Customers are confronting the confusing number of options and configurations when it comes to backing up and restoring their network attached storage servers. This paper addresses this by describing the best practices for protecting and recovering NAS devices utilizing the Network Data Management Protocol. 

This article is intended for IT managers and storage architects familiar with HPC applications and data requirements in the organization. 

This E-guide addresses configuration and change management in a partially virtual environment. Topics include: reporting on and managing virtual servers, the effects of physical changes on servers, how to extend change management processes like ITIL to cover the SAN, and handling human problems between the networking, datacenter, and storage teams. 

This document highlights what you need to know about power consumption, server virtualization and outfitting data centers to make the most of the new technologies. 

Please join Kent Christensen, Virtualization Practice Manager, Datalink, as he analyzes and explains WAN efficiencies between data centers. In addition to the topic of transferring data over the WAN more efficiently between the primary and secondary data centers, much of the presentation will apply to small remote offices as well. 

With two data centers serving 24 offices in the U.S., Europe and India, Hitachi Consulting required a solution that could provide visibility into the applications running on the network while selectively accelerating business critical ones. Read on to learn about the solution they found. 

Mobile network operators are not exploiting the full value of their most valuable asset—their subscriber information. While mobile network operators may be sitting on a gold mine of subscriber data, they do not have the tools they need to exploit it. This paper explains the avenues available to take advantage of their subscriber information. 

Unified communications (UC), offers the promise of converging voice, data, and video communication and of eliminating many roadblocks in communication. In conducting these in-depth interviews with Microsoft UC products customers, Forrester found that organizations can achieve significant productivity improvements and cost savings. 

This study illustrates the financial impact of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 for a retail and distribution organization of 1,500 employees and $450 million in annual revenue. 

In August 2008, Qualcomm commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the benefits that North American businesses have experienced as a result of providing notebook users with mobile broadband connectivity. In this paper you'll hear what IT and telecom/network decision-makers had to say. 

Join us for an informative discussion about how to not only survive these challenging times, but to use information management to thrive during them. 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchITChannel.com and Dell, you will discover how solution providers are finding significant revenue opportunities in the consulting, planning, deployment and management of server virtualization and networking projects. 

Read this case study to learn how CDW helped Wipfli CPA and Consultants optimize their IT environment to overcome power, cooling, and space challenges, while simultaneously improving IT response times.