High Availability Reports

WHITE PAPER: Caritas Christi Health Care used an information system to manage patient information, but its legacy hardware put the organization at risk of downtime, and the high-maintenance systems could no longer support growth. Find out how the healthcare facility selected an IT infrastructure that allowed for greater availability and EHR implementation.

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 | Published: 22 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: The paper includes calculations showing the cost of downtime expected for a given level of EHR solution uptime in practices of various sizes, as well as products associated with specific uptime levels. The report also includes a “cost per hour” tool that estimates the financial impact of downtime in practices they administer, oversee or assist.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: SMBs want to take advantage of the benefits of virtualization but it can be costly to manage if they do not have the required skills in-house. Dan Kusnetzky takes a deep look at all of the benefits as well as the issues these businesses are facing, including the requirement to use automated systems, reducing complexity and maintaining availability.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

DATA SHEET: How your organization handles planned and unplanned email outages can mean the difference between business-as-usual and serious damage to your overall productivity, profitability and reputation. This data sheet describes how IBM can help you protect, archive and manage your mission-critical data and applications.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This solution brief provides a reference architecture to help clients navigate their virtualization projects. Discover a recommended configuration that delivers high performance, consolidation ratios, and availability to support your business-critical applications.

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide is designed to help IT pros assess the benefits of Hyper-V. Read about the advantages of Server Core and obtain tips and best practices for deployment success.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper proposes several sample virtualisation architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) defines CDP as "a class of mechanisms that continuously capture or track data modifications enabling recovery to previous points in time." In part two of this tutorial on continuous data protection backup, learn how CDP is being used today, and about the latest CDP products.

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 | Published: 17 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Server virtualization has many benefits from the disaster recovery standpoint- not having to purchase physical infrastructure for DR being only the tip of the iceberg. Check out this brief, two page transcript of an interview with DR expert Pierre Dorion to learn more about potential benefits and pitfalls of server virtualization in DR.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Microsoft Exchange Server is one of the most mission-critical IT services for enterprises, and can mean major headaches when mail servers are down. Learn how to select and verify a hypervisor to avoid common high availability mistakes.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Email, voicemail, instant messaging, social networking, messages, faxes, shared calendars, and centralized contacts are all essential for boosting productivity and collaboration. Email has evolved from more than just text. Many would find the situation daunting, but smart organizations know the solution. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, expert Mike Laverick reviews the different disaster recovery options available for VMware infrastructures. He covers VMware Site Recovery Manager, host-based replication technologies, stretching high-availability technologies across multiple sites, and scripting custom solutions using PowerCLI.

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 | Published: 15 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Instead of regurgitating an architecture where costly, centralized controllers are needed, Aerohive followed the original intent of the 802.11 standard designers more closely and brought the technology to maturity. This paper explores how inter-AP protocols can execute the same functions performed by centralized controllers with lower cost.

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 | Published: 30 Mar 2011

VIDEO: In this video, you'll see how Intel IT's office and enterprise private cloud not only increases efficiency and agility, but also offers high availability without additional cost.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: With IBM DB2 pureScale transparent application scaling, you can transparently add capacity to your network to handle fluctuations in demand without changing the application. pureScale technology also helps to deliver active-active high availability. Find out how these features work. 

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

EZINE: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine exclusive research into the investment priorities of UK IT decision-makers, which shows virtualisation, Windows 7 and security as the top areas for spending this year. We analyse the changing nature of database architecture; and the BBC’s Chief Technology Officer talks about IT plans for the broadcaster.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Once you know how to make a business case for migration, learn how to train your Unix staff to manage Linux environments. Find out about key differences between the two operating systems and provide your team with tactics for optimal backup and performance monitoring.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

WEBCAST: ActiveMQ is the most popular messaging platform in use today. This webinar will explain some reoccurring messaging patterns that are used for application integration - and then see how they have been applied in large enterprise deployments with ActiveMQ.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Premiered: Mar 1, 2011, 11:00 EST (16:00 GMT)

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Today's modern, web applications require elasticity, scalability and flexibility. Learn how a cloud-ready approach to data management can help reduce database bottlenecks and improve application performance and availability. Read this presentation transcript and learn how to achieve high performance for your apps.

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 | Published: 14 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Transactional application availability is more important than ever to businesses in a globalized economy. This Vendor Spotlight examines the various architectural approaches to ensuring application uptime and availability, particularly a clustered file system approach with clustered services.

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 | Published: 28 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the systems they run on require a higher level of availability. The trade off with increasing application availability is an additional cost in terms of redundant hardware and complexity.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 protects your business from all common causes of unplanned downtime and planned downtime, including human error.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows the way to protect data and business, where hardware is only one factor. The other factor is the proof that in a worst case scenario the protection works well. The challenge is to test that protection in near real-life situations but without impact on business production.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Provisioning storage from a virtual pool not only reduces administration costs by cutting the time to provision new storage, but also improves application availability by reducing the downtime needed for storage provisioning. Enter a few details about your storage environment to calculate your potential savings now.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010