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- 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
- 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
- WANSyncHA Helps CPS Ensure Polek & Polek e-Commerce Application Availability
- One of the components critical to the smooth operation of Polek & Polek's e-Commerce Web site is the company's SQL server-based VAM Visual Account Mate e-Commerce application, which allows visitors to browse its inventory and place orders on-line. Following the August 2003 blackouts on the U.S. East Coast, which occurred...
- Tags: XOSoft, Application Availability, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, WANs, Internet, Networking
- Case studies
- 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
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- Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy
- It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....
- Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best luxe Mac accessories
- What do you get for that special person on your list already owns a Mac, iPod and a nice digital camera? Accessories! Here are my picks for the Best Luxe accessories ($200 and up) that are perfect for the Mac user with everything. Don't forget...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Accessory, Video, Blu-ray, Camera, FlipShare Software, 7xx-series, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Sage to step into the on-demand ring
- News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...
- Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation
- Apple recently sent a "cease and desist" email to bluwiki demanding the removal of postings by users who are trying to figure out how to write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod touch. According to the EFF: Apple doesn't...
- Tags: Apple iPod, DMCA, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Zoho's CloudSQL: a real step forward
- Zoho just can't stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own. This is exciting stuff. For the...
- Tags: SQL, Cloud, Zoho, Smb/Sme, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study
- The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...
- Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-02
- Compare prices with the iPhone
- Here's a cool iPhone trick: Download the free Snappr application for the iPhone and iPod touch iTunes. Scan the 2D Codes and (the first of it's kind) 1D Barcodes found on books and movies and stuff and get all kinds of price and shopping...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 2D Codes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Joost arrives for iPhone
- Back in April 2007 when I first wrote about Joost it was an invitation-only video streaming service from the wunderkind responsible for Skype and Kazaa. Back then it required you to download a proprietary client, then in October 2008 it morphed into a Web-based service. In its...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Joost, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus
- One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected. As PC "ah-choos" his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers that he's immune to the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Openbravo to push open source ERP more aggressively in US
- One open source project is giving thanks for reaching the one million download milestone and believes the worldwide financial crisis will only accelerate its growth. Openbravo, a purveyor of a popular open source ERP application and newly acquired open source POS solution for the small to medium-sized enterprises, predicts...
- Tags: ERP, Openbravo, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Virtualization and Emulex
- Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint. How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...
- Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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