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Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
effective backup strategy in the virtualized data center. Perks of this approach include:

  • Reduced RPO and RTO: application data is restored in minutes, and VM backups are more granular than SAN backups
  • Reduced complexity of backup strategy: backups are automated and managed through a simple interface
  • Disaster tolerance through across-site replication
Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
Business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning are critical to managing risks in a successful business. This paper covers how to make disaster recovery cost effective with virtual infrastructure. Business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning are critical to managing risks in a successful business. Between 60-90% of companies that...
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning by F5 Networks
addresses the increased performance needs of a disaster recovery plan, and the common barriers to achieving success. It also addresses the performance gains that can be achieved by using an F5 WANJet application acceleration solution. Disaster recovery (DR) plans are becoming a key part of a company's overall IT planning process to ensure continuous availability of the...
Six Years after 9/11, Most Firms Are Not Ready for Another Disaster by Compellent
for improvement when it comes to enterprise disaster recovery preparedness. Despite the devastating disasters and disruptions as 9/11, the European floods of 2005, and Hurricane Katrina, there is still significant room for improvement when it comes to enterprise disaster recovery preparedness. According to Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey,...
Improving Disaster Recovery with Virtualization by VMware, Inc.
helps organizations to deliver practical disaster recovery solutions that deliver improved protection across a far greater set of IT services while reducing the cost and complexity of disaster recovery. Implementing disaster recovery plans for important IT services is a requirement for organizations today. However, most organizations find themselves unable to...
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning Using F5 Application Acceleration and EMC SRDF by F5 Networks
This paper addresses the performance needs of a disaster recovery plan, and the common barriers to achieving success. It also addresses the performance gains that can be achieved by using the F5 WANJet application acceleration solution. Disaster Recovery (DR) plans are becoming a key part of a company's overall IT planning process to ensure continuous availability of the...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center...
Maximizing Data Center Investments for Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency by Compellent
disaster recovery considerations in data center design and build-out-- site integrity, site selection, and site recovery. Building a data center is a massive investment. It requires investment in real estate, reinforced facilities, raised floors, state-of-the art power and cooling, and IT infrastructure such as networks, servers, and storage --...
VMware Solutions for Small to Medium Businesses: Ensuring Rapid, Reliable and Affordable Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
VMware Infrastructure transforms disaster recovery by providing you fast, reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery. Why suffer from the slow, expensive and unreliable problems associated with traditional disaster recovery solution? VMware Infrastructure transforms disaster recovery by providing you fast, reliable and cost-effective disaster...
VMware® Site Recovery Manager: Automated Disaster Recovery by Hewlett-Packard Company
VMware® Site Recovery Manager makes disaster recovery rapid, reliable and manageable, so that organizations can meet their recovery objectives. VMware Site Recovery Manager is a pioneering disaster recovery management and automation solution for VMware Infrastructure. Site Recovery Manager accelerates recovery by automating the recovery process and...
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 for disaster recovery, an interview with Tom Dugan, Chief Technology Officer of Recovery Networks Inc. by SearchServerVirtualization
Networks Inc., to discuss virtualization for disaster recovery. Editorial Director Jan Stafford sits down with Tom Dugan, Chief Technology Officer of backup services provider Recovery Networks Inc., to discuss virtualization for disaster recovery. What are some of the DR strategy differences between physical and virtual servers and virtualization-specific backup and...
Transcript for Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This White paper describes about the data center capacity challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are nearly impossible, and...
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This webcast covers data center capacity challenges such as space and power & cooling and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business...
Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware: Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future; it changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one that is cost effective, rapid and reliable. VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future. It changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one that is cost effective, rapid and...
Leveraging, protecting virtual machines in disaster recovery sites by Citrix
DR plan in your IT shop. Achieving 100% recovery in a disaster requires a one-to-one ratio of servers and storage at the DR site, making the process expensive, time consuming, error prone, and inefficient. This expert webcast explains how a virtualized DR plan enables you to circumvent these classic problems. Watch it to hear IT analyst and 25-year storage industry...
VMware: "The top ten most forgotten things when building a disaster recovery plan" by VMware, Inc.
the importance of having an effective and fast disaster recovery (DR) plan. Organizations without an adequate plan may find themselves out of business quickly after experiencing a major disaster. Organizations that ensure survival.. Every IT manager knows the importance of having an effective and fast disaster recovery (DR) plan. Organizations without an adequate plan may...
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or even "going green." The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced...
"Hurricane-Proof" Data Protection by Compellent
how a construction company created seamless disaster recovery access between two locations while simplifying storage administration. With the Compellent Storage Center storage area network (SAN) and Remote Instant Replay software as the catalysts for heftier business continuance, Moss & Associates implemented a resilient disaster recovery (DR) plan that can be...
Disaster Recovery eZine - Covering All the Bases: A Concise Guide to Disaster Recovery Essentials, from Building a Plan to Putting It to the Test by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
Disaster recovery (DR) has quickly become the top priority for today's storage managers. However, the issue isn't whether or not you have a DR plan, but rather if you have one that will work when needed. This paper covers all the bases. Disaster recovery (DR) has quickly become the top priority for today's storage managers. However, the issue...
Disaster Strikes! Is Your Business Ready? Disaster Preparedness for Mid-Sized Firms by VMware, Inc.
affect a business. It also clarifies what true disaster recovery means. Mid-sized businesses have long struggled to protect their IT systems. Many firms are inadequately protected and mistakenly think that a disaster is rare and won't happen to them anytime soon. This custom Yankee Group Report uses customer interviews, statistical data and Yankee Group SMB survey results to...
Using Virtualization for Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
Research Note, "Using Virtualization for Disaster Recovery", and learn about the benefits possible in improving disaster recovery (DR) by taking advantage of virtualization as a tool and technique. According to Gartner, 'Business continuity and disaster recovery managers can use virtualization to reduce hardware costs, improve testing flexibility,...
Disaster Recovery Planning for VMware Virtualized Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
is being touted as a near panacea for disaster recovery (DR) by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site. But, just as virtual servers complicate backup procedures, server virtualization has an impact on storage infrastructures and may require tweaking disaster recovery plans for storage systems.

In this videocast, Ray Lucchesi addresses...
Disaster Recovery Planning Virtual Seminar by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
As we move towards 2009, Disaster Recovery Planning is the #1 strategic initiative for many IT organizations. There are many elements adding to the challenge. As we move towards 2009, Disaster Recovery Planning is the #1 strategic initiative for many IT organizations. There are many elements adding to the challenge:

  • Obtaining and keeping buy-in from the executive
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Using VMware® ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery by Hewlett-Packard Company
and DR plan is crucial to successful data center operations. This white paper reviews the benefits and disadvantages of several approaches that leverage VMware to do so, enabling you to select the one that's right for your organization. Read on to learn how you can use VMware to do the following:

  • Access and manage virtual desk files
  • Back up the service console
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Modernizing mainframe applications: Old dog, new tricks by Robert Crawford, Contributor
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Negotiating a successful data center outsourcing arrangement by Brad Peterson
The following presentation was given at Data Center Decisions Spring 2005 in New York.

Data center outsourcing can be a way to save money, improve service and focus on your core business. However, it can also be a way to increase costs, lose control of your company's central nervous system and increase business risk. Structuring and negotiating... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

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Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
Linux mainframe have more to do with politics than with technology.

"Most large data centers have mainframes with z/OS, and just about all organizations have Linux stuff that is a candidate for consolidation," said Wayne Kernochan, a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group. At the same time, Kernochan explained that there is a lot of "graying of the... More...