Downtime

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: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

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: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

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: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

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: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

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: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

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: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

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: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 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: NetBotz protection brings a crucial layer of physical security to any IT environment—big or small—by constantly monitoring and protecting your IT assets from environmental threats and human error.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll read about the top objections buyers have for upgrading their current equipment. You'll also hear about the solutions Intel has to offer to help increase the productivity of your workforce, reduce energy consumption, and much more!

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper you will learn how TAKE Supply Chain has developed a scalable, rules-based barcode label and RFID print management platform that allows business users — not IT programmers — to effectively administer tagging output and compliance programs, which can increase efficiency while decreasing costs with RFID label management.

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, is committed to utilizing the principles of open source to provide enterprise-level security to its customers. This paper reviews open source software development principles and process and how those lead to more secure software.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper, Enterprise Linux and Windows Server 2008 are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In the event of downtime, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. PlateSpin Forge® ships with everything you need to begin protecting your servers straight out-of-the-box.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The following six secrets to 24x7, disaster-tolerant Exchange will show you how to implement an Exchange environment with zero lost data and continuous application availability—with no IT intervention—in the event of a disaster.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The following five secrets to affordable SQL availability will help you to implement a SQL environment with little or no downtime, zero data loss, and no added IT complexity.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: All organizations are becoming increasingly reliant upon their computer systems. The availability of those systems can be the difference between the organization succeeding and failing. This series will examine how we can configure our Windows Server 2008 environments to provide the level of availability our organizations need.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Evaluate the savings, performance, and overall value of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment versus a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 deployment. In this whitepaper, the two systems are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: SQL Server is the relational database used for storing all content, data, and configuration information used by Office SharePoint Server 2007. Protecting SharePoint requires protecting each of the three architectural tiers. This whitepaper will discuss the need to protect all three tiers of SharePoint's implementation architecture.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Businesses of all sizes are using the messaging and collaboration features of Microsoft Exchange to run critical business functions that if lost, can result in severe business disruption. Exchange and Exchange infrastructure components are analyzed in this paper to determine how they can be protected so you can achieve your SLA commitments.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many businesses today are delivering applications to users as an on-demand service. This reduces the cost of application management and can improve application and data security. This white paper explores what availability really means, and how availability correlates to RTO and RPO baselines.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) should be major components of any risk-management strategy. After all, no business wants to be caught unprepared for unforeseen events such as floods, fires, terrorist attacks, power outages or other disturbances. That's why planning and regularly testing BC and DR programs is essential.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Although more companies than ever have continuity plans, an AT&T study discovered that a high percentage of those plans are outdated. If your company is one of those with an outdated plan or no plan, here are some things that might help them understand the importance of good continuity planning.

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