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whitepaper Webcast: Ten Ways to Prepare Your Business for a Pandemic0000-00-00 Dell MessageOne
  Did you know that only 18% of companies have a completed disaster plan for a pandemic, according to a study done by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota? And, another study one by the London Chamber of Commerce indicated that 40% of all companies will be non-functional if 30% of staff becomes temporarily unavailable.

As disaster planners, IT executives, and corporate leaders, you will hear from disaster preparedness experts, John Jackson and Dan Dec on the key facets of pandemic planning and how it differs from general disaster planning. Learn about the real "expert" predictions, the likelihood of a pandemic affecting your business, why companies are unlikely to survive, and what you can do now to your IT infrastructure to minimize the effect of a pandemic. A key part of pandemic or any disaster planning is to have immediate methods of communicating with your staff regardless of where they or you may be. You will also learn how MessageOne's business continuity solutions have become a critical part of over 1,000 companies' infrastructures.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Management		   
whitepaper The Microsoft MVP Guide to Exchange Availability: Ten Rules that Will Save Your Job0000-00-00 Dell MessageOne
  With Microsoft Exchange, the dominant messaging environment for enterprise mail, achieving high availability can be a difficult task. Because of Exchange's reliance on a complex ecosystem of software, hardware, directory, storage, network and datacenter resources, any technical problems can lead to email downtime. With email serving as a mission-critical application for today's businesses, the cost of email downtime can be significant to the operation of the enterprise and negatively impact the bottom line.

This expert guide details the top ten essential rules to ensure that Microsoft Exchange-based email systems are always available - no matter what. The three authors, Paul Robichaux, Chris Scharff, and Ben Winzenz, have all achieved the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) honor signifying their high level of technical achievement for Microsoft Exchange. Download now to get the 10 Essential Rules that will Save Your Job.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Why Email Fails: Dell MessageOne Survey of Email Outages2008-07-21 Dell MessageOne
  While there is no argument that email is a mission-critical application for businesses today, email continues to fail, and fail frequently. Despite large enterprise investments in replication, mirroring, and tape back up systems, business have a 75% chance of losing email for a significant duration at least once a year. Many experience multiple email failures every year. While it is widely known that natural and man-made disasters can lead to email outages, data in this comprehensive study shows that email systems are more frequently brought down by a variety of technological and IT systems failures.

MessageOne, a leading provider of email continuity solutions, commissioned this research report to understand the frequency, severity, and cause of email outages in North American corporations using Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. This research shows that enterprise email systems are prone to a variety of potential breakdowns including SAN (Storage Area Network) failures, mis-configuration, losses in network access, database corruption, and viruses. This research report analyzes the leading causes of failure with enterprise email systems and provides preventative guidance to lower the probability of unplanned email outages.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Storage Hardware, Management, Storage Hardware, Data Tools, Storage Hardware, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Panic slowly. Integrated disaster response and built-in business continuity2006-09-01 IBM
  This paper offers insight to the CIO who is facing increased responsibility for the business and financial consequences of systems downtime. IBM's point of view paper helps CIOs and IT professionals assess their company's own preparedness, examine new approaches and technologies, and explore the business justification for investing in disaster preparedness and organizational resilience.

Integrated disaster response and built-in business continuity. A decade of regional calamities has shown that traditional approaches to disaster planning have failed to keep organizations operational. It's easy to be left behind--particularly if your infrastructure is not designed to support a resilient organization. In IBM's view, effective disaster planning can build an increased capacity for availability, recovery, backup and crisis response into the organization at all levels, from facilities to management and planning.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration, Security Administration, Security Administration, Network Management, Data Tools, IT Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting, User Satisfaction, Security Administration, LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Spiceworks IT Desktop Allows You to Manage a Small or Mid-sized Network for FREE0000-00-00 Spiceworks
  Most IT monitoring and management tools are designed for use in large enterprises and are therefore too expensive or complex to be practical in small or mid-sized businesses (SMBs). But the recent introduction of Spiceworks IT Desktop changes all that. Spiceworks is a free, browser-based tool that manages up to 250 networked devices. It enables you to quickly and conveniently:
  • Inventory the hardware, software, and patches that reside on your network.
  • Monitor your network for new software, low disk space, offline servers, and rogue users.
  • Report easily on the information you need to manage your network.
Now available in beta version, Spiceworks IT Desktop is an agent-less monitoring application that takes less than five minutes to get up and running. Download your FREE copy today!

Tags: Network Management, Network Management, Network Management, Network Management, Network Management, Network Management, Network Management, Network Management		   
whitepaper Enterprise Full Disk Encryption Buyers Guide2006-08-21 PGP
  The growth of mobile computing boosts productivity but companies face the threat of lost data. Full disk encryption technology allows organisations to lock down all data stored on a laptop or desktop computer, rendering that data unreadable in the event a system is lost or stolen. This PGP White Paper is intended for enterprise IT managers, risk management and compliance managers, and others responsible for IT security or corporate compliance.

Tags: Network Management, Authentication - Encryption, Data Tools, Handhelds, IT Budgeting, Security Administration		   
whitepaper Executive's Guide: Best Practices for Offsite Data Protection and Recovery0000-00-00 Iron Mountain Digital (LiveVault)
  Attention CEOs, presidents, owners and other executives at small to medium sized businesses. What would happen if your business applications froze? A power outage destroyed your most recent transactions? Your servers succumbed to a virus? Could you recover? Odds aren't good. In fact, 50% of businesses that lose their data due to disasters go out of business within 24 months.

Download your free 10-page Executive's Guide, "Best Practices for Offsite Data Protection and Recovery," today and learn how server backup and recovery can meet your small to medium size business data disaster recovery needs.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Global Healthcare Crises: How Information Technology can Address Pandemics and Disasters0000-00-00 IBM
  The global march of the bird flu has heightened the sense of urgency in the international community for strategies to effectively prevent and respond to health-related crises. This IBM white paper presents an information and communication technology framework for the prevention of and response to pandemics such as the bird flu and the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). It provides keen insights into the technology challenges that governments and healthcare organizations face in coordinating their response to pandemics and other health crises.

Tags: Telecommunications, IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, E-commerce - E-Business, IT Infrastructure, Mobile and Wireless, Homeland Security, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Addressing Privacy Issues During Disaster Recovery0000-00-00 Disaster Resource Guide
  Businesses possess a staggering amount of private and Personally Identifiable Information (PII), not only about their customers, but also about their employees. Under which circumstances and representations was this information collected? How is this information being used? To whom is this information being transmitted? How is this information being stored? Who has access, authorized or not, to this information? Unfortunately, many, if not most, businesses do not know the answers to these questions even under normal business circumstances. The first order of business following a disaster of any size or type is typically to get the most critical parts of business going again as soon as possible.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Data Guard Redo Transport & Network Best Practices Oracle Database 10g Release 22006-08-01 Oracle
  There are two areas to consider when tuning the performance of an Oracle Data Guard configuration. The first is Redo Transport Services that transmit redo data generated by a production database to a local or remote standby database. The second is Log Apply Services that applies redo data to a standby database. This paper focuses on best practices to optimize the performance of Redo Transport Services. The paper also provides results from Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) test lab showing performance improvements that can be achieved with a properly tuned configuration.

Tags: Network Management, Data Tools