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Developing Effective DR/BC Plans
This Essential Guide offers a primer on business continuity and risk management. Get exclusive information on tailoring a DR plan to your organization's needs and discover 10 things every IT professional should know about disaster recovery. Read on to make DR planning a priority before it's too late.
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Are you Struggling to Manage your Healthcare Data Deluge?
This white paper highlights a modern approach to health care information lifecycle management, as well as the need to team up with partners that can help deliver it. Read now to learn how to make an accurate assessment of you ILM strategy.
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Tape's New Niche: Long-Term Data Retention
This E-Guide includes expert insight from Rich Castagna and Jon Toigo regarding tape's still-relevant role in the data center and how tape can be key for disaster recovery.
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TechTalk Presentation Transcript: Analyst Jon Toigo discusses tape media today
In this transcript of a Jon Toigo video, learn about tape's usefulness in areas like disaster recovery and archiving, and learn about options for tape encryption and best practices for optimizing your tape performance.
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Tape's New Niche: Long-Term Data Retention
This E-Guide includes expert insight from Rich Castagna and Jon Toigo regarding tape's still-relevant role in the data center and how tape can be key for disaster recovery.
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Key insights for an effective records management strategy
Implementing new processes and workflows is just the beginning of establishing an effective records and information management (RIM) strategy. In this expert guide you will discover essential tips on how to ensure your RIM policy is not only highly effective but also sustainable. Read on to learn more.
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Presentation Transcript: Why Not “Active – Archiving”
After a few years of waning usage, tape technology is making a comeback with archiving. Find out why by checking out this transcript of Jon Toigo's presentation on tape for active archiving.
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Presentation Transcript: Tape backup systems economical for data retention
In this presentation transcript, find out why tape has persisted all these years and learn how you can leverage it to meet your data retention requirements.
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Presentation Transcript: Cloud vs. Tape Backup
Get Jon Toigo's take on cloud vs. tape backup in this presentation transcript.
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Expert Podcast: Cloud vs. Tape Backup
Check out this podcast to learn the basics of cloud and tape backup from Jon Toigo, CEO and Managing Principal, Toigo Partners International - and how these 2 storage mediums aren't necessarily interchangeable.
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Maria Parham Medical Center - Meeting The Challenges of Long-Term Storage
This case study outlines the Maria Parham Medical Center's selection for its scalability, cost-efficiency and comprehensive management of all aspects of storage, maintenance and data restoration. They now have the peace of mind that all medical images in its PACS are safely archived and easily recoverable.
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Tape Vaulting: What You Need to Know About Tape Backup and Archiving
Check out this expert presentation transcript with storage industry analyst Lauren Whitehouse to learn about recent developments in tape that are keeping it relevant.
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Should it Stay or Should it Go? 10 Steps to Leveraging Data on a Tape Backup System
Check out this white paper to discover 10 steps toward developing a tape-based data retention plan for your business. Discover the importance of knowing and defining your regulatory requirements, receive three keys to maximize your backup tape investment and more.
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FAQ Guide: Tape Vaulting: Best practices to consider for offsite tape storage
In this FAQ Guide, David Chapa, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses some best practices for tape vaulting. Find out the costs of tape vaulting services, how offsite tape storage costs are determined, how to negotiate your SLAs, and whether or not you should encrypt your tapes before you ship them offsite.
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Eguide: Tape’s Reincarnation in the Cloud
Check out this E-Guide to learn whether or not tape can play a role in cloud backup and data protection operations. Discover the changing requirements of a cloud-based infrastructure, and learn how tape technology may be on track to help administrators maintain cost-effective backups.
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Disaster Preparedness: Is there a hole in your disaster recovery plan?
Access this white paper to learn how software escrow agreements can be a critical tool to help ensure application continuity within your business continuity plan.
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How Verification Services Fortify Your Software Escrow Solution
This paper examines the types of verification services used in the escrow industry. It discusses why verification has become a best practice for both the users of software and the developers creating the applications, as well as a solid recommendation by the lawyers who advise them.
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GOING PAPERLESS: BEST PRACTICES TO ACCELERATE YOUR EMR TRANSITION
The health care industry is beginning to fully embrace EHR as the foundation for sharing information and delivering quality patient care. The benefits of an electronic environment are clearly recognized, but the transition from paper to pixel is difficult and requires a new strategy. Read on to learn how to simplify the transition to EHR.
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Tutorial: What's Truly New in Tape Storage Technology
Contrary to popular belief, tape storage systems still have a number of inherent benefits. Long-term data archiving, the ability to be easily transported offsite, relatively low cost – just to name a few. This SearchDataBackup.com tutorial features information about the latest developments on tape storage systems.
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E-Guide: Disaster Recovery Best Practices: Testing tips & maximizing your DR budget
Overall, disaster recovery tests are essential to execute and demonstrate, but you have to be cautious and take the correct steps to test your DR plans. This expert E-Guide can help minimize the risk of your plan failing by discussing different DR testing tips. Also outlined – how to make the most out of your DR budget.
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E-Guide: Tape's Second Life: Its Impressive Evolution & Role in the Cloud
Despite the rumors, tape remains a viable economic part of the data storage hierarchy due to its lower cost per GB, decreased operating expenses and reduced energy costs. This expert E-Guide will show you why tape may have a second life in cloud and how it can provide substantial backup for your organization.
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Iron Mountain EMR Scanning Survey Report
70% of hospitals expect to meet EHR meaningful use guidelines this year. Yet, 78% expect to continue to treat patients using paper records for up to 5 more years despite the financial incentive for meeting these requirements. Inside this white paper, learn how your peers are transitioning to an EHR system.
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HIPAA Primer Best Practices
Healthcare facilities are rapidly adopting electronic health records (EHR) in order to meet regulatory compliance requirements. Central to this effort is document conversion — the scanning of new and existing records to digital format. Inside this white paper, uncover best practices for a HIPAA-compliant approach to EHR transition.
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Presentation Transcript: Remote Data Center Management for Disaster Recovery Purposes
Andrew Burton, Editor of SearchDisasterRecovery.com and Kyle Rankin, Systems architect for QuinStreet Incorporated and President of the North Bay Linux Users Group will discuss remote server management and outline the benefits of having your data backed up somewhere off-site.
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DR Presentation Download: Disaster Recovery Planning in the 21st Century
In this seminar presentation download, Jon William Toigo, a 25 year practitioner in the DR and continuity planning craft, shares his knowledge and experience to help participants develop a smart and cost-effective DR plan that adequately assures protection – and recovery – from any potential disaster.