SMBs using virtualization often face additional challenges in managing and protecting their data.  This instructor-led mediacast addresses the importance of data protection and the best ways to integrate this type of software into your virtualization initiatives. 

This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions. 

W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the options currently available for performing replication as part of a backup strategy for virtual machines, benefits and drawbacks of using replication in a virtualized environment. 

Tthis paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for BI. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives. 

This white paper will explore some of the different approaches to client virtualization to help enterprise IT professionals determine which path makes the most sense for their organization. 

This E-Guide is your ticket to learning today's best practices regarding DR in the cloud. Discover eight scenarios in which a private cloud is more valuable than traditional DR solutions, understand the pros and cons associated with disaster recovery in the cloud, and learn which types of organizations can benefit most from such a solution. 

This resource provides guidelines and best practices for deploying Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment. Learn how to take full advantage of the benefits of virtualization without having to exceed your budget. 

Interact with leading healthcare compliance and IT experts from across the U.S. in this free, one-day virtual seminar. Learn best practices for cloud computing and disaster preparedness, as well as how to achieve federal EHR reimbursements. 

In this white paper, we go over five best practices based on working with some of the world's leading travel and hospitality companies to help them take a more systematic, quantifiable approach to improving their online customer experience and, in turn, increase revenue. 

Download this paper to learn data masking best practices and enable your organization to safely use production data for development, testing, and sharing with out-source or off-shore partners, without risking a sensitive data breach. 

Virtualization opens the door to a more flexible – and even automated – disaster recovery strategy. But getting to that point still takes a lot of manual work. In this webcast, virtualization expert Shannon Snowden reviews the requirements for automated DR and the best practices for designing and building this new infrastructure. 

The best practices described by Version Three of the ITIL® represent a de facto standard for IT Service Management and have become very popular in technology organizations over the last several years. This paper will explore each of these challenges, provide real-world examples of each, and present realistic methods for overcoming these challenges.