SmartBiz IT Research Library

PODCAST - In this podcast, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization.
Posted: November 25, 2009 | Premiered: November 25, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Utility Computing | Virtualization Security

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

VIDEO - There are three primary issues that must be addressed to create a reliable storage environment. View this video to find out how Xiotech's Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) addresses these issues.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Storage | Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Downtime

VIDEO - Welcome to Virtual View, a feature of Xiotech’s Icon Manager that dramatically improves storage management for VMware. Virtual View reduces storage provisioning from dozens of steps to three, enables management from one console instead of three, provisions storage in minutes instead of hours, and reduces time, required expertise, and risk.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Downtime | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

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 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

WHITE PAPER - The commissioning process flow is described and critical success factors are discussed. The commissioning process inputs and outputs are also placed in context with other key data center project process phases and steps.
Posted: November 2, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Downtime | Power Generation Equipment | Systems Management

DATA SHEET - Check out this price list and specifications of all of Zenith's ARCA (Advanced Recovery and Continuity Appliance) models available.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Security | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Remote Office Connectivity | ROBO | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Dealing with disasters at remote offices, where you likely have little or no technical staff, can be challenging—and, if you're not careful, expensive. Here are our top 10 tips for optimizing branch office DR while achieving overall improvements in cost efficiency.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Cloud Computing | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Downtime | Remote Office Connectivity | ROBO | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Downtime | High Availability | Network Management | ROBO | ROI | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SMBs | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Web Hosting

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Distributed Computing | Downtime | High Availability | IT Best Practices | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | Remote Offices | ROBO | ROI | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn Niel Nickolaisen's proven model for strategic and tactical alignment of IT with business objectives - enabling IT to do more for the business with less. By implementing all four components of Niel's model, IT can dramatically reduce system downtime and closely align their efforts and investments with business priorities.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Downtime | High Availability | IT Best Practices | IT Spending | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - APC® by Schneider Electric enables you to adapt your data center to the changing needs of a business. With the same InfraStruXure® HD-Ready architecture, you can start out with a low-density data center, and later scale up to high density as needed without picking up the phone to call for more capacity, engineering or quotes.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Cooling Capacity | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Systems Management Software

CASE STUDY - As a highly respected leading global intellectual property (IP) consultancy and law firm, Rouse needed to be confident in its level of client service, even in the event of a IT system failure. Read this case study to learn how Rouse partnered with Double-Take Software to develop and implement a full business continuity plan.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Replication | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Legal Services Industry | Storage Replication

WHITE PAPER - High-density (HD) zones enable new technologies and unlock the doors to data center efficiency. APC® by Schneider Electric lets you deploy an HD environment anytime, anywhere. Learn how you can achieve this with APC's HD solutions.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | High Availability | Server Virtualization | Systems Management