EBRIEF - This expert briefing from SearchServerVirtualization.com explains how physical and virtual backups differ and offers advice for integrating these two essential processes. Discover key criteria to consider when evaluating your various market options and find out how your backup technology fits into your larger disaster recovery plan.
Posted: February 9, 2012 | Published: February 9, 2012


Topics:  Backup for Virtualized Servers | Backup Server Hardware | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments | High Availability | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine

EGUIDE - Read this expert e-guide to discover the hottest in high-performance SQL Server hardware, including a new breed of technologies that can provide multiprocessor power to SQL Server on multiple hosts. Find tips and best practices for choosing server hardware for both virtual and non-virtual SQL environments.
Posted: February 9, 2012 | Published: January 30, 2012


Topics:  Blade Servers | Chassis | Database Performance Management | High Availability | iSCSI SAN | Multi-core Processor Architecture | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | SQL | SQL Server | Virtual Machine | VM

VIDEO - VMware vSphere enables IT management to support their virtualization and cloud computing initiatives with automated, intelligent processes such as automatic load balancing, auto deploy and more. Discover how vSphere can provide unprecedented scalability and uptime for mission-critical applications, along with comprehensive security.
Posted: February 8, 2012 | Premiered: February 8, 2012


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | High Availability | Server Virtualization | Storage for Virtualized Servers | VMware

WHITE PAPER - In vSphere 5.0, VMware provides several features that can help you increase the availability of your applications, the infrastructure, and the management platform to achieve a highly available virtualized environment. Discover how vSphere 5.0 tackles manageability, usability, and application support in this white paper.
Posted: February 8, 2012 | Published: February 8, 2012


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Data Center Management | High Availability | Server Management | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - VMware vSphere 5.0 delivers enhanced performance and scalability to ensure that even the most resource-intensive applications can run on your cloud. Find out about the newest improvements that contribute to faster HA configuration times and failover rates, lower management operational latencies, and higher management operations throughput.
Posted: February 8, 2012 | Published: February 8, 2012


Topics:  Data Center Management | High Availability | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine | VMware

WHITE PAPER - In this comprehensive user manual, explore how to best configure and install the components of VMware vSphere 5 to ensure that your virtual environment runs smoothly and at peak performance levels. Get step-by-step instructions complete with screenshots and helpful tips.
Posted: February 8, 2012 | Published: February 8, 2012


Topics:  High Availability | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage for Virtualized Servers | Storage Management | Virtual Machine | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This IDG paper highlights key findings from a survey of over 300 organizations about their virtualization of business critical applications. Find out what drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers, what value they're realizing, and what the true extent is of feared risks like performance impact and limited ISV support. 
Posted: February 7, 2012 | Published: February 7, 2012


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Performance Management | Application Security | High Availability | ISVs | Oracle (Product) | Server Virtualization | Software Virtualization | Virtualization Security

EZINE - Using features like VMware vSphere High Availability and distributed resource scheduler will ensure that Exchange achieves as much uptime as possible and performs at optimal levels.
Posted: January 24, 2012 | Published: January 23, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Email Server Software | Exchange Virtualization | High Availability | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - These days, janitorial supply company Edward Don & Company takes most of its orders online, making 24x7 customer availability for its ordering system extremely important. Read this paper to learn how the company integrated cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) with its SAP systems in order to ensure high availability of its online ordering.
Posted: January 13, 2012 | Published: January 13, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Backup | Cloud Disaster Recovery | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments | High Availability | Online Order Entry System | SAP (Product)

PODCAST - As companies become more dependent on Web-based services, more and more of them are considering adding failover capabilities to their Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. This expert podcast explores key factors you will need to consider as you prepare to deploy Windows Server 2008 R2, including software add-ons, performance requirements, and more.
Posted: December 22, 2011 | Premiered: December 19, 2011


Topics:  Clustering | High Availability | Storage Appliances | Web Services | Web Services Architecture | Web Services Management | Windows | Windows Server 2008 R2

VIDEO - IT shops are increasingly considering failover capabilities to support critical Web-based services. This webcast looks at what factors you need to consider and tasks you must perform to successfully deploy Windows Server 2008 R2.
Posted: December 22, 2011 | Premiered: December 22, 2011


Topics:  Clustering | High Availability | Server Hardware | Server Management | Storage Appliances | Web Services | Web Services Architecture | Web Services Management | Windows | Windows Server 2008 R2

WHITE PAPER - Discover 10 of the biggest mistakes people make when configuring the High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) features in vSphere deployments. Take a look at 5 common HA issues, 4 DRS issues and an issue that affects both HA and DRS.
Posted: December 2, 2011 | Published: December 2, 2011


Topics:  Configuration Management | High Availability | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine | VMware

WEBCAST - Forrester Research's 2011 Q2 Wave Report named FuseSource's enterprise service bus (ESB) offering Active MQ as its highest ranked open source ESB solution and placed it in the "Leader" category along with large, established vendors. View this webcast to get an overview and product demo of Active MQ.
Posted: December 1, 2011 | Premiered: November 30, 2011


Topics:  Apache | Application Integration | Data Integration | ESB | High Availability | Messaging Middleware | Messaging Software | Open Source Software | Routing | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to find out how dynamic routing architecture (DRA) optimizes communications beyond clustering in complex, distributed topologies to enable easier scaling and greater agility in changing the IT environment to meet changing business needs and market conditions.
Posted: November 28, 2011 | Published: November 28, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | Cluster Management | Clustering | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Integration | High Availability | Routing | Routing Protocols | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper, the third in a series on enterprise data integration, examines how "connection-weighted load balancing" provides fast, reliable, highly available cluster processing.
Posted: November 28, 2011 | Published: December 31, 2010


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Data Integration | High Availability | Load Balancing | Load Testing