Data and Data Management

a complicated process involving a mix of data warehousing and data management technologies.

Data warehousing has always been about big data - so what's new and why is it such a hot topic? In this presentation transcript, analyst Wayne Eckerson explores the intersection of big data and data warehousing and new trends of big data.

database cloud” for database management systems (DBMSs), data, and data-driven applications such as business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW). This TDWI Checklist Report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated BI and DW applications.

to populate a data warehouse or analytic database with data and data models that ensure the success of advanced analytic applications.

This TDWI Checklist Report seeks to clear the confusion by listing and explaining data requirements that are unique to advanced analytics. The assumption is that it’s hard for organizations to succeed with analytics when they haven’t given it the right data in the right condition. Hence, this report focuses on the data requirements of advanced...

when IT budgets are tight. Backup is critical to protecting data and ensuring its recoverability. However, backup applications, by design, continuously create new copies of the same data, resulting in an explosion of required storage capacity on tape and disk.

This webinar demontrates how FalconStor data deduplication solutions integrate seamlessly into your backup environment to address this problem, slashing media costs, streamlining management tasks, and minimizing the...

power required to identify duplicate data, index unique data, and restore compacted data to its original state. The path has only recently been cleared for a proliferation of data de-duplication solutions as processing power has become more cost-effective.

Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality and determining which factors are really important to their business. With some vendors...

As a result, replication capabilities are taking on more data management functions and policies to control the frequency, expiration, scheduling, retention, and methods of creating copies. Increasingly, the scope of data protection includes replication and copy services capabilities. Read this white paper to learn more about these exciting developments.

Intel are now ready to help organizations turn a new page in data warehousing. Using Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise, you can now quickly deploy small data warehouses or data marts with the Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse option.

 

Data warehouses are essential to providing employees fast access to the complete and up-to-date information they need to make better decisions, improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, develop...

Wales & West Utilities uses Winshuttle to streamline SAP data loading and extraction in multiple business areas, from finance to asset management. In 2008, Wales & West Utilities underwent a major cost centre restructure, shifting ownership of assets and improving process efficiencies across the entire company. Among other things that meant collating a huge amount of new or updated information within spreadsheets, then transferring that data to SAP within a very...

This brief resource tackles the data backup challenge for IT managers – and provides the results taken by 215 of your IT peers in an IDG Research Services survey.

 

 

As more data is created, the need for more storage is increasing exponentially – and the traditional approach has become inefficient with organizations facing a predicament with exponential data growth. With raising costs of storage for backup and disaster recovery, management is confronted...

Suite in order to unleash SharePoint’s full potential and unlockthe key to quick cost savings for existing storage investments.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, the latest release of Microsoft’s best-selling server product, is quickly revolutionizing how organizations worldwide connect their people, processes, and information. It will mark SharePoint’s evolution from a server “application” into a full-fledged platform – the world’s first enterprise-class “virtual...

Early continuous data protection products may not have lived up to the hype when they first debuted a few years ago – but CDP technology now is the future of data backup and recovery. This E-Guide outlines how continuous data protection has evolved over the years and lists 10 popular CDP products available today.

Early continuous data protection (CDP) products may not have lived up to the hype when they first debuted a few years ago – but CDP...

as "a class of mechanisms that continuously capture or track data modifications enabling recovery to previous points in time." In part two of this tutorial on continuous data protection backup, learn how CDP is being used today, and about the latest CDP products.

Over the last two years, continuous data protection (CDP) has made its way off the overhyped technology list and is rapidly picking up steam as a useful piece of the data backup and recovery puzzle.

The Storage Networking Industry...

Library (VTL) solution without any change to your existing data and without impacting your backup and restore operations.

Has your tape library or VTL become obsolete, or lacks the performance, functionality, and integration levels that your organization needs? Are you experiencing storage inefficiencies caused by needlessly backing up duplicate data? There are many sound reasons to migrate existing physical and virtual tape library data.  But it could be that the potential...

the right data warehouse platform for your organization and  furthers understanding in-database analytics technology.

Data warehouses are no longer simple decision-support databases fed by batch extract, transform and load (ETL) processes. They’ve evolved into dynamic analytical warehouses, and technological innovations are rapidly changing data warehouse architectures and providing the potential for substantial performance improvements. In this e-book, get an update...

details the efforts of Henderson Global Investors, an asset management firm, to improve their SharePoint-based content management, backup and administrative functions using AvePoint's DocAve Software Platform.

This case study details the efforts of Henderson Global Investors, an asset management firm, to improve their SharePoint-based content management, backup and administrative functions using AvePoint's DocAve Software Platform. The study notes numerous successes and...

challenges in converging your data center infrastructure and best practices for creating a successful convergence strategy. Discover the core benefits this approach provides your IT infrastructure and how you can effectively simplify your data center management today! ...

Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP). All customers reported high levels of satisfaction.

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP). All customers reported high levels of satisfaction with and enjoyed considerable benefits...

Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP) optimizes application and data availability as well as storage management capabilities. This white paper explains how FalconStor CDP delivers a comprehensive backup, restore, and recovery regime for Oracle that protects against soft and hard errors...

is to understand how desktop virtualization can help and which implementations will be most successful. Read this transcript for an overview of desktop virtualization, several virtual desktop solutions, and the operational efficiency gains possible with desktop virtualization.

Virtual environments are growing and more data center elements are melding into the "cloud," creating complexity and management issues for IT professionals. But with new advances in storage...

why you can’t afford to wait on storage virtualization and get some great storage virtualization implementation tips in this webcast.

Virtual environments are growing and more data center elements are melding into the “cloud,” creating complexity and management issues for IT professionals. But with new advances in storage virtualization, you can increase automation and performance in your data center with reduced complexity and IT management cost.

Learn why you...

suite that easily shares business intelligence (BI) and customer relation ship management (CRM) data throughout your business, is designed to grow with you, and is customized to suit your specific needs.

Understanding how costs, customer relationship management (CRM), and business intelligence (BI) data impact and work with each other can be a tricky task if you don't have the proper software implemented.

Read this white paper to learn about a software suite that easily shares...

tape drives use a Crypto-Key Management System to encrypt data, and how Volsafe technology helps your business meet electronic, regulatory, and legal requirements. Learn how Sun StorageTek T-series tape drives use a Crypto-Key Management System to encrypt data, and how Volsafe technology helps your business meet electronic, regulatory, and legal requirements...

vCenter SRM to empower VMware vCenter SRM to automate and manage the DR process for the entire physical and virtual infrastructure. Read this white paper to learn more. Having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is mandatory. Most organizations recognize this - particularly those that have learned this the hard way, when a disaster caught them unprepared. DR procedures have always been complicated for the physical server infrastructure, and the introduction of server...

deriving actionable insight from both SQL and NoSQL data, and 5 areas to focus on when implementing Oracle BI applications.

For Oracle managers struggling just to keep their heads above water storing and managing the floods of structured and unstructured data that seem to keep rising, implementing business intelligence (BI) might seem like a project that can wait for another day.

But the fact is, implementing Oracle BI can not only help you get a handle on all of your data, it can also...

Platform reduces the complexities of protecting business data by enabling organizations to deploy and manage multiple encryption applications cost-effectively. The PGP Encryption Platform makes installing additional systems unnecessary when organizational needs for encryption expand.

The PGP Encryption Platform reduces the complexities of protecting business data by enabling organizations to deploy and manage multiple encryption applications cost-effectively...