April 28, 2009 - (Free Research) Traditional recovery methods can present challenges in growing virtual server environments. Recoveries are often unreliable and slow. Recovery plans may be more complex than they need to be. How do you develop an effective backup and DR strategy? How do tools like VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) fit in?
March 01, 2009 - (Free Research) 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.
May 14, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell EqualLogic&trade PS Series iSCSI SANs help to reduce the cost and complexity of IT Consolidation and uniquely integrate with VMware® Infrastructure to enable the fully virtualized IT environment
June 05, 2009 - (Free Research) Navicure, an insurance claims processing company, needed a more robust storage and disaster recovery solution. They chose a scalable, in-house storage area network using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Internet SCSI arrays, and automated the planning, testing, and deployment of a disaster recovery solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager software.
September 2008 - (Free Research) This eZine explains planning global enterprise SharePoint deployments, creating custom global search scopes in SharePoint and top tips for harnessing Microsoft SharePoint governance.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This expert E-Guide from the writers at SearchServerVirtualization.com brings you up-to- date on the latest virtualization developments and explains how they can benefit your IT shop.
April 2009 - (Free Research) 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.
May 2009 - (Free Research) A robust backup and recovery solution is arguably the most important safeguard of an organizations' data. Without this, backup times can easily exceed maintenance windows, huge amounts of storage space are needed, and managing backup jobs across multiple servers becomes a major headache.
June 2009 - (Free Research) CommVault<sup>®</sup> Simpana<sup>®</sup> software provides a holistic approach to data deduplication. Data deduplication should not be deployed as a band aid or "quick-fix" point product. Read this product overview to learn more about the key benefits and capabilities of this solution.
July 2008 - (Free Research) Virtualization provides the ability to increase server and storage capacity without reinvesting in new hardware. That can translate into huge cost savings - not only in hardware costs, but in power, cooling, and management as well. Read on to learn how virtual appliances can deliver huge ROI.
May 2008 - (Free Research) DSS, GLBA, HIPAA, OMB, PCI, PIIG... just a few of the standards and regulations that place additional constraints on how data is stored, processed, and transmitted. Adopting best practices to protect the sensitive or private...
June 2009 - (Free Research) This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Today's data center pros need to cut costs wherever possible, and the mainframe presents significant opportunities to do so. This expert podcast explains how to use specialty processors, load balancing, and compression database software for this task.
January 2009 - (Free Research) In this Quest white paper you'll learn how you can become proactive - not reactive - when managing your storage capacity. Learn best practices to maximize your existing resources, and how doing keeps your budget under control. Read the paper white today.
June 2008 - (Free Research) Attend this Webcast to learn how innovations in intelligent data protection and availability in Oracle Database 11g makes implementing high availability the natural byproduct of a common sense approach to system design.
March 2009 - (Free Research) The need to protect these virtualized systems is paramount and in situations where companies are looking to reduce the costs associated with disaster recovery planning, virtualization can enable easier recovery without a great deal of additional cost. Read this white paper for more information from Double-Take Software.
February 2009 - (Free Research) Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is designed to provide continuous data protection for Windows-based servers, with additional features for business-specific Microsoft workloads such as SQL Server and SharePoint.
December 2007 - (Free Research) The paper describes the procedures used to install and configure Hyper-V on a Sun Fire X4150 server. It gives an example configuration that also used a Sun Storage J4200 array for additional storage and to spread the disk I/O over a great number of spindles for improved performance.
January 2009 - (Free Research) In today's economy, mid-sized businesses need to optimize every possible aspect of their operations. By introducing virtualization technology into your environment, you'll be able to reduce TCO by enhancing your existing IT resources, increasing server utilization, and allowing your infrastructure to quickly react to dynamic business conditions.
August 2008 - (Free Research) Deduplication can be a confusing topic. Several considerations come into play when organizations assess whether deduplication provides a good fit for their environment. Read this paper to determine if deduplication is right for you.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Replay appImage is disk imaging designed for any Windows application server, built to automatically and continuously image any Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server. Read this data sheet for more.
March 2009 - (Free Research) In 2008, HP introduced two products to the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System Family. Both feature Dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented algorithm that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and also establishes how a 50:1 deduplication ratio may be achieved.
