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Enhancing Disk-to-Disk Backup with Data Deduplication by FalconStor Software
FalconStor's data deduplication solutions address the problem of duplicate data from backups. It slashes media costs, streamlines management...
Book Chapter: SAN for Dummies Chapter 14 Continuous Data Protection by FalconStor Software
In this chapter on Continuous Data Protection, you will learn how to use recent technical innovations to instantaneously recover data while enhancing overall data...
The Green and Virtual Data Center - CHAPTER 8: Data Storage - Disk, Tape, Optical, and Memory by SearchStorage.com
management costs and complexity of ever expanding data footprints, green data storage management concerns, and storage virtualization. The Green and Virtual Data Center, provides real...
BI Data Integration for Microsoft Office by Sybase, Inc.
and fresh, and importing business intelligence (BI) data directly to your Microsoft Office applications and reporting tools. It's Time for Smarter Reporting.
Spend less time hunting and...
Competitive Analysis of Market Leaders in Data Modeling: PowerDesigner, ERwin and ER/Studio by Sybase, Inc.
to learn all the factors you need to consider when choosing a data modeling tool. You will learn about the different model types and how each tool measures up to the demanding needs of your company...
Exchange and SharePoint: Best Practices in Unified Data Protection Today by Mimosa Systems
Changing data protection standards are taking traditional Exchange back-up with simple file storage systems and making way for managing data...
Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for Credit Union Core Processing Applications by Vision Solutions
EchoStream for AIX is a proven solution to the data recovery problem that is in use at a variety of referenceable accounts today. Continuous member service is an important...
Don't Fight Your Data Modeling Tool: Migrate from CA Erwin to Embarcadero ER/Studio by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
This Webcast compares two leading data modeling tools and demonstrates how advanced data modeling improves productivity, standards compliance and knowledge sharing...
Data Modeling Tools Compared: Embarcadero ER/Studio v. CA Erwin by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
This Podcast compares two leading data modeling tools and demonstrates how advanced data modeling improves productivity, standards compliance and knowledge sharing...
How to Create Smaller Copies of Production Databases while Maintaining Data Integrity by Informatica, formerly Applimation
you'll learn how Informatica's, formerly Applimation's, data provisioning solutions can help you leverage higher quality data for improved productivity and shortened test and development...
Akamai's Application Performance Solutions: For a Complete Application Delivery Strategy, Think Outside the Data-center by Akamai Technologies
delivery challenge by filling the gap between the data-center and end-users while requiring no additional hardware by the customer. Application Delivery Controllers serve an...
How to Protect Your Enterprise's Critical Data Wherever It Is by Iron Mountain Digital
can completely meet all of your company's backup and data protection needs, read this white paper to discover tips and advice for creating a comprehensive data protection strategy and...
Enterprise Data Protection and Recovery - The Why, The How, and Who To Go To by Iron Mountain Digital
An effective data protection and recovery strategy not only restores data that has been destroyed, or misplaced but also prevents it from falling...
Protecting Server Data in Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) by Iron Mountain Digital
operations increases the volume and importance of data for SMBs. Examine a framework for current methods of server data protection, and steps in evaluating an online disk-based...
Take Control of Distributed Data - Or Face the Consequences by Iron Mountain Digital
can best protect and manage its growing amounts of data in an increasingly distributed environment. Distributed data lives at the edge of the network on remote servers and PCs -...
Playing Favorites with Your Data - A Disaster Recovery Primer by Iron Mountain Digital
44; one of the first steps in this process is determining the data essential for the survival of your business. The first step to ensuring your business can both operate efficiently on a daily basis...
IDC White Paper - Enterprise Data Protection Security Best Practices by Iron Mountain Digital
This paper highlights the ever-growing need for data protection security best practices for enterprise computers, it also discusses the data and information security issues...
Achieving SaaS Security with Connected® Online PC Backup by Iron Mountain Digital
measures currently in place within the Iron Mountain data protection architecture to prevent unauthorized access or damage to customer data. Most corporate data originates with PC users...
Enterprise Cloud Storage: How to Cost-Effectively Protect Remote and Branch Office Server Data by Iron Mountain Digital
assist in examining current methods of protecting server data in remote and branch offices -- as well as the solutions designed to optimize server data protection programs. This paper...
Achieving SaaS Security with LiveVault® Online Server Backup by Iron Mountain Digital
convenience of using online backup to protect their server data. If your enterprise is considering Iron Mountain's LiveVault® Service, or any other online backup service, consider these...
Augmenting ETL Systems with Real-Time Change Data Capture by GoldenGate Software, Inc.
augmenting existing ETL systems with real-time change data capture (CDC) technology. GoldenGate's real-time, transactional CDC technology can effectively co-exist with ETL systems...
Real-Time Data Warehousing: 3 Case Studies by GoldenGate Software, Inc.
the challenges faced by three companies and the real-time data warehousing solutions they implemented to enhance business intelligence, protect customer data, and enhance business...
Going Real-Time for Data Warehousing and Operational BI by GoldenGate Software, Inc.
This paper will review the trends that are driving the data warehouse towards real-time data requirements, examples of the business value, evaluation of data acquisition technologies, an...
Taming Data Chaos: Simplify Data Integration with DataDirect Data Integration Suite by DataDirect Technologies
Data transformation and integration are key areas where specialized products can yield impressive time and cost efficiencies and...
SQL Server Resource Center
Performance implications of transaction log autogrowth in SQL Server
plans or customized jobs that shrink the database files (data and/or transaction log) periodically.

In my previous article on shrinking your... More...

Jun 25, 2009
The keys to database backup protection for SQL Server
no one else can take your backups and restore them to get your company's data.

The methods for this can vary depending on which technique is used to store your... More...

Jun 22, 2009
The short course on how SQL Server really works
those same 8 KB chunks in memory, meaning the smallest unit of data SQL Server works with is 8 KB.

When data is written to disk, an entire row of it must fit... More...

Jun 10, 2009
Understanding transparent data encryption in SQL Server 2008

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a new feature in SQL Server 2008 designed to encrypt your... More...

Jun 9, 2009