Explore advanced networking features in VMware vSphere 5.0 in this in-depth, step-by-step guide to configuring and testing these essential features for your virtual environment. Discover how NetFlow, port mirroring, and user-defined resource pools help network admins gain visibility in virtual machine traffic and troubleshoot network issues. 

Entrusted with managing massive volumes of data, Santa Fe Partner's small IT staff knows the importance of security and data availability. Recently, they were looking for a file synchronization tool that would help the company manage market and transactional data as well as allow data transfer for DR. Read on to learn about the solution they chose. 

Learn about how Psomas, a leading consulting engineering firm, overcame challenges with its legacy disaster recovery and backup strategy. Upon implementing Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage gateway, the company was able to cut tape infrastructure costs by 60%, speed restore times, and improve nearly every aspect of its DR and backup strategy. 

Learn how to properly configure VMware iSCSI Software Initiator and connect it to iSCSI SAN in this comprehensive, illustrated guide. Access the many advanced features for shared storage by following these steps to enable them in your vSphere environment. 

Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations. 

Inside this white paper, learn how to meet the necessary compliance requirements that will ensure a smooth transition when planning for the succession of your advisory firm. 

This whitepaper is a lab testing summary report of Ethernet fabrics. The study is trying to validate the advantages provided to the data center implementations by Shortest Path Bridging Mode (SPB or SPBM) protocol. 

For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2. 

This special eight-page indepent report from Computer Weekly, packed with graphs and diagrams, is essential reading for anyone doing business, or thinking of doing business with EMC. 

This white paper provides detailed reference architectures and best practices for deploying and configuring a Business Ready Configuration targeted at SMB. 

While current technologies and techniques allow for more sophisticated and effective approaches to counterparty risk management than those that fell short in 2008, there are still barriers to successful adoption that will require organizational changes. Read this white paper to learn more.