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- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Adopting Server Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- In today's competitive business environment, your IT infrastructure must accommodate rapidly changing business needs and unforeseen problems with minimal impact on day-to-day operations. But this level of flexibility, scalability, and high availability can be expensive and difficult to deploy and maintain, especially for small and midsize businesses. No matter what...
- White papers 2009-11-17
- Planning for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Using CA Recovery Management Solutions and VMware vSphere Cloud Operating Systems for High Availability
- Today, IT organizations face significant growth of mission-critical business processes and services, fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the IT infrastructure required to support them, in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed. The other is an increase in...
- White papers 2009-11-17
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure
- The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processes and services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the provision of access to them and their information in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed....
- White papers 2009-11-17
- Business Continuity Planning - IT Survival Guide
- The purpose of this primer is to help businesses of all sizes begin the process of developing an effective business continuity plan designed to minimize the impact of disasters and reduce risk. To aid your planning, you will find the following: A definition of what a disaster...
- White papers 2009-11-17
- CDPS Analyst Interview with John Webster of Illuminata
- Instead of focusing on recovery after disasters, midmarket businesses need solutions that enable business continuity before and during them. Listen to the recording, "CDPS Analyst Interview with John Webster of Illuminata," to see how the IBM® Comprehensive Data Protection Express solution addresses the needs of midmarket companies that don't have...
- Download resources 2009-10-26
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Live Webcast: Deliver Continuous Data Protection
- Can you really afford any downtime in times like these? In today's tough economic and competitive climate, businesses and organizations need to protect themselves from unplanned downtime that affects their sales, service, customer satisfaction, employee productivity and reputation. Besides business continuity BC, they also need to have a plan and...
- Webcasts 2009-10-19
- In the aftermath of the T-Mobile Chernobyl
- T-Mobile's Sidekick/Danger Inc. meltdown has far-reaching implications for wireless carrier data integrity responsibilities way beyond any immediate remediation the company may need to offer its customers. Yesterday, T-Mobile notified all of its Sidekick device customers that a failure which occurred on Microsoft's Danger,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers
- I recently took part in my first Wi-Fi enabled flight (AA 387 STL â€" SAN) and, in addition to raving about the experience, I found it one of the better ways to make productive use of otherwise lost time. While the speed was reasonable, and better than I'd expected, there...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Taleo, Talent Management and What???s Wrong With ERP Spending
- He's not far off.Brian, I blogged and provided details on my blog in 2005 "So, even without factoring in costs of your own staff or incremental hardware you are looking at $7.50 at the low end and $ 21 or more at the high end for every $ 1 dollar...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- 123BCP 2.1.10 (Windows)
- The 123BCP software helps you build a sophisticated continuity plan, ensuring that in the event of a disaster your organization continues to run smoothly. Using 123BCP it is easy for a "non-expert" to build a plan to cover your IT, backup trading locations, assets, contacts, costs and insurance. Step-by-step the...
- Software downloads 2009-09-09
- TV Guide Magazine Facilitates Swift Company Transition With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
- TV Guide Magazine wanted to facilitate the swift deployment of a new Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution to meet the nine-week deadline for the company to operate as an independent entity and maintain capabilities from the previous IT platform to ensure continuity of business operations across the enterprise. The challenge...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Gabor Shoes Ensures Disaster Preparedness With a Centralized IBM Solution
- Gabor Shoes AG is a leading shoe manufacturer based in Germany with production plants in Austria, Portugal, and Slovakia. Gabor Shoes has 2,700 employees throughout Europe and produces 26,000 pairs of shoes daily. Because of the global nature of the company, Gabor Shoes realized that a major failure of their...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Twitter still not 'serious' enough for business
- Maybe......they should change the name to "microblogging". Like "e-mail", you'd send an "m-blog". I would imagine serious business users are a little uncomfortable using the terms "twitter" and "tweet" in a business environment, when "microblogging" sounds so much more business-like.Carl RapsonOthers Love ItI find it funny that people talk like...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Affordable Business Continuity for SMBs With VMware vSphere 4
- The attendee of this webcast will learn about the compelling new IT solutions from VMware that enable Small and Midsize Businesses SMBs to significantly improve the efficiency of their IT operations and deliver affordable business continuity. With VMware vSphere 4, SMBs can have the power of agility, protection and significant...
- Webcasts 2009-08-25
- Building Society Eliminates Potential Risk to Business Continuity With Dell Virtualization Solution
- To protect business continuity and sensitive data, Chelsea Building Society needed to migrate legacy software onto a robust hardware platform. This infrastructure had to integrate with an existing Storage Area Network SAN. Chelsea created a preliminary design before engaging Dell for product advice, detailed design, deployment and knowledge transfer. The...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Assuring User Identities During a Business Disruption: Applying a Consistent Strong Authentication Policy to Business Continuity Planning
- This white paper examines the importance of maintaining a consistent two-factor authentication policy during a business disruption. In addition, it provides insight into how to develop plans that enable cost-effective, rapid binding of users to their credentials in the event of an emergency - without lowering the security policy, opening...
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Replication Failover-Failback for Oracle 11g on HP Integrity with HP XP24000 Continuous Access
- This paper provides insight on the failover and failback of an Oracle environment to provide best practices for maintaining business continuity during a failure or site disaster. The insight and understanding of the major considerations presented in this solution, along with knowing what to do before, during, and after recovery...
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Transport Organisation Achieves 99 Per Cent Availability With Refreshed Datacentre From Dell
- Nexus wanted to deliver higher application availability to improve business continuity. In addition, it wanted to simplify system management, freeing up staff for more strategic work. Nexus worked with Dell consultants to design and deploy virtualized servers and consolidated storage, with a Microsoft operating system. The environment is supported by...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
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