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Developing a small business disaster recovery plan: Disaster recovery procedures for SMBs

Christopher Griffin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:06:43 EST

Learn how to develop a disaster recovery procedure for your SMB and how to get started with DR planning.

Business impact and risk assessments in IT disaster recovery planning

Christopher Griffin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:05:04 EST

Risk assessments are important for DR planning. They help organizations identify and reduce potential threats to ensure business continuity.

What are the key shared storage options available to SMBs/SMEs for document management?

Christopher Griffin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:47:41 EST

Learn how an iSCSI SAN and open source products can become effective shared storage options for SMBs/SMEs undertaking a document management project.

Data storage in the cloud: Cloud storage pricing, cloud storage providers and more

Christopher Griffin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:37:36 EST

Learn more about storing data in the cloud through a look at cloud storage pricing, internal private clouds and external public clouds, and what you should ask a potential cloud storage provider.

Training and education key to IT compliance, says Hillingdon's Bearpark

Christopher Griffin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:10:22 EST

Roger Bearpark at the London Borough of Hillingdon talks about ways to cut down on data sprawl, and how training and education can help your firm meet its compliance goals.

Adoption of 8 Gbps Fibre Channel protocol expected to soar this year after sluggish start

Francesca P. Sales — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:45:59 EST

Adoption of 8 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN storage poised to take off as economy improves, prices drop and supporting products flood the market, but many users drag feet on full end-to-end upgrade.

Fibre Channel SAN: Upgrading to 8 Gbps for storage networks a logical step as prices drop

Francesca P. Sales — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:45:13 EST

Upgrading a Fibre Channel SAN to 8 Gbps is the natural next step for IT shops refreshing their storage networks as prices of host bus adapters, switches and arrays drop.

8 Gbps Fibre Channel: Price driving adoption of the SAN storage technology

Francesca P. Sales — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:44:05 EST

IT organizations can gain benefits from 8 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN storage technology and the price differential with 4 Gbps gear is shrinking, but its adoption is slower than with 4 Gbps, and, rather than upgrade, some shops may decide to veer off the FC SAN storage technology path altogether.

The green data centre: Business best practices

Christopher Griffin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:25:32 EST

Increase the energy efficiency of your green data centre by exploring green storage best practices, addressing power and cooling issues, and implementing massive array of idle disks (MAID) technology.

Storage-area network (SAN) fabrics: Mesh versus core-edge topology

Christopher Griffin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:22:04 EST

When designing a storage-area network (SAN) fabric, it is important to examine both mesh and core-edge SAN topologies. Learn about the pros and cons of both topologies for designing SAN fabrics and which choice is best suited for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).