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Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Disaster recovery and readiness by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs. Virtualizing the data center can save you money on disaster recovery (DR) maintenance and testing. Many midmarket companies can benefit from the reduction in DR...
Five Key Considerations for Enterprise Disaster Recovery and Backup by SEPATON
Disaster recovery planning is a critical part of any large data-intensive enterprise data center environment. This article describes five key factors to consider when choosing an enterprise disaster recovery solution. Disaster recovery planning is a critical part of any large data-intensive enterprise data center environment. In...
E-Guide: A Guide To Improving Data Center Efficiency with Virtualization by Agilysys Technology Solutions Group
the role virtualization plays in effective disaster recovery planning. Organizations today recognize the critical role data center efficiency plays in overall business performance. Yet, they often lack the tools essential for maximizing data center agility, flexibility and recovery. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Agilysys, you will discover...
The Keys to Disaster Recovery Planning by i365, A Seagate Company
intent looking to put your data at risk.

The key to Disaster Recovery data protection planning is understanding:

  • What data you need to protect
  • How current the files must be
  • How quickly you need to recover lost or damaged files
  • What level of risk you are willing to take?
How is your company addressing these issues today? What happens if and when disaster strikes? Do you have duplicate...
How to Ensure Your Disaster Recovery: Eliminating Common Causes of Disaster Recovery Failures by SteelEye Technology, Inc.
All organizations deal with issues relating to disaster recovery preparedness at some point in time. Watch this webcast for expert insight into key considerations when designing your disaster recovery plan. In this webinar IT pro David Bermingham explores high availability and data replication technology and the most common failures of disaster recovery plans. Watch...
Simplifying Disaster Recovery (DR): One-Button Replication for Combined Physical/Virtual Data Centers by FalconStor Software
Read this white paper to learn more. Having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is mandatory. Most organizations recognize this - particularly those that have learned this the hard way, when a disaster caught them unprepared. DR procedures have always been complicated for the physical server infrastructure, and the introduction of server virtualization has only made matters...
Simple, Affordable Disaster Recovery Automation in the Virtualized IT Datacenter by Dell, Inc.
SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual data center deployments because they help simplify storage management and help overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures. New levels of integration between iSCSI storage networks and virtualized server platforms are dramatically changing expectations of how simple and...
Deploying Simple, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery with Dell and VMware by Dell and VMware
recovery strategy and a set of coherent disaster recovery plans is essential to helping avoid downtime during a crisis.

The need for enhanced quality, efficiency, and predictability for disaster recovery and business continuity has increased significantly, highlighting the necessity of a well-defined set of recovery plans and regular testing. However, as the...
Significantly Reducing Cost of Disaster Recovery and Data Protection Using Enterprise Data Recording by Axxana
a new alternative to traditional methods of disaster recovery. Enterprise Data Recording is an approach that storage analysts are calling "game changing" and that stands to "fundamentally alter the way Data Center architects approach disaster recovery."

The solution combines zero data loss disaster recovery benefits as well as cost and distance advantages. The solution...
Introduction to Virtualization E-book, Chapter 1: Virtualization Concepts in Disaster Recovery by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
Virtualization is changing the disaster recovery landscape. This E-Book is a beginners' guide to virtualization with chapters on disaster recovery (DR), test and development, server consolidation, high availability, storage, security and key technologies including VMware ESX,Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. This seven-chapter E-Book, brought to you by...
E-Book: The Midmarket CIO's Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning by Compellent
on a full range of issues associated with disaster recovery planning -- from virtualization and applications to outsourcing and affordable solutions. Disaster recovery (DR) is, without argument, one of the most important (and complex) aspects of IT management. But as responsibilities trickle out of IT into other areas of the business, what's the midmarket CIO's role in disaster...
VMware and Dell Solutions for Small to Medium Business: Ensuring Rapid, Reliable and Affordable Disaster Recovery by Dell and VMware
Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions. Ensuring that all of the systems and applications...
Secrets to Successful DR and Continuity Planning by Compellent
enabling technologies that greatly simplify Disaster Recovery and business continuity like Silver Peak's WAN optimization solution. You'll also hear how OfficeWare was able to implement an effective and fully verified DR solution on a limited budget. Disaster Recovery is a fundamental consideration in data center design and build-out. DR can be difficult to accomplish in...
Gaston County Leads the Way with Lower Storage TCO by Compellent
server sprawl, implemented a reliable disaster recovery plan and consolidated applications using Compellent as their storage foundation. This case study explains how Gaston County, N.C. eliminated server sprawl, implemented a reliable disaster recovery plan and consolidated applications using Compellent as their storage foundation.

With nearly half of the...
Server Virtualization, Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery by Storage Decisions
sophisticated business continuance (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) techniques to organizations that previously didn't have the means to adopt them. Likewise, virtualized as well as cloud environments need to be included in a BC/DR plan to enable application and data availability.

Explore this presentation to learn tips and tricks on building an accessible BC/DR strategy...
e-Guide: 11 Myths about Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery by AppAssure Software
an Exchange outage requires a well thought out disaster recovery (DR) plan that is positioned to subvert disasters in the first place - but can also reduce their severity (length and data loss). Here then, are 11 Myths about Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery and how we can overcome them with careful planning and the right toolsets. Your company depends on Microsoft Exchange to...
Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation
the risks associated with outsourcing their data center, disaster recovery facilities, or off-site backup sites. This white paper examines how Oracle Advanced Security provides complete standards-based encryption that does not require any costly changes to existing applications and can help organizations achieve operational efficiencies in today's difficult economy...
Establishing a Low Cost Disaster Recovery Site by Intel Corporation
Learn about Intel IT's cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of its data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. The solution was designed to avoid idle compute servers, use a tiered storage system, and offload backup from the main data center. Learn about Intel IT's cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for...
Success Story Riverbed by CA
in Florida, was able to set up a reliable disaster recovery plan as well as consolidate infrastructure and improve WAN communications across its networked locations. In this success story you will learn how Ruden McClosky, a full-service law office with 10 offices and over 500 employees in Florida, was able to set up a reliable disaster recovery plan as well as...
Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning by i365, A Seagate Company
provides you with key questions in planning a disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Flooding, tornadoes, and hurricanes seem to be more prevalent and destructive each year; earthquakes and fires can strike at any time. In fact it seems more and more that some type of natural disaster is happening regardless of the time of year. Is your company prepared? This webcast defines types of...
Maximize Availability with Oracle Database 11g IT Briefing by Oracle Corporation
High availability and disaster recovery are increasingly in demand to support mission-critical applications. Learn how Oracle 11g offers maximum availability with the combination of high availability and disaster recovery. Every enterprise deals with many mission critical databases that are customer-facing or internet-enabled, and...
Virtualization Technologies and Their Impact On Disaster Recovery Planning by Double-Take Software
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. Virtual server technologies provide companies with the ability to do more with less, enabling the consolidation of data and applications onto a single...
The Business Case for Enterprise Disaster Recovery Planning: Calculating the Cost of Downtime by Iron Mountain Digital
plan. Building the case for investing in disaster recovery/business continuity begins with defining what functions are critical to your business and tying that to the key systems that support those functions.

Once you've identified those systems, you need to analyze your hardware and software configurations to understand their interdependence and find possible...
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Virtual server policy is key to mitigating systems vulnerabilities by Richard Ptak, Contributor
to attacks. Furthermore, virtualization in the data center (except for mainframes) is relatively new. This means it has not been subjected to and hardened against serious attacks. However, vendors are aware of the potential problem and are working hard to identify and harden their products.

Common sense tells data center managers to monitor and... More...

Liquid cooling buyers' guide by Adam Trujillo, Assistant Editor
efficiency. This buyer's guide to liquid cooling in the data center looks at some of the available products. There are a couple different approaches to data center liquid cooling, and finding a product isn't always straightforward. See our liquid cooling product chart for a quick comparison.

Sidecar heat exchangers

Sidecar heat exchange units are... More...

CICS/TS 3.2 for application programmers by Robert Crawford, Contributor
API's for other sorts of files (remote, BDAM and shared data tables, etc.) will remain quasi-reentrant.

In CICS/TS 3.2 shared data tables can be larger than 2GB through the use of multiple data spaces up to the limit of 100 per CICS. This doesn't entail a lot of system configuration work because CICS nicely manages the data spaces by creating on an as needed... More...

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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...