Protecting the ever expanding data that collectively is the information that businesses rely on for growth has come to the forefront of the IT industry. Rarely does a company reduce their net storage capacity or the amount of data they retain, even in the face of stiff budgetary constraints. And though more cost effective technologies have been developed, completely and effectively protecting what is inevitably many copies of the same data is a major challenge for many businesses. Read more.

The purpose of data de-duplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. When it is based on variable-length data segments, data de-duplication has the capability of providing greater granularity than single-instance store technologies that identify and eliminate the need to store repeated instances of identical whole files. Read more.

For many global organizations, IBM Lotus Notes and Domino are mission critical applications. Employees rely on e-mail for correspondence and collaboration, and its calendaring feature helps employees organize their days. Just like other e-mail applications, managing Notes has become more challenging in recent years. Messages are now considered business records and sources of electronic evidence. In addition to this legal and regulatory burden, IT has to worry about the growing server and storage Read more.