PODCAST - Twenty years old, RAID has become a standard and transparent feature. What is RAID, and how does this technology fit into the storage landscape? This expert FAQ podcast answers common questions about RAID, explores the different levels of this technology, and overviews the implementation stages and obstacles.
Posted: November 25, 2009 | Premiered: November 24, 2009


Topics:  Disk Mirroring | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | High Performance Computing | RAID | Solid State Disks | Storage Media

DATA SHEET - Quantum esXpress™ backup software combined with a Quantum DXi®-Series data deduplication system provides a comprehensive and scalable, yet easy to use data protection solution for VMware® environments.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | Virtual Appliance | Virtual Machine Backups | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Many businesses today are delivering applications to users as an on-demand service. This reduces the cost of application management and can improve application and data security. This white paper explores what availability really means, and how availability correlates to RTO and RPO baselines.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Citrix XenServer | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | RPO | RTO | Service Level Management | SLA | SLA Management Services | Systems Management | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to determine how best to protect your SQL environment when running SQL Server on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: September 1, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Security | Database Management | Database Security | Database Server Software | Databases | Fault Tolerance | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - As dependencies on computing increase, ensuring that applications are highly available becomes more critical. This paper gives VMware fault tolerance recommendations and considerations on VMware vSphere 4.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 7, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | Grid Computing | RAID

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Methods and requirements for providing electrical power to Rack Enclosures for Information Technology Equipment are described. The need for the rack power system to adapt to changing requirements is identified and quantified.
Posted: October 31, 2002 | Published: February 1, 2003


Topics:  Data Centers | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | Power Supplies