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Controlling Storage Costs With Oracle Database 11g: Recent ESG research indicates that the average database is expected to grow 25% annually. More resources are needed to retain and manage corporate data. Expenses increase due to poor resource utilization - most organizations think 50% storage utilization is acceptable - as companies buy more systems instead of leveraging existing...; Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., Information Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Strategy Group, Oracle Database, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Quality, Business Operations; White papers 2008-02-01
Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments: The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale organization--an entity that can quickly adapt to change and scale to meet the rapidly changing needs of today's business, an entity that focuses on delivering and maintaining applications, not infrastructure. In order to achieve IT transparency,...; Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Information Technology, Environment, Storage, Enterprise Strategy Group, NetApp, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management; White papers 2008-01-25
The SIEM Architecture: Security Event Management SEM products collected log data from security devices in order to correlate disparate events and detect security incidents in real time. Today, many SEM vendors claim that these same products that help security administrators identify attacks can also meet the comprehensive reporting needs of regulatory compliance auditors....; Tags: Compliance, Enterprise Strategy Group, Analysis, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2007-10-01
Symantec Enterprise Vault and EMC Centera: Unlocking the Benefits of Efficient Information Archiving: ESG White Paper ESG research estimates that organizations will archive over 57,000 petabytes of e-mails, files and database data over the next 4 years. These digital assets may no longer be needed for current business operations, but are intentionally retained to satisfy records management, litigation support, data management, regulatory compliance...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Archiving, Benefit, Enterprise Strategy Group, EMC Centera, EMC Corp., Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Business Intelligence, Records Management, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-06-01
Leveraging Information Management Solutions to Improve Business Performance: Information is critical to the success of any business. Accessing the right information and ensuring its proper protection is of paramount concern. Yet, nowadays highly complex IT environments create unique challenges for a CIO. Information is scattered across geographies and applications. Simply identifying all the information related to a single...; Tags: Information Management, Performance, Information, Enterprise Strategy Group, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-05-01

Building Power Efficient Solutions With Cisco MDS 9000 Directors: Power and cooling are surfacing as major concerns in companies of all sizes. Rising energy prices and drastic increases in the density and power requirements of server and storage solutions over the past few years have driven IT managers to consider strategies for reducing power consumption in the data center....; Tags: Storage Networking, Power Consumption, Cisco Systems Inc., Enterprise Strategy Group, Data Centers, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2006-12-01
Managing content in the enterprise database: Today, 80 percent of the content in organizations is unstructured. Brian Babineau, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, gives three reasons why enterprises should bring this content into a centralized database.; Tags: Content, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Enterprise Strategy Group, Database; Whiteboards 2006-11-28
Double Up With Database Data Protection and Disaster Recovery With Oracle Data Guard: Highly available IT architectures should incorporate disaster recovery solutions that ensure systems and information remains accessible in case unforeseen events impair data center operations. One such solution is Data Guard, a feature of Oracle Database 10g for maintaining standby databases, which are automatically kept synchronized with the production database, enabling...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise Strategy Group, Disaster Recovery, Data Centers, Storage, Databases, Data Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-11-01
Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Federated Identity Management (FIM): Business requirements seem to accelerate on a daily basis. Leading companies remain ready to respond to customer whims, outsource business processes, improve internal controls, and respond to changing regulations. Legacy IT infrastructure simply wasn't designed to fill nowadays business requirements but it is ludicrous to suggest "Ripping and replacing" valuable...; Tags: Identity Federation, SOA, Enterprise Strategy Group, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-10-01
Enterprise Tape Encryption Requirements for the Banking Industry: Banking isn't what it used to be. Between globalization, increased competition, the demand for innovative products, and new technology implementation, the banking industry is changing at least as fast as any other industry. As business models rapidly advance, banks are also challenged to comply with a growing list of government...; Tags: Enterprise Strategy Group, Banking, Globalization, Financial Services, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-08-01
Enterprise Tape Encryption: It seems like there is a new publicly-disclosed data breach in the headlines of the major business media outlet each day. Some of these incidents are related to lost laptops while others are linked to hacking incidents. But many of the most infamous of these breaches were the result of...; Tags: Enterprise Strategy Group, Encryption, Security; White papers 2006-08-01
Cisco MDS 9000: Network Accelerated Serverless Backup: ESG has been watching the growth of data storage over the last five years. The growth of data is further compounded by extended retention periods as companies and organizations keep data for years and in some cases forever. Today, companies are taking extra measures to protect mission-critical and even business-critical...; Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Enterprise Strategy Group, ESG, E-mail, Backups, Storage Management, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Storage, Hardware, Marketing; White papers 2006-01-01
Oracle Database 10g's Automatic Storage Management Delivers Resilience, Simplicity and Lowers Costs: Oracle Database 10g's Automatic Storage Management ASM delivers previously unattainable levels storage management efficiency through highly automated, application-centric rules and policies that reduce many hands-on tasks to the point of elimination. ASM enables continual access to database applications by delivering a near zero-downtime condition at the highest levels of performance....; Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise Strategy Group, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Automatic Storage Management, Storage, Storage Management, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2005-08-01
The Many Benefits of VERITAS' FlashSnap Solution: According to Enterprise Strategy Group ESG research, end users top storage management issue continues to be meeting the backup window. While many users have moved to disk based technologies to alleviate the problems, a majority of users have not taken advantage of technologies such as snapshot that can not only...; Tags: Data Protection, VERITAS Software Corp., Window, Benefit, Enterprise Strategy Group, VERITAS FlashSnap, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage, Data Management, Hardware; White papers 2005-04-01

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MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more: I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philly: If you're in the Philadelphia area I'd like to invite you to attend the Philadelphia PowerBook User Group PPUG meeting tomorrow at the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant. We meet from 12 noon to 3pm over lunch and fine local beer. Want to debate my theory on...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Philadelphia, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Foxconn snubs Linux users: Foxconn snubs Linux usersWho needs Foxconn anyway.There are plenty of good MB makers that do support Linux.It's a good idea to look at hardware compatibility at the distro's website anyway. I use Asus. But I have had to update the BIOS on every Asus MB I've bought to get...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Foxconn, Linux, BIOS, ASUS, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
What paper trail?: I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....; Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Talent development: Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...; Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-07-25
EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook: On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...; Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25