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Developing a Business Continuity Strategy by CDW Corporation
This white paper discusses the technologies and techniques necessary for an optimized business continuity strategy. Every aspect of today's businesses is expected to be available continuously without interruption, regardless of the circumstances. When disaster strikes-whether a natural disaster or technological failure-business
Preparing for the Unexpected: Utilizing Avaya to Help Build Your Communications Continuity Capability by Avaya Inc.
There has been a growing recognition about the critical importance of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. This is a decade marked by catastrophic natural disasters and man made disruptions such as terrorist events.

For impacted businesses, the immediate challenge is to cope with lost or impaired communications with their employees, vendors

Always Be Open for Business: iSeminar by Oracle Corporation
This internet seminar explores how mid-sized organizations can affordably attain business continuity by creating a data infrastructure that is always secure, available and accessible, despite potentially disruptive circumstances. Is it possible to have business continuity with low administration and maintenance costs? This
Improving Communications in Emergency Situations: Mobile Business Continuity Planning Solutions That Help Mitigate Risks and Improve Responsiveness to Emergency Situations by BlackBerry
44; unnecessary personal or property damage, and serious impacts to communities. Business continuity planning (BCP) and organizational procedures for continuity of operations (COOP) can be strengthened and enhanced by means of proven wireless solutions.

This white paper addresses the ways in which organizations can ensure preparedness
Advanced Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Techniques and Technologies: Module 1 Business Resiliency by SearchStorage.com
This module provides an overview of the context of contemporary business continuity planning, and will explain the root causes of unplanned interruption events and the role of planners in preventing them or minimizing their business impact. This module provides an overview of the context of contemporary business
Four Steps to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Using iSCSI SAN by Dell | EqualLogic
This white paper explains four steps to developing solid business continuity plans and ensuring rapid disaster recovery. This white paper explains four steps to developing solid business continuity plans and ensuring rapid disaster recovery:

  • Identify your needs and define what business continuity means to you
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Data Center Consolidation by F5 Networks
New technologies are changing the way we think about disaster recovery and business continuity. These technologies focus on WAN optimization, traffic redirection, data replication, and secure remote access. This white paper gives the details. IT managers today must be ready for the unexpected, especially in consideration of
Oracle ONE - News for Midsize Businesses - Autumn 2008 by Oracle Corporation
to protect all your information assets. Find out more about how Oracle can help ensure your business continuity. In this issue, we'll be looking at business continuity - how to ensure that your information systems are secure and stable enough to protect all your information assets. Have you tried living through a system crash when you're rushing
IDC Vendor Spotlight - Using a Hosted Service for Holistic Email Management by Mimecast
provide a holistic approach that encompasses the related issues of archiving, business continuity, and security. Faced with increasing regulatory, continuity, and legal requirements, as well as an onslaught of spam and malware, organizations need to take a more comprehensive approach to messaging solutions, particularly
Disaster Recovery Guide: Universal Secure Remote Access by F5 Networks
should disaster strike at the corporate office. Remote access is an important part of any business continuity or disaster recovery plan. Accordingly, SSL VPN devices are an effective way to provide remote access during a disaster, specifically in the flexibility they provide in not only offering secure access from managed corporate machines
New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by F5 Networks
and the uncontrollable forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. Read this white paper for information on such a plan. Enterprise data protection has grown up. With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are nearly impossible, and the cost of managing too many data centers is an increasing burden on the business.

Organizations are looking at business and IT transformation initiatives, and within that context data center consolidation and

Combat Your IT Challenges with XenApp 5.0 by Citrix
how to reduce application management costs, support telecommuters and outsourcers and ensure business continuity. Explore the requirements and best practices that XenApp 5 brings. Address the top challenges facing your organization today - how to reduce application management costs, support telecommuters and outsourcers and ensure business
Podcast - Server Virtualization by CDW Corporation
This podcast explains how server virtualization can create a business continuity strategy, how it can lower the total cost of ownership, and how it can help to deploy applications more effectively. This podcast explains how server virtualization can create a business continuity strategy, how it can lower the total
HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
In 2005, Hewlett-Packard faced many of the same challenges its customers face in their business technology infrastructure. The company had too many individual data centers-85 in total-too much operational expense, too many systems at low utilization, and too many different processes adding to complexity and risk.

In this case study

IBM System Storage DS Family by IBM
DS Family is designed to help your company simplify its storage infrastructure, support business continuity and improve information lifecycle management. The IBM System Storage DS Family offers flexible, scalable storage options.

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a business can take toward meeting the needs of an
Understanding the HP adaptive infrastructure - what it means to you by Hewlett-Packard Company
Windows Server 2008 can help to achieve greater efficiency, security, and continuity for business critical technology. Optimizing infrastructure to provide a more efficient, more secure environment not only has the potential to produce significant savings and a lower risk profile for business, but it can accelerate the process of
White Paper: Solving the Top Six Enterprise Storage Issues with Virtualization by Hitachi Data Systems
paper answers the question: "What can storage virtualization do for my organization?" Explore business issues that can be addressed with storage virtualization and understand how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause. This paper demonstrates six specific ways storage virtualization can help solve many of the most
Virtualization 101: A Guide to Using Virtualization in Any Environment by Citrix
white paper to learn how you can deploy virtualization for application availability, business continuity, and end-to-end visibility—regardless of the size of your organization. Explore an approach that enables you to navigate through these common setbacks:

  • Implementation hurdles created by complex interdependencies and demanding
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
process and management skills to most efficiently run data centers.

4) The fourth driver is business continuity and availability
Teleworking - Your Path to Increased Productivity, Business Continuity and Customer Satisfaction by Avaya Inc.
management complexity. Teleworking is on the rise--transforming the way companies do business and delivering benefits that can lead to competitive differentiation.

With a telework strategy in place, organizations realize a number of key business benefits:

  • Decreased expenses on office space, labor, communications, and
Denver Health by VMware, Inc.
Denver Health's challenge was to ensure cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities so they implemented VMware technology with LeftHand Networks SAN technology to create a simple but powerful disaster recovery solution. Denver Health, Colorado's primary "safety net"
Controlling Application Data Growth in the IBM z/OS Environment by IBM
Optim's database archiving capabilities can help support your information governance and business continuity initiatives, simplify your IT infrastructure and increase the business value of your enterprise applications
The IBM Business Resilience Webcast Series by IBM
six webcasts, the presenters are focused on helping answer your questions and concerns about business continuity, disaster planning data protection and much more. The Web cast series will enable you to understand the full range of risks that can face your business on a daily basis and specifically three different types of risks business, event and
Episode 2 - Simplified Multisite Replication by Compellent
for Kansas Spine Hospital. The interviewee speaks about how the hospital sought and decided on business continuity and disaster recovery planning, and how their multi-site environment became a paperless operation
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