Acme Truck Line, Inc. wanted to develop a cost-effective, comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Read this brief case study to see how they implemented VMware Infrastructure 3 and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs to deliver an affordable and flexible virtual platform that supports disaster recovery needs for companies of all sizes. 

This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation. 

This webcast discusses how you can accelerate your data analysis, reporting and business intelligence (BI) applications with the help of a column-based analytics server. 

An effective governance program will determine what kinds of data are inputs, outputs or byproducts, and will enable the company to quickly distinguish and process data elements accordingly. Read this paper to learn more. 

View this Webcast and learn to get all the speed, flexibility and processing power of a custom-built data warehouse. 

This quick demo gives you a great overview of the look and feel of BSD Group’s Oracle Extension for Rational Performance Tester, its features, and its capabilities. This plug-in will help you capture, record and playback transactions using Oracle NCA technology. View the demo now to learn more about increasing application visibility during testing. 

The browser wars bring fresh challenges for web designers and developers. This session enables you to understand JavaScript behavior and performance across browsers, as well as consider object load order differences. 

MySpace knows better than anyone the high demands that consumers can make on application and web servers. It maintains two sets of servers depending on application transaction load. Even so, continued transaction growth on these servers was resulting in poor performance. MySpace decided to give Fusion-io a try. 

Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. 

This report is the second part of a February 2008 study comparing the performances of leading anti-virus solutions. Each product was tested using their best possible detection settings in identical environments. The report breaks down the results into several categories including speed, false positives and on-demand detection of virus/malware. 

Check out this webcast to hear discussions from Kyle Kelt, Director of IT for VSP; Donald Light, Senior Analyst/Insurance Group for Celent, and domain experts from IBM and ILOG, an IBM Company. 

In this chapter of the "Introduction to Virtualization E-book" we will look at how to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment as well as off load this work to a stand-by host if needed.