Bocada Path to Excellence™ (P2E) Best Practices
By Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst, ESG
The many challenges IT faces to ensure data recoverability, deliver high levels of service and customer satisfaction and, importantly, maintain compliance are forcing IT to re-examine its data protection management practices and make changes. By interviewing Bocada customers on their use of the Bocada Path to Excellence (P2E) process and data protection management solution, Bocada Enterprise, Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst, ESG, learned how they are addressing these challenges and helping drive the data center into the future. The enlightenment Bocada Enterprise brought jump-started the process improvements defined in the Bocada P2E framework for these customers. And through Bocada Enterprise, the IT departments gained more insight into data protection operations to not only benefit themselves, but to benefit the larger organization. Download
The TSM Ten
How Consolidated Reporting Resolves Ten Major Issues in TSM Management
The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) command line is a powerful tool for extracting information.
Yet, even experts find it difficult to filter the information it provides and to use that information to
support decision making. This paper summarizes the issues and how they can be overcome.
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What's a DPM Solution Really Worth?
See How Much Hidden Problems Cost You
Lost data and missed Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) are problems that translate into high—and unnecessary—costs. This white paper explores real-world examples of costly DPM problems and provides a tool to calculate your own hidden data protection management (DPM) costs. Download
How to "Ace" Your Next SOX Audit:
Eight Steps to Straight A's
Find out how leading corporations are using automated tools to get high scores on data protection portions of their SOX audits and learn how to apply a proven 8-step process—the Bocada "Straight A's" for SOX audits—to your own environment. Download
Ten Questions to Ask Before You Buy a DPM Solution
(And 50 More That Will Get All the Answers You Need)
Before you buy a Data Protection Management (DPM) solution, use this checklist of 60 questions for a thorough and objective evaluation of products. Topics include suitability for your existing data protection environment, functionality and usability issues, ability to support enterprise objectives, vendor relationships and much more. Download
Consolidation by the Numbers:
How Fortune 100 Companies Consolidate and Simplify DPM
Consolidation lets IT departments simplify their infrastructure, streamline management and free staff for more proactive tasks. This paper reveals the benefits and best practices for achieving data protection consolidation and provides real-world examples of successful data protection consolidation drawn from some of the world's largest firms. Download
Successful SLAs: Step by Step
Proactive IT departments use Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to demonstrate the value of their data protection activities to internal customers. In this white paper, you will learn which elements go into a successful SLA, and how IT departments at some of the world's largest firms are using them to prove and improve performance. Use our step-by-step process for implementing an SLA—from drafting initial requirements to driving continuous improvements squarely focused on strategic business value. Download
Speeding SOX Audits:
Why Automated DPM Tools Make Sense
Based on real-world SOX audit experiences, this white paper demonstrates how leading companies are using data protection management software to streamline compliance-related testing and demonstrate documented control over data protection. Use the included tests to determine if your data protection processes can meet a SOX audit. The paper concludes by outlining key features in data protection management software that can automate aspects of compliance and reduce the cost for both internal and external SOX audits. Download
Change Is a Good Thing:
Five steps to Align IT with Business Goals
When it comes to protecting company data, IT organizations often find themselves in defensive mode—forced to react to the latest crisis impacting their applications. Based on field interviews with Fortune 100 and Global 2000 companies, this white paper explains how IT groups have successfully moved from defense to offense as they pattern their data protection efforts to better mirror company objectives. Download
