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Improvements in disaster recovery plans and broad business continuity strategies are top-of-mind concerns for leading enterprises today and recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. These key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report.
When it comes to VM backup & recovery, misinformation abounds - you need a way to root out well-intentioned but ultimately bad advice. Let this white paper serve as your myth-busting tool to expose and correct the 7 most common untruths about backup & DR in virtual environments.
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Agentless backup - less CPU, faster recovery - why consider anything else? Not so fast, argues Storage Switzerland's George Crump. Flawed comparisons and new backup schemes warrant another look at agentless claims:
- 5 misperceptions that raise an eyebrow
- Why agentless isn't really "agentless"
- Today's best bet for VMware backup
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Quick - what's the best approach to backup and restore a virtual server? Host-Level, right? Wrong - though you're not alone in thinking so. Our VM expert thought so too - until he decided to challenge the status quo, look beyond the vendor conditioning and re-assess the options. Some of what he found:
- Situations where host-level isn't optimal
- Agents - what goes around comes around
- Today's better approach for VMware and Hyper-V
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The majority of today's business computing environments already have both virtual and physical servers at the same time. This hybrid reality drives the need for protecting both virtual and physical environment needs. The following list of "Must-Have" requirements should serve as a basic roadmap for IT managers as virtualization use continues to outpace physical server utilization.
The single biggest challenge for IT personnel involved in the data protection process is making sure that their backups are recoverable every time. Data center managers are looking for ways to improve their confidence in the recovery process, but recovery confidence is gained through the use of tools that will verify the ability to recover data. In this area, vendors are found surprisingly lacking. This white paper identifies how to guarantee 100% recoverability of your backup.
Backup. Disaster recovery. Business continuity. Given the absolute necessity of a backup plan, smart organizations are making that plan a great one. The best plans minimize downtime, minimize data loss, and minimize overhead to help backup become a robust and appreciated part of the IT environment. Here are ten of the things you should be doing to make your backup plan the best it can be.
HP is driving the evolution of what we call the Instant-On Enterprise. It is an enterprise that embeds technology into everything it does to better serve citizens, partners, employees, and clients. We believe that today's Instant-On Enterprises need to think differently about how they source and deliver services that are enabled by technology. They need to take advantage of a hybrid delivery model-one that truly optimizes the mix between traditional IT, private cloud, and public cloud.
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As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.
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One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.
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