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Virtual disaster recovery best practices guide for VARs
Separate yourself from competitors by knowing how to produce a disaster recovery (DR) plan for your customers, including how to cut costs for them, and the best approaches for a virtual DR environment. Guide
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Shaping a solution provider's ESX DR plan: Disaster types
Solution providers can avoid surprises late in the ESX disaster recovery (DR) game by forming a solid DR plan and knowing how to deal with different disaster types such as chassis failure or rack disaster. Chapter Excerpt
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Systems products to pay attention to
Discover what experts, readers and TechTarget editors deemed the most noteworthy systems products of 2007. Feature
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What are your disaster recovery needs?
Learn why it's important to ask your clients about their disaster recovery needs before starting a blade server virtualization project. Discover what virtual machine tools can help in the event of a service outage. FAQ
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What are your system availability goals?
Learn why you should ask your clients about their system availability goals before launching blade server virtualization projects. This is especially important when considering disaster recovery and fault tolerance issues. FAQ
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Using snapshots of guest operating system sessions
Hyper-V enables snapshots of guest sessions using Volume Shadow Copy Service, for rollback and disaster recovery. This chapter excerpt provides a step-by-step guide to creating snapshots. Chapter Excerpt
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Where does virtualization fit within a small to midsized company?
Learn about disaster recovery and the other benefits of virtualization for small to midsized companies. FAQ
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Business cases for server virtualization: Introduction
Use server virtualization to solve business problems. This chapter from "Advanced Server Virtualization" describes how server virtualization can be implemented in key areas, such as Disaster Recovery (DR) and high availability, to help reduce costs a... Chapter Excerpt
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Data disaster recovery plans: How to deliver DR plans
Data disaster recovery plans are a must-have for any size enterprise. Help customers prepare for disasters by explaining the value of disaster recovery documentation and delivering DR plans to meet their needs. Fast Guide
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Rescuing customers from bad hardware decisions can mean happy customers, good business
It's easy for customers to buy complex hardware on their own; making it work is another thing, the VAR's thing. Article | 11 Oct 2006
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End users don't trust disaster recovery plans
A SunGard survey shows that 39 percent of company executives gave their own DR plans a letter grade of C or lower. Article | 29 Sep 2006
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Providing shared availability with a cold spare server
Solution providers can sell SMB customers a shared server chassis to rapidly ease server failure by providing a compatible cold spare server. Tip
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Seven questions for backup and disaster recovery customers
To determine whether your customers need to outsource their backup and disaster recovery services, they need to answer these questions, such as when was their most recent backup test, and allow you to explain the value you can provide in each area. Tip
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How to get in the backup and disaster recovery service game
Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) services can be a great addition to a managed service provider’s portfolio, but it requires a deep level of trust from your customers. Learn about the risks and rewards of this solution for MSPs. Tip
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Four cost benefits to virtualized disaster recovery
Virtualizing your customers' disaster recovery site has an excellent ROI. Find out about the cost benefits relating to hardware, power and management overhead. Tip
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Top four server virtualization enhancements for efficiency gains
In 2009, customers will be looking to improve data center efficiency to drive down costs. You can help them reach that goal by delivering four key server virtualization enhancements. Tip
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Server virtualization health check services: Data protection, networking
In the second installment of a four-part series on server virtualization health check services, learn how to assess a customer's data protection and networking status, and find out how to put the proper exit strategy in place. Tip
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System Recovery and Diagnostic Tricks: Backup and Restore Center
This chapter excerpt from "Tricks of the Microsoft Windows Vista Masters" covers Vista's Backup and Restore Center and provides you with key information on complete system backup, how to access backup with virtual servers or PCs and how to use the co... Tip
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High-availability systems need the right tools, skills
Implementing and supporting a high-availability system is no easy feat, but understanding the classes of software and training your employees well will make a world of difference. Learn how to approach your customers' high-availability projects the r... Tip
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Delivering disaster recovery solutions: A technology overview
Learn how to deliver disaster recovery solutions to clients in need of disaster recovery (DR) plans. Start with this technology overview from our Disaster Recovery Services Guide. Tip
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The importance of disaster recovery planning
Your customers' disaster recovery plans should not be without certain key technologies and methodologies, outlined in this collection of DR best practices. Tip
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How to decide which disaster recovery strategy is right for customers?
Learn the two questions VARs must ask before they can recommend the appropriate disaster recovery strategy to their customers. Ask the Expert
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Virtualization as a disaster recovery solution
Virtualization can provide a disaster recovery solution given that its infrastructure is solid. Learn more about it in this expert response. Ask the Expert
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Providing shared availability with a cold spare server
Solution providers can sell SMB customers a shared server chassis to rapidly ease server failure by providing a compatible cold spare server. Tip
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Seven questions for backup and disaster recovery customers
To determine whether your customers need to outsource their backup and disaster recovery services, they need to answer these questions, such as when was their most recent backup test, and allow you to explain the value you can provide in each area. Tip
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How to get in the backup and disaster recovery service game
Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) services can be a great addition to a managed service provider’s portfolio, but it requires a deep level of trust from your customers. Learn about the risks and rewards of this solution for MSPs. Tip
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Virtual disaster recovery best practices guide for VARs
Separate yourself from competitors by knowing how to produce a disaster recovery (DR) plan for your customers, including how to cut costs for them, and the best approaches for a virtual DR environment. Guide
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Shaping a solution provider's ESX DR plan: Disaster types
Solution providers can avoid surprises late in the ESX disaster recovery (DR) game by forming a solid DR plan and knowing how to deal with different disaster types such as chassis failure or rack disaster. Chapter Excerpt
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Four cost benefits to virtualized disaster recovery
Virtualizing your customers' disaster recovery site has an excellent ROI. Find out about the cost benefits relating to hardware, power and management overhead. Tip
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Top four server virtualization enhancements for efficiency gains
In 2009, customers will be looking to improve data center efficiency to drive down costs. You can help them reach that goal by delivering four key server virtualization enhancements. Tip
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Server virtualization health check services: Data protection, networking
In the second installment of a four-part series on server virtualization health check services, learn how to assess a customer's data protection and networking status, and find out how to put the proper exit strategy in place. Tip
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System Recovery and Diagnostic Tricks: Backup and Restore Center
This chapter excerpt from "Tricks of the Microsoft Windows Vista Masters" covers Vista's Backup and Restore Center and provides you with key information on complete system backup, how to access backup with virtual servers or PCs and how to use the co... Tip
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Systems products to pay attention to
Discover what experts, readers and TechTarget editors deemed the most noteworthy systems products of 2007. Feature
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About Disaster Recovery Services and Planning
Find disaster recovery (DR) services and planning news, tips and tutorials for value-added resellers (VARs), computer consultants and systems integrators helping clients ensure that their computer systems have disaster recovery protection. This topic includes expert advice and best practices on disaster recovery systems and business continuity issues and questions including how to use disaster recovery consultants when determining disaster recovery needs, how to develop a disaster recovery strategy, virtualization for disaster recovery and more information on the importance of disaster recovery planning and how to offer DR services.