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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Virtualizing your servers enhances server consolidation and provides easier server management. It might also introduce new availability requirements for your applications. Your virtual environment must be able to quickly recover from physical server failures. This paper introduces SAN solutions that work with VMware to deliver high availability.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: April 19, 2009


Topics:  High Availability | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Spending | Storage Virtualization

DATA SHEET - Xiotech's Emprise 7000 family of storage area network (SAN) solutions are virtual SAN systems that deliver maximum reliability, scalability, and value. Highlights include: high availability, modular scalability, and lowest TCO. Read this paper to learn more about the features and benefits of these solutions.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  High Availability | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | TCO | Virtual Machine

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | High Availability | Network Management | Network Performance | Server Virtualization | Service Level Management | Storage Capacity | Systems Management

ANALYST BRIEF - The economic downturn is no time to compromise on data availability, especially when storage virtualization software has made it possible to eliminate costly, storage-related downtime without paying a premium.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  High Availability | Storage Replication | Storage Replication Software | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris™ Operating System and Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 3, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Enterprise Applications Software | High Availability | NAS | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware | Storage Hardware | Systems Implementation

WHITE PAPER - Double-Take Software provides organizations with a solution that offers distinct recovery and protection advantages over manual Microsoft SQL built-in replication capabilities: Double-Take Availability saves more data real-time and restores that data in a much faster manner.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Database Management | Database Security | Database Server Software | Databases | High Availability | SQL | SQL Server

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this transcript of the "Mission Critical Computing" webcast to learn about changing trends in the data center infrastructure. Discover tools to ensure high availability at a low cost to improve IT performance and find out more about innovations to data center operations to help you remain competitive.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: November 13, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | High Availability | Network Performance | Systems Management

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD - Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: November 12, 2009


Topics:  Data Acquisition Hardware | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Database Administration | High Availability | IT Management | IT Managers | LAN | SAN

PODCAST - In this expert podcast, learn how to build your data warehouse for your SQL Server environment. Discover the necessary steps involved and learn about major concepts, including relational data warehousing and supported SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) storage formats.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Premiered: November 13, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Data Warehouses | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Server Management | SQL | SQL Server | Storage Management

WEBCAST - In this expert webcast, learn how to build your data warehouse for your SQL Server environment. Discover the necessary steps involved and learn about major concepts, including relational data warehousing and supported SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) storage formats.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Premiered: November 13, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Clustering | Data Warehouses | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | SQL | SQL Server | Storage Capacity

WHITE PAPER - This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: November 11, 2009


Topics:  Applications Software | Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | ROI | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | TCO

PODCAST - Traditionally, NAS systems have had limitations in throughput, connectivity, reliability and scalability. Today, a new generation of high-performance NAS is making high-availability for NAS a reality. In this expert podcast, find out about the latest trends in clustered NAS and what it means for storage pros facing increasing data storage growth.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Premiered: November 6, 2009


Topics:  Cluster Software | Clustering | Distributed Computing | High Availability | High Performance Computing | NAS Software | Network Management | Networking | Storage Hardware

PODCAST - Does your organization have a reliable and cost-effective site recovery system? This podcast 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 9, 2009 | Premiered: November 9, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Clustering | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Microsoft Hyper-V | Microsoft Office | Virtualization Security