VMware vSphere™, the industry's first cloud operating system, leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services. 

Featuring tips and best practices regarding DR strategies and testing, this paper will help you define your objectives and get started developing an efficient and reliable DR solution today. You'll learn the key factors of a successful DR strategy, and learn what questions your organization should be attempting to answer during testing. 

Requiring a high performance, scalable and reliable networking infrastructure at its new facilities, O'Keeffe & Swartz turned to HP. With support for IP telephony a requirement, an HP Converged Infrastructure was deployed, along with Mitel IP telephony and HP Networking Software. 

Sun GlassFish ESB has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support at the best cost possible, with minimal overheads for development</p> 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we examine the economic benefits of plans to release more government data for wider re-use by software developers. We announce the winners of our Social Media Awards, and hear what the IT industry thinks of the new UK cyber security strategy. Download the new issue now. 

The movement from tape-based to disk-based backup is well underway. Disk eliminates all the problems of tape backup. Backing up to disk is faster than backing up to tape, and disk-based backups are more reliable and more secure than tape-based backups. Read on to learn more about the advantages of disk backup today! 

Reliability and availability, data protection, performance, and scalability are all essential characteristics of a database management system. This paper looks at each one of those characteristics in detail and offers an implementation guide for SMBs that require a highly reliable database environment. 

Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions. 

This whitepaper discusses how IP Address Management can help organizations take control of their IP address and name space to achieve many network benefits. 

Blade based storage arrays deliver enterprise class storage performance and capacity, as well as simplify storage management loads. These solutions are built to scale quickly and impressively, and offer a cost-effective, long-term approach to delivering robust and reliable storage solutions. Reas on to learn more about blade based storage arrays. 

This Case Study assesses the deployment of Mimecast SaaS-based Unified Email Management (UEM) solution at Basic Energy Services, a renowned publicly traded oilfield services Company. IDC examines the effectiveness of the Mimecast solution and its services in meeting Basic Energy Services' needs and the reasons why the Mimecast solution was chosen. 

Microsoft Exchange is one of the most popular email platforms available today, but there are other options available that can deliver reliable, secure messaging across devices for small businesses for which Microsoft Exchange is not a requirement.