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A Half Day Seminar to Help Optimise NetBackup Environments

Date: Thursday 10th May 2012 Venue: Symantec, 88 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7AJ To attend Register here Only a small percentage of organisations are getting the full benefits from their Symantec NetBackup environment. Join DCG Group and Symantec to learn how to optimise your data backup environment. As well as presenting the features and benefits of newly launched Netbackup 7.5 and …
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The Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index

Being fit for business is imperative for all countries participating in a highly competitive global economy. For organisations around the world this means being able to continue to operate in the event of IT failure or major disaster, whether man-made or natural. Regardless of their location, IT managers share a common challenge – keeping their business-critical digital assets safe and …
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Storage sales growth slows, perhaps because of cloud, dedupe

Although S\storage systems revenue grew during the fourth quarter of 2011 and for the entire year, that growth slowed compared to previous periods. According to IDC’s worldwide quarterly disk storage systems tracker, external disk systems (networked storage) increased 7.7% year-over-year to $6.6 billion in the last quarter of 2011. That compares to 16.2% year-over-year growth in the fourth quarter of …
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Half Day Seminar to Help Optimise NetBackup Environments

Date: Thursday 19th April 2012 Location: The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4SD To attend Register here Only a small percentage of organisations are getting the full benefits from their Symantec NetBackup environment. Join Data Continuity Group (DCG) and Symantec to learn how to optimise your data backup environment. As well as presenting the features and benefits of newly launched …
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Outline & Report of Managing data lifecycle in the enterprise and cloud

Outline and Report This event took place last week and the attached report gives an outline of the seminar and its speakers. Information governance and the management of data is no longer just the concern of the IT department – but has become a key corporate and commercial issue. Never more has it been true to consider information as the …
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Five key questions you need to ask of your managed service provider

Q1 – Who can see my data when it is held by a managed service provider in the cloud?? Data loss is now a reality and a sizeable chunk of all data loss incidents are either down internal or human vulnerabilities or to third party providers. You need to know whether the service provider, can see your data. Most have …
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The importance of managing your organisation’s data

Information can be your greatest asset or your greatest liability. Managed properly, it can accelerate growth. Managed poorly, it can drive up costs and expose your business to risk. In the face of this, many organisations are now re-evaluating their IT solutions with regard to information management, availability, scalability, efficiency and cost; so it is particularly important, now more than …
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