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Connecting Virtual Desktop and Disaster Recovery

Forsythe Technology Solution — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Connecting virtual desktop technology with the disaster recovery process has probably not been a major focus for organizations; however, integrating a disaster recovery plan for the virtual desktop is moving up organizational priority lists for a multitude of reasons.

Ensuring Success: Conesco chooses IBM servers with multi-core Intel Xeon processors to ...

CompuCom and IBM — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

When Conseco IT management needed to consolidate their hundreds of different servers into a more streamlined hardware and software environment, they chose the IBM 3850 M2 server and the Intel Xeon processor 7300 series with four cores per processor. Read this paper and find out why.

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Series: Availability & Disaster Recovery

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night.

The Keys to Disaster Recovery Planning: i365’s EVault Disaster Recovery Solutions help ...

i365, A Seagate Company — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Disasters happen in many ways and can disrupt or even completely destroy your business. What happens if and when disaster strikes? Do you have duplicate copies of your mission critical data stored offsite? How fast and reliable will your recovery of information be? Will your company survive?

Eight Questions to Ask When Considering an All-in-One Data Protection Solution

i365, A Seagate Company — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Many administrators who oversee their organization’s backup and recovery are considering an all-in-one data protection (DP) solution. There are eight things to consider before you make your decision on which solution to purchase and this white paper explains them.

Podcast: Data Warehousing Basics for SQL Server Analysis Services

Flowerfire, Inc. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this expert podcast, learn how to build your data warehouse for your SQL Server environment. Discover the necessary steps involved and learn about major concepts, including relational data warehousing and supported SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) storage formats.

Data Warehousing Basics for SQL Server Analysis Services

Flowerfire, Inc. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

In this expert webcast, learn how to build your data warehouse for your SQL Server environment. Discover the necessary steps involved and learn about major concepts, including relational data warehousing and supported SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) storage formats.

Disaster recovery planning fundamentals: DR testing basics

Zenith Infotech — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

A disaster recovery plan represents an organization's detailed roadmap of where to go, what to do and when to do it in the event of a disaster. Understanding what does the business need, and is it capable of addressing this need with regard to both capabilities and cost is essential in the overall planning stages.

Reduce Downtime by 70% - Without Spending a Dime: Applying Best Practices of Successful IT ...

Marathon Technologies — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this paper to learn Niel Nickolaisen's proven model for strategic and tactical alignment of IT with business objectives - enabling IT to do more for the business with less. By implementing all four components of Niel's model, IT can dramatically reduce system downtime and closely align their efforts and investments with business priorities.

Four Critical Imperatives for Data Protection and Recovery: BEX Innovative Architecture ...

Syncsort — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper describes an innovative, unified data protection model – developed by Syncsort – that not only supports each of these imperatives, but leverages them to provide actual return on your business investments.

Backup and Recovery Challenges with SharePoint

Mimosa Systems UK — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper will discuss the challenges you can have to backup and protect using native tools and how you can successfully protect your SharePoint environment using Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint.

Disaster Plan - New Technologies Put Fresh Wrinkles in Business-Continuity / Disaster- ...

CDW Corporation — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan.

Step Up Your Strategy – Fine-Tune Use of Storage Availability Processes as a Part of a ...

CDW Corporation — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) should be major components of any risk-management strategy. After all, no business wants to be caught unprepared for unforeseen events such as floods, fires, terrorist attacks, power outages or other disturbances. That's why planning and regularly testing BC and DR programs is essential.

Disaster Recovery: Plan for the Worst, Expect the Best

CDW Corporation — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

These days, it is rare to find a company without a disaster recovery plan - a fact due in large part to a rash of high-profile disasters in recent years. The risks are too great to ignore. But many companies are still not doing enough to protect their businesses. This paper provides tips for how to protect your business.

Virtual Data Center E-Zine - < i > Volume 14 < /i >

SearchDataCenter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With so many new technologies, sticking with the status quo for your virtual network infrastructure is probably not your best option. In this month's issue, take a closer look at all the possibilities available now for interconnecting both virtual and physical networks.

Podcast: Key Considerations for Migration to Voice-Over-IP (VoIP)

Interactive Intelligence, Inc. — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this technical podcast you'll learn key things to consider as part of a business migration to voice-over-IP - designing your data network for QOS, traffic analysis and capacity planning, four possible architecture models, security requirements, and VoIP design components.

Key Considerations for Migration to Voice-Over-IP (VoIP)

Interactive Intelligence, Inc. — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this technical webinar you'll learn key things to consider as part of a business migration to voice-over-IP – designing your data network for QOS, traffic analysis and capacity planning, four possible architecture models, security requirements, and VoIP design components.

Northern Storage Suite V8 & #45; Product Demo

Northern Parklife — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Northern Storage Suite is a Storage Resource Management solution; a software solution that targets the costs and complexities of managing stored user-generated data. Download this free demo and see how it can go to work for you!

Recovering From the Ground Up

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The ability to stay up and running in the face of a disaster can be crucial to the survival of any business. Without effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans, businesses risk lost income, lost productivity, or worse. Read this brief paper to learn about effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

Beyond Backup Ezine: Disaster Recovery Strategies for Branch Offices

Overland Storage — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The July/August issue of CIO Decisions Ezine focuses on disaster recovery in remote and branch offices, especially in midmarket organizations. Read this issue to learn some great tips and techniques for increasing your remote workers' ability to bounce back after an unfortunate event.

Merging Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) Processes

FalconStor Software — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments.

Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Disaster recovery and readiness

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs.

HP Data Protector 6.1 Software: VMware Integration Installation Best Practice

Hewlett-Packard Company — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.

Case Study: Quantum Data Deduplication Solution Provides IFB with Complete Return on ...

Quantum Corporation — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

How does a dynamic U.K. business get its large customers to entrust it with their data? The answer is to deploy a Quantum data deduplication solution. By implementing a comprehensive disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and restore infrastructure based on the Quantum DXi-Series..

vSphere: New Features and Benefits

Global Knowledge — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

vSphere, VMware's latest release, adds approximately 150 new features to its previous VI3 product! The purpose of this white paper is to highlight the most notable of these features and to discuss the benefits they offer your organization's IT infrastructure.

ESG Brief: FalconStor VTL Hyper-Accelerates Backup

FalconStor Software — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers.

Inside SQL Server 2008: Exploring High Availability and Scalability Enhancements

Global Knowledge — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Microsoft is targeting close to zero downtime with SQL 2008 with availability and recovery features that only used to be available via third-party solutions. This white paper discusses the evolution of High-availability from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, and the tools available to minimize downtime in the Enterprise.

A Guide to Utilizing Virtualization in a Disaster Recovery Strategy

Dell and Microsoft — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover the steps essential for effectively integrating server virtualization into your disaster recovery strategy.

Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-- cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-- and illustrate how iSCSI SANs, particularly the HP LeftHand SANs, provide better overall support for virtualized environments.

Case Study: Helping AIC Cut Daily Backup Window While Saving Money & Staff Time

Quantum Corporation — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this customer case study to see how Canadian mutual fund company AIC Ltd. leveraged Quantum's DXi™5500 disk backup solution featuring data deduplication and replication technology in order to drastically reduce backup time as well as cut storage costs and management.

Case Study: Grey Healthcare Group leverages FalconStor VTL with deduplication to improve ...

FalconStor Software — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Grey Healthcare Group is one of the world's top five healthcare communications companies. Read this case study to learn how Grey Healthcare Group leveraged FalconStor VTL with deduplication to improve backup and recovery performance, optimize storage assets, and strengthen data security.

Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware Infrastructure

FalconStor Software — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Organizations face an urgent need for effective and efficient disaster recovery. The problem is that traditional solutions can be complex, slow, and prone to failure. Join Product Marketing Director Peter Eicher for an in-depth discussion on Falconstor disaster recovery solutions for a VMware environment.

Virtually Effortless Backup for VMware Environments

FalconStor Software — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) improves virtual server backup, but there are a number of limitations. FalconStor Software has a solution that works with VCB while overcoming these limitations. Using this solution, you can quickly and efficiently back up virtual machines and retain transactional consistency, without management complexity.

Deploying Simple, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery with Dell and VMware

Dell and VMware — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Optimizing Oracle RMAN and ASM Environments with FalconStor VTL and Integrated Deduplication

FalconStor Software — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with integrated Single Instance Repository deduplication technology offers advanced backup and global deduplication capabilities that support Oracle Recovery Manager and Automatic Storage Management.

TOTALLY Open & #153; Disaster Recovery

FalconStor Software — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

With bandwidth-saving technologies, efficient storage, instant recovery, and fast failover, FalconStor Software offers TOTALLY Open Data Protection that is complete - and saves you time and money.

Replicate with Integrity: Protecting VMware Data to Ensure Fast Recovery & #44; Business ...

FalconStor Software — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

This document discusses how technologies from FalconStor Software and VMware work together to enable organizations to overcome the limitations and deliver application-consistent replication for automated DR in a virtual environment.

Re-architecting Disaster Recovery Solutions Leveraging WAN Optimization Technology

Riverbed Technology, Inc. — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical component of IT and risk mitigation strategies, and compounded in difficulty by ever growing data volumes, distributed computing, and new technologies.

Disaster Recovery Techniques for SQL Server

Global Knowledge — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

This article focuses on tools that are a part of the SQL Server application which after proper setup can prevent data loss on a record, table or database level.

Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for Credit Union Core Processing Applications

Vision Solutions — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

EchoStream for AIX is a proven solution to the data recovery problem that is in use at a variety of referenceable accounts today.

eBook: Capacity Planning Eases Path to Virtualization

SearchCIO.com — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery.

Virtualize at the Speed of Your Business - The Dell Guide to Virtualization

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Virtualization is changing everything, from how you manage resources to the way you support your business, it addresses many of today's IT challenges - cost, responsiveness, availability, disaster recovery - and is a key element for achieving a more automated, agile infrustructure. Dell helps you virtualize at the speed of your business...

High Availability Database Solutions for PostgreSQL & Postgres Plus

EnterpriseDB Corporation — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Making sure mission critical databases are highly availably (HA) is the main challenge of IT departments. This paper discusses the failover and redundancy capabilities of specific HA products that can be used in conjunction with PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus, and the Oracle compatible database Postgres Plus Advanced Server.

Do More with Less: Virtualizing the Desktop

CDW Corporation — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Hailed by top analysts as a need-to-know technology and the future of enterprise computing, the benefits of desktop virtualization can be summed up in four words: Do more with less. This article will delve into the options, outcomes and business benefits that desktop virtualization can bring to your business.

The ROI and TCO Benefits of Data Deduplication for Data Protection in the Enterprise

Data Domain — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection. Three organizations in different industries are discussed as case studies.

How to sell business continuity to management in tough times

CDW Corporation — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Although more companies than ever have continuity plans, an AT&T study discovered that a high percentage of those plans are outdated. If your company is one of those with an outdated plan or no plan, here are some things that might help them understand the importance of good continuity planning.

Driving Business Success with Software Reuse

IBM — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

This white paper explains how Software Reuse and its underlying fundamentals have evolved dramatically. It also discusses the benefits of constructing critical enterprise software applications through reusable parts.

An Introduction to System i (IBM iSeries) High Availability - Get to Know the Core ...

Vision Solutions — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

This white paper provides an introduction to System i high availability for companies that want to understand this technology and evaluates whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup and recovery strategy.

A Practical Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning: The Basics to Getting Started

Double-Take Software UK — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

This paper is intended to help simplify the process of starting a disaster recovery plan so as not to be so overwhelming. Through some basic steps, businesses can better protect themselves against data loss while working toward a more complete business continuity plan.

Establishing a Culture of Measurement - A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence

Information Builders Inc. — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization.