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Step Up Your Strategy – Fine-Tune Use of Storage Availability Processes as a Part of a Business-Continuity Plan
sponsored by CDW Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 08 Sep 2009 | |
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Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) should be major components of any risk-management strategy. After all, no business wants to be caught unprepared for unforeseen events such as floods, fires, terrorist attacks, power outages or other disturbances. That's why planning and regularly testing BC and DR programs is essential.
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How to sell business continuity to management in tough times
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 25 Aug 2008 | |
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Although more companies than ever have continuity plans, an AT&T study discovered that a high percentage of those plans are outdated. If your company is one of those with an outdated plan or no plan, here are some things that might help them understand the importance of good continuity planning.
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Preparing to Stay in Business - Storage Continuity Critical in 24-Hour World
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 08 Sep 2009 | |
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You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event.
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Ice Cream Maker Puts the Freeze on Server Sprawl, Saves More Than $500,000
sponsored by Microsoft
| Case Study: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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Wells' Dairy needed to provide cost-effective services and promote business continuity and agility. It deployed the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system and Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. Today, it has a scalable server consolidation solution and a data center that is saving more than US.$12,000 in annual electrical costs.
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Disaster Plan - New Technologies Put Fresh Wrinkles in Business-Continuity / Disaster-Recovery Planning
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 08 Sep 2009 | |
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Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan.
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Disaster Got You Down?
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 08 Sep 2009 | |
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While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers.
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Reality Check – A Smart Business Continuity Strategy Can Offer Maximum Results at Minimum Cost
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 08 Sep 2009 | |
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In an increasingly digital world, it's clear that business continuity is no longer an option. Keeping systems running 24x7 and ensuring that data reaches its intended destination — precisely when it's needed — is the heart and soul of a business. This paper discusses Business-Continuity (BC) initiatives on a tight budget and with limited resources.
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Continuous Data Protection - Your Safety Net in a Disaster
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 08 Sep 2009 | |
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When you resume business after a disruption, you want to pick up where you left off. That means minutes, or even seconds, before the lights went out or the computer virus struck. If your business is aiming for zero data loss and zero downtime, there's only one choice - continuous data protection (CDP).
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Disaster Recovery: Plan for the Worst, Expect the Best
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 04 Sep 2009 | |
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These days, it is rare to find a company without a disaster recovery plan - a fact due in large part to a rash of high-profile disasters in recent years. The risks are too great to ignore. But many companies are still not doing enough to protect their businesses. This paper provides tips for how to protect your business.
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High Availability Lowdown
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| Case Study: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 04 Sep 2009 | |
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The Barkley ad firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning. With the goal of getting to 100 percent availability, the firm uses HP's blade hardware, VMware's virtualization software and a variety of existing storage platforms.
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Presentation Transcript: A Smart Data Protection Strategy: Lower IT Costs and Improve Storage Efficiency
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
| Presentation Transcript: | Posted: 04 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 04 Sep 2009 | |
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Read this presentation transcript to learn how disk backup with data deduplication technology can help solve data protection issues and directly impact your organization's bottom line.
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Virtualize at the Speed of Your Business - The Dell Guide to Virtualization
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
| Brochure: | Posted: 03 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Dec 2008 | |
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Virtualization is changing everything, from how you manage resources to the way you support your business, it addresses many of today's IT challenges - cost, responsiveness, availability, disaster recovery - and is a key element for achieving a more automated, agile infrustructure. Dell helps you virtualize at the speed of <i>your</i> business...
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Intel Virtualization Technology for Servers – A Closer Look Inside
sponsored by Intel Corporation
 | Video: | Posted: 03 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | 03 Sep 2009 | |
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Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) provides comprehensive hardware assists that boost virtualization software performance, improve application response times and provide greater reliability, security and flexibility. Read on to learn more.
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IDC Best Practices: Protecting Sensitive Information in Failed and Decommissioned Storage Media - Vendor Webcast
sponsored by PeakData Services, Inc.
 | Webcast: | Posted: 03 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | Available On Demand | | | Speakers: |
Vivian Tero, Program Manager, IDC Compliance Infrastructure Service
Glenn Jacobsen, Vice President and General Manager, PeakData Services, Inc
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Stringent laws and regulations are forcing businesses to look at data in a new light. Added to compliance challenges is protecting disparate data, while reducing overhead costs associated with legal discovery. In this webcast IDC looks at high level trends in compliance, solutions that industry-leaders are employing and how to mitigate data risk.
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PODCAST: IDC Best Practices: Protecting Sensitive Information in Failed and Decommissioned Storage Media - Vendor Podcast
sponsored by PeakData Services, Inc.
 | Podcast: | Posted: 03 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | 03 Sep 2009 | | | Speakers: |
Vivian Tero, Program Manager, IDC Compliance Infrastructure Service
Glenn Jacobsen, Vice President and General Manager, PeakData Services, Inc
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Stringent laws and regulations are forcing businesses to look at data in a new light. Added to compliance challenges is protecting disparate data, while reducing overhead costs associated with legal discovery. In this podcast, IDC looks at high level trends in compliance, solutions that industry-leaders are employing and how to mitigate data risk.
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