Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime. 

In this podcast, industry expert Mike Karp addresses how virtualization is increasingly being used within midmarket organizations and discusses the major pros and cons of relying on a virtual environment for backup. 

Disasters happen in many ways and can disrupt or even completely destroy your business. What happens if and when disaster strikes? Do you have duplicate copies of your mission critical data stored offsite? How fast and reliable will your recovery of information be? Will your company survive? 

Tune into this podcast for a cloud computing disaster recovery (DR) checklist. Learn about various DR approaches for your cloud computing environment. Find out how to secure your data and how to get your DR objectives met by your cloud provider. 

Because their data center was reaching its physical limits, Taco, Inc. found their backup and restore processes getting noticeably slower. With their exposure to IT disaster scenarios a distinct reality, they turned to Syncsort for their data protection needs. 

Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment products in the US. Having implemented the Data Domain and Luminex solution they have been able to successfully meet DR goals and achieve significant yearly cost savings. 

In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO, Computerworld, CSO and InfoWorld lay down the groundwork and explore the latest tips and technologies for no-fail corporate data backup and disaster recovery. 

When you resume business after a disruption, you want to pick up where you left off. That means minutes, or even seconds, before the lights went out or the computer virus struck. If your business is aiming for zero data loss and zero downtime, there's only one choice - continuous data protection (CDP). 

2010 is just around the corner. Take 30 minutes out of your busy schedule to attend this live webinar and make sure you put the right DR and Business Continuity plan in place for next year. 

Learn about Intel IT's cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of its data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. The solution was designed to avoid idle compute servers, use a tiered storage system, and offload backup from the main data center. 

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. 

This whitepaper demonstrates how leveraging real-time replication and application availability for disaster recovery using solutions from Double-Take Software is a cost-effective way to ensure that a mission-critical application's RPO and RTO goals are adequately met. 

This whitepaper will discuss the challenges you can have to backup and protect using native tools and how you can successfully protect your SharePoint environment using Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint.