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Virtual Data Center eZine - Vol.5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers.
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E-Guide: Decoding DR: Selecting the right vendors and strategy for your implementation
Disaster recovery (DR) isn’t simple – but it isn’t optional, either. The truth of the matter is that a catastrophe-battered organization without a DR solution in place won’t survive. This e-guide provides straightforward guidelines for choosing vendors, determining must-have components and structuring essential plans for DR.
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E-Guide: Recovering from IT disaster: What’s really causing your outage?
Most IT disasters have nothing to do with the hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods that can wipe out a facility. In fact, studies show that hardware failure is the number one reason for DR declarations. This e-guide describes common DR misconceptions and consequences, and provides backup and testing suggestions for optimal recovery.
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E-Guide: Disaster Recovery Planning for Health care Providers
For hospitals, timely access to patient data is critical for maintaining normal operations during a natural or man-made disaster. This e-guide will help health care providers create and implement effective disaster recovery and business continuity plans -- complete with advice from providers who had to put those plans into action.
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E-Guide: Selecting the data backup option that is right for you
It is ultimately up to each individual health care facility to determine the data backup options that best suit their needs, so long as the overall solution adheres to regulatory requirements.Access this e-guide for an overview of pros and cons of different types of backups.
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E-Guide: Tips for thin provisioning storage in a health care setting
As health care IT seeks to find ways to cut costs everywhere, it will be forced to aggressively adopt primary storage optimization technologies such as thin provisioning. Learn more inside this exclusive e-guide.
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Dell Fluid Data Helps BioWare Stay Ahead of the Game
BioWare, a leading developer of console, PC and online role-playing games, is keenly aware of how critical data can be to the bottom line. The company implemented a data center virtualization solution based on the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data technology and VMware server virtualization software. Read now to learn more.
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FAQ Guide: Auto Tiering Crucial to Storage Efficiency
This expert E-Guide featuring Jeff Boles, senior analyst at Taneja Group, discusses the importance of auto tiering in storage today.
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Deliver Dynamic Business Continuity for the Enterprise with Dell Compellent Live Volume
Access this white paper to learn about an innovative platform that can help your business minimize downtime, balance workloads, and easily shift resources across the cloud.
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E-Guide: Using a virtualized server environment to address HIPAA compliance
In an ever-digitized storage environment, there can be an array of threats posed to patient medical records. Amidst all of these concerns, how can you be sure which virtual server environment is right for you? In this exclusive e-guide, learn how one company successfully took the leap to a virtualized server environment.
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E-Guide: Building on SANs: Getting the most from virtualized storage
How can you be sure that you are making the most of your virtualized system? Not only should your network be organized and easy to navigate, but it should work for you in terms of lowered costs and increased productivity. In this e-guide, learn about SAN technologies and how they can be utilized to the outmost extent in the health care setting.
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PCI Express extender approach I/O virtualization
What’s the latest around the PCI Express extender approach to I/O virtualization? Check out this SearchVirtualStorage.com interview as George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland, discusses using PCIe bus extenders to implement I/O virtualization.
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E-Guide: Key components to a virtual disaster recovery solution
In businesses nationwide, IT infrastructures have been growing rapidly – leading to extensive sprawl. In terms of disaster recovery, this spells mayhem. This e-guide suggests virtualization as a potential solution and explains why hot sites, bandwidth, and testing are essential components of any virtual disaster recovery plan.
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Presentation Transcript: Storage Virtualization Technology Pros and Cons
In this SearchStorage.com podcast transcript, Marc Staimer discusses the ins and outs of storage virtualization technology. Find out the pros and cons of storage virtualization, when to rule out storage virtualization in your environment, and how to decide between file-based or block-based storage virtualization in your data center.
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Presentation Transcript: Reducing Your Data Footprint
In this presentation transcript Greg Shulz, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO Group, discusses how storage managers can reduce their data footprint.
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Implementing Fibre Channel SANs in a virtual server environment
This Q&A featuring VMware expert Eric Siebert divulges the advantages and disadvantages of implementing FC SANs to support your virtual server platform.
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Using iSCSI for virtual server environments
In this interview, Mike Laverick, a VMware expert, discusses the pros and cons of using iSCSI for virtual server environments. Find out the proper steps you should take when implementing iSCSI in your virtual environment, how to configure iSCSI in vSphere and how to test the performance of an iSCSI storage device.
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VDI Storage: Capacity and performance requirements for VDI implementation
This SearchVirtualStorage.com VDI FAQ guide can help you by outlining how to design your VDI solution, the impact VDI has on storage, how to solve capacity and performance problems in a VDI environment and more.
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Tiered Storage Tutorial
Storage administrators are increasingly revisiting tiered storage strategies to lower asset and operational costs, and to improve application performance. This expert e-guide from SearchStorage.com provides all of the information you need about trends and new emerging technologies in tiered storage.
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Recovering from a disaster: Over 40 tips and steps to take
DR plans must be flexible and scalable to address a wide range of things that can go wrong. This exclusive SearchDisasterRecovery.com E-Guide provides you with everything disaster recovery from A-Z - including over 40 tips and steps to help ensure your DR plan functions successfully.
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E-Guide: Storage Efficiency Steps That Reduce Your Data Footprint
This E-Guide from SearchStorage.com outlines how to maximize your data storage capacity with different storage tools and techniques that improve your storage efficiency. Tools discussed include automated storage tiering, SSD, deduplication and more.
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Five Considerations for Efficient Storage Virtualization
Virtualization is mainly associated with servers, but in fact, storage systems are really the vital factors that determine deployment success. Access this white paper to learn how to optimize your virtualization deployment through storage efficiency.
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Disaster Recovery Planning and Network Services
In this FAQ, Carrie Higbie, global director for data center solutions at the Siemon Company, discusses the role of network services in DR planning.
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Automated Tiered Storage Claims its Space in the Storage Market
This SearchStorage.com E-Guide outlines how vendors are implementing this technology, and in particular what automated tiered storage approach they’re taking for solid-state drive.
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine Volume 20: Critical Decisions for Virtualization Storage
In this expert e-zine, find out how to use ROI and VARs to make the case for virtualization so you can start taking advantage of today's newest technologies. Also, get tips on using the Open Virtualization Format tool and learn how to plan storage for virtual environments.