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Disaster Recovery: Any Way You Want It

Historically, disaster recovery (DR) solutions have been expensive, complex, and unreliable. To complicate matters, IT managers deal with a broad array of applications with different service level agreements (SLAs) and requirements, making it difficult to cover all elements within their disaster recovery plans. Today, all of this is changing. This brief provides insights into disaster

5 Essential Characteristics of a Winning Virtualization Platform

To meet the requirements of a dynamic business, your IT organization needs to deliver the highest levels of application performance and availability in a cost-effective manner. That’s the idea behind VMware vSphere with Operations Management™. vSphere with Operations Management offers you the world’s most trusted virtualization platform with critical operational capabilities for performance monitoring and

Understanding Real-time Log Analytics

Practically everything with a digital heartbeat leaves a trail. If you know where to look, nearly every bit of hardware and software in your enterprise generates a log file, which is a record of its status or activities. This machine-generated log file is stored in a file system temporarily and it can be dispatched via

Smart Ops: Reaping the Full Benefits of the Cloud

As cloud adoption becomes ubiquitous, IT infrastructures are becoming more complex. At the same time, the tools many companies use to monitor, understand and manage this complexity are falling behind the task. Legacy tools look at one element of the infrastructure—say, the server or storage—in a silo, unable to aggregate and correlate data across systems.

Simplify and Automate Cloud Management

Greater efficiency. Increased agility. Improved compliance. Reduced costs. These are among the benefits that organizations moving to cloud computing can achieve when they properly consider both how they will build and how they will run their virtual and cloud infrastructure. The right architecture and the right management approach are equally important because the way infrastructure

Drilling Down Further

Ideally, enterprises need to anticipate problems in the virtual infrastructure before they occur, but unexpected events do happen. You can mitigate this somewhat with real-time alerts, but in reality, this is only one component.

Virtualization: The Secret to a Better-Performing Business

Over the past decade, businesses of all sizes have been virtualizing servers, applications, and desktops at a rapid pace—with technology research firm Gartner estimating that at least half of businesses globally have deployed some form of virtualization. Interestingly, for the first time, smaller businesses are expected to be more aggressive about virtualizing higher proportions of

Building Your BCDR Strategy: A Blueprint for a Safe Voyage

The business has entrusted IT – and you – with revenue targets, employees’ productivity, and the company’s reputation. Now you must manage all of the hardware, networks, business data, and internal and customer-facing applications to propel your company to its business goals successfully and reliably. But the seas are choppy and the weather is unpredictable.

A Guide to Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Most organizations know they need to protect their business critical information to minimize downtime in the event of outages, failures, disasters and other disruptions. But not all companies have the budget, expertise, or time to develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Traditional disaster recovery plans are prohibitively complex and expensive for mid-sized businesses with limited