Data Integration

Proactive Data Management Controls Data Growth. To take control, organizations must begin with the conscious decision not to let data growth proceed unexamined.

Vendors in this market have been challenged in their attempts to gain market visibility and awareness for their products and for the benefits they can provide compared with just throwing more hardware at the problem.

In this white paper we will discuss data breakage and access in more detail, and then briefly consider how IBM Optim works, particularly with respect to System z, though Optim's capabilities are also generally applicable to distributed systems.

This paper focuses on the challenges of virtualizing Windows environments and the need to consider network storage as a part of the overall solution.

This whitepaper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution.

This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft® SQL Server®, Exchange, and SharePoint® Server data along with your Windows® files using NetApp® storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments.

In this article hear from Keith Alioto, IT Director at Osiris Therapeutics discuss the evolution of their infrastructure and describe where they are now and where they're headed.

Review Windows consolidation best practices and architecture.

EMC backup and recovery solutions for VMware combine industry-leading deduplication storage and software to help you fully realize the benefits of virtualization. VMware servers consolidate production workloads well, but backups create bottlenecks that tax network and storage resources.

This report discusses market drivers and results users have achieved by taking new approaches to backup and recovery using deduplication storage systems.

In today's highly-competitive markets, more and more procurement and sourcing professionals are looking to streamline processes and drive superior performance. In the quest for higher savings, more spend under management and increased compliance, sourcing executives must turn to their own repository of spend data to effectively identify opportunities for savings and gain a deeper understanding of their corporate spend.

Double-Take Move provides migration functionality that dramatically reduces the impact and risk of migrations in the data center and across any geographic distance. Double-Take Move has a patented and award-winning replication engine that provides real-time, byte-level data replication and ensures transaction consistency without affecting users and production applications. Read this whitepaper to learn about the concerns that affect data, application and whole system migration.

This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Discover why the data grid offers improved data access that can create a competition

Journaling is a powerful feature, one that IBM has continued to develop and improve over the years. Yet, depending upon your business requirements, you probably still need more protection against downtime than journaling alone can provide. This white paper will cover what you need to know about journaling, what it can do and how it supports and cooperates with high availability software.

This workbook helps you assess current needs and usage and determine where deduplication can positively affect your IT consolidation initiatives, help reduce costs, and create a more "green" environment.

The Vertica Analytic Database is the only database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has been shown to manage terabytes of data running on extraordinarily low-cost hardware and answers queries 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware. This document summarizes the key aspects of Vertica's technology that enable such dramatic performance benefits, and compares the design of Vertica to other popular relational systems.

If you are responsible for BI (Business Intelligence) in your organization, there are three questions you should ask yourself: - Are there applications in my organization for combining operational processes with analytical insight that we can't deploy because of performance and capacity constraints with our existing BI environment?

The workplace is becoming increasingly mobile with users accessing corporate data from anywhere at any time. While this trend offers organizations significant productivity benefits, it also increases the risk of data loss that could cause irreparable harm. This paper guides IT professionals through the steps necessary to implement a practical data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. It starts off by quickly looking at what's driving data loss prevention, the consequences of data loss and how it can be comprehensively tackled using Sophos solutions. It then provides practical implementation advice and examples.

What are the data challenges facing the world's top companies? A recent Forbes Insights survey of more than 200 business and information technology (IT) executives at leading global enterprises uncovered significant trends,misconceptions, and underlying roadblocks to better information management.

This white paper examines the challenges organizations face and the steps they can take to protect themselves and their customers against data breaches and ensure the safety of this sensitive information.

They're in your company. They're in your data. Hidden insights that can support your critical business decisions.

This IDC White Paper presents a detailed analysis of the value proposition associated with moving across different virtualization adoption maturity levels. The following figures and tables compare business value accruing from the move from an unvirtualized environment to a virtualized environment or from a basic virtualization scenario to an advanced virtualization scenario.

Revenue assurance analysts at a top-tier US-based carrier studied this every day. Primarily focused on detecting fraud, revenue sharing contract violations and incomplete revenue collections, they had the need to query and analyze call detail record (CDR) databases that grow by millions of new CDRs every day.

In a world of growing data volumes and shrinking IT budgets, it is critical to think differently about the efficiency of your database and storage infrastructure. The Vertica Analytic Database is a high-performance, scalable and cost-effective solution that can bring dramatic savings in hardware, storage and operational costs.

Learn how accurate geolocation data can provide greater business value and insight through enhanced visibility.