SmartBiz IT Research Library

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

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 - 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

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 - Disasters happen in many ways and can disrupt or even completely destroy your business. What happens if and when disaster strikes? Do you have duplicate copies of your mission critical data stored offsite? How fast and reliable will your recovery of information be? Will your company survive?
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Online Backups | Security Threats

WHITE PAPER - This white paper reviews options for a multifaceted recovery strategy, ensuring that your key systems are protected with maximum efficiency at minimal cost.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper demonstrates how leveraging real-time replication and application availability for disaster recovery using solutions from Double-Take Software is a cost-effective way to ensure that a mission-critical application's RPO and RTO goals are adequately met.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: October 14, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | RPO | RTO | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Management Software | Virtualization Security

ANALYST BRIEF - To understand the impact of server virtualization, Syncsort commissioned Ziff Davis Media to conduct a survey around end-user experiences with migrating physical servers to virtual machines (referred to as P2V migration). Read the results here.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

CASE STUDY - This case study examines South Jersey Healthcare’s use of EVault Software to streamline their backups and speed up their disaster recovery process.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: November 13, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management

CASE STUDY - When Clinical Financial Services, LLC needed to reduce its disaster recovery risk and reassure their clients, they turned to i365. Their solution was EVault SaaS plus Agent plug-ins for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Servers and Open Transaction Manager working in conjunction with EVault Remote Disaster Recovery service.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: November 13, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Business Continuity Planning Software | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Management Software

TRIAL SOFTWARE - The Sun Unified Storage Simulator is provided as either a VirtualBox or VMware virtual machine that provides a simulated experience of a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System with 16 simulated disk drives.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: November 27, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Drives | Storage Replication | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

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

WHITE PAPER - A disaster recovery plan represents an organization's detailed roadmap of where to go, what to do and when to do it in the event of a disaster. Understanding what does the business need, and is it capable of addressing this need with regard to both capabilities and cost is essential in the overall planning stages.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: November 5, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

PODCAST - Tune into this podcast for a cloud computing disaster recovery (DR) checklist. Learn about various DR approaches for your cloud computing environment. Find out how to secure your data and how to get your DR objectives met by your cloud provider.
Posted: November 2, 2009 | Premiered: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Security | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WEBCAST - In this webcast, 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 2, 2009 | Premiered: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Security | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Standards