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Virtualization Backup Tools

Despite the availability of backup tools for virtual environments, many companies continue to use the conventional tools designed for their physical infrastructures.

This expert briefing offers information on how physical and virtual backups differ and offers advice for integrating these two essential processes. Download now to assess the drawbacks and benefits of backing up your VM, as well as key criteria to consider when evaluating your various market options and find out how your backup technology fits into your larger disaster recovery plan.

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  • 4 ways to reap virtualization benefits through budgeting

    Despite the cost saving benefits that come from virtualization, establishing a budget for new purchases, ongoing support and software licensing costs is essential to the success of your organization.

    In this e-guide, discover four ways that can help you reap the full benefits of virtualization through budgeting. Learn how using virtualization can help you reduce labor costs and server life cycle maintenance in your IT infrastructure. And understand why if licensing is based on cores, upgrades to more powerful hardware could increase costs unexpectedly.

  • Data Center Servers and Storage E-Book Chapter 4: Reallocating Unused Server and Storage Hardware

    There are smarter ways to deal with reallocating your unused server and storage hardware. You no longer need to destroy the hard drives as you provision the chassis to the garbage can. Every server refresh doesn't have to involve a resulting fire sale on eBay. With a bit of planning, a specific tiering-out of your system priorities and a dash of virtualization, you can breathe new life into your old servers -- even as you bring in replacements with all of their powerful new capabilities. Read this e-book to learn more.

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    Virtualization may be well underway, but it doesn't mean new challenges won't arise as you continue to navigate your initiative. This expert e-zine offers detailed guidance for achieving the right balance in your virtual data center and presents key findings concerning your peers' consolidation objectives for 2012.

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  • Is virtualization the same as cloud computing?

    If you have deployed virtualization in your organization, does that mean you have a private cloud? In this e-guide learn about the differences between virtualization and private cloud computing and the pros and cons of various cloud types.

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    Nutanix was built to deliver a robust, easy-to-deploy, open, fully hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution for VMware by Broadcom virtualization and end-user computing environments. Download this infographic to unlock 5 reasons for running Nutanix with VMware.

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  • Step-by-step Guide to Virtual Infrastructure Management

    Though monitoring and managing your virtual infrastructures can be challenging, the right tools and strategies can help you maintain control over your environment. Access this e-guide to gain key tips and best practices for monitoring applications, physical host servers, hypervisors and more.

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    In this white paper, find services that can jumpstart your migration efforts and help improve your IT operations post-migration, with 5 key migration areas highlighted to help you streamline your organization's journey.

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  • E-Guide: Achieve the benefits of virtualized mission-critical applications

    In this expert e-guide, find out about the many benefits of virtualizing your mission critical applications such as improved hardware utilization and efficiency. Also, discover where to virtualize your applications to maximize these benefits.

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  • Jargon Buster Guide to Virtualisation

    This jargon buster e-guide will detail everything an enterprise IT manager needs to know about the concept of virtualisation, while also taking a look at what enterprises are doing to build upon this now commonplace bedrock within most enterprise IT estates.

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    Virtualisation, in all its forms, has dramatically changed the way enterprise datacentres are operated, managed and built over the course of the past decade or so.

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    The buzz and hype surrounding container technologies has reached fever pitch in recent years, prompting CIOs and IT decision makers to mull over what role, if any, they should and could play in their digital transformation plans.

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    In this e-guide we discover how, in recent years, server virtualisation has given businesses the ability to abstract applications and the operating system from the underlying hardware. We explore how server virtualisation is gradually evolving towards cloud native environments.

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  • Converged infrastructure in 2021: Next-generation datacentre designs

    In this e-guide: Simplifying the deployment and management of datacentre hardware systems is one of the main draws of converged and hyper-converged infrastructure setups for enterprises.

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    In this e-guide, we've pulled together some of the latest thinking on good datacentre management practice, while shining a light on the tools and technologies that are on the market (or in the pipeline) that can help enterprises run their facilities with greater ease and agility.

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  • Hyper-converged infrastructure vs traditional: the pitfalls and benefits of a storage move

    In this e-guide we give an overview to buying hyper-converged in which we dig into its benefits, such as ease of deployment, resource efficiency, low Opex costs and reduced use of datacentre space. But we also look at the potential pitfalls that include the difficulties of troubleshooting in a tightly-layered environment.

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  • Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery

    With the mushrooming of disaster recovery technology in the past few years, your excuses for not having a DR plan are falling away. Use this Essential Guide to learn how to take advantage of new technologies that make the disaster recovery provision and planning process easier than it’s ever been.

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    Every year, Computer Weekly and TechTarget conduct a global survey of our readers to understand their technology spending priorities for the coming 12 months. Our research offers a unique insight into the purchasing decisions of IT decision-makers worldwide.

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    We take a closer a look at the virtualisation of on-premise resources, and find out why it remains such an important process for enterprise datacentre owners to go through.

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    Computer Weekly's annual global survey of readers has once again revealed what CIOs around the world, including an increasing number of Middle East based IT leaders, are planning over the next 12 months.

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    Every year, Computer Weekly and TechTarget conduct a global survey of our readers to understand their technology spending priorities for the coming 12 months. Our research offers a unique insight into the purchasing decisions of IT decision-makers worldwide.

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    We look at why it makes sense to go hyper-converged, how HCI differs from converged infrastructure, the pros and cons of hyper-converged vs traditional storage arrays, HCI software products available, and whether hyper-converged can help unleash the blistering performance potential of NVMe flash storage.

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    In this e-guide, we share details of how mobility and virtualisation has helped organisations in the publishing and manufacturing industries meet their business objectives, while taking a look at some of the broader industry trends playing out in these technological areas.

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    Computer Weekly looks at an increasingly complex networking environment and offers advice for IT leaders on managing it in this 10 page Buyer's Guide.

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    It is the 20th anniversary year for VMware and at the VMware European conference in Barcelona, the company famous for its hypervisor, showcased how it had changed the face of IT, and where it was heading next.

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    In this 13-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at how the technology cuts the numbers of discrete skills and associated costs while demanding that those who remain retrain to ensure they know how to manage all parts of the stack – and the organisation implements it with care and an understanding of the risks.

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    Analysts Louella Fernandes and Clive Longbottom discuss the benefits of extending managed print services to the cloud.

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  • A guide to platform agnostic application delivery

    There is no single answer to the question of how to run applications independent of the underlying hardware. In this e-guide, we explore options for application virtualisation.

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  • Focus: Hybrid cloud

    In this guide, we take a closer look at the reasons why so many enterprises are heading down the hybrid cloud route, while shining a light on the technical work that needs to go into making sure their journey there is a smooth as possible.

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  • A Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to Server Operating Systems

    In this 12-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at Microsoft's latest Windows release, the state of play in the battlebetween Linux and Unix, and the future of the server operating system.

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  • Discover how data analytics and IoT work together to transform the IT industry

    In this week's Computer Weekly, our UK salary survey shows that IT leaders are benefiting from generous bonuses as tech becomes part of mainstream business. We find out how the internet of things is transforming the railway industry. And the CIO of the Williams F1 team explains how data analytics is boosting race performance. Read the issue now.

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  • Focus: Disaster recovery planning and virtualisation

    We take a good look at how features and functionality built into popular virtualisation environments can help with disaster recovery planning, testing and execution.

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  • Hybrid cloud: Building bridges between the cloud and enterprise datacentres

    In this e-guide, we take a closer look at how the major cloud providers are making it possible for their users to shift their datacentre-based applications and workloads to the cloud, as enterprise demand for hybrid deployments continues to soar.

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  • Computer Weekly – 10 April 2018: Technology is a lifesaver for NHS Blood and Transplant

    In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to the CDO of the NHS's blood and transplant agency about how digital transformation is proving to be a real lifesaver. Our latest buyer's guide examines the state of public cloud. And we find out how Ireland is gaining a Brexit dividend to boost its tech sector. Read the issue now.

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    In this issue of CW Middle East we look at how CIOs in the region are formulating their virtualisation strategies as organisations warm to the benefits of cloud computing.

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    In this e-guide, read about how Australian organisations are coping with the storage challenges of big data, why flash storage is still too expensive for some companies and how NetApp is evolving to keep up with changes in the industry.

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  • Converged infrastructure: What enterprises need to know

    In this e-guide, we round up some of the latest thinking and use cases for converged and hyper-converged infrastructure systems, as enterprises and hyperscale firms seek to reduce the complexity of their datacentres.

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  • Computer Weekly Buyers' Guide: Cloud Computing

    This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies.

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    This guide offers a collection of our most popular articles on storage-related issues from the first few months of 2016.

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  • BeneluxIT Priorities 2017

    This year's Computer Weekly and TechTarget IT Priorities survey has revealed that IT decision makers at Benelux based organisations are less confident, than counterparts in most other parts of Europe, that IT budgets will rise this year.Only 28% of them think budgets will increase.

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  • Containers and storage 101: The fundamentals of container storage

    In this e-guide we look at the basics of Docker storage and backup, key containers capabilities in storage vendors' offers and how containers can be incorporated into the private cloud environment.

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  • MicroScope July 2019: The effects of Brexit on business

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    In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how one of the UK's biggest mail order retailers is moving to digital. We examine the growing importance of network function virtualisation. And a year after Microsoft turned Lync into Skype for Business, we assess how the unified communications product is faring. Read the issue now.

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  • IT in Europe - May 2012

    While network access control (NAC) technology seemed to disappear into the great beyond just a year ago, it is ready to resurface with a vengeance. However, the technology will need to resurge with better controls, especially as the consumerisation of IT and bring your own device (BYOD) trends overtake the enterprise.

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  • MicroScope January 2014: A special issue looking at software defined networking

    The first issue of 2014 provides some insight in managed services, software defined networking, security and data centres

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  • It's hyper converged-with-everything in today's datacentre

    In this e-guide we look at the key hyper-converged vendors and their products, as well as hyper-converged tailored to disaster recovery, backup, cloud functionality, and the software-defined hyper-converged products available.

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    Supply chain risks, interdependencies with critical systems: these are two of the five major threats to 5G security that this white paper breaks down. To learn all about those dangers and how to face them, download the paper.

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  • Does a proprietary solution automatically mean vendor lock-in?

    The dread of any IT manager is in making a significant purchase of hardware or software to then find that they are 'locked in' to one supplier. But analyst Clive Longbottom asks, is this still the case?

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    We walk you through the key storage metrics you need to know about, look at how storage array makers present them in their product literature, and how to decode IOPS, latency and read/write performance figures.

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