Managing storage in the data center

  • Sizing Storage: How to Create Your Ideal Infrastructure

    This white paper looks at how to match the right storage infrastructure with business size — whether it’s 50, 100 or 250 employees. Organizations must consider their needs and future growth in deciding what storage technology to choose. Find out how Dell and Intel technologies can help businesses of these sizes grows.

  • How Server Virtualization Benefits Disaster Recovery

    In this FAQ, business continuity expert Paul Kirvan discusses the various server virtualization approaches that are effective for disaster recovery (DR) and how they benefit failover and failback processes.

  • Presentation Transcript: Exchange 2010 Roadmap Series - Backup and Recovery

    In this presentation transcript, featuring Exchange pro, Lee Benjamin, you'll learn how to improve backup and recovery of your Exchange environment. Discover the new features of Exchange 2010 to enhance your backup and recovery efforts. Find out what you should know about clustering and how to avoid common pitfalls.

  • Presentation Transcript: FAQ - How server virtualization benefits disaster recovery

    Server virtualization presents some interesting implications for disaster recovery (DR), including cost reductions and increased recovery times. In this FAQ, business continuity expert Paul Kirvan discusses the various server virtualization approaches that are effective for DR and how they benefit failover and failback processes.

  • SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Series: Availability & Disaster Recovery

    With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night.

  • Overcoming problems with RAID
    When:
    Aug 27, 2009
    Speaker:
    Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Writer, TechTarget
    Sponsor:
    Dell, Inc. and Intel
    Summary:
    In this expert webcast, learn how to recognize and deal with common RAID issues in storage arrays.

Editorial Insight

  • E-Book: Storage for Virtual Machines

    Virtualizing servers and desktops can make maintenance and management a lot easier for sys admins but not so much for storage managers. Download this e-book for expert tips and suggestions on managing storage for virtual servers and virtual desktops.

  • E-Guide: Properly Sizing your Uninterruptible Power Supply for Disaster Recovery Purposes

    Power will be the number-one issue for most IT executives within the next few years. Not only does it represent a significant percentage of data center operating costs, but demand is likely to overtake supply in the near future. This e-guide highlights available courses of action for reducing energy consumption – without sacrificing performance.

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