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Data Protection Options for Virtualized Servers
Demystifying Virtual Server Data Protection -- Best Practices and Technologies
Server virtualization continues to be a popular industry focus. This Industry Trends and Technology Perspectives white paper from the StorageIO Group provides the answers you need to protect your data in a virtualized environment.
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Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Building a Better Platform with VMware Infrastructure 3
Today's messaging environments must be highly available, disaster tolerant, and cost efficient. Download this white paper based on real customer experiences running Microsoft® Exchange on virtual machines. Specific use cases demonstrate advantages of deploying Exchange on a VMware platform. Exchange administrators who read this white paper will learn how to simplify disaster recovery and decrease downtime and more!
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Combining Deduplication and VMware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness
The shift from physical servers to consolidated, virtualized server infrastructures has had undeniable IT benefits. However, the rapid move to VMware has caused traditional approaches to disaster recovery (DR) to become outmoded and added a layer of complexity to DR implementation.
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Realizing the Value of Unified Communications
How information goes to work.
Microsoft and EMC are spearheading a technology and services effort to help businesses realize the benefits of unified messaging. Learn how you get better employee productivity, faster decision-making and more efficient IT administration with Unified Communications.
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Automated Platform Management in a Virtualized World
Server virtualization adds IT management complexities that can be difficult to grasp, especially if IT has not yet implemented consistent, repeatable processes. IT must use virtualization as a strategic practice that enables it to deliver on increasingly difficult requirements for the business. Comprehensive monitoring, analysis, diagnostic and alerting solutions across both physical and virtual servers make it possible to meet business requirements and become more proactive.
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Storage Efficiency: The Key to Green Storage Operation
(or, It Ain't Easy Bein' Green Storage)
Energy consumption of storage devices is often misunderstood at best or completely ignored at worst. This paper offers practical advice on how to measure storage system efficiency and compares the efficiency numbers of several common storage solutions.
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Dynamic Capacity Management for Virtual Environments
Virtualization has significantly changed the discipline of capacity planning. This paper describes the nuances of capacity supply in virtual environments, how to model the demands on this supply, and effectively align supply and demand in order to maximize efficiency and minimize operational risk.
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Eliminate Storage Service Renewals With Xiotech’s Intelligent Storage Element Technology
Xiotech is an innovator in data storage and protection solutions. Emprise™ systems -- built on patented ISE technology -- eliminate drive-related service events, while delivering unparalleled performance. Both the Emprise and Magnitude® storage families offer optimal virtualization, incremental scalability, unmatched ease use and a Web Services foundation.
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From Fixed To Fluid: Enabling the Data Center Metamorphosis
This paper outlines some of the existing challenges facing IT and helps to provide recommendations to transform their data centers from today's complex, "silo" or "stovepipe" collections of infrastructure into streamlined, dynamic, liquid engines capable of handling growth.
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U.S. Data Centers: The Calm Before the Storm
According to Gartner, the majority of existing data centers in the United States have not been designed to handle future energy demands. Strategic decisions, including the implementation of virtualization, must be made quickly. This research outlines why energy and floor space constraints will cause considerable disruption to U.S. data centers during the next three years.
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How IT Management Can "Green" the Data Center
An independent report from Gartner
Data centers consume large amounts of energy so it is imperative that IT management establishes energy efficiency goals and an integrated approach to energy-saving initiatives. This Gartner research provides IT managers with an outline of the trends affecting data centers and offers strategies with which to address these changes.
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Transformational Analytics: Virtualizing IT Environments
Leveraging Advanced Analytics to Safely Virtualize IT Environments
The overwhelming complexity of the modern data center compounds the problem of how to safely virtualize IT environments. Download this white paper to learn how advanced analytics can help you reduce risk and maximize virtualization opportunities by analyzing technical, business and utilization data.
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
This white paper discusses how companies are now looking to apply virtualization to their desktop computers. Find out how a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure simplifies desktop administrative and management tasks; allows applications to be added deleted, upgraded and patched more quickly; and centralizes security.
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How to Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks and Ensure Great Performance in Your VMware ESX Environment
Virtual machine sprawl is already causing numerous capacity bottlenecks in many data centers. Therefore, it is essential to quickly identify current capacity issues and resolve them as soon as possible. In this white paper, VKernel provides a guide to identifying capacity bottlenecks, predicting future capacity bottlenecks and removing them.
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Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Infrastructure
Adopted by over 20,000 enterprise IT organizations worldwide, VMware virtualization software has saved billions of dollars in hardware and operational costs. This paper clarifies how adopting VMware infrastructure as a fundamental IT strategy helps organizations achieve their cost- and space-saving goals.
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The Impact of Virtualization Software on Operating Environments
Virtualization of system resources aboard x86 servers is one technology that has the distinct potential to really change the dynamics of the industry in many ways. This paper presents IDC's assessment of how virtualization technologies will impact operating environments and the operating environment market over the near and longer term.
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Server Consolidation & Virtualization
This white paper discusses how virtualized storage clustering and consolidation increase availability, reduce costs and enhance scalability, while supporting distributed access to business data.
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Enterprise Single Sign-On: The Holy Grail of Computing
Keeping track of passwords and identities is difficult and costly. Enterprise single sign on (SSO) can manage the costs and confusion related to multiple sign ons. In the Quest white paper, "Enterprise Single Sign-On: The Holy Grail of Computing," learn to control and secure multiple identities in your enterprise.
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Zenith Infotech Delivers Profitability through Automation
See and Listen as Larry Schulman, CEO of LMS Technical Services, explains that the partnership with Zenith Infotech is a critical part of his company’s success.
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The Benefits of SaaS Security: How Companies of All Sizes Can Save Money and Improve Efficiency with SaaS
Organizations must proactively defend their networks and data from relentless malware attacks, attempts at unauthorized access and other security threats. In addition, compliance mandates must be met. Get this white paper and learn how security software-as-a-service (SaaS) can represent a scalable, cost effective and efficient solution to meet your security and compliance needs.
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Visual Studio Magazine 2008 Readers Choice Awards and Buyers Guide
This special annual issue lists an astounding number of third-party products available to developers who use Visual Studio. This year's list includes more than 400 products and services from nearly 250 vendors, across 22 categories, plus our 2008 Readers Choice Award and Editors Choice Award winners.
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PCI Compliance Made Simple
Is your organization still struggling with PCI compliance?
Download this white paper to educate yourself on the requirements of PCI DSS. You'll discover what it really means to be PCI compliant, how compliance can be attained, and common pitfalls to avoid. You'll also learn how Alert Logic is revolutionizing the way IT compliance and security solutions are designed, delivered, and utilized. Read this white paper today to simplify and gain a deeper understanding of PCI DSS.
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Get In The Groove with SQL Server Consolidation
Is your business a victim of SQL Server sprawl? In Quest's white paper, "Get in the Groove With SQL Server Consolidation," learn how consolidation is key for multiple SQL Server implementations, and how to prepare and plan for your consolidation.
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Continuous Data Protection and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
In spite of advances in technology, most organizations are relying on backup techniques that are very similar to those used several decades ago. Although these techniques are known to be reliable, they are rapidly becoming impractical in today's world. In this white paper, Brien M. Posey discusses the reasons why tried and true backup techniques are no longer a viable option.
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Systems Management Buyer's Guide For Medium Enterprises
Finding and deploying an effective and scalable systems management solution is becoming a top priority within the medium enterprise market. KACE has developed this Systems Management Buyer's Guide to help articulate that buyer's criteria via a comprehensive feature/function checklist.
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Five Ways to Ensure Your Virtualization Initiatives Effectively Support Applications and End Users
Do you want to get benefits from virtualization without sacrificing application performance and end user satisfaction? The purpose of this white paper is to help application owners, operations managers and data center managers to better understand virtualization initiatives, and how they effectively support applications and end users.
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Enhancing Operational Recovery with TimeData CDP
This white paper addresses the current challenges for operational recovery and introduces a fast and efficient software-based Continuous Data Protection (CDP) product, TimeData™, which allows companies to easily recover their data from any point in time.
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Windows Server Multi-Site Clustering with GeoCluster
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 includes new features that provide significant improvements for managing clusters in multi-site architectures. However, improvements to failover clustering do not yet provide a way to replicate the shared data used by a cluster which is truly the "last mile" in terms of building multi-site cluster architectures. GeoCluster provides a way to efficiently replicate these data changes and allow cluster nodes to quickly restore application services after a failure.
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Protecting (You and) Your Data with Exchange Server 2007
by Microsoft Exchange MVP, Steve Bryant
In this white paper, Steve shows you the bare and necessary facts you should know to proactively maintain your Exchange Server 2007 environment. In addition to providing critical strategies for predicting and responding to failures, he offers useful information for implementing proactive measures to ensure that your investment is well protected.
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Leveraging Web 2.0 Securely
How small and mid-sized business can minimize risk and benefit from Web 2.0 technologies.
The core of Web 2.0 is built on a foundation of open collaboration and communication that blur network boundaries and increase risk. Learn about the risks involved and the steps you should take to eliminate or mitigate the security threats.
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Security Beyond Corporate Boundaries
Ironclad security in and out of corporate boundaries.
This exclusive guide shows you how delivering data from the datacenter improves security, gives you granular control of user access privileges and streamlines compliance.
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The End of Application Deployment
Secure and manage delivery of mission critical business applications.
Learn how to reduce the cost of delivering them anywhere, on any network or device. Increase security and performance.
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Like Stealing Candy: Recent Security Threats Leave Passwords in the Open
The mobile workforce has become a reality and the ubiquitousness of the Internet is fueling more cost effective remote solutions, the security perimeter is anywhere your employees can hang their hats. Although the latest remote access solutions give us a unique way to access our networks and applications -- these solutions can inadvertently provide hackers a portal to your entire network if the security features are compromised. Read how to add another layer of security and thwart the attacks.
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Business Savvy Continuity Planning
Presenting the business value of planning is more than explaining the details of the plan in terms and language that management understands. It requires a thorough-going effort to demonstrate "business-savvy" during strategy design and implementation. This paper suggests sound guidelines for fulfilling the continuity planning objective in a cost-effective way.
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Small and Medium Business Made Simple
Learn how Nortel can help you provide innovative and strategic communications products and services to your small and medium business customers and partners. This paper also provides a series of resources and contact information to assist partners in achieving their sales, services and support objectives.
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The Path to Enterprise Desktops: From Personal Computers to Personalized Computing
The world of client computing within the enterprise is in the midst of an evolution. In response to growing challenges, IT organizations are rethinking their client computing strategies. The availability of software models like virtualization helps to facilitate this evolution by changing the delivery method of the desktop environment.
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Secure the Perimeter and Weather the Storm(bot)
This paper reviews how malicious e-mail volume is rising at an alarming rate, both in terms of number and message size. Spam is now incorporated into the propagation strategies of blended malware attacks and increasingly sophisticated techniques are outwitting first-generation e-mail security solutions.
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Evolution from FTP to Secure File Transfer
This paper discusses how secure, reliable and manageable file transfer solutions can help your organization achieve its key business goals while reducing the amount of organizational distraction caused by not having a well understood and managed file transfer process that is aligned and integrated with your core business processes.
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Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About
Web 2.0 opens us up to many kinds of new attacks. IT Administrators have been forced to adjust their thinking in order to deal with these new attacks and keep systems and data secured. How can you ensure that your systems are safe in this new world of IT Threats?
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Mobile Workforce Productivity
Securing Mobile Connectivity with Two-Factor Authentication
Enterprises from all walks of life are proving the value of working remotely. As any road warrior will attest, staying connected to email, core applications, and customer data is critical to job performance and productivity. Two-factor authentication solutions offer a much-needed lock and key mechanism to protect user identity for remote access logins. Read this white paper and learn about solutions that make securing the remote access connection simple!
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Embracing PCI -- Making It Work for You
With the recent rise in data breaches and identity thefts, implementing a sound information security program is no longer optional. Companies processing credit card information must implement secure strategies to protect the confidentiality and integrity of payment information. This white paper provides guidance on how to achieve PCI compliance and gives a summary analysis of the 12 security requirements of the PCI security standard.
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Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention
Drawing on customer experience, Forrester Consulting, and data gathered from TrustedSource™ (the Secure Computing® global Web and messaging reputation system), as well as third-party sources, this paper outlines the new Web 2.0 threats and explains why most security solutions in place today are not adequate to protect against these threats. The paper then goes on to propose a set of Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention, and reviews Secure Computing’s relevant product and technology offerings.
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Microsoft Active Directory Backup and Recovery in Windows Server 2008
In 2008, Microsoft plans to release Windows Server 2008, its first major platform upgrade in five years. What’s different? How will it affect your Active Directory environment? Get the answers in Quest Software's new white paper
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Did you GET the memo? Getting you from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 Security
The Web is becoming more dangerous. Read about the inherent security threats and design considerations for implementation of Web 2.0 application services and how to protect users within the enterprise network from the new security threats.
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Making the Most of Your E-Mail ... by taking the worry out of it
This white paper helps administrators narrow down the various services that are at their disposal for handling messaging within their organization. Traditional thought leans toward in-house solutions, while a modern approach involves hosted solutions like dedicated messaging, hosted e-mail, hosted Exchange or a combination of solutions. Learn how each may benefit your organization and what to look for in service providers for these hosted solutions.
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Failover on a Budget: Using Your Own Branch Offices for Business Continuity
This paper discusses how a robust failover strategy can be created using available facilities, and describes the prerequisites for making such a strategy viable, non-disruptive and beneficial to the organization beyond the scope of traditional disaster recovery.
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