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Disaster Response Company Uses Mobile Solution to Expedite Inventory Processes | 2006-11-10 01:00:17 | Microsoft |
| Kenyon International Emergency Services is a Texas-based company that provides emergency response services to government agencies and private companies worldwide. To help its field teams collect and catalog personal effects gathered at disaster sites, Kenyon worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Catapult Systems to deploy a solution based on Windows Mobile 2003 software for Pocket PCs using Pocket PC devices and Microsoft server products on the back end. The result is faster, more streamlined collection and cataloging of items to be sent to victims' family members and investigators - meaning better service in the aftermath of traumatic events. | |||
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Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Infrastructure | 2006-11-03 09:14:35 | VMware |
Today, IT organizations that want to give their enterprises a sustainable competitive advantage need to:
This white paper explains how adopting VMware infrastructure—the combination of server, storage and networking virtualization technologies—is helping today's organizations achieve these important goals.
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Webcast: Innovating to Deliver Humanitarian Relief | 2006-10-25 10:55:43 | ZDNet |
| CIO Simon Jennings explains how Oxfam GB runs the fifth largest retail business in the UK to support its humanitarian efforts, and describes the challenges of delivering application services and mobile solutions to remote, and often insecure, locations. Jennings sits down with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber in a CIO Vision Series interview. | |||
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Bancaja Improves Resiliency With GDPS-Based Business Continuity Solution | 2006-10-20 01:00:16 | IBM |
| Since its founding in 1878, Bancaja has grown to be one of the largest financial institutions in Spain. The challenge faced by Bancaja was to minimize the effects of a site outage while also complying with new international banking regulations. Bancaja implemented two IBM System z servers configured with IBM Parallel Sysplex and IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (IBM GDPS) technology to ensure near-continuous availability of banking applications, even in the case of the loss of a data center; and two IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server systems linked by the Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy feature to ensure data synchronization between sites. | |||
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Flexible business for reliable continuity | 2006-10-13 01:00:15 | Citrix Systems |
| Business continuity is no longer an issue that purely affects IT. Creating a 'continuous culture' touches every division of the business. This white paper examines the steps enterprises should take to ensure a business continuity plan is not only ready should disaster strike, but accepted as core to overall company strategy. | |||
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Ensure Exchange Availability with Transaction Replication | 2006-11-03 17:33:42 | Cemaphore Systems |
| Delivering greater than 99% uptime for Microsoft Exchange requires deployment of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, but which one is right for your organization?
Buying HA/DR solutions for Exchange is a bit like shopping for insurance. It's not something you expect to use daily, so you don't want to blow your whole budget on it. But when you do need it, you're going to want all the protection you can get just as soon as you can get it. This white paper explores HA/DR solutions and compares Exchange transaction and file-based replication, two of the most popular and cost-effective options available. Read this paper to learn about the efficiency and reliability of these solutions. |
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Whole Server Protection from a Single Solution | 2006-10-01 | Double-Take Software |
| The complexity of traditional recovery solutions compounds an already difficult situation, and heightens the opportunity for human error. Speed and quality of recovery are extremely important when customers and employees are relying on access to critical data, but the average restoration takes hours at best. Check out this paper to learn about a whole-server data protection solution that simplifies the restoration process and reduces the time and effort involved with server recovery.
Tags: Disaster Recovery, Network Design, Data Center |
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WANSync Provides SEC-Standard Data Availability for Buckingham Asset Management's Web Portal and Exchange Infrastructure | 2007-01-04 18:56:24 | CA (Computer Associates),CA XOsoft |
| The Buckingham Family of Financial Services (comprised of Buckingham, BAM, and affiliate Bemiston Insurance Services, LLC) places great emphasis on data availability. In addition, SEC regulations require that Buckingham employ robust disaster recovery planning, to minimize downtime of its SQL-based client data servers and Exchange-based communications infrastructure. To achieve these goals, the family of firms embarked on a search for a near-live disaster recovery and high availability protection solution. It was concluded that WANSync application availability solutions would best meet the firms' objectives. | |||
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Downtime Is Not an Option: How to Devise and Implement a Comprehensive High-Availability Plan | 2007-01-04 18:41:20 | CA (Computer Associates),CA XOsoft |
| A comprehensive high availability strategy can help ensure that an organization continues to function, even when threatened by a large-scale attack. This webcast will discuss high availability and disaster recovery solutions to keep a person's business on its feet. | |||
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AutoNation Selects XOsoft to Drive Down Recovery Time | 2007-01-04 18:37:14 | CA (Computer Associates),CA XOsoft |
| AutoNation successfully implemented XOsoft's WANSync as part of a company-wide initiative to reduce time to data recovery by 50%, from 48 hours to 24 hours. AutoNation installed WANSync to protect its servers in several locations in the United States. The retailer replaced several other third-party tools with XOsoft's WANSync to ensure all data is synchronized within minutes of a change, and to gain better reporting, alert and monitoring capabilities that were lacking. |