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Strategies to Increase Application Availability

High-availability solutions are essential to maintain business continuity in today's 24x7 environment. But these solutions must be evaluated for their ability to address the business and technical needs of the organization in which they will be deployed. Through central management tools, automated failover, features to test disaster recovery plans without...

Tags: Strategy, Failover, Server, Application Availability, High-availability Solution

White papers 2009-02-24

Application Availability in a Virtual Environment

As enterprises implement server virtualization in their data centers and move from a one application/one server architecture to a consolidated virtual server environment, application availability becomes more important than ever. For today's business-critical applications, enterprises require robust, proven solutions. They must be confident that they are protected, not only against...

Tags: Virtual Server, Virtual Environment, Application Availability, Server Virtualization, Servers, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-09

Public Utility Boosts Application Availability and Simplifies IT With Virtualization

Jackson Energy Authority JEA is a utility provider in Tennessee. JEA wanted to virtualize more servers and improve application availability so employees weren't disrupted while serving customers. It deployed Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology, saving more than U.S.$35,000 in licensing and hardware costs and gaining a high-availability solution to ensure...

Tags: Virtualization, Information Technology, Application Availability, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Product Marketing, Cloud Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Hardware

Case studies 2008-08-01

Dell FlexAddress for PowerEdge M-Series Blades

Maintaining availability of network and storage resources is one of the biggest challenges faced by server administrators. Availability becomes a key when there are mission critical applications deployed on these resources. Application availability is directly impacted by how the network and storage resources are configured, especially when changes take place....

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blade, Application Availability, Dell PowerEdge, Dell FlexAddress, Storage Resource, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Servers, Blade Servers, Networking, Hardware

White papers 2008-06-16

Data Protection and Application Availability for Your VMware Environment

Organizations using server virtualization can reduce costs and gain flexibility, but not always without the risk of reduced data and application availability. Symantec can help you realize the benefits of your virtual technology investments. View this on-demand Webcast to learn more about how Veritas NetBackup for VMware and Veritas Cluster...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, VMware Inc., Application Availability, Storage, Security, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-05-07

Advanced Cluster Server Solutions in a Nutshell: An Introduction to Cost-Efficient, High-Availability Computing Clusters

Building and maintaining enterprise computing infrastructures invariably involves balancing conflicting goals ­ high mission-critical application availability versus lowest cost as one example. Now, Symantec Veritas Cluster Server features enable new server cluster server configurations that can simultaneously provide high availability at minimum cost. For the first time, new, powerful Symantec...

Tags: Enterprise Computing, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Cluster Server, Server Configuration, Computing, Application Availability, Servers, Security, Hardware

White papers 2007-08-14

Veritas Configuration Manager by Symantec: Removing the Risks of Change Management and Impact to Application Availability

Symantec's Veritas Configuration Manager, a change management software solution, scales to support thousands of application, middleware, database and web servers. By collecting and tracking configuration information in real-time, VCM provides customers with the ability to test upgrades within a development configuration that is the same as production. VCM's dependency mapping...

Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Information Technology, Enterprise Strategy Group, Application Availability, VCM, Change Management, Leadership, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2007-02-01

A Comprehensive Approach to Application Availability

Businesses are under relentless pressure to improve application availability, striving for 100% availability for mission-critical applications. Revenue cannot be generated unless the business is up and running. Due to the increasing dependency of businesses on their IT organization and the increasing cost of downtime, organizations are focusing on the various...

Tags: Application Availability, NetApp, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-10-01

The High Availability Challenge: 24x7 in a Microsoft Environment

Increasingly, today's enterprises need to maintain continuous availability for growing numbers of applications in a Microsoft environment. This need presents major IT and process challenges. Continuous application availability is achieved only with a carefully executed strategy and corresponding planning work. To achieve success, an organization must first establish a solid...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, High Availability, Microsoft Corp., Application Availability, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-11-01

Zamil Industrial Investment Company Boosts Productivity With New Web-Based IT Infrastructure

Founded in 1998, Zamil Industrial Investment Company ZIIC is an international manufacturing group based in Saudi Arabia. The company wanted to introduce a modern, Web-based IT infrastructure to address application availability demands and support future growth. The challenge was to meet the organization's strict security requirements, ensuring the availability, confidentiality,...

Tags: Web, IT Infrastructure, Client-server, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Application Availability, Channel Management, Servers, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Hardware, Software

Case studies

Additional Resources

WinInstall Desktop Availability Suite 10.0 (Windows)

WinInstall Desktop Availability Suite includes: Client Reset Templates. WinINSTALL's unique client reset technology allows IT administrators to build workflow templates around common desktop management tasks. Alternative to Imaging. Whether restoring a PC, deploying new hardware, or migrating operating systems, WinINSTALL eliminates the headaches triggered by creating, updating, and tracking images-without...

Tags: PC, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Scalable Software, WinInstall Desktop Availability Suite, WinINSTALL, Desktops, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Xerox prints computer smarts on fabric, plastic

Electronic ClothingNow, at last, we can have a [b][i]REAL[/i][/b] look & feel suit.DaveRE: Xerox prints computer smarts on fabric, plastic Just from experience with fabricating multi-layer PC boards, I know that we are entering "interesting times". The limit has become your imagination -- if you can visualize a "window-cling" application...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Xerox Corp., computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Is the cloud a better place for our data?

As consumers, we have two options of storing our digital data: locally or elsewhere in the cloud. IntraLinks' Mushegh Hakhinian says it's like storing your savings in a mattress or a bank. Commentary- Data loss is an all too common a theme in the news these days. The recent...

Tags: Bank, Password, Data Loss, cloud, storage, Mushegh Hakhinian IntraLinks, Special to ZDNet, Mushegh Hakhinian IntraLinks, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-26

Splunk 4.0.5 (Mac)

Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Compliance, Splunk, Business Services, Networking

Software downloads 2009-10-26

News to know: Windows 7, Net Neutrality, Nokia-Apple; Kindle

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Windows 7 Coverage Andrew Nusca: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-23

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Live Webcast: Building an Always-On Single Instance Database

New with Oracle Database 11g Release 2, Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node Oracle RAC One Node is a one-node version of Oracle RAC which enables customers to standardize on a single deployment model for all their database needs. It offers far greater benefits than traditional server virtualization to single...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Blade Servers, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-10-20

Live Webcast: Deliver Continuous Data Protection

Can you really afford any downtime in times like these? In today's tough economic and competitive climate, businesses and organizations need to protect themselves from unplanned downtime that affects their sales, service, customer satisfaction, employee productivity and reputation. Besides business continuity BC, they also need to have a plan and...

Tags: CA ARCserve, Webcast, Continuous Data Protection

Webcasts 2009-10-19

Jungle Disk 3.0b1 (Mac)

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com's S3 Storage Service. Store an unlimited amount of data for only 15 cents per gigabyte No monthly subscription fee, no startup fee, no commitment Your data is fully encrypted at all times Data...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, Amazon.com Inc., Jungle Tools, Backups, Data Centers, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-10-17