Too many organizations fail to recognize the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery. The two scenarios are actually vastly different in terms of hardware and management needs. View this webcast to ensure you're prepared for any outage - whether hardware failure or full-scale disaster - and learn the differences of BC and DR. 

Microsoft is targeting close to zero downtime with SQL 2008 with availability and recovery features that only used to be available via third-party solutions. This white paper discusses the evolution of High-availability from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, and the tools available to minimize downtime in the Enterprise. 

Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. This paper explains 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans. 

Managed Service Providers with customers who have or are considering Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 can now offer secure, cloud-based protection and recovery for DPM 2007 data with the CloudRecovery service, created by Iron Mountain and Microsoft. Learn how this service can help your customer meet today’s requirements. 

This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment. 

In this videocast, learn how to ensure high availability (HA) to meet end user needs. Discover how virtualization software helps ensure optimal HA and get tips to plan for your high availability requirements. Find out how to combine virtualization software with servers and planning time to reach high levels of availability. 

Human error and hardware or software failures can easily corrupt Active Directory. AD objects can often be modified or deleted by mistake and faulty scripts can overwrite attributes. The result is unplanned system downtime and lost user productivity. 

In this podcast, learn how to implement a cost-effective, efficient disaster recovery (DR) plan with virtualization. Discover 4 different DR methods that work with virtualization to help prevent future disasters. Learn how to plan for DR by defining requirements and assigning application inventory to service levels. 

Connecting virtual desktop technology with the disaster recovery process has probably not been a major focus for organizations; however, integrating a disaster recovery plan for the virtual desktop is moving up organizational priority lists for a multitude of reasons. 

With the growing emphasis on regulatory compliance requirements, the need to place strict security measures on the permissions within SharePoint has grown. 

In this presentation transcript, learn how to ensure your disaster recover (DR) needs are met by your cloud provider. Gain insight into the differences between standard and cloud-based DR approaches and how to incorporate your exiting DR plans. 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover the steps essential for effectively integrating server virtualization into your disaster recovery strategy.