Business Continuity Planning Research
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Optimise the Healthcare Data Centre through Operational Efficiency and Data Resilience
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraThis white paper offers valuable insight into how modern health care facilities can ensure the continuity of operations, even in the face of an unforeseen disaster. Additionally, the ROI associated with a data resilience plan is explored.
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Disaster Preparedness: Is there a hole in your disaster recovery plan?
Sponsored by: Iron MountainAccess this white paper to learn how software escrow agreements can be a critical tool to help ensure application continuity within your business continuity plan.
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How Verification Services Fortify Your Software Escrow Solution
Sponsored by: Iron MountainThis paper examines the types of verification services used in the escrow industry. It discusses why verification has become a best practice for both the users of software and the developers creating the applications, as well as a solid recommendation by the lawyers who advise them.
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Best Practices for Enhancing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Data Protection and Availability using Dell EqualLogic Snapshots
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®IT leaders are challenged by the growth of the amount of data they have to manage. While data management encompasses several areas of an organization, ensuring the data protection and business continuity is one of the most critical aspects. Inside this white paper, uncover strategies for avoiding data loss and lack of application availability.
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E-Guide: What Joplin Teaches Hospitals About Disaster Recovery Planning
Sponsored by: HP & Intel®The 2011 Joplin Tornado tore through Joplin, MO, leaving devastation in its tracks. One organization that was hit particularly hard that day was St. John’s Regional Medical Center. If it wasn’t for proper disaster recovery planning, many patient records would be lost. In this e-guide, learn the story of how this hospital was prepared for the worst.
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How to Prevent IT Disasters at Work from Ruining Your Vacation
Sponsored by: OpenText Security SolutionsThe scenario is a familiar one. You’re about to step out for a leisurely day on the links, at the beach or in the backyard hammock and couldn’t be more excited about your time off, when the little red light starts blinking on your phone: URGENT.
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Discover the Key to a More Cost-Effective Data Center
Sponsored by: Alcatel-LucentEmerging technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing are driving the demand for a next generation data center. This essential resource explores how you can make your business operations more cost effective and how service providers can help you rationalize and optimize your infrastructure, and sustain rapid expansion.
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E-Guide: Decoding DR: Selecting the right vendors and strategy for your implementation
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentDisaster 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?
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentMost 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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Virtualize Critical Applications with IBM and VMware
Sponsored by: VMware, Inc.When IT professionals migrate critical applications to a virtualized infrastructure, they must consider continuity throughout every stage in the application lifecycle. Access this white paper to learn about technology solutions that can virtualize your critical applications to enhance business value and minimize risks.
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Deliver Dynamic Business Continuity for the Enterprise with Dell Compellent Live Volume
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentAccess 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
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentIn 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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Is your data center holding you back?
Sponsored by: HP IncAccess this essential resource to discover five crucial steps to jump-start business and IT agility by becoming an instant-on enterprise, including planning, standardizing, virtualizing, and more.
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E-Guide: Disaster Recovery Best Practices: Testing tips & maximizing your DR budget
Sponsored by: Iron MountainOverall, disaster recovery tests are essential to execute and demonstrate, but you have to be cautious and take the correct steps to test your DR plans. This expert E-Guide can help minimize the risk of your plan failing by discussing different DR testing tips. Also outlined – how to make the most out of your DR budget.
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Expert data center management tips: consolidating, collocating, or the cloud
Sponsored by: SAVVISThis expert resource explains the differences between two methods of data center outsourcing management (IaaS and DCaaS). Discover which makes sense for your business, and learn about the pros and cons of collocation, including ensured uptime and increased security.
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When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them
Sponsored by: Symantec CorporationRead this white paper to explore how to make sure your backup and recovery system protects all of your data, all of the time.
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Business continuity planning essential for protecting patients, organizations
Sponsored by: HP & Intel®Something as seemingly trivial as a truck hitting a telephone pole can suddenly leave health care employees unable to access clinical applications and patient data. This tip discusses how providers can create, and update, business continuity plans to ensure that key systems and processes are maintained.
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IBM's Technology Center
Sponsored by: IBMAs part of this multimedia resource center, expert Mike Laverick reviews the different disaster recovery options available for VMware infrastructures.
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Total Economic Impact of Vmware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure- Healthcare Industry
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®Find out what happened when Forrester Consulting interviewed a healthcare facility that implemented virtual desktops. Gain insight on both quantitative and qualitative benefits, including reduced support costs, increased worker productivity and more. Learn how your organization can take advantage of desktop virtualization.
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E-Guide: Align Data Protection with Business Importance
Sponsored by: IBMThis SearchStorage.com E-Guide discusses the importance of protecting not just data but "use" of the associated information system, and outlines 4 capabilities needed for a better approach to data protection. Read on to learn more.
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Intel Cloud Builders Guide: Cloud Design and Development on Intel Platforms Trusted Computer Pools with Parellels
Sponsored by: IntelThis white paper describes six key aspects of security and offers advice for addressing them in your cloud strategy.
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DR Presentation Download: Disaster Recovery Planning in the 21st Century
Sponsored by: Iron MountainIn this seminar presentation download, Jon William Toigo, a 25 year practitioner in the DR and continuity planning craft, shares his knowledge and experience to help participants develop a smart and cost-effective DR plan that adequately assures protection – and recovery – from any potential disaster.
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How to Choose a Cloud Backup Provider
Sponsored by: AsigraMany people think the only question is to ask when thinking about backup and recovery is "What is the best way to make backups?" That’s certainly a critical question but business data is the very lifeblood of your business. You can’t afford to look at only half the equation. Recovery is vital as well, especially when choosing a cloud provider.
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E-Guide: Criteria for Staffing a Disaster Recovery Site
Sponsored by: IBMIn this Q&A Harvey Betan, an independent business continuity consultant, discusses what you need to remember when staffing a DR site, and what to do to ensure your recovery site runs smoothly.
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E-Guide: Virtualization management for streamlined consolidation and improved disaster recovery
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentInside this expert e-guide, learn how automation tools simplify the virtualization management process and can aid in both data center consolidation and disaster recovery.