CTERA Cloud Storage Platform Architecture

Growth of Unstructured Data The rapid growth of storage consumption, particularly for unstructured data, has driven organizations to adopt cost-effective cloud storage solutions as a substitute or complement to more expensive block or file storage systems. Beyond cost savings, cloud storage offers many benefits to organizations, such as: elastic use of storage to match changing…

Private Clouds Will Use Hybrid Infrastructure

The Role Of Mainframes In Cloud: To Meet The Full Range Of Reliability And Security Needs January 2013. A Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper Commissioned By IBM Executive Summary Does your private cloud strategy aspire to merely accommodate lightweight, low-priority applications running on commodity servers or to handle all kinds of workloads? In October 2012,…

Storage Essential Guide – Managing the information that drives the enterprise

Cloud Backup and Cloud Disaster Recovery Storage essential guide Cloud backup and DR are now viable alternatives for enterprise data protection environments. Hybrid approaches can effectively integrate on-premises systems with cloud storage services. Benefits of cloud backup and DR become more apparent Cloud storage services for backup and DR have been around for a while,…

VMware vSphere with Operations Management

VMWare Top Tech Tips As VMware® vSphere® environments grow, users need proactive management that can deliver monitoring, performance and capacity information at a glance. This information empowers IT staff and vSphere administrators with immediate knowledge of issues, helps streamline problem resolution and enhances root cause analysis procedures. vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ Standard is part of…

2013 Information Security Breaches Survey

Security breaches reach highest ever levels The number of security breaches affecting UK business continues to increase. The rise is most notable for small businesses; they’re now experiencing incident levels previously only seen in larger organisations. 93% of large business had a security breach last year 87% of small businesses had a security breach in…

Total Economic Impact of EMC’s Isilon Clustered Storage System

Multicompany Analysis – Project Director: Shaheen Parks (June 2013) Executive Summary In June 2013, EMC commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Isilon storage. Clustered file storage is an alternative to traditional file storage, allowing organizations to easily and effectively scale their…

2012 Encryption in the Cloud – Thales

Ponemon Institute, Sponsored by Thales, Ponemon Institute is pleased to present second annual Trends in Cloud Encryption Study. This research is a supplementary report that is part of a larger study entitled the 2012 Encryption in the Cloud Study published in February 2013. In this study, we surveyed 4,205 business and IT managers in the…

5 Steps to building a stronger SMB

A McAfee Infographic for SMB’s Small businesses are now big targets for worldwide cybercrime, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a victim. A comprehensive yet easy-to-manage security strategy can protect your business while you focus on growing it. Click below to view the great McAfee SMB Infographic Downloads McAfee – 5 Steps to…