Are you still making backups the old-fashioned way? Whether you back up Windows, Exchange Server, SharePoint, SQL Server, or virtualization servers, the old-school backup mentality may not be serving your actual needs. IT author and Microsoft MVP Don Jones explores the “Backup 1.0? mentality and its shortcomings, and proposes a new “Backup 2.0? way of thinking. He examines the true business needs behind backup (namely, quick recovery and as little lost work as possible), and proposes new techniques – using leading-edge technologies that are available today – that do a better job of meeting today’s business and technology needs. With special chapters devoted to Exchange Server, SQL Server, virtualization, and SharePoint, you’ll learn about new techniques and technologies designed to take backups out of the 1960’s and into the 21st century.

Whether a business is small, medium or large business, it must have a well-written plan for backing up the servers. Planning a backup strategy up-front and documenting not only the backup process but also the restore process, will save you a ton of time in the end. Because of its value to the company and the sensitive nature of it, the classification of data must be carefully considered in the planning stage.

Reducing the cost of backup and storage starts with reducing the amount of data that is backed up and stored. Data deduplication ensures that the same, unchanged files are not repeatedly backed up during nightly processes. Reducing storage capacity alone is a strong argument for implementing data deduplication, but when integrated with server-based backup processes that also include data compression, the combined backup and storage savings are compelling.

Windows Server applications are often mission critical. The impact of natural, random and man-made disasters on these applications, especially email, and their subsequent disruption can cripple an organization. This white paper from AppAssure Software offers advice for protecting your existing Windows Server infrastructure from disruptive application outages.

Business continuity. Application assurance. Virtualization. The applications that are most central to the productivity of every staff person in your organization are e-mail and SQL databases. They need reliable and consistent access to those applications in order to communicate with work peers, customers, and partners.

With the large variety of products available for all types of businesses, it is no surprise that there are several misconceptions about backup and recovery software. Learn how to improve your backup process, reducing outage windows.

Learn how Arnold Worldwide, a Boston-based communications agency, was able to proactively manage data access controls in a highly dynamic environment and ensure that client data is protected. With Varonis DatAdvantage®, the benefits to Arnold included: access control on file share data, removal of unused Active Directory accounts, and audit and record of all file touches.

Find out why CHHS of Milwaukee chose Varonis® DatAdvantage® for the organization's data access and permissions auditing needs. The hospital found that there was no other way to effectively audit data access on Windows file shares than though full data access auditing with minimal performance impact.

When considering which technology to meet your data governance objectives, it's important to gauge the effectiveness of the solution against the ten imperatives of data protection. Read this paper to discover how to reduce the risk of loss and misuse of data while seeing, controlling and auditing all aspects of unstructured data access in your business. Read on to unearth the ten essential "must-haves" for data protection and comprehensive data governance for your future.

Download this white paper the learn the ten key requirements for any effort, system or technology whose purpose is to protect business data and specifically the documents, presentations, spreadsheets, scanned images, multi-media files, etc., that fill file servers and form any enterprise's valued assets.