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(PDF, 6 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=894http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=894#1Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTSL Power, based in West Palm Beach, Fla., has seen its business model change for the better with Zenith Infotech's backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution. Program Manager Wes Boggs says Zenith's BDR solution allows SL Power to get a foot in the door with customers -- resulting in a 40 percent increase in managed services revenue. And because the BDR solution operates so reliably and efficiently, Wes says, "I've gained back about a half an employee." Watch it now and learn more! (WMF, 5:16 minutes) http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=831http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=831#2Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTTake advantage of consistently high profit potential by providing your customers with unsurpassed data protection. Zenith Infotech's unique Network Attached Storage (NAS) device enables more frequent backups and fast restores, allowing you to deliver a comprehensive business continuity solution without increasing staff or making costly new investments. Learn about: Quick standby server using Instant Virtualization Technology; Flexible recovery options including exchange e-mail boxes and messages; bare-metal restore; Low-cost, full off-site storage; and Turn-key managed appliance. Download it now. (PDF, 9 pages) http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=891http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=891#3Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTNow you can increase revenue without adding staff or putting additional demands on existing resources by offering managed services from Zenith Infotech. This comprehensive suite of tools and services deliver a powerful infrastructure solution enabling you to spend less time on day-to-day operations and more time on business-building activities. Take a break from time-consuming administrative duties. Zenith Infotech simply makes remotely monitoring systems easy. Once agents are installed on the desktops and servers, the Data Center Application controls the interaction with the agents and handles all the analytical processing and issues alerts. A Web portal and remote administration console enables your engineers, as well as those at the Zenith Infotech NOC, to analyze and troubleshoot problems. Discover more Download it now. (PDF, 9 pages) http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=892http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=892#4Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTBoxOffice and DataCenter as a service: A new age is dawning for managed service providers. "Cloud" or "utility" computing -- whereby IT-related capabilities are provided as a service via the Internet -- is just on the horizon. See how Zenith Infotech enables technology solution providers to offer world-class application hosting as well as hardware and appliances to their customers at a very affordable monthly fee. Download this concise overview now. (PDF, 2 pages) http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=893http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=893#5Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe transition to virtualized computing environments by enterprises and organizations of all types has resulted in more effective use of server resources, but has also uncovered challenges in storage proliferation. IT professionals have to understand the implications of how a virtualization strategy affects storage, and to undertake solutions that optimize storage use and performance. Among the storage issues that IT must deal with include the migration from direct access storage to a storage area network (SAN), where VMs and other files can be loaded into any server. Virtualization also tends to produce large volumes of duplicate files, significantly expanding the storage requirements even as business use remains constant. This series discusses the challenges of managing and optimizing storage as organizations implement a virtualization strategy and how those challenges may be addressed through effective use of storage technology. Contents include: Upgrading to Exchange 2007 Virtualizing Exchange; Role in the Exchange migration and virtualization process; Importance of revisiting server and storage infrastructure; Drivers behind virtualizing Exchange; Challenges to virtualizing Exchange; Virtualized server environments. Download it now. (PDF, 19 pages) http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=890http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=890#6Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTToday's financial sector landscape is changing fast and technology executives are asked to keep up with changing business needs. In a challenging economy, IT staff must integrate diverse technologies from consolidated institutions, solve compliance issues and somehow figure out a way to do it under budget with less staff. In this new white paper, learn how maximizing efficiency in IT enables financial institutions to do more with less. With today's mounting economic challenges, it's more vital than ever for your institution to reduce redundancy in your changing IT environment. Download it now. (PDF, 19 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=888http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=888#7Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTAs organizations continue to deploy server virtualization, questions have shifted from "if " to "how." Out of all 220 inquiries Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations team answered on data centers, servers and virtual appliances in 2008 to date, 72 were specifically in regard to server virtualization. These IT professionals' most common inquiries addressed vendor comparison, optimum physical to virtual consolidation ratios, expected ROI and situation-specific concerns regarding the possible benefits that virtual servers could provide. These inquiries came from organizations in the early stages of implementing server virtualization -- if you are considering or are in the process of implementing, you too should be asking these questions. Download the report nowt now. (PDF, 6 pages) http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=889http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=889#8Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft Exchange messaging environments are growing in complexity; user requirements are increasingly demanding; and the manner in which Microsoft Exchange is used to support business operations is more business-critical than ever before. It's time to learn about an end-to-end infrastructure that takes advantage of the best-of-class technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware. If you are looking for a complete end-to end messaging solution in a virtualization-enabled platform for Microsoft Exchange 2007, read this paper and learn how to simplify disaster recovery and build a more flexible and reliable infrastructure that reduces complexity and makes e-mail messaging highly available. Download it now! (PDF, 32 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=887http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=887#9Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTLearn how your business can benefit from running Microsoft Exchange in a VMware/EMC environment. This white paper, "Secure and Consolidated 16,000 Exchange Users Solution on a VMware/EMC Environment," validates the building-block guidelines for virtualizing an Exchange 2007 Mailbox server role using a real-world deployment scenario. Read how the design presented in this paper enables customers considering an Exchange 2007 deployment to capitalize on the benefits of a virtualized platform with VMware Infrastructure 3 and EMC CLARiiON storage, including reduced costs, increased flexibility, simplified mailbox server design, risk mitigation, increased design flexibility, unprecedented server scalability and return on investment. Download it now! (PDF, 26 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=886http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=886#10Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTToday's heterogeneous enterprise means a dramatic increase in the number of identities and passwords we use to transact business. The challenge is to keep costs down while tracking, auditing, managing and controlling identities and passwords. Enterprise single sign-on (SSO) is the answer. SSO manages the costs, confusion and security risks of multiple sign-ons. In the new Quest white paper, "Enterprise Single Sign-On: The Holy Grail of Computing," see how to control and secure your company's multiple identities. Download this white paper today. (PDF, 23 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=869http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=869#11Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTSymantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers: Server virtualization is quickly becoming a standard technology in many data centers today. While VMware augments hardware utilization significantly through the use of server virtualization, VMware's Virtual Infrastructure (ESX) 3 also introduces new issues concerning the backup and recovery of virtual environments. It is important to remember that it is just as critical to protect data created and utilized in virtual machines as it is to protect the data that is located in a single physical machine. This paper describes several approaches that can be used to back up VMware ESX Server 3.x and its underlying components using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers and the Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (AVVI). This paper also discusses the relative advantages and disadvantages of each method. Download it today. (PDF, 26 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=882http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=882#12Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTCompanies today face the ever-increasing challenge of managing the explosive growth of valuable data. Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows Servers is the gold standard in Windows® data protection, providing cost-effective, high-performance, disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery. Continuous data protection for Microsoft applications, including Exchange, SQL, Active Directory, and SharePoint, helps ensure that data is continuously backed up as it changes. Protecting these Microsoft applications within your allotted backup window -- and recovering them quickly and reliably -- presents a formidable challenge. Read this white paper and find out how Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 simplifies and streamlines the process with centralized administration, continuous protection, patent pending granular recovery, and more. Get it from the Tech Library today! (PDF, 26 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=883http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=883#13Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTSymantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 enables businesses and IT to recover from system loss or disaster in minutes, not hours or days, even to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments -- and now, it has functionality to automate physical-to-virtual conversions for immediate system recovery. Helping IT administrators meet recovery time objectives, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery provides rapid, easy-to-use system restoration or full "bare-metal" recovery for servers, desktops, or laptops. It also enables you to recover systems in remote, unattended locations. Read this white paper and find out why Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery is the gold standard in complete Windows system recovery. Get it from the Tech Library today! (PDF, 20 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=884http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=884#14Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTBecoming lean has been a goal of most companies over the last few years. Why is lean so popular? Lean delivers what companies really need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity and better customer service. To become Lean, a company must take a hard look at processes and practices to identify those that do not add value. The continuous pursuit of waste elimination is the essence of Lean. As Lean thinking has evolved and the concepts broadened, Lead advocates have come to recognize that ERP and Lean work together very well. The five lean principles of value definition and specification, value stream mapping, uninterrupted flow, customer pull and the pursuit of perfection are all supported and enhanced by comprehensive information control and the management tools that an end-to-end enterprise software suite delivers. Download it now! (PDF, 11 pages)http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=881http://redmondmag.com/techlibrary/resources.asp?id=881#15Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT