PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this transcript, W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Posted: June 30, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | NAS | Remote Offices | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization Software

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Check out this solution brief to see how the joint Blue Coat and VMware solution enables IT organizations to consolidate servers and perform disaster recovery operations in real-time, without the risk of performance degradation due to latency or limited bandwidth.
Posted: June 29, 2009 | Published: December 26, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Bandwidth Management | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Recovery | RPO | RTO | Server Consolidation | VMware

EGUIDE - In this informative Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, learn more about the virtual management tools on the market and their functionality. Discover which product capabilities organizations should consider when evaluating virtual infrastructure management technologies.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 22, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Project Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Service Creation Tools | VMware

EGUIDE - In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 22, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Project Management | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Published: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | IT Spending | Remote Backups | RPO | SLA | Storage Infrastructure | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

CASE STUDY - In this success story you will read how by hosting its SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) financial modules with FIT, XOJET is saving the expense of a dedicated SAP staff and IT infrastructure. Read on to learn how you company can take advantage of the same benefits as XOJET did by choosing FIT to maintain your SAP infrastructure.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Published: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Application Hosting | Application Infrastructure Providers | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Service Providers | Applications Management Services | Business Intelligence | Disaster Recovery | ERP | Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | SAP (Product)

PODCAST - Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Premiered: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | IT Best Practices | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Sponsored by Osterman Research, this white paper discusses the key issues that organizations should consider as they consider disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for their email systems.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Published: May 15, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Continuity Planning Software | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Email Archiving | Email Archiving Software | Email Management

VIDEO - Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication replication as a disaster recovery technique.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Premiered: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Remote Backups | Storage Management | Tape Backups

CASE STUDY - Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment products in the US. Having implemented the Data Domain and Luminex solution they have been able to successfully meet DR goals and achieve significant yearly cost savings.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Replication | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Mainframe Server Hardware | Microsoft Exchange | ROI | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Media | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

CASE STUDY - 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.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 5, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: April 2, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | High Availability | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Performance Testing | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - 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.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SMBs