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- Failover
- Invoking a secondary system to take over when the primary system fails. Up-to-date copies of all required data and applications are maintained on the secondary system in order to...
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- Some Virtualization Announcements at TechEd
- A number of suppliers are launching either new virtualization products or updates to current products at Microsoft's TechEd in Orlando, FL. Here's a quick review of a few of those products. SteelEye launched SteelEye DataKeeper for Windows. DataKeeper is a WAN-optimized data replication...
- Tags: Failover, Product, Microsoft Corp., SteelEye DataKeeper, DataKeeper, Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Really Really Fast Failover for SAP With Veritas Cluster File System High Availability From Symantec
- SAP is viewed by many as a mission-critical application, with low tolerance for down-time. Organization can benefit from really fast failover by using a robust, datacenter-proven, highly scalable file system. The listener will hear how SAP down-time can be significantly reduced.
- Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Failover, High Availability, SAP AG, Security
- Webcasts 2008-05-28
- Live Webcast: Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Business Continuity BC and Disaster Recovery DR practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based...
- Tags: Webcast, Failover, Continuous Data Protection, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Best Practice, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-05-21
- TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 23 of 24): Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing (Level 200)
- The presenter of this webcast takes a look at the new features and enhancements in high availability options for the Windows Server 2008 operating system. The presenter reviews the simplified cluster setup that can make deploying and configuration failover clusters easier while reducing configuration errors. The presenter then discusses changes...
- Tags: Network Load Balancing, Webcast, Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, High Availability, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts 2008-05-16
- Cisco IOS Classic Firewall Stateful Failover High Availability Solution
- Stateful Failover for the Cisco IOS Firewall allows a router to continue processing and forwarding firewall session packets after a planned or unplanned outage occurs. A backup secondary router automatically takes over the tasks of the active primary router if the active router loses connectivity for any reason. This process...
- Tags: Cisco IOS, Router, Failover, Cisco Systems Inc., Firewalls, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Network Security, Networking
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Business Continuity BC and Disaster Recovery DR practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based...
- Tags: Failover, Continuous Data Protection, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Best Practice, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-04-23
- IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1
- The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In...
- Tags: Failover, Grid, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Storage Management, Mainframes, Utility Computing, It Services, Hardware, Storage, Servers
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Valero Uses Failover Clustering to Reduce System Recovery Time From Days to Minutes
- Valero needed an IT infrastructure with the resiliency to support refinery and business operations in a disaster situation. To protect mission-critical applications and communications, Valero deployed Windows Server 2008 with failover clustering to 90 users in its IT Infrastructure team. It built a two-node failover cluster in Microsoft Exchange Server...
- Tags: Recovery, Failover, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- TechNet Webcast: Failover Clustering and Quorum in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Storage (Level 300)1
- This webcast covers the new cluster storage architecture and describes how the new quorum model works in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The presenter explores the new way that how shared storage is managed, how clustering is now totally Storage Area Network SAN friendly, how failover clusters arbitrate for disks to...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, Enterprise Storage, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-01-31
- TechNet Webcast: Geographically Dispersed Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (Level 300)1
- As Windows Server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large-scale, high-end, mission-critical parts of organizations, the requirements for disaster tolerance and business continuance become more and more important. The goal in this webcast is to cover how to build a complete high-availability solution with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise failover...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-01-28
- Bridgestone Uses Failover Clustering to Cut Disaster-Recovery Time and Penalty Costs
- Bridgestone Australia Ltd. is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of tires in Australia. Bridgestone relies on its e-mail system for order fulfillment and other business-critical activities. In the past, if e-mail servers were to have failed, manual recovery procedures may have required as much as an entire day....
- Tags: Fulfillment, Failover, Disaster Recovery, Bridgestone Australia Ltd., E-mail, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Quick Migration With Hyper-V
- Most mid-sized to large businesses want to implement high availability within their virtual infrastructures. Quick migration makes this possible. Quick migration takes advantage of the failover clustering functionality and the Windows Server Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualization technology included in many 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008. Quick migration can provide a...
- Tags: Failover, Server, Migration, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- A Virtualized Dell Server Environment and Dell Storage Help a California School System Safeguard Data With a 72x Improvement in Failover and Recovery Time
- California school wanted to protect vital school data and operations against potential natural disasters and human error, while working with limited data center space and tight budgets. The school deployed a Dell/EMC storage area network to consolidate the storage environment and replicate data at a disaster recovery site; virtualize the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Recovery, Environment, Failover, Dell Server, Data Centers, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- What's New in Failover Clusters
- In Windows Server 2008, the improvements to failover clusters formerly known as server clusters are aimed at simplifying clusters, making them more secure, and enhancing cluster stability. Cluster setup and management are easier. Security and networking in clusters have been improved, as has the way a failover cluster communicates with...
- Tags: Failover
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Report: new BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 on way with some new features
- A reliable source in the past, Pinstack Member PacketRat seems to have the scoop on forthcoming versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. If he's right, we're first due for an incremental upgrade in November of this year.The big news, though... let's first see what he seems to...
- Tags: RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server, Failover, RIM BlackBerry, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Beyond Backup: The Disaster Recovery Continuum
- Your disaster recovery plan must be closely aligned with the needs of your business. This means you need recovery strategies based on a spectrum of data protection methods that can satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss. This disaster recovery continuum combines a variety of...
- Tags: Data Protection, Failover, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-08-13
- HP Data Protector Software Cell Manager Failover Process (standby Cell Manager) White Paper
- This paper provides information on how to configure and maintain an HP Data Protector 6.0 client in a Data Protector cell to act as a standby Cell Manager. Due to potential incompatibilities among hardware and/or backup software between multiple sites of a company, it would be quite difficult to perform...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Failover, Cell, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-08-01
- AP Load Balancing and AP Fallback in Unified Wireless Networks
- This paper discusses how Access Point AP load balancing and AP fallback work in the Cisco Unified Wireless solution. This paper also explains how to set up multiple Wireless LAN WLAN controllers WLCs for a failover condition. A failover condition occurs when a primary controller goes down or fails for...
- Tags: Associated Press, Network, Load Balancing, Failover, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless Network, Failover Condition, Network Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2007-07-19
- Tunables for the Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Suite: Optimizing for Performance and Failover
- There are several areas of performance - failover times, SCSI queue depth management, and so on - that can be optimized by judicious and careful use of certain user-tunable kernel-level variables described below. Because many of these variables are interdependent with other variables and are global in nature, please approach...
- Tags: Sun StorEdge, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Failover, SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- BlackBerry CEO: here's why there won't be any more major outages
- In an interview with eWeek, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie thats him says the BlackBerry blackout of last month has been "unambigiously solved" and whats more, wont hapen again.eWeeks Wayne Rash noted "that the improbable combination of events, which included the failure of a minor software upgrade...
- Tags: News, Outages, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
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