages, investigating security incidents, and demonstrating compliance. Learn about the innovative software product forward-thinking organizations are using to dramatically improve their productivity and change the way they manage and secure IT. Download Now
NetApp® SnapManager® for Oracle (SMO) is designed to significantly simplify all these tasks and more. In this article, we examine how you can deploy SMO to simplify and even automate data protection, recovery, and cloning across both primary and secondary storage. Learn more today!
This paper describes the role of deduplication in the evolving data lifecycle, along with its historical significance. Industry expert Steve Duplessie explains how Data Domain has changed the status quo when it comes to data protection by reducing the number of products needed for operational and disaster recovery. Learn more today!
Mainframe data centers are reducing their reliance on slow, costly, and unsecured physical tape for their backup and disaster recovery. As a result, they are realizing substantial reductions in cost, and improvements in both performance and DR capabilities. Download Now
This information packed 29-page report reviews the technology spectrum of resilience and recovery solutions available for AIX and i5/OS (including OS/400 and IBM i) operating environments, including the latest, next-generation solutions. The goal of the paper is to help prepare IT professionals to better evaluate and adopt those technologies and methodologies most effective and appropriate for their organization given constraints around recovery time, data currency, IT staffing, and budget. Download Now
There are many options for backup and data recovery of the IBM iSeries, but not all solutions are right for every business. The highest-priced solutions offer guaranteed business continuity, yet the complexity involved may be too costly for many businesses. The least expensive solutions satisfy due diligence, but put businesses at risk for downtime. Download your copy of this free white paper to explore your options, examine the benefits of outsourced solutions and discover a better solution that protects your IBM iSeries — and your business. Download Now
For IT departments looking to bring their AIX environments up to the next step in data protection, IBM’s PowerHA (HACMP) connects multiple servers to shared storage via clustering. This offers automatic recovery of applications and system resources if a failure occurs with the primary server. But clustering only makes the server resilient, not the data storage. That is where real-time replication of the data store is essential. Learn all about how AIX data replication works and how it benefits HACMP clusters. Download Now
Kahn Consulting, Inc. (KCI) has assessed Data Domain deduplication storage systems using criteria derived from broad compliance requirements and best practices related to information management. In this paper, KCI evaluates the Data Domain deduplication architecture and specifically how its Data Invulnerability Architecture is designed to protect system data using a number of techniques. Learn more today! Download Now
The need to control the flow of corporate information is acute. This paper gives practical guidance on how to use your IT budget effectively to prevent data leakage at the gateway and endpoint and highlights the benefits of encryption in securing data if it does get intentionally or accidentally lost. Download Now
This paper focuses generally on optimal storage and storage management for SharePoint and specifically evaluates NetApp's approach, detailing how the capabilities in NetApp's DataONTAP and SnapManager for SharePoint Server offerings help to drive storage efficiency, reduce cost, and exclude complexity in a comprehensive SharePoint implementation. It is not so much a "how to" guide, but rather a "why to" explanation. Learn more today!
To mine raw data and extract crucial insights, business decision‐makers need fast and comprehensive access to all the information stored across their enterprise, regardless of its format or location. Furthermore, that data must be organized, analyzed and visualized in ways that permit easy interpretation of market opportunities growth, shifts and trends and the business‐process changes required to address them. Gaining a true perspective on an organization’s customer base, market area or potential expansion can be a challenging task, because companies use so many relational databases, data warehouse technologies, mapping systems and ad hoc data repositories to gather and house information for a wide variety of specialized purposes. Download Now
Charles R. Morris helps readers understand how the world economy has been put on the brink — and the radically reshaped political/economic landscape that will define the post-crash era.
