Risk management

Feature (3)
  • It's not the time to reduce IT budgets
    There is a natural tendency to slash IT budgets when doom and gloom overtakes the financial world. Peter Waterhouse argues that visibilty into systems and enterprise IT management (EITM) are needed to mitigate the risk of too much budget slashing.
  • Data availability and protection in distributed enterprises
    Changes in business conditions, corporate objectives, technology infrastructure and the quality of business applications have combined to significantly increase the requirements for data protection. Unfortunately, traditional data replication solutions have not kept up to adequately match IT organisations’ current business priorities, reports Brocade’s Graham Shultz.
  • Coping mechanisms for email
    Outsourced email is emerging as a coping mechanism for the perenial problems of spam and regulation compliance.
Product (5)
  • Redundant power
    The Symmetra PX48 is a redundant power protection UPS system for data centres. It provides up to 48 kW of power protection for 400 V deployments in a single rack footprint.
  • Uninterruptible power supply
    MGE Galaxy 7000 provides power protection for IT and other mission-critical equipment. The UPS can be adapted for use in several applications, including large data centres and industrial operations.
  • Data validation
    SnapValidator for Oracle proactively checks and intercepts potential data corruption or loss, increasing data reliability while helping to reduce risk and unplanned down time.
  • Small form factor UPS
    APC has expanded its Smart-UPS RT line to include 6000 and 8000 VA models. These double conversion online interruptible power supplies (UPS) offer users tight voltage and frequency regulation, internal bypass and input power factor correction. The units provide high-performance power protection with scalable run time, which is suitable for supporting voice and data networks in a wide variety of environments, including medical laboratories and light industrial sites. Delivering high-performance power protection in a 3U rack height, the 6000 VA model is an online UPS that can deliver scalable run time in a small U space. The high power internal chargers allow virtually unlimited additional matching battery packs to comply with aggressive run time demands of business-critical systems.
  • Data management
    PowerCenter 8.5, PowerExchange 8.5 and Data Quality 8.5 have been released by Informatica.
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