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London 2012 Olympics: Data centre guide
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Top five virtualisation case studies of 2011
Our recap of 2011's most popular case studies shows how other IT users conducted their virtualisation projects and all about their challenges and the efficiencies they achieved. Feature
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2011: Year in review
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UK data backup and security cloud providers
Find local providers that offer data backup and protection in cloud computing in this section of the UK cloud provider directory. Moving to the cloud can automate backups and improve the data protection and backup of a business. Learning Guide
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Cloud computing questions for enterprises to consider
The IT director at a sports marketing agency discusses what businesses must ask themselves when preparing for cloud computing, along with why the cloud failed to meet his expectations in terms of disaster recovery. Expert Advice
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Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Winners slideshow
Find out what user projects were voted to be the best in numerous cloud computing and virtualisation categories at VMworld Europe 2010. Slideshow
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Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Virtualisation for disaster recovery
The best virtualisation for disaster recovery user project improved availability and enabled semiannual failover and failback tests. Slideshow
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Bird & Bird keeps IT flying high with Neverfail
The infrastructure manager at international law firm Bird & Bird shares how he avoids downtime with Neverfail. Expert Advice
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Improving business resilience and continuity planning through virtualisation
An IT service provider explains why well-planned best practices and the increased efficiencies of virtualisation technologies make it so easy to plan ahead for a disaster. Expert Advice
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Virtual disaster recovery: How to take advantage
Virtual disaster recovery is now a reality, but how can IT professionals take advantage? Find out how to get your systems up and running without investing in additional hardware or remote sites. Expert Advice
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Virtualisation, backup and recovery tool helps firm beat data woes
Virtualising IT was only half a battle won for an advertising agency. Selecting an apt data backup and recovery tool to optimise its virtual infrastructure was equally important. News | 15 Aug 2012
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Law firm's infrastructure overhaul lowers costs, improves productivity
A law firm upgrades its legacy systems and deployed a new data back up and disaster recovery strategy. Here’s how it lowered costs and improved IT efficiency. Case study | 03 Jul 2012
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London data centres face network overload, disruptions during Olympics
Network overload, IT security, data centre power and remote access problems plague London businesses during 2012 Olympics Games. How are IT pros preparing themselves? News | 19 Apr 2012
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Data centre colocation or IT managed services? Wildnet chooses both
A software development firm wanted to host its wares on IT infrastructure that combined the benefits of a fully managed IT service and flexibility of data centre colocation. Case study | 12 Mar 2012
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Hospital's private cloud makes strides in patient care
Using private cloud computing, Cambridge University Hospital implemented a private cloud and now provides uninterrupted IT services to doctors. Case study | 08 Nov 2011
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Airline's disaster recovery strategy boosts data centre efficiency
Flybe uses data backup and replication software in a disaster recovery project that improved data centre efficiency and won Best Virtualisation for Disaster Recovery Project award. News | 27 Oct 2011
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Winner's photo: Best desktop virtualisation project
Find out who won Best desktop virtualisation project at VMworld Europe 2011 News | 21 Oct 2011
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Winner's photo: Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project
Find out who won Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project at VMworld Europe 2011 News | 21 Oct 2011
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Winner of Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project
Find out who won Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project at VMworld Europe 2011 News | 21 Oct 2011
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Moving from in-house IT to third-party hosting services: Case study
A supplier of civil engineering and building materials moved its IT infrastructure to a third-party data centre to resolve its in-house IT problems, including cooling and flooding issues. Case study | 11 Oct 2011
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Post Olympics, it isn't game over for data centre contingency planning
London Olympics is over, but IT must not shift away from data centre disaster recovery and contingency planning. Review your plans to prepare your business for future disruptions. Tip
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London 2012 Olympics: Aim for gold with DR, business continuity plans
With 80 days to go before the London 2012 Olympic Games begin, IT pros must review and test their contingency, disaster recovery and business continuity strategies. Tip
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How to manage transient data and replication
Transient data can be tricky to manage, and best practice tips outlined by vendors may have limitations. But there is an easier way out. Tip
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Data backup and recovery software: A financial services case study
A financial services firm used data backup and recovery software to optimise its newly virtualised infrastructure and remain compliant. Case study
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Network storage: The relative merits of Fibre Channel and iSCSI
A UK reseller helps you decide on the best network storage strategy for your business by listing the relative merits of iSCI and Fibre Channel. Expert Advice
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Using P2V backup and restore in a disaster recovery strategy
With physical-to-virtual (P2V) disk files, you can create a disaster recovery strategy for physical servers, which can be difficult to back up after a disaster. An expert explains how to deploy a P2V backup and restore plan and why you need one. Tip
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Using carrier colocation in your data centre disaster recovery plan
Using carrier colocation services is a solid option for an IT disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Colocations offer well-hardened facilities as well as connections to major telecom carriers, VoIP, wireless Internet service providers, satelite communicat... Tip
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Disaster recovery strategies: Should you outsource, manage in-house or partner?
In disaster recovery facility site selection, a key consideration is whether to outsource, maintain your site in-house or partner with others on disaster recovery strategy. Tip
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Top disaster recovery budget wasters
Often disaster recovery is seen as a cost-centre rather than a business saver. The Burton Group's Richard Jones explains the top DR budget wasters from large and small enterprises. He cites a lack of virtualisation, a lack of DR plan maintenance, lac... Tip
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Disaster recovery planning tools: Are they worth it?
Are disaster recovery planning tools worth the price? The answer depends on your organisation's IT complexity, size and disaster recovery experience. Tip
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VMware Europe 2010 User Awards preview
In preparation for VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen, virtualisation experts and award judges Mike Laverick and Gabrie van Zanten discuss the show's winning projects. Podcasts
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Post Olympics, it isn't game over for data centre contingency planning
London Olympics is over, but IT must not shift away from data centre disaster recovery and contingency planning. Review your plans to prepare your business for future disruptions. Tip
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Virtualisation, backup and recovery tool helps firm beat data woes
Virtualising IT was only half a battle won for an advertising agency. Selecting an apt data backup and recovery tool to optimise its virtual infrastructure was equally important. News
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London 2012 Olympics: Data centre guide
One page guide
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Law firm's infrastructure overhaul lowers costs, improves productivity
A law firm upgrades its legacy systems and deployed a new data back up and disaster recovery strategy. Here’s how it lowered costs and improved IT efficiency. Case study
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London 2012 Olympics: Aim for gold with DR, business continuity plans
With 80 days to go before the London 2012 Olympic Games begin, IT pros must review and test their contingency, disaster recovery and business continuity strategies. Tip
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London data centres face network overload, disruptions during Olympics
Network overload, IT security, data centre power and remote access problems plague London businesses during 2012 Olympics Games. How are IT pros preparing themselves? News
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Data centre colocation or IT managed services? Wildnet chooses both
A software development firm wanted to host its wares on IT infrastructure that combined the benefits of a fully managed IT service and flexibility of data centre colocation. Case study
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Top five virtualisation case studies of 2011
Our recap of 2011's most popular case studies shows how other IT users conducted their virtualisation projects and all about their challenges and the efficiencies they achieved. Feature
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2011: Year in review
guide
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How to manage transient data and replication
Transient data can be tricky to manage, and best practice tips outlined by vendors may have limitations. But there is an easier way out. Tip
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About Data centre disaster recovery planning
In this day and age with so much corporate information online and customer facing, disaster recovery goes well beyond a simple backup plan. The name of the game now is business continuity which means keeping all your essential corporate systems up and running with zero downtime in the event of an IT outage. In this section you will learn about change management as it relates to business continuity and disaster recovery planning and best practices for keeping your IT systems running in the event of a disaster. With an increasing number of servers being virtualized find out about the various approaches to facilitating disaster recovery in a virtual machine environment, using products such as VMware Site Recovery Manager.