Mobile device management requires strict storage, security policies

Apple Inc. has sold more than 26 million iPhones over the last year, 14.7 million smart phones were sold in the U.S. in the second quarter of this year alone, and Cisco Systems Inc. has sold more than 4 million Flip video cameras since 2007. Because these small devices and their gigabytes of memory are also proliferating in your organization, your corporate data storage strategy needs to include mobile device management.

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Clustered NAS: How to choose the right clustered NAS system

Clustered network-attached storage (clustered NAS) uses a distributed file system that runs concurrently on multiple nodes or servers. Unlike traditional NAS, clustered NAS stripes data and metadata across storage nodes and subsystems. Clustering also provides access to all files from any of the clustered nodes regardless of the physical location of the file. But how do you determine which clustered NAS system is right for you? Here are the questions you need to ask when evaluating your own data storage requirements along with the latest offerings from vendors.

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Actifio launches disaster recovery appliances

Actifio Inc. is coming out of stealth this week with appliances aimed at managing data and enabling disaster recovery in virtual server environments.

On Tuesday, Actifio will launch Actifio DP for data protection, Actifio DR for disaster recovery and Actifio BC for business continuity. Actifio's founder and CEO Ash Ashutosh claims the startup's technology decouples data management from the underlying storage infrastructure to make the process simpler and less expensive.

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Implementing an electronic records retention system

Many companies strive to put together what is often called a defensible electronic records retention system to help them show attorneys and judges that electronic data discovery materials such as litigation holds, email archiving, deletion policies and more have not been improperly modified.

Christine Taylor, an analyst at Hopkinton, Mass.-based Taneja Group, discusses the critical components of a record retentions system and shares best practices for implementing an electronic data discovery policy in your storage environment.

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Virtualization disaster recovery planning tutorial

If you are considering or starting to implement virtual servers into your IT environment, you should be aware of the differences between virtualization and physical-server environment disaster recovery (DR) planning, preparation and testing.

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