Contingency Planning

WHITE PAPER: VMware's latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere, includes many new features and technological enhancements over its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). This white paper focuses on how VMware improved various storage technologies, how they relate to data backup and recovery, and more.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines some of the top ways that organizations can achieve great efficiencies in their environments and drive benefits ranging from steep capital savings to streamlined operations. It also illustrates how Datalink customers have implemented these methods in their architectures.

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn more about the changing role of IT in business. This report includes research targeted towards senior executives responsible for managing and deploying information technology in pursuit of business objectives.

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 | Published: 29 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper is intended to help simplify the process of starting a disaster recovery plan so as not to be so overwhelming. Through some basic steps, businesses can better protect themselves against data loss while working toward a more complete business continuity plan.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: EchoStream for AIX is a proven solution to the data recovery problem that is in use at a variety of referenceable accounts today.

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 | Published: 12 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an introduction to System i high availability for companies that want to understand this technology and evaluates whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup and recovery strategy.

Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 02 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the importance of maintaining a consistent two-factor authentication policy during a business disruption. In addition, it provides insight into how to develop plans that enable cost-effective, rapid binding of users to their credentials in the event of an emergency. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems.

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 | Published: 17 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will discuss the challenges you can have to backup and protect using native tools and how you can successfully protect your SharePoint environment using Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this brief paper to get the details about an HP and VMware solution that both enhances service and reduces cost, while positioning operations for growth when the economy turns around.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss what you can do to protect your company's data in case of an unexpected disaster. Having a disaster recovery plan is not only a smart business move, but in some cases it is mandatory for legal and regulatory reasons.

Posted: 28 May 2009 | Published: 28 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution.

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 | Published: 18 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Because organizations are demanding 24x7 availability from their IMS, DB2®, and VSAM applications, it is imperative that those applications do not experience outages. Read this whitepaper to find out how BMC's Hybrid Copy techniques help for faster system recovery in the event of a local outage.

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: We are beginning to see the next generation of backup and recovery solutions appear. New data protection solutions led by Data Domain’s deduplication architecture are quickly gaining market momentum improving data and application availability while increasing the probability for a business to survive most types of outages.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This survival guide will help you and your company start to plan an effective business continuity plan. The end result should be a reduction in risk factors and to minimize the impact of disasters that are out of your control.

Posted: 28 May 2009 | Published: 28 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: The purpose in this IBM Redpaper is to introduce you to the concepts used in the IBM BPM Enabled by SOA methodology. The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) Enabled by SOA Method provides a structured process for developing an organization's cross-functional, customer-focused, end-to-end core business processes.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss how server virtualization technology helps significantly reduce overall IT capital expense and operational costs. Learn how Hyper-V™ virtualization technology can be quickly deployed in any business environment so that you can build an IT infrastructure with disaster recovery capabilities.

Posted: 28 May 2009 | Published: 28 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Most analysts, including Enterprise Strategy Group, agree that performing only a periodic backup leaves data at risk, and they find that this is a major concern among the IT professionals they survey. The answer to this concern is Cisco Small Business Network Storage Systems (NSS) and Cisco Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files software.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this solution brief to learn how the Dell EqualLogic PS Series' bundled Auto-Snapshot Manager and Auto-Replication features are used to effectively integrate with VMware for scalable online data protection of the complete virtual infrastructure. This paper also discusses protection and simplification for the virtual environment.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Auto-Snapshot Manager extends the intelligence of Dell EqualLogic SAN and enables Administrators to create and manage Smart Copy snapshots, clones, or replicas for point-in-time copies of Exchange Storage Groups that can be instantly restored.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

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: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) is the disciplined planning needed to prepare for a natural or man-made emergency that affects service availability. This data sheet presents an effective solution for COOP from HP.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 27 Aug 2009