This expert white paper establishes the ultimate IT security goal: the most reliable preventative and detective security system possible with the least amount of capital expenditure. From common sense solutions to revolutionary concepts, instructor James Michael Stewart challenges IT pros to explore his methods of saving money on company security. 

The Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems present a comprehensive multitier blade portfolio that lets organizations deploy the broadest range of applications on the most ideal platforms. This document describes the Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems along with their key applications, architecture, and components. 

In this SearchStorage.com podcast transcript, Marc Staimer discusses the ins and outs of storage virtualization technology. Find out the pros and cons of storage virtualization, when to rule out storage virtualization in your environment, and how to decide between file-based or block-based storage virtualization in your data center. 

This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization. 

This expert e-guide was designed to help you become aware of the bumps in the road that you might come across when implementing storage virtualization. It also outlines the different approaches to storage virtualization and offers suggestions on how to choose the right approach for your environment. Continue reading to learn more. 

IT pros know that storage efficiency is vital to successfully deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure. This white paper reviews how Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS series arrays with VMware View software can help you achieve significant opportunities for virtual desktop performance and capacity optimization. Learn more here. 

More IT pros are considering implementing a cloud environment, but they soon realize that building a private cloud means overhauling their entire existing data center infrastructure. Learn how moving to the cloud takes more than putting a layer of cloud management software on top of your existing servers, storage and networks. 

This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery. 

Enterprises increasingly are turning to server virtualization to enhance IT costs. Server virtualization solutions help achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources, accelerating the provisioning of new applications, simplifying server management, and improve disaster recovery. Read on to learn more. 

The movement from tape-based to disk-based backup is well underway. Now that it is economically feasible to replace a broken tape-based system with disk-based backup, choices exist among a number of vendors with varying approaches to disk-based backup as well as data deduplication. 

The following five steps are some very effective ways to improve data security in a cost-effective manner and are the first steps toward readying an organization for more robust data protection measures such as DLP. 

With each new version of Windows comes a new version of Internet Explorer, and in the case of Windows 7, it’s IE 8 (one of these days all Microsoft’s numeric product names might actually line up). What does the Windows 7 administrator or planner need to know about the new IE? 

Tune into this podcast featuring Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group as it outlines the challenges associated with endpoint data protection and management, how the problems are being addressed today, the advantages and disadvantages of these different data protection approaches and more.