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EMC BRS Data Domain now has Native Oracle RMAN support. This advanced Integration between EMC Data Domain Boost and Oracle Recovery Manager provides a faster and more efficient database backup solution. This allows Oracle DBA’s to centrally manage backup for databases without having to use legacy backup applications.

Mobile data growth seems destined to continue. But what options remain for organizations that are straining under the burden of storing this data? To block mobile devices from your corporate network would cripple employee productivity and devastate employee satisfaction.

Hitachi understands the challenges your infrastructure environments and storage present. It is critical to ensure that your application environments are optimized and protected while addressing the need to reduce storage costs through easier management. That is exactly where Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) 100 Family comes into play.

These are the challenges businesses face on a daily basis. But HP Insight Control offers an ideal solution for your business to manage your IT services effectively and make the most of your investment on server assets, staff, and facilities.

Any successful business needs an efficient, reliable data growth management backup system environment while keeping costs reasonable. But with increasing virtual machine counts, keeping backup infrastructure costs under control can be a challenge. HP StoreOnce Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems are worth a look – they provide a disk-based data protection platform, while addressing data growth by applying HP StoreOnce deduplication software for efficient, longer term data retention.

Unstructured data is growing out of control, and most current infrastructures probably aren’t equipped to deal with that expansion—especially in light of the current trend towards tighter IT budgets. When facing the challenge of managing growing volumes of structured and unstructured data within budget, focus on solutions that do more than simply store your data securely -- look for systems that add value to your enterprise data, making it more accessible and usable for employees in various roles across the enterprise.

Iron Mountain, a world leader in information management services, is partnering with ConRes on a new solution that enables mid market and general business customers to address one of their critical business challenges: Backup Recovery with Encrypted Data.

It´s easy to say that in the future everything will be bigger, better and faster. But how will our way of communicating really change? How will our way of working really change? At the 2012 Ciscolive! conferences, Cisco has combined their technologies to make our visions of the future, a reality.

With all the advanced technology available today, there is no real excuse for downtime – not even for maintenance. According to a study commissioned by CA Technologies1, North American businesses lose $26.5 billion a year in revenue due to avoidable downtime. Do you think you’re immune to these losses? How much can you afford to lose? What is your downtime tolerance? Companies of all sizes aim for the “5-nines”: 99.999% availability (5 minutes of downtime a year).

Just last month, Cisco announced to the world that 10,000 global customers have now deployed Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) in their data centers. Only two years ago, this server platform broke into the industry amongst high competition and despite heavy criticism from the game’s key players and spectators. But against all odds, Cisco UCS started catching on - due in large part to the faith customers bestowed in Cisco along with good old-fashioned word of mouth.

It’s a new year and new opportunities await!  But wait, hold on -- doesn’t that mean a whole new year of ruthless assaults on your network? (And here you are… hoping to protect irreplaceable data.)