In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchITChannel.com and Dell, you will discover how solution providers are finding significant revenue opportunities in the consulting, planning, deployment and management of server virtualization and networking projects. 

In this guide, OpenStorage best practices are examined and discussed to assist in eliminating the bottlenecks associated with deployment and functional testing of the solution. 

Your small business needs a real server. Not a PC that has been tricked out to look and act like a server. PCs disguised as servers are vulnerable to the kinds of catastrophic failures that will cripple your business. Invest now in a real server. It just may be the best thing you can do for your small business. 

The DXi7500 was recommended more highly than competitive offerings, and it contained everything desired in a backup solution. 

This Essential Guide offers a collection of tips, tools and techniques that you can use to back up your virtual servers more efficiently. Find out about the intricacies of using VMware's Consolidate Backup (VCB) application, get tips on how to fine-tune your current backup app for virtual servers, and read about the common problems and solutions. 

For many enterprises, the backup and recovery process has not kept pace with the sheer growth of data or the increased requirements for higher data protection. As a result, many storage organizations are redesigning their existing backup architecture. 

In order to quantify the performance of several backup and recovery offerings, engineers ran a series of tests on a VMware ESX server environment configured with three virtual machines that were connected to a Fibre Channel storage area network. Read this paper to learn the results. 

Businesses today face unrelenting data growth. IT staffs are struggling to ensure data availability under tight fiscal constraints. The unreliability and intensive management of traditional tape-based backup has forced backup administrators to create manual, error-prone processes in order to protect their data. Concentric has the solution! 

Data de-duplication eliminates redundant data, saving valuable storage space, also it may be deployed via hardware- or software-based approaches-each having advantages and trade-offs. 

This white paper discusses the different ways for installing the Data Protector package and shows the pros and cons of each method. You can choose the method which fits your requirements. At the end of this white paper, a troubleshooting chapter lists error messages and necessary steps for fixing these problems. 

In this Podcast, backup expert, Mark Bowker, addresses how this technology helps leverage your storage, network, and computing resources. 

How does outsourcing fit into your business strategy? Outsourcing your backup data can be a convenient and reliable method of handling backups — if you select the right vendor and ask the right questions. This podcast covers some of the questions you should ask any potential vendor before you sign on the dotted line.