Contingency Planning

WHITE PAPER: Did you know it’s possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this whitepaper from Riverbed on cost-savings through WAN optimization, you’ll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments, and supports the optimization of the datacenter in three primary ways. Each of these benefits, and the solutions that enable them, are discussed in this paper.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Once you decide to deploy Oracle within the data center, a continuous lifecycle begins - moving from initial development, test, and deployment, to ongoing migration, to new releases of Oracle and deployment of new features with each release. The EMC Solutions Practice for Oracle can help you get started quickly.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

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: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

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: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This article focuses on tools that are a part of the SQL Server application which after proper setup can prevent data loss on a record, table or database level.

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Disaster recovery and remote office replication are top-of-mind issues for IT professionals, with frequent natural disasters underscoring the fallibility of tape-based backup strategies. This paper highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: These days, it is rare to find a company without a disaster recovery plan - a fact due in large part to a rash of high-profile disasters in recent years. The risks are too great to ignore. But many companies are still not doing enough to protect their businesses. This paper provides tips for how to protect your business.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this technical overview of EMC Avamar backup and recovery software with integrated global, source data deduplication technology including an in-depth look at Avamar architecture, key applications and customer benefits.

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many administrators who oversee their organization’s backup and recovery are considering an all-in-one data protection (DP) solution. There are eight things to consider before you make your decision on which solution to purchase and this white paper explains them.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation.

Posted: 30 Aug 2007 | Published: 30 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: Learn the importance of email archiving and how it can help solve the many challenges facing organizations today with compliance, continuity in business knowledge, data retention policies and requests for electronic discovery.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The modern organization has email at the heart of its communications and business processes. This makes it critical to minimize both the downtime and loss of email upon the outset of a business continuity event. Maintaining access to email while upholding risk mitigation and compliance is a challenging endeavor.

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 | Published: 06 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is designed to provide continuous data protection for Windows-based servers, with additional features for business-specific Microsoft workloads such as SQL Server and SharePoint.

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper will show how a NAS-based SRM solution can enable administrators to consolidate their NAS "holdings" with advanced quota management, automation in the form of "actionable reporting".

Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 09 Jun 2008