Virtualization & Business Continuity
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Sponsored Content
Rethinking Server Virtualization — Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers
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 provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
Rethinking Business Continuance — Driving Data Availability Up and Costs Down
This white paper examines a SAN solution that provides continuous storage availability across storage system, rack, and building failures, helping server virtualization software to effectively implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions that are automatic and dependable.
Rethinking Storage for Server Virtualization Environments
Join Andrew Reichman, Senior Forrester Analyst, and Chris McCall, HP StorageWorks Product Manager, as they discuss the key storage features and abilities you need for a virtualized server environment.
Rethinking Business Continuity and High Availability in Storage
Join Andrew Reichman, Senior Forrester Analyst, and Chris McCall, HP StorageWorks Product Manager, as they discuss the key considerations for your business continuation strategy deployment and some next-generation solutions that provide cost-effective DR and HA server virtualization support.
Blogs
Staying Safe on Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving that has become the online retailer’s version of Black Friday, will likely be more popular than ever this year, thanks, in part, to concerns about the . In fact, Forrester Research forecasts an 8 percent increase in online retail sales over last year....More >
When Disaster Strikes, Login Here
When it comes to disaster recovery, the reason that so many companies struggle so much usually has very little to do with the technology. There are plenty of solutions out there today that can make . The issue is that most people simply don’t know what to do when the emergency strikes. To...More >
New Power Management Systems at the Ready
Data center efficiency has made great strides in the past few years, driven both by the oil shocks earlier in the decade and the rapid rise of virtualization and other hardware consolidation technology that swept the IT industry. So when we see surveys like the recent one from Kelton Research...More >
Articles & Interviews
Virtualization Initiatives Getting Bogged Down?
Server consolidation initiatives created a strong ROI for organizations and proved to be the impetus that server virtualization needed to gain broad market adoption. But as organizations grow their virtual environments, they inevitably run into the same set of issues that force a slowdown.... More >
Striking the Right Balance in Server Utilization
Arthur Cole spoke with Mark E. Stumm, senior vice president of product marketing, nlyte Software . Cole : Recent studies indicate that about 15 percent of the servers in a typical enterprise are drawing power but not performing any meaningful function. Is that a reasonable amount, or should... More >
The Cloud Is Your Friend: Answers to Misconceptions of Cloud Computing
Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology definitely meets resistance because it is unknown and not yet understood widely. is one of those technologies that business professionals... More >
Related Topics
IBM Offers Virtualization Security
IBM's new Virtual Server Security product is designed to secure each layer of the infrastructure of a virtual server, reports InformationWeek . The software is built for VMware's vSphere platform for data center virtualization. The offering secures everything from the hypervisor to the operating system to data... More >
Symantec: SMBs' Disaster Recovery Preparedness Lacking
Small and midsize businesses are confident in their disaster recovery capabilities, but their actual performance in preventing outages presents a different story, according to the results of a new survey from Symantec. The Symantec 2009 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey of nearly 1,700 respondents from 28 countries... More >
Gmail Still Down for Some
Gmail has suffered another outage affecting what Google calls "a small subset of users." The Google Apps status dashboard first reported it at 7:29 a.m. PDT (10:29 EDT), according to CNET News . It still was showing a disruption more than two hours later. The company says you can still use IMAP (Internet Message... More >
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