WHITE PAPER - The modern organization has email at the heart of its communications and business processes. This makes it critical to minimize both the downtime and loss of email upon the outset of a business continuity event. Maintaining access to email while upholding risk mitigation and compliance is a challenging endeavor.
Posted: August 6, 2009 | Published: August 5, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Email Management | Email Management Software | Email Security | High Availability | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) best practices promote a well-functioning, collaborative IT environment that can enable the business and your IT organization to cope with the effects of economic stress. ITIL can help you to deliver higher-performing technology services that help your business to be both more competitive today and...
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Satisfaction | Downtime | IT Best Practices | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | ITIL | Knowledge Management | Operational Metrics (Systems)

WHITE PAPER - When the economy turns around, as it will, how will your organization be poised to take advantage of the next expansion? Read the latest white paper written by Steve Diamond, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at Oracle, to learn six areas your organization can focus on to improve business results.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Published: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | CRM | Customer Retention | Customer Service Best Practices | Downtime | Economic Environment | Sales

VIDEO - In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Premiered: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Downtime | Hardware Virtualization | Server Appliances | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

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

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines hot and cold air containment and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Downtime | Storage Capacity

DATA SHEET - By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 14, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Databases | Downtime | Enterprise | Enterprise Resource Management | Memory | Performance Testing | ROI | Server Virtualization | VMware

EZINE - This guide explains planning global enterprise SharePoint deployments, creating custom global search scopes in SharePoint and top tips for harnessing Microsoft SharePoint governance.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 23, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Change Management | Collaboration | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Email Archiving | Enterprise | High Availability | Install Programs | IT Governance | Productivity

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details how self-contained high-density zones enable a reliable operation of high-density equipment without impacting a low-density data center.
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Power Connectors | Power Supplies | Rack Servers

WHITE PAPER - The power of an information availability solution lies in its ability to transform any nonproductive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of value-producing business uptime.
Posted: May 9, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Banking Industry | Business Processes | CRM | Data Protection | Data Recovery | Downtime | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act | High Availability | Productivity | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will provide a review of the core causes and costs of both planned and unplanned downtime and will then provide a detailed discussion of current options for High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
Posted: April 2, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Disaster Planning | Downtime | High Availability | RPO | RTO | System i

WHITE PAPER - System i provides a wealth of data to help analyze performance and storage usage, but System i administration tools make this information cumbersome to access. This white paper offers best practices for selecting third-party system management tools to take full advantage of this information.
Posted: April 2, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Database Management | Downtime | Productivity | Regulatory Compliance | ROI | Storage Management | System i | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an introduction to System i high availability for companies that want to understand this technology and evaluates whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup and recovery strategy.
Posted: April 2, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Data Availability | Data Recovery | Database Management | Database Management Software | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | NAS | System i | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - In virtualized data centers, the fact that all applications and users can impact each other combined with a lack of resource monitoring can cause poor performance and even system downtime. This white paper provides a formula to avoid these problems.
Posted: February 26, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Network Appliances | Network Monitoring | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the types of PM services that can help safeguard the uptime of data centers and IT equipment rooms.
Posted: February 4, 2008 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Power Consumption Monitoring | TCO | UPS