With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night. 

Read this white paper to learn about Dell and VMware's powerful storage and virtualization solutions that allow organizations to cost-effectively construct and deploy a virtualized storage and disaster recovery infrastructure. 

Power will be the number-one issue for most IT executives within the next few years. Not only does it represent a significant percentage of data center operating costs, but demand is likely to overtake supply in the near future. This e-guide highlights available courses of action for reducing energy consumption – without sacrificing performance. 

This white paper has today's best practices and keys to help you get back on your feet even if your backup data has been lost. Receive a backup maintenance checklist with key questions to ask regarding your backup strategies, discover common backup challenges and more. Read on to ensure you're prepared for the worst. 

The ability to stay up and running in the face of a disaster can be crucial to the survival of any business. Without effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans, businesses risk lost income, lost productivity, or worse. Read this brief paper to learn about effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. 

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. 

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance?  This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size.  Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. 

This white paper compares 3 different options of implementing CDP (continuous data protection) and shows how virtualization-enabled CDP - or Near-CDP - becomes the most affordable and most logical disaster recovery choice for businesses of all sizes. 

While the operational and economic advantages of both VMware and NetApp are significant by themselves, the user benefit can be multiplied when the two are employed together. Read this comprehensive ESG case study to learn more. 

In this presentation transcript, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization. 

In this podcast, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization. 

By taking the lead through a business risk mitigation strategy, IT decision-makers can safeguard their organizations against the cost, time and resource implications of restoring access to critical data and resources, while reducing the potential economic impact of unplanned outages. 

This white paper describes a snapshot-based Oracle database backup and recovery solution using Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI storage which can improve the backup and recovery time and help the IT administrator meet SLAs. Read now to learn more.