Disaster Recovery White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than a technology. It is a way of thinking about problems that allow us to go beyond the physical limitations nor­mally associated with entire classes of hardware, from servers to storage. Attaining the maximum benefits of virtualization, however, requires a plan and constant monitoring to ensure peak performance.

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is intended to help you think about that problem with knowledge of pertinent market trends and next generation recovery technologies.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 | Published: 23 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: The customers in this compilation all share one common story: They turned to EMC solutions to address the backup and recovery challenges they faced while implementing a virtualised server environment.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 | Published: 22 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces the EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array (GDA), the industry’s highest-performance inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup applications, and explains how it delivers scalable performance and capacity, enhanced multi-site disaster recovery, and simpler, end-to-end backup administration.

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: There are ten key actions that your company and CIO can take as this hurricane season approaches to help your business achieve communications continuity and business continuity to protect against the unpredictability and devastation that is a hurricane. Read this white paper to learn more!

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: Typically, the level of security you get will be designed to meet the needs of the most risky client in the cloud. And, if you use the tools identified in this paper as a starting point, you will have a good idea of how comparable your cloud security versus internal security will be.

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares 3 different options of implementing CDP (continuous data protection) and shows how virtualization-enabled CDP - or Near-CDP - becomes the most affordable and most logical disaster recovery choice for businesses of all sizes.

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This Implementation Guide shows how to provide high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity to a XenDesktop environment. The document is divided into the following sections: local availablity, global availability, and disaster recovery/business continuity.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization technology is here to stay. When choosing a server virtualization application, it's important to understand the many facets various solutions have, and the limitations inherant in them. This paper explains the benefits of InMage's software-based solution.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: More than 1500 z/Journal readers and BMC Software customers worldwide recently shared their top priorities for IT in 2010. The survey results might surprise you. Get the full report.

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 | Published: 14 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to successfully protect server data outside a centralized data center and focus on specific needs and requirements for SMBs.

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2006

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges of maintaining "business as usual" during major disasters and disruptions to distill the requirements of an ideal solution for disaster recovery and business and workforce continuity through virtualization.

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 | Published: 07 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read about the factors that are driving the need for deduplication in the data center, and the benefits of deduplication as a strategic backup feature.

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 | Published: 07 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Deduplication software has been shown to reduce the amount of backup data stored in typical environments by a ratio of 20:1 - significantly lowering the amount of backup storage media required. However, deciding how to implement deduplication requires a better understanding of the alternatives available.

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) emerges as one of the critical areas of focus as these data centers virtualize, unify, centralize, and scale out their storage resources. This document discusses some of the critical challenges related to the BC/DR solutions and how the Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) addresses each of them.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses the key issues that decision makers should consider as they plan their Exchange 2010 migration. It discusses the results of an in-depth primary research survey conducted by Osterman Research that explores how decision makers are planning their migration to Exchange 2010.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: One of the greatest challenges facing IT professionals today is the number and variety of desktop virtualization (VDI) solutions from which they can choose. This white paper examines four major considerations for efficient, effective and successful PoC results to help you choose the proper VDI solution for your organization.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the different ways for installing the Data Protector package and shows the pros and cons of each method. You can choose the method which fits your requirements. At the end of this white paper, a troubleshooting chapter lists error messages and necessary steps for fixing these problems.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides information on how to plan and install the HP Data Protector VMware Integration in different ways.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

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 addresses the critical factors you need to be aware of when dealing with workforce disruption, including threats like pandemics.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 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: With so many new technologies, sticking with the status quo for your virtual network infrastructure is probably not your best option. In this month's issue, take a closer look at all the possibilities available now for interconnecting both virtual and physical networks.

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Active Directory becomes very complex to manage in Windows networks. Administrators leave, users are given elevated privileges, applications require special accounts - very soon you have an Active Directory full of security weaknesses.

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009