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Mass Exodus: The Movement of Data Offsite * [PDF: 85KB]
With the rising costs of storage management - combined with an onslaught of federal regulations creating legal and financial exposure for data loss - IT organizations are challenged to find better, more cost-effective solutions to protect mission-critical data. Offsite data storage, which began as a tactical response to an increased sense of vulnerability, is increasingly being recognized as a smart remote data protection strategy for businesses of every size.
Rising Against the Winds of Regulatory Compliance * [PDF: 164KB]
With the swirl of new government regulations, compliance is creating a tremendous headwind for IT organizations. Between the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), SEC 17a and others, the liability surrounding data storage and data protection issues are increasing rapidly. Regulations are creating unprecedented demands on organizations to store more records for longer periods of time, while requiring both the accessibility and security of company information to ensure the integrity, accessibility and retrieval of this information.
Data Protection Resolutions for the Resolute * [PDF: 236KB]
Most organizations don't know how bad their current data backup quality is until it is toolate. Too few companies have adequately assessed their backup environments for vulnerabilities or measured the levels of risk and exposure that may arise from data loss. When it comes to data protection, silence is not golden. Data protection strategies need to be proactive to avert disasters.
Four Steps to Protecting Your Data * [PDF: 75KB]
Business continuity planning is critical in today's turbulent world. Without it, companies risk incurring staggering direct and indirect costs from downtime and data loss. Yet despite the fact that organizations face unforeseen threats every day-from cyber attacks, environmental disasters or human errors-it is estimated that less than 25 percent of Global 2000 enterprises have adequate business continuity plans and only 50 percent have fully-tested disaster recovery plans. How can you make sure your organization is protected?
Keeping the Doors Open: The Data Protection Imperative * [PDF: 114KB]
How long could your company survive without access to business data? How much revenue would you lose if data were inaccessible for two hours, four hours, or even longer? The risks of downtime far outweigh the costs of a solid data protection program, yet very often, top management - and even IT departments themselves - spend little time focusing on the business continuity of corporate data. Simply put, the most important assets of a business are its data, and taking care of business means protecting business data.
Business Continuity - Enabling Solutions for Financial Institutions * [PDF: 189KB]
For financial institutions, business continuity is a requisite to competing effectively in the global financial economy. Customers and partners expect it, and new regulatory requirements have simply mandated what financial companies already know - that their IT organizations must ensure that essential customer, market, transaction and performance data must be kept private, secure, accurate and yet continually available. Identifying and implementing solutions to meet these objectives is a critical issue for IT organizations.
Data Protection-Enabling Solutions For Healthcare Organizations*
For healthcare organizations, data protection is a requisite to ensure patient health and safety as well as necessary to meet strict regulatory requirements for patient information confidentiality, accessibility and security.
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