VIDEO - With just under 100 days to go to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Magnus Alvarsson, chief integrator at Atos Origin explains what has been done so far and what lies ahead for the technology team. Watch this video to understand the remaining steps that must be taken to ensure the 2010 Olympics go off without any major problems.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Premiered: November 12, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ITIL | Quality Control | Systems Management | Testing

BROCHURE - VMware vSphere™, the industry's first cloud operating system, leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: April 3, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware ESX

CASE STUDY - The ability to stay up and running in the face of a disaster can be crucial to the survival of any business. Without effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans, businesses risk lost income, lost productivity, or worse. Read this brief paper to learn about effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Consulting Services | Business Continuation Services | Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Does your organization have a reliable and cost-effective site recovery system? This presentation transcript explores how site recovery tools along with virtualization enables IT pros to deliver secure application and data availability, implement site-wide disaster recovery and automate fail-over and fail back.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: November 24, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | IT Management | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Windows Server Software

CASE STUDY - A thorough evaluation determined that Forbes needed a new email system and efficient storage to support it. Forbes selected Xiotech’s Emprise™ 5000 storage system, featuring patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology, which allowed the company to improve the performance and reliability of its email system, while reducing service fees.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Email | Email Archiving | Email Management | Email Security | Email Threats | Regulatory Compliance | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Standards

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - In this presentation transcript, learn how to ensure your disaster recover (DR) needs are met by your cloud provider. Gain insight into the differences between standard and cloud-based DR approaches and how to incorporate your exiting DR plans.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Cloud Computing | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | SaaS ERP | Software as a Service

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Please review this presentation transcript featuring Andrew Burton, Editor of SearchDisasterRecovery.com, and Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group. The transcript documents their discussion about WAN clustering. Find out exactly what you need to set up a WAN cluster and what vendors offer WAN clustering support.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Disaster Recovery | WAN | WAN Hardware | WAN Switches | WAN Switching | WAP | Wireless Infrastructure | Wireless Systems | Wireless WAN | Wireless WAN Hardware | WLAN Management

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Database Administration | Database Management | Databases | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Connecting virtual desktop technology with the disaster recovery process has probably not been a major focus for organizations; however, integrating a disaster recovery plan for the virtual desktop is moving up organizational priority lists for a multitude of reasons.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Desktop Virtualization | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Network Analyzer Software | Network Performance | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

EBOOK - A solid disaster recovery plan can overcome bandwidth and latency issues without any data loss. Techniques to restore data and prevent loss vary in the virtual data center. In Chapter 1 of this eBook, you'll learn about disaster recovery strategies for the virtual data center.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Backups

WHITE PAPER - Managed Service Providers with customers who have or are considering Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 can now offer secure, cloud-based protection and recovery for DPM 2007 data with the CloudRecovery service, created by Iron Mountain and Microsoft. Learn how this service can help your customer meet today’s requirements.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: May 31, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - While energy consumption of overall data center operations and server-related equipment is generally understood, the story is quite different when it comes to storage systems. This paper offers practical advice on how to measure storage system efficiency and compares the efficiency numbers of several common storage solutions.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Tape Libraries | UPS

PODCAST - Discover the benefits of disk over tape-based storage systems. This podcast will examine a large medical nonprofit’s transition from a tape-based storage system to a disk-based system. Find out how this organisation increased backup performance, shortened RTOs, lightened management burden, cut costs and more by switching to disk-only storage.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | RTO | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WEBCAST - Please watch this presentation featuring Brad Blake, Director, IT at Boston Medical Center. The presentation will illuminate topics such as Boston Medical Center’s decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage - as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery

PODCAST - This expert podcast provides you with 10 steps for organizations that currently use Lotus Notes/Domino to determine if Google Apps is a good fit. Learn how to select a pilot project, calculate ROI and estimate training requirement to assist you in your decision making.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Premiered: November 17, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cloud Computing | Cost Benefit Analysis | Disaster Recovery | Domino | Lotus Notes | ROI | Software Licensing