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Cloud-Based Backup Gaining Favor with SMBs: Report  from eWEEK

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are beginning to move toward cloud-based backup to protect their company data. Download this report to learn how cloud computing can contribute to SMBs objective of lowering costs and improve assurance and support.  Technology Brief
February 07, 2012

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IT System Failures Cost Businesses 127 Million Lost Person-Hours: Survey  from eWEEK

Businesses collectively lose more than 127 million person-hours annually – or an average of 545 person-hours per company- in employee productivity due to IT downtime. Download this survey to learn what other aspects of a company can suffer if they don’t have a formal and comprehensive disaster recovery policy in place.  Technology Brief
February 07, 2012

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10 Essential Steps to Portfolio Management  from EPM Live

With the start of a New Year, many organizations are realizing the importance of a critical step in the Project and Portfolio Management discipline -- Portfolio Planning.  White Paper
January 09, 2012

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Alteva CSO to Discuss Cloud Opportunities in the Channel at UC3 Summit  from Alteva

Channel Conference Focuses on Unified Communications, Collaboration and Cloud Solutions for SMBs  News Release
February 06, 2012

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Dell HPC NSS Tiered Storage Solution  from Dell

Clusters have become one of the most popular architectures for High Performance Computing (HPC) today. Along with the increasing popularity in HPC architectures, the HPC storage market has witnessed an explosion in data growth, presenting an increasing concern for data management. Enterprise IT departments are searching for solutions to address the data growth and regulatory/compliance requirements, while limiting the effect on IT budgets and resources. Data archiving and management are key emergent areas to address the rising data storage needs effectively.  White Paper
February 03, 2012

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Metasystems at International Manufacturing Conference and Expo  from Metasystems

Visit Metasystems at the inaugural International Manufacturing Conference and EXPO at The Manufacturing Mart on February 14 and 15, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Manufacturing EXPO is designed to bring together manufacturers, purchasers and people who have the know-how to solve complex problems in an effort to help North American manufacturers keep their competitive edge.  Live Event
February 02, 2012

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Fonolo Makes Virtual Queuing Easy And Affordable For Every Call Center  from Fonolo

Fonolo, the company that helps organizations reduce call center costs while improving the customer experience, announced today that virtual queuing is now within reach of any call center.  News Release
February 02, 2012

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vCenter Operations: Enabling Administrators to Morph into Managers  from VMware

Traditional approaches to infrastructure operations management are incapable of keeping up with highly dynamic virtual environments. VMware announced an extension of its management solutions aimed at simplifying and helping to mold a new operations model of virtual and cloud environments called vCenter Operations. This product brief highlights key findings of ESG's 2011 Virtualization Management survey to illustrate a shift in the way customers are approaching the management of their infrastructure and operations tools, people and processes.  Product Literature
March 31, 2011

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eBook: Real-World Virtualization for Your Business  from VMware

Small and midsize firms virtualize IT infrastructure to meet real-world challenges: simplifying operations to focus on business issues, speeding up application rollouts to get more done, safeguarding data and operations to stay open and productive, and saving money for the bottom line. It’s a new way to think about IT—and getting started is easy, fast, and inexpensive, using VMware solutions designed for your real-world small or midsize business. Read this eBook to learn more.  White Paper
February 01, 2012

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Taking a Proactive Approach to Patch Management  from VMware

It’s a fact of business today: because of the economy, most organizations are asking everyone, including the IT staff, to do more with less. But tight budgets and the need for the IT department to be a “jack of all trades” (and specialists at nothing) could leave organizations vulnerable to attack. To ensure that your organization is protected, your IT departments must take a proactive approach to patch management.  White Paper
February 01, 2012

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Comparing VMware Zimbra with Leading Email and Collaboration Platforms  from VMware

This paper explains how VMWare Zimbra delivers more value to small and mid-sized businesses than competiting email/collaboration solutions, including greater user productivity, efficiency and agility.  White Paper
February 01, 2012

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vSphere Storage Appliance  from VMware

This technical white paper covers the the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management. Discover that VSA is resilient and easy to deploy, while enabling you to use advanced vSphere features like vSphere HA, vMotion, and vSphere DRS.  White Paper
June 30, 2011

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ESG - VMware’s vSphere Storage Appliance: High Availability for Small IT Operations  from VMware

Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualization to deliver consolidation, improve data back up and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new paper from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Learn directly from your peer’s experiences and see why VMware’s solutions are perfect for the growing and ambitious business.  White Paper
October 31, 2011

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Preventing Unplanned Downtime with Server Virtualization  from VMware

The benefits of server virtualization extend far beyond infrastructure savings and server consolidation. An emerging technology trend is for IT managers worldwide to deploy virtualization to keep applications online and protect their businesses from unforeseen events.  Webcast


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eBook: A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery  from VMware

This online eBook provides insight and advice on how to build an effective disaster recovery strategy in the evolving world of virtual infrastructures, while mitigating the impact of so-called 'Black Swan' events in the data center. Practical, how-to best practices, real customer success testimonials and links to additional resources.  White Paper
February 01, 2012

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Introduction to Virtualization  from VMware

This webcast is designed to help those with little to no virtualization experience understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational costs. The session will start with the introduction of the key concepts and technologies of virtualization, introduce the vSphere Hypervisor, and build up to an overview of VMware vSphere 5, the world’s most robust and complete virtualization platform. This session will also discuss new solutions such as the vSphere Storage Appliance and VMware GO that are making it easier than ever before to get started with virtualization.  Webcast


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Deliver Private Cloud Database as a Service with VMware vFabric Data Director  from VMware

VMware recently announced VMware vFabric Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to ontrol database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Download this webcast to learn how vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your data center.  Webcast


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VMware Delivers a Modern Approach to Data Management  from VMware

Application modernization transforms business. Today’s modern applications—characterized as Web-oriented, data-intensive, dynamic, virtualized and real-time—both consume and generate data. Yet, existing approaches to data management prevent many businesses from harnessing the true value of their data. This solutions brief covers the modern data management products that are part of the VMware vFabric platform.  Technology Brief
February 01, 2012

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Architecting a Modern Approach to Data Management  from VMware

Applications are changing – they’re increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn’t working. What’s needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.  Webcast


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VMware vFabric tc Server Streamlines Application Deployment: John Muir Health  from VMware

The Integration Group in John Muir Health’s ITS department is responsible for maintaining a broad range of applications that link all the department systems to the core health system, enabling data exchange, enhancing functionality and improving productivity throughout the organization. Read this case study to understand how VMware vFabric tc Server delivered more efficient application deployment, improved server deployment and management and rapid response time.  Case Study
February 01, 2012

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