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Removable Devices: The Menace Within (Storage)
This article looks at the threat businesses face from handheld USB devices and how to secure core business systems against them, without sacrificing productivity.
U3 USB Stick (In-)Security (Storage)
New USB sticks often come with U3 technology, which enables so called portable applications to be started directly from the USB stick. Which additional risks bear these U3 USB sticks compared to "normal" USB sticks? And how can these risks be minimized? This technical article shows possible dangers and solutions.
7 Steps to Securing USB Drives (Storage)
Even when used with the best intentions, the data stored on USB drives is generally not covered by routine company procedures, such as backup, encryption, or asset management. How can companies keep track of the data coming in or leaving the company via these devices? Keeping company data secure has become a significant challenge for any corporate IT department.
Storing and Protecting Data (Storage)
Most organisations recognise that they cannot simply continue to store and then blindly manage data of all types on primary storage. That data which has immediate relevance to active business processes merits a place on high-performance/high-availability primary storage. It also warrants special attention with frequent or continuous data protection and business continuance processes.
Data Storage Security – Quo Vadis (Storage)
Today, industry trends are forcing security in the data center to be re-thought. In particular, the trend towards consolidation results in increasingly centralised data storage which in turn creates new security vulnerabilities.
Raman Amplification in Storage Area Networking (Storage)
In context of storage services, the ability to lengthen the distance between data vaults rates is an even more compelling benefit. To gain the protection they want (and governments more and more frequently require), enterprises must be able to put more distance between their primary and backup data centers.
Constructing Secure Storage Area Networks (Storage)
Increasingly concerned about the availability of their business data, many enterprises over the last five years have implemented sophisticated storage area networks (SANs). With metro optical networks cost-effectively satisfying the huge bandwidth requirements, services such as business continuity and disaster recovery have helped enterprises avoid costly network downtime, improve corporate resource utilization and efficiently manage growing amounts of data.
Intelligent Data Protection in Today’s Enterprise (Storage)
As information becomes increasingly more valuable to enterprises, IT organizations must overcome some daunting and complex data protection challenges, such as recoverability, storage management and compliance. However, rather than being reactive data availability demands, enterprises now have the opportunity to proactively protect their business critical information.
What Should Businesses Require of Data Protection Solutions? (Storage)
Data protection today is one of the most innovative and fast-moving areas of Information Technology. Data protection technology developers have, in recent years, engaged in constant, vibrant ‘solution evolution’, continuously striving to deliver new data protection capabilities for increasingly demanding customers.
10 Tips for Reducing Storage TCO (Storage)
By designing the solution, regardless of the storage vendor, IT managers can resume control over their SAN, break the storage vendor lock-in and save a large part of their budget. Using the available storage management services can therefore provide excellent solutions for painful problems.

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