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PODCAST - While server virtualisation brings consolidation gains, it increases the impact of a storage failure, compromising the information that makes up the life blood of your organisation's business. This podcast highlights backup best practices for combating the complexity virtualisation brings to the data center.
Posted: February 4, 2010 | Premiered: February 4, 2010


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Replication | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Replication Software | Storage Virtualization

VIDEO - This videocast sponsored by Dell and Intel featuring virtualization experts, Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, discusses the top 15 reasons why virtual desktop projects fail. Discover the considerations to make when virtualizing desktops, like hidden costs, implementation planning and user needs.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Premiered: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Desktop Virtualization | Desktop Virtualization Software | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Virtual Machine

WEBCAST - In this webcast, gain insight into IT processes and procedures that can ensure continuous business operations in your organization. Discover how to prevent downtime by conducting a gap analysis, identifying weaknesses and simplifying IT processes.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Premiered: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | IT Management | Server Management | Systems Management | Windows Server Software

WEBCAST - In this webcast, learn about top cloud management issues and how to overcome them. Discover the differences between managing public and private clouds and find out how to handle user accessibility issues and application conflicts with leading cloud platforms.
Posted: March 3, 2010 | Premiered: March 3, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Data Centers | Hosting Services | Infrastructure Management | IT Management | IT Outsourcing Services | Platform as a service | Private cloud computing | Public cloud computing | Software as a Service | Systems Management

PODCAST - Listen to this podcast Q&A session to learn how batch tuning can enable your organization to reduce their required computing resources and run-time, ultimately saving money. Learn how to significantly gain insight into how you can improve the results of your batch tuning initiative by changing the traditional approach to batch tuning projects.
Posted: February 2, 2010 | Premiered: February 2, 2010


Topics:  Application Deployment | Best Practices | Data Centers | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Management | Job Scheduling Software | Microprocessors | Workload Automation

WEBCAST - Business services with virtualized components are more complex to discover, monitor, manage, automate and troubleshoot. This webcast explores a new management technology that can help your organization overcome the monitoring challenges of virtualized business services.
Posted: February 1, 2010 | Premiered: February 18, 2010


Topics:  Business Service Management | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

VIDEO - Watch this video and learn how three small businesses experienced implementing their First Server. Learn how server-based networks helped these small businesses keep customer information protected, share communications, as well as re-alter their company website.
Posted: December 16, 2009 | Premiered: December 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Management | Collaboration | Information Security | IT Management | IT Spending | Networking | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Small Businesses

VIDEO - In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down the seven different layers of the server virtualization architecture, and explains the role the hypervisor plays in the success of that infrastructure.
Posted: March 20, 2009 | Premiered: March 20, 2009


Topics:  Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WEBCAST - While server virtualisation brings consolidation gains, it increases the impact of a storage failure, compromising the information that makes up the life blood of your organisation’s business. This webcast highlights backup best practices for combating the complexity virtualisation brings to the data center.
Posted: February 4, 2010 | Premiered: February 4, 2010


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Replication | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Replication Services | Storage Virtualization

VIDEO - David Payne discusses the advantages and pitfalls to virtualizing and consolidating your data center hardware and walks through a practical approach to getting started.
Posted: December 17, 2009 | Premiered: December 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | IT Infrastructure | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to receive best practices for preventing downtime in your organization. Learn how to reduce the human error that often causes downtime. Discover how you can protect your hardware, storage and networks for completive availability coverage. 
Posted: March 3, 2010 | Premieres: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Business Process Automation | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | High Performance Computing | IT Management | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Systems Management

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn how batch tuning can enable your organization to reduce required computing resources and save valuable run-time, ultimately saving money for the enterprise. Gain insight into common problems data center pros run into when implementing batch tuning, and explore tools to overcome these challenges.
Posted: February 2, 2010 | Premiered: February 2, 2010


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Process Management | Data Center Management | Data Centers | DB2 | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Management | Microprocessors | Workload Automation

WEBCAST - In this webcast, learn about various virtualization tools on the market and the differences between them. Discover how to enhance application performance and capacity management with virtualization management technologies. Find out which tools would work best in a VMware environment.
Posted: February 23, 2010 | Premiered: February 23, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | Data Centers | Infrastructure Management | Server Virtualization | VMware

PODCAST - CA products are strongly differentiated by their ability to respond to changing business needs – Business Driven Automation. Ray Wright asks Steve Garone about CA’s Business Driven Automation capabilities and how they help customers. Listen to this podcast to learn more.
Posted: February 25, 2010 | Premiered: February 23, 2010


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Process Automation | Cloud Computing | ERP | Server Virtualization | SLA | Workload Automation

VIDEO - Virtualization is more than just a buzzword. On the server side, companies are in full-fledged execution mode, and on the client side, things are starting to heat up, too. Come join us in CDW's downtown Chicago offices for a chat with Nathan Coutinho, solutions manager for CDW, to learn more about this exciting topic.
Posted: February 9, 2010 | Premiered: February 9, 2010


Topics:  Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Disaster Recovery | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization