2009 data protection report: Best practices

2009 Data Protection Report: Best Practices 2009 is a very cost-conscious year for data protection and IT professionals. The net-net of the 2009 Data Protection Report is that more data is being generated and the demands of data protection to limit regulatory, business continuance, disaster recovery and regulatory liabilities are requiring greater management and storage resources with lower costs. There are several key technologies that are available to reduce cost and capacity planning and management overhead data protection.   Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Like most projects, successful IT consolidation requires time, planning, buy-in, and methodical execution. But IT consolidation has its own special set of challenges that relate to the fact that you are fundamentally changing the footprint of your IT architecture. This has wide-ranging implications that cover everything from budgets and capital expenditures to political considerations over the location of infrastructure and perceived impacts on business units.   Eight Key Ingredients for Building an Internal Cloud Cloud computing technology is driving a fundamental change in today's computing industry, enabling IT managers to treat infrastructure as a common substrate, on which they can provision services to users faster in a much more flexible and cost-effective way -- without having to re-design or add to the underlying infrastructure. This white paper reviews the basic fundamentals of cloud computing and examines the limitations of current industry solutions.   Consolidation and Virtualization Are NOT Enough: Optimizing Application Performance In order to improve data center efficiency, many enterprises have focused on consolidating existing information systems, and then virtualizing unused resources on those systems to increase overall utilization while lowering management costs. And many have achieved startling results -- increasing systems utilization to 60%, 80%, or higher -- while also lowering systems/storage management costs by centralizing resource management. But consolidation and virtualization in-and-of-themselves do little to improve application performance.   Best Practices for Migrating RISC Platforms RISC Migration is a valid strategy for any organization looking to reduce costs and complexity, and still deliver the performance and reliability demanded by its business units. Strong consideration should be given in 2009 to simplifying IT by minimizing RISC. If applications could be migrated to a single platform type, this could reduce the number of suppliers a company must work with and reduce the number of staff needed for operations. A clear opportunity for many organizations is to replace their aging RISC-based systems, which include systems based on SPARC and POWER processors, with new industry standards-based server.   Disaster Recovery: Plan for the Worst, Expect the Best These days, it is rare to find a company without a disaster recovery plan -- a fact due in large part to a rash of high-profile disasters in recent years. Hurricanes, terrorist attacks, tsunamis and even viruses have forced companies worldwide to think harder about how they would keep their businesses afloat in the wake of a natural disaster or other emergency. eNewsletter Information: You are receiving this e-mail because you are a loyal subscriber to the Web Buyer's Guide Member Update with the e-mail address ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. If you no longer wish to receive Web Buyer's Guide Member Update, unsubscribe here. Copyright © 2009 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy