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<title><![CDATA[whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/Security/Disaster Recovery]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Disaster Recovery Plan covers the data, hardware and software critical for a business to restart operations in the event of a natural or human-caused disaster. It should also include plans for coping with the unexpected or sudden loss of key personnel.]]></description>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/security/security/</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Disk-Based Backup & Recovery Solution: Making Sense of Your Options]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper306/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-20 16:51:20</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper provides: An objective approach to making decisions about data recovery technologies. (disk-based enhanced data recovery or traditional tape-based) The disk-based architectures for enhanced data recovery.  ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Centralized and Offsite Backup]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper667/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-13 13:03:34</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mitigate risk and lower costs by letting your disaster recovery replica server double as a server for performing an offsite backup. This informative white paper will teach you how...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IT Challenges in the Business Continuity Market]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper669/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-13 13:11:41</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper address the challenges that IT professionals face when implementing a geographically distributed data configuration and the features that a comprehensive replication solution must provide to answer these challenges.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Continuous Data Protection]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper670/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-21 10:54:28</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Traditional backup systems provide a critical layer of insurance, but they represent all-or-nothing strategies that do not cover the minute by minute daily data writes to the disk. Continuous data protection fills in this gap by capturing changes to data while users are working. In the event of a data interruption, administrators can automatically reconstitute the data in reverse order to a point before it was corrupted or lost.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Consolidation of Disaster Recovery Replica Servers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper672/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-13 13:05:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Achieve significant cost savings through consolidation of disaster recovery servers by combining the award-winning disaster protection of XOsoft&#39;s WANSync with the latest virtual server technologies from Microsoft and EMC. Consolidating disaster recovery servers on virtual machines can yield both reduced hardware costs and significantly lessened management burden.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper673/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:45:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The latest release of Backup Exec allows you to eliminate backup windows and recover individual Exchange messages, folders, and mailboxes - without mailbox backups. Learn more about how Symantec Backup Exec&trade; 11d for Windows&reg; Servers provides continuous, cost-effective, and high-performance disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery for Windows server data.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Reasons for Using Disk-based Online Server Backup and Recovery]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper690/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-10 11:52:09</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn the top ten reasons why SMBs are embracing online server backup and recovery for automatic, continuous backup, reliable server data disaster recovery and freeing limited technical staff for move value-driven tasks.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Data Protection Tips for SMBs]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper698/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 12:29:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The amount of data on business computers has grown astronomically over the past few decades.&nbsp; If a company loses this data, business grinds to a halt. The following tips can help you select the hardware and software you need to safeguard the integrity of your data, guarantee accurate restores, and manage backups without placing an undue burden on IT personnel.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backups with EMC Insignia Solution for Data Protection]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper699/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-17 09:38:24</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By utilizing the speed and reliability of the EMC CLARiiON&reg; AX150 networked storage system and the convenience of EMC Retrospect&reg; 7.5 for Windows backup and recovery software, SMBs can implement fast, effective, reliable data protection that is easy to set up and manage without placing undue strain on IT resources.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Microsoft Exchange Storage and Protection Tips for SMBs]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper701/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 12:29:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The following tips can help you keep Exchange running smoothly and let you bounce back quickly from hardware failures that could threaten your Exchange server.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers: New Encryption Capabilities]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper736/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:46:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Security and compliance risks are greater than ever, and businesses depend on their data being protected when stored internally and taken offsite. New encryption capabilities offered by Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers offer secure protection from unauthorized access. Learn more about encryption capabilities in Backup Exec 11d.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Murphy Exploration and Production Company, Improves Server Manageability and Flexibility]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper808/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-12 14:01:40</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When Katrina hit in 2005, Murphy Exploration and Production Company, USA was among the many companies impacted by the devastation. Challenged to implement a new infrastructure quickly with more business continuity considerations, Murphy deployed Virtuozzo across its server infrastructure. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Web Hosting Service Company Benefits From XLink SQL & IIS High Availability Software]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper827/</link>
<pubDate>2007-02-21 11:43:48</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At the wake of hurricanes and other natural disasters, Vanguard has taken steps to provide disaster data recovery for its clients. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[XLink ClusterReplica Enterprise software for SQL and IIS Server High Availability and CDP Protection]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper828/</link>
<pubDate>2007-02-21 11:43:20</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[XLink ClusterReplica Enterprise software, based on CDP technology, combines conventional High Availability solutions and Microsoft DPM-like functions to create the next generation of business continuity software. ClusterReplica ENT offers real-time data replication and auto failover for MSSQL, IIS Web Server and File Servers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virtualization Improves Business Continuity]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper856/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:28:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Business continuity and disaster recovery are made more difficult by the pace of business change.&nbsp; Adapting to market changes requires proactive IT. For the first time, you can consolidate business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning in a heterogeneous IT environment with a single, central automated solution.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Planning For A Pandemic: Turning Office Workers Into Mobile Workers For Business Continuity]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper880/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-29 14:02:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper looks at some of the key issues facing enterprises that might need to turn office workers into mobile workers, rapidly and in large numbers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Smart Phones and Handheld Devices Enable Continuity of Operations and Emergency Response]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper930/</link>
<pubDate>2007-03-30 16:37:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Smartphones and other handheld devices support government continuity of operations (COOP) by enabling its central tenets: decentralization and redundancy. Read this white paper to learn all benefits of using smart phones when an emergency strikes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Monitoring Physical Data Center Threats]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper980/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-10 14:45:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While well-understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is often ignored. This paper describes this class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Real-Time Data Protection and Recovery Crucial in Times of Disaster]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1049/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 10:00:07</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Well-publicized disasters highlight the need for an effective and timely data recovery solution. While current tape and disk backup provide some peace of mind, they do not keep up with the demands placed on your business. You cannot afford to wait hours (or days) to recover your critical applications and data.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making the Case for an Interoperable, Multi-scale Hospital/Healthcare Knowledge Domain]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1207/</link>
<pubDate>2007-07-16 11:02:43</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Get this free white paper to read why mass casualty and other public health emergencies create a demand for information within hospitals, between hospitals, between hospitals and local incident command centers, and between local, statewide and multi-state incident command centers and agencies.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Practical Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1292/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 08:32:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn about the Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory background and its impact on IT departments. This document provides information pertaining to access issues, change documentation, disaster recovery planning and illustrations of key audit-ready reports.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Payformance Protects Confidentiality of Payment Processing Information with NeoScale]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1385/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-28 15:28:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Given Payformance&rsquo;s longstanding commitment to protecting the privacy of its clients&rsquo; information, the company has decided to investigate data encryption solutions for its primary hard drive storage and secondary backup tape storage. With its multi-vendor interoperability, NeoScale&rsquo;s CryptoStor storage security appliances emerge as the obvious choice.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spectrum Federal Credit Union Implements NeoScale Encryption Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1386/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chartered in 1973, San Francisco-based Spectrum Federal Credit Union serves over 12,000 members. When the issue arose on how to protect their members&rsquo; personal data residing on backup tapes, Spectrum FCU took no chances &ndash; they and their Techical Advisory Board made the decision to encrypt this important information with the help of NeoScale Systems, an undisputed leader in this emerging market.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UT Health Science Center at Houston Safeguards Personal Health Information with NeoScale]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1387/</link>
<pubDate>2007-09-14 11:36:36</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The HSC network services group supports more than 2000 desktops, servers and backend systems such as e-mail, file, networking, application and storage services for general administration, dental and medical schools. HSC wanted to manage and reduce HIPAA compliance costs and processes associated with protecting PHI data within its storage infrastructure &ndash; a legacy SAN environment with evolving applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Qsent Calls NeoScale for Encryption Assistance]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1388/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Qsent needed to shore up its disaster recovery strategy. This meant sending backup tapes &ndash; each with more than 2.5 terabytes of data &ndash; between data centers and storing them offsite. To keep all its data safe and secure, Qsent chose NeoScale&rsquo;s CryptoStor wire-speed tape security appliance to encrypt and decrypt data. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NeoScale Helps Major Bank Meet Government Regulatory Requirements]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1390/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As more states pass regulations governing the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer data, a leading national bank has recognized its need to ensure the safety and security of personal data for its thousands of customers. To ensure compliance and maintain the security of this information, the bank has deployed NeoScale&rsquo;s CryptoStor Tape appliances to help accomplish its objectives.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[High Availability: Is it Sufficient for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1402/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-07 11:12:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For mission-critical IT, service outages and data loss pose serious consequences.&nbsp; This white paper examines how availability management, disaster recovery and business continuity support one another and offers insight to find success at all of them.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[7 Virtues of Virtualization: Avoiding Deadly Mistakes that Doom Business-Critical Service Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1593/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-07 11:12:05</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Disaster recovery and business continuity top the list of server virtualization drivers.&nbsp; And, the stakes are even higher when you virtualize business-critical IT services.&nbsp; Explore the role that proper project planning and management play in keeping these initiatives on track.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pre-Test DR & Business Continuity Plans]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1600/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Effective IT disaster recovery and business continuity planning is essential for every business. All businesses depend on their IT services for moment-to-moment operations. It is vital to ensure that those services are not disrupted due to any disaster. Pre-test your plans in a simulated network.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet Failover with Bandwidth Aggregation for Disaster Recovery]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1673/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-11 12:48:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Enterprises with mission critical applications are exploring the benefits of disaster recovery sites for their data centers to ensure business continuity. Special network technology is needed to ensure that site failover and failback occurs reliably and predictably. An ideal solution should provide reliable network connections, manage inbound and outbound traffic over multiple WAN links, failover to a secondary data center if all links at the primary data center are down, and eliminate deployment barriers and costs of multi-homing with BGP (Border Gateway Protocol).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1730/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-17 14:19:47</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For AIX IT departments looking to take the next step in data protection strategies, CDP is an essential consideration. Analysts agree that businesses will be incorporating this strategy in the next few years as part of an integrated solution. CDP enables you to reverse data corruption in a fraction of the time and labor required for recovery from tape. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery in i5/OS (AS/400) and AIX Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1731/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-17 14:20:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and business continuity&mdash;from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution. Readers will be able to quickly match their specific optimum uptime objectives with the easiest and most cost-effective IT.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Benefits of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for IBM i5/OS and AIX Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1732/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-17 14:19:57</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Downtime and data loss pose intolerable risks to every business today. From IT departments to the Board Room, managers have seen the importance of business uptime and data protection to continued success, productivity and profitability. This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Introduction to System i (AS/400) High Availability]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1733/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-17 14:19:37</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper presents an overview of iSeries high availability to companies that are beginning to explore this powerful business continuity technology. The critical components of high availability solutions are detailed in this paper, including data replication engines, system monitors, role swap capabilities, and the importance of autonomic processes. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enhancing SQL Reporting Services with Double-Take]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1754/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-04 15:48:02</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although SQL Server offers options for database protection and recovery, none of them is intended to provide a complete disaster recovery solution. Make sure you&rsquo;ve take the time to develop a high availability and disaster recovery plan to cover unforeseen catastrophes that might threaten your database in the future. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to protect and recover business critical data and applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Keys to Recoverability]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1755/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-04 15:48:16</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ESG Analyst, Lauren Whitehouse, discusses Double-Take Software&rsquo;s concept of &ldquo;recoverability&rdquo; &ndash; which involves layers of protection that not only mitigate the risk of data loss, but also maintain the health and uptime of systems and applications. By preparing for, preventing and minimizing the impact of a catastrophic event, IT organizations gain in productivity, customer satisfaction, recovery cost savings and more.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Whole Server Protection from a Single Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1756/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-04 15:48:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The complexity of traditional recovery solutions compounds an already difficult situation, and heightens the opportunity for human error. Speed and quality of recovery are extremely important when customers and employees are relying on access to critical data, but the average restoration takes hours at best. Check out this paper to learn about a whole-server data protection solution that simplifies the restoration process and reduces the time and effort involved with server recovery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GlobalSCAPE Provides a Competitive Edge for Williams Lea]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1771/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-15 11:15:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Williams Lea is a leading global provider of customized corporate information solutions. The company needed to reliably, easily and securely transfer sensitive files and implement a system to share files and ensure a business continuity/disaster recovery plan.&nbsp; Today, Williams Lea uses the GlobalSCAPE&rsquo;s Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) solution to provide secure protocol support and encryption to protect data in transit and at rest.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimizing File Sharing and Data Back Up Over Wide Area Networks]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1772/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-15 11:16:46</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Disaster can strike when you least expect it.&nbsp; So how do you back up and maintain control of your data and still provide access to data in a distributed organization?&nbsp; The challenges are clear...large and growing amounts of data need to be distributed across many sites yet complications such as bandwidth usage, file coherence, version consistency, and file latency all result in lost productivity. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Center Transformation: Simplify data Center Build Outs, Consolidations and Acquisitions]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1780/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-26 13:17:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Changes in information technology (IT) can be split into two broad categories. Moves, additions and changes (MAC) are day-to-day IT activities which involve adding and removing end-user personnel, changing end-user locations such as when an employee moves to a different cubicle and upgrades services. Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions (BOCA) are large-scale projects which can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Panic Slowly: Integrated Disaster Response and Built-In Business Continuity]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1989/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 11:04:57</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Unexpected disasters threaten organizations across the globe daily. Surprisingly, many businesses are not prepared for such disasters. They lack business continuity plans which can provide both proactive and reactive strategies to minimize the impact of unforeseen setbacks.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[All Data Is Not Equal]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2021/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-12 10:47:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Application vulnerabilities and risks must be weighed to identify resources, performance requirements and service level objectives to ensure business continuity. Using real-world case studies, this white paper examines Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) best practices for disaster preparedness.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GlobalSCAPE Gives Williams Lea a Competitive Edge]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2077/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-21 10:42:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Williams Lea is a leading global provider of customized corporate information solutions. The company needed to reliably, easily and securely transfer sensitive files and implement a system to share files and ensure a business continuity/disaster recovery plan.&nbsp; Today, Williams Lea uses the GlobalSCAPE&rsquo;s Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) solution to provide secure protocol support and encryption to protect data in transit and at rest.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimizing File Sharing & Data Back Up Over Wide Area Networks]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2082/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-21 10:51:58</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Disaster can strike when you least expect it.&nbsp; So how do you back up and maintain control of your data and still provide access to data in a distributed organization?&nbsp; The challenges are clear...large and growing amounts of data need to be distributed across many sites yet complications such as bandwidth usage, file coherence, version consistency, and file latency all result in lost productivity. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Make Sure You Have Answers to IT Questions After Major Disasters Strike]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2088/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-18 08:47:24</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In preparation for disasters, it&rsquo;s critical to have a backup site that can be used if your primary location goes down. Does your business have the right procedures and equipment to recover after a disaster? Get answers. Download this article about a new enterprise data center and learn more about protecting your IT infrastructure. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Continuous Real-Time Data Protection and Disaster Recovery]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2119/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-11 17:04:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are probably as many approaches to data protection and disaster recovery as there are types of disasters that might befall your datacenter. Figuring out which approach is best for your datacenter&mdash;from a technical, operational and financial outlook&mdash;is enough to keep a responsible manager like you up at night. Download this paper to learn about the proven, flexible solution that prepares your data to survive and recover from almost any calamity, from HP and VMware.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IT Users Discuss New Ways to Protect Enterprise Data]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2157/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-02 10:21:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper chronicles the implementations of three enterprises that represent a diverse set of industries (Financial, Legal and Technology). The IT managers responsible for protecting company data had the foresight to recognize the growing gap between their business continuity requirements and the ability of tape-based backup systems to meet those requirements.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oracle Recovery Manager Design Best Practices with Data Domain]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2158/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-02 10:21:30</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) is a built-in tool that allows the Database Administrator (DBA) to easily backup and recover the data in an Oracle database. RMAN handles the coordination required to ensure that transaction integrity is preserved and sufficient information is maintained to recover the database to any appropriate point.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The ROI Case for WAN Vaulting - Extending Disk-to-Disk to Offsite Disaster Recovery]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2172/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-02 10:21:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Systems and storage expert Barb Goldworm describes the benefits of deduplication and disk-to-disk (D2D) backup for disaster recovery (DR) and how these techniques are extended to deliver cost-effective offsite data protection. You&rsquo;ll learn the benefits of deduplication and D2D backup, how D2D can be extended to deliver cost-effective offsite data protection and DR, and how to build a business case for WAN vaulting.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Symantec NetBackup Design Best Practices with Data Domain]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2173/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-02 10:21:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Combining Deduplication and VMware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2216/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-06 12:08:36</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The shift from physical servers to consolidated, virtualized server infrastructures has had undeniable IT benefits. However, the rapid move to VMware has caused traditional approaches to disaster recovery (DR) to become outmoded and added a layer of complexity to DR implementation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oracle on NetApp, Part 2: Simplified FC SAN Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2221/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-17 11:09:44</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how NetApp engineers have streamlined Oracle on SAN environments by developing tools that integrate NetApp storage with Oracle RMAN and ASM, any-to-any DR capabilities, and more.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Maryland School of Medicine's Solution for High Availability and Disaster Recovery]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2298/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-15 09:49:10</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The University of Maryland School of Medicine&rsquo;s IT department had prior experience with VMware technology as a way to virtualize and consolidate its servers; however, it soon realized that VMware solutions could also effectively address their disaster recovery needs when combined with a storage solution from LeftHand Networks.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2413/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-17 14:19:27</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Planning for recovery is a requirement in businesses of all sizes. In implementing an operational plan that ensures that both data and applications can be recovered, IT personnel are generally confronted with several challenges. Do you have a plan that meets your recovery requirements to your satisfaction? Read this paper to learn more about the ideal plan for IBM AIX Environments, and whether your plan is complete.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Reasons Why Smaller Organizations Should Consider System i (iSeries) High Availability]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2414/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-17 14:19:16</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper will provide a review of the core causes and costs of both planned and unplanned downtime and will then provide a detailed discussion of current options for High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, including System i (iSeries) high availability solutions. Most importantly, as you read you will learn why true HA&nbsp; and DR protection are now within reach of even the smallest of businesses.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[High Availability for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Using Array-Based Replication]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2450/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-13 09:54:19</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This solution provides the information needed to select the replication, mirroring, and/or high availability method(s) suitable for your environment; and the best practices for optimal configuration of the SQL database, HP ProLiant blade servers, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)storage, and software. Both array-based replication with HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA and host-based copying with SQL Server database mirroring are discussed, along with strategies for synchronous and asynchronous replication of SQL databases between primary and remote HP EVA disk arrays. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HyperOffice's State-of-the-Art Hosting Facility]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2455/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-21 12:22:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A detailed description of our facilities and security systems, underlining how you can trust HyperOffice with your mission critical data &amp; systems. From state-of-the-art equipment and infrastructure, to controlled environment and around the clock guards, to multiple backup systems, there is no contingency we are not prepared for.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Webcast: High Availability for SQL Server 2005 Using Array-Based Replication]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2469/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-13 09:55:28</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This webinar demonstrates that, in a highly-available disaster recovery environment using either HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database mirroring, checkpoint duration is critical to managing the solution behavior and implementation of the best practices results in significant performance improvements up to 52%.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exchange 2007 Data Protection and Disaster Recovery]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2525/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-28 10:51:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In Quest&rsquo;s new white paper, learn how to implement a solid data protection, recovery, compliance and e-discovery strategy for your critical e-mail data.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Preventing Your Next Microsoft Exchange Outage]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2533/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-07 17:06:30</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Messaging has rapidly become the one, true business critical application in use today by many, probably most, enterprises. Even more so than Enterprise Resource Planning or other cross-business applications, any failure in the messaging system is noticed by, and affects everyone. If a person cannot get an e-mail to or from another person then they are immediately in contact with the help desk to report the problem. Users are far less inclined to be forgiving when it comes to an e-mail outage; they just expect it to work. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stop Spam, Viruses and Spyware: Endpoint and Perimeter Malware Guide]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2599/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-09 10:14:24</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT systems are under constant, increasingly sophisticated attack. Today&#39;s cyber criminals are using highly evolved, blended malware to access corporate and customer data at an alarming rate. Additional layers of protection at the perimeter are essential to combat the sheer volume of this increasing threat and to prevent networks from being clogged by spam.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[State of Internet Security Report: Protecting Business Email]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2600/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Business dependence on email is greater than ever before and the volume of threats has spiked dramatically. For the SOIS report, Webroot surveyed 1,500 email security product decision makers in companies across seven countries. The report finds that close to 80% of U.S. businesses surveyed experienced a spam attack last year while half also experienced spyware, virus and phishing attacks. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Beyond Disaster Recovery: Becoming a Resilient Business]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2607/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-14 12:06:47</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In today&#39;s rapidly changing business environment, it&#39;s important to be ready to respond to every risk or opportunity. In this white paper, you&#39;ll learn how to determine risks, calculate impact, evaluate your current structure&rsquo;s response and test overall resilience. Then you&#39;ll see how IBM can help you combine several risk management strategies into a single integrated one, so you&rsquo;re better able to respond to the threat of disaster and stay ahead of the competition.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Customer Success: 1800Radiator]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2845/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-17 15:55:44</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Radiator Express Warehouse (1800Radiator), a fast-growing automotive parts distributor, found that it was running at maximum power and its racks were full. Using VMware virtualization technology, the company was able to take 31 physical servers out of production, resulting in a 25 percent reduction in power and cooling costs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VMware Customer Success: World Wildlife Fund UK]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2850/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-17 15:57:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WWF is the world&rsquo;s largest independent conservation organization. As part of its IT department&rsquo;s contribution to environmentally-friendly business practices, WWF-UK deployed VMware virtualization into its live production environment. They decreased server count, lessened cooling requirements, minimized the space needed to house their datacenter and significantly reduced their overall carbon footprint.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery Webseminar]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2863/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-23 09:04:53</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How long can your Enterprise afford to be without your data? With an accelerated disaster recovery program, you never have to answer this question. Download this webseminar and learn how advancements in wide-area data services (WDS) can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. And hear featured customer case studies demonstrating how enterprises are putting these solutions into practice today. With lost data being a competitive liability, there is no room for downtime in today&rsquo;s business world.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enterprise-Class Storage Virtualization for Mission-Critical IT: HP XP24000]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2949/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-16 12:04:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ESG Lab tested the HP XP24000 storage system to validate the business impact of the new capabilities of the XP24000, including HP Thin Provisioning Software, creating large logical pools of capacity and the enhanced performance of the XP24000 as a core component of HP&#39;s extensive portfolio of IT solutions and services. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Plan, Configure, and Maintain a HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2951/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 18:15:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To stay competitive in today&#39;s business climate, organizations must find ways to meet their business needs while controlling IT costs. IT departments face flat budgets and, at the same time, find that their organizations have become increasingly dependent on uninterrupted access to business-critical data. In today&#39;s world, prudent IT administrators prepare to recover from two types of disasters as part of a complete Business Continuity and Availability (BC and A) plan.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mitigate Business Risk with Disaster-Proof HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2954/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-16 12:05:12</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this video, at a high-tech ballistics center managed by National Technical Systems in Camden, Arkansas, HP simulated a gas leak using real explosives to blow up a data center. Every system failed-over after the explosion in less than two minutes&mdash;including data on an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array which failed over flawlessly to an HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Communicating Before and After a Business Disruption Event]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3005/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most companies have plans in place to ensure employee-to-employee communications following a business disruption event (BDE). But many companies haven&rsquo;t addressed how communications will be maintained with partners (suppliers, vendors, channel partners, etc.) and customers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VMware Data Backup and Recovery Design Best Practices with Data Domain]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3010/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-02 10:22:37</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When using Data Domain storage with well-understood best practices for backup and taking snapshots in VMware, a deployment can simplify management of consistent images. Once stored, the images are ready to restore, locally or, with optimized deduplicated replication, at a remote DR site. This paper describes best practices for managing these synergistic technologies together.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Downtime: Myths and Truths Webcast]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3118/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Join Forrester Research and HP in this webinar which explores common myths about IT disasters and analyzes different strategies to protect a company&#39;s information assets based on risk and cost. Stephanie Balaouras of Forrester analyzes 5 common myths around IT disasters e.g. disasters and loss of a data centers are rare.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery Planning Webcast]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3121/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Join this informative web event to hear from experts at Forrester Research and HP discuss the top ten challenges for effective disaster recovery planning, how to quantify the cost of downtime as well as tips on selecting and implementing disaster recovery solutions.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Workplace Recovery: The Human Side of Business Continuity]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3250/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Natural and manmade disasters have costly, far-reaching impacts on businesses. And organizations of all types are making business continuity plans that protect their data, networks, core business applications and facilities. But it&rsquo;s important to build resiliency into your business operations as well your human capital. This Web seminar on Workplace Recovery will take you through the risks related to human capital resiliency and provide a framework for addressing them.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making Your Business DR Ready with Virtual Infrastructure]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3505/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 15:03:24</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Business operations that are heavily dependent on information systems may be significantly impacted even by a brief application outage. Impact of a data loss is even more drastic. IDC estimates that in a disaster situation, the average loss is $3 million per incident and $81,000 per hour.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Architecting the Virtual Data Center for Availability, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3506/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 15:01:34</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Virtualization offers the promise of simplifying your IT infrastructure from the desktop to the data center. But can your virtual environment maintain the level of availability you need to keep your business running or to recover from a disaster?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise Case Study: Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C.]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3507/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 14:58:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a growing law firm, Sills Cummis found itself presented with several classic IT challenges. It had to contend with server proliferation within its data center, implement a cost-effective disaster recovery system, and ensure high availability of key applications and services for its attorneys. Through its purchase of the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite, Sills Cummis was able to tackle all of these problems.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LifeLink Foundation Builds Virtual Data Center for Continuous Operations Using EqualLogic and VMware]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3508/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 14:54:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LifeLink Foundation needed to provide business continuity and DR of critical transplant related information to multiple locations and needed to manage DR planning and implementation in a hurricane zone. Learn how VMware &amp; Dell EqualLogic worked together to implement two remote sites providing consolidated virtual storage, snapshot-based backup and recovery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automated Disaster Recovery with VMware SRM and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3509/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 15:00:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Virtualized IT infrastructures can simplify management and facilitate business continuity while helping minimize power consumption and procurement costs. Virtualization also helps organizations automate disaster recovery plans. Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays and VMware&reg; Site Recovery Manager (SRM) software provide integrated, cost-effective, automated site recovery and testing for enterprise data centers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Transforming Business Continuity with VMware Infrastructure and Dell EqualLogic]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3511/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 15:05:18</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[VMware virtual machines are hardware-independent so any physical server can serve as a recovery target for any virtual machine. Organizations can significantly reduce the cost of hardware for disaster recovery by repurposing underutilized existing servers for recovery targets and disaster recovery testing. VMware Infrastructure also simplifies and accelerates recovery, helping IT organizations meet their time-to-recovery targets.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell EqualLogic PS Series with VMware Site Recovery Manager]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3512/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 15:01:58</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a new product that is tightly integrated with Dell EqualLogic PS Series to offer centralized disaster recovery management, automation, and testing for the entire virtualized datacenter. Using the PS Series&rsquo; native Auto-Replication feature integrated directly into Site Recovery Manager using specialized storage adapter software storage adapter software.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery Using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage and VMware Site Recovery Manager]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3513/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 15:02:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This technical report will discuss the installation and configuration of Site Recovery Manager with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays. It will cover setup, testing, failover, failback and troubleshooting. This document is designed to be used in conjunction with the Administrator Guide for Site Recovery Manager and assumes a prior knowledge of VMware Virtual Infrastructure.]]></description>
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