WEBCAST - This webcast explores methods and best practices for transforming your data center for optimum business alignment. Gain insight into the importance of an IT TCO Baseline and discover how to fund your transformation with the IT Cost Management Intelligence assessment.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Premiered: September 22, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Management | Solaris

WEBCAST - There are two sides to desktop business continuity: users' needs and IT management. Users need on-demand accessibility of their desktops, applications and data. IT managers must limit complexity caused by supporting diverse users and hardware. This webcast discusses how to automate and simplify virtual desktop management to improve efficiency.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Premiered: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Centers | Desktop Applications Management | Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | IT Infrastructure | Remote Access Protocols | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | VMware

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE - It's no wonder there's been so much buzz around data deduplication in today's storage market. This E-Guide will discuss what to consider when embarking on a data deduplication implementation, and will highlight the options available to storage pros today.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Management | Tape Backups

EGUIDE - This Essential Guide offers a collection of tips, tools and techniques that you can use to back up your virtual servers more efficiently. Find out about the intricacies of using VMware's Consolidate Backup (VCB) application, get tips on how to fine-tune your current backup app for virtual servers, and read about the common problems and solutions.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Backups | Virtualization Security | VMware | VMware Server

WEBCAST - Join HP and VMware, industry leaders in virtualization and infrastructure and application management for this one hour webinar to learn how you can reduce management costs and gain increased visibility and control of your virtual infrastructure.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Premiered: October 7, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Power Supplies | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Malware | Security Threats | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments, and supports the optimization of the datacenter in three primary ways. Each of these benefits, and the solutions that enable them, are discussed in this paper.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Consolidation | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Power Blackouts

WHITE PAPER - A complement to your existing IT infrastructure, IBM CloudBurst™ includes hardware, software and services, and provides secure, reliable, private cloud computing. Fit-for-purpose and self-contained, IBM CloudBurst dramatically reduces capital and operational costs, accelerating investment payback. Read on to learn more . . .
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Data Storage | Economic Environment | Infrastructure Management | Investments | Platform as a service | Private cloud computing | ROI | Server Management | TCO | Vendors

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - IBM CloudBurst is a quick-start to cloud computing. Simply roll it into your data center to quickly see the benefits of cloud computing.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Storage | Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Storage Security

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - The IBM CloudBurst Family is a line of pre-integrated service delivery platforms including hardware, storage, networking, virtualization, and service management software, which will enable you to create a private cloud environment.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management Software | Data Storage | Database Administration | Database Management | Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization | Service Level Management | Workload Automation

VIDEO - CloudBurst is a ready to go system complete with software, platform, and the services to make you productive immediately. This tightly integrated system encompasses your networking fabric, storage fabric and compute fabric complete with service management.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Premiered: June 25, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Infrastructure Management | ROI | Service Level Management | TCO | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - When you resume business after a disruption, you want to pick up where you left off. That means minutes, or even seconds, before the lights went out or the computer virus struck. If your business is aiming for zero data loss and zero downtime, there's only one choice - continuous data protection (CDP).
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Security | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Email Archiving | RPO | RTO | Tape Backups | Virus Protection

ANALYST REPORT - The current state of the datacenter, demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Today, lowering the energy and administration/management costs are two key focus areas of datacenter managers in the Asia/Pacific region.
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | IT Spending