British businesses must refuse to be left behind by UK Government complacency regarding Information Security compliance. With no set date for a UK equivalent to Sarbanes-Oxley, compliance seems to be slipping down the list of priorities for IT Directors trying to juggle multiple and often conflicting priorities, argues Lorraine Cousins, Managing Director of Halcyon Software – a provider of systems monitoring and security compliance solutions. Read more
It has been particularly interesting to watch the dramatic changes in the market over the last couple of years and the motivation of organisations to archive digital records. In the past, those organisations that put in place long-term data archive strategies did so for their own internal benefit. Either historic data was a critical part of their business process like insurance records and medical images or there was a cultural mandate to retain information in the case of government and public records. While these motivations still exist, an increasing number of organisations are being forced to put an archive strategy in place to comply with industry regulations and to manage their exposure to litigation. These issues are no longer the sole concern of large organisations; they are having a major impact on SMEs across virtually all industries. Read more
The post-dotcom boom has been a tough time for many IT departments. As budgets tightened, the focus moved to making the existing infrastructure and applications work better, improving integration and driving user and systems productivity. Read more
People have been saying it for years. Tape is yesterday's technology, old and slow, dead and buried. But the requirement for data storage is increasing - with emails and more electronic communications, with systems and processes becoming electronic and especially now with the data compliance regulations in light of the Enron scandal – the need for data storage is growing, and growing fast. As a result, demand is soaring for an established technology that offers reliable and cost effective back-up for today's businesses. Read more
Before embarking on an ILM strategy it is imperative to involve the business and not deal with it as just an IT problem: remember that Information Lifecycle Management is really a business problem, and a critical one at that. Read more
As the data explosion continues unabated, a company's information is now one of its highest forms of currency, with many companies going out of business purely because they fail to manage and protect their data correctly. The same applies in the scientific research community, where faster processing, larger bandwidth and more efficient ways of accessing data are improving the speed to insight for new discoveries, and at increasingly more affordable prices. Read more
Given the increase in remote working and the growing mobility of data as more employees work from home using a variety of mobile devices, the concept of ‘PC personality' is making headway. Read more
Virtualisation seems the ideal solution to ever more convoluted infrastructure at the data centre. But can it deliver on its promise? Eric Vishria, Vice President of Marketing at Opsware, looks at benefits of virtualisation and how IT automation tools ensure these are achieved by the enterprise. Read more
The unity of the European Union may appear at times politically at odds, but in the realm of Grid Computing, Europe is leading the way, providing an ideal model of how enterprises can link their servers and storage into a productive heterogeneous environment. Yet as research and education institutions drive Grid computing on to next generation networks, are corporate enterprises starting to see the light? Klaus Grobe, of ADVA Optical Networking believes so. Read more
Information Technology is seen as a key area of compliance weakness, but it is also the mechanism thorough which the compliance equation can be balanced. By Ceri Jones, Director of Marketing, EMEA at Serena Software. Read more
Bracknell Forest Borough Council deploys CommVault as part of an ongoing programme to introduce and support future technologies. Read more
Mid Bedfordshire Council boosting customer service, driving compliance and efficiency. Read more
B2net helps City of York Council make storage problems history. Read more
Access to data is vital for any company, whether it is Exchange, SQL or just file data, without it most companies are unable to operate efficiently – this can lead to lost revenues and infuriated customers. Read more
Managing storage area networks has become a tedious task for many organisations. With environments often comprised of hardware and software from multiple vendors - performing necessary operational changes such as the provisioning and migration of data is becoming more and more difficult to carry out quickly and efficiently. Read more
In the Realm of Data Protection, Recovery and Parallel Workflow, H.G. Wells' "Machine" is a Reality. Read more
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