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• Quantum Newsletter Download

  This newsletter outlines several key areas that IT departments should focus on when they are evaluating alternative approaches to protecting VMs.

• Veeam Backup & Replication 6.0

  In this white paper find out how you can develop a backup strategy for mixed virtual infrastructures like VMware vSphere and/or Microsoft Hyper-V. Learn more and read on.

• Building a Customized Hybrid Cloud

  In this white paper learn how midmarket companies should be building cloud resources, both private and public, into their current infrastructure environment to create a hybrid cloud. Read on.

• Virtual Backup Twice as Fast: Acronis vmProtect 6

  In this competitive assessment, one virtual backup solution outperformed the leading competitor across the board - demonstrating better simplicity, higher performance, and lower resource consumption. View the results.

• IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Desktop Virtualization 2011 Vendor Analysis

  The IDC MarketScape for Desktop Virtualization 2011 is now available and positions Citrix as the only vendor in the Leaders Category, based on its comprehensive desktop virtualization technology suite and its strategic vision for its desktop virtualization product portfolio. Learn more.

• Citrix XenDesktop: Desktop Virtualization for All

  Desktop virtualization initiatives top the priorities of most IT managers and executives. The challenge is to deliver the right kind of desktops and applications for each user type. Learn more about this and read now.

• The 7 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a VM Protection Product

  This white paper provides 7 key questions and the background behind them that IT managers can ask vendors when evaluating virtualization data protection products. Learn more.

• Traditional Backup is Dead – Are You Prepared?

  This white paper discusses the essentials of modern data protection, the problems with legacy backup, and a new vision for modern data protection. Read on.

• Redefining Backup and Recovery: A Call to CIOs

  The rapid growth of data and the evolution of new technologies are forcing companies to implement a modern data-management strategy that goes far beyond traditional backup and recovery. Read on.

• Protecting Data More Effectively in Remote Office and Branch Office Environments

  With more and more critical data residing at the “edge” of the enterprise in remote or branch offices (ROBOs), reliable protection and the ability to quickly recover data and restore operations becomes critical to business continuity. Learn more and read now.

• Backup and Replication v6 Data Sheet

  In this white paper learn how Veeam Backup & Replication for Hyper-V provides fast, flexible and efficient recovery of virtualized applications and data. Read on.

• Top 7 VMware Management Challenges

  Read this white paper and learn howvirtualization is both an architectural and a fundamental change. Virtualization affects everything in the data center. Don’t ignore the challenges that come with virtualization. Read more.

• Six Recommendations to Ensure Your VM Backup is Recoverable

  Are you using the right tools to back up your virtual machines? Your tools should guarantee VM backups are recoverable across all the types of data they might contain. Help assure your recoverability with the six recommended action items discussed in this whitepaper. Read more.

• The Impact of VMware and Hyper-V Snapshots on Backup Technology

  Download this white paper to gain a better understanding of the key differences between VMware and Hyper-V snapshot technology. Learn more.

• Top 12 Best Practices for Virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers

  Virtualizing Active Directory DCs can make your life easier, but doing it incorrectly will have the opposite effect down the road. Download this white paper to get 12 best practices that will get you started toward the right configuration and design. Learn more.

• V-Ray Gives Symantec a Competitive Edge Today and Into the Future

  This white paper investigates the advantages that Symantec V-Ray capabilities deliver for VMware and Hyper-V backup and recovery. Learn more.

• A Year of Disruption in the Disaster Recovery Market

  In this white paper learn what 2012 has in store for cloud computing. The disaster recovery market will experience a flurry of changes as cloud computing technologies mature and automation drives greater cost and operational efficiencies. Learn more.

• Lay the Right IT Foundation with Dell and VMware

  In this white paper learn how Dell and VMware deliver end-to-end virtualized infrastructure solutions that can help you achieve a simplified, more efficient, flexible, cost-effective, service oriented IT environment. Learn more.

• Meet Your Disaster Recovery Goals with Less Complexity and Cost

  This white paper outlines the ways virtualization can address the challenges of traditional disaster recovery and help your enterprise meet the key goals of a viable disaster recovery plan. Learn more.

• Layered Tech: Taking IT to the Next Level

  In this white paper learn why Layered Tech chose Dell PowerEdge servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series and how they enabled the company to both serve its existing customers and take on larger clients, all while streamlining infrastructure and keeping costs down. Read more.

• Flow International: Defining a New Global Standard

  In this white paper learn how Flow Technology has increased efficiency, drastically reduced new PC deployment time, and fostered collaboration among global divisions. Learn more.

• VMware vSphere® Reference Architecture for Small and Medium Businesses

  Take the trial and error out of designing and implementing complex infrastructure. Read this white paper to learn more about Dell's business-ready configuration for your small-to-medium-sized business. Learn more.

• Dell IT: A Model of Virtualization

  Read this white paper to learn how Dell IT group virtualized more than 5,000 servers to save a company over US $29 million. Learn more.

• Top 7 VMware Management Challenges

  In this white paper learn how to conquer the top management challenges of implementing VMware virtualization. Read on.

• Backup and Replication v6 Data Sheet

  In this white paper learn how Veeam Backup & Replication for Hyper-V provides fast, flexible and efficient recovery of virtualized applications and data. Read on.

• Advantages of Virtual Backup Appliances

  In this white paper, vExpert Rynardt Spies explores how protecting your virtual machine data using a Virtual Backup Appliance can provide increased performance and scalability with a lower overall total cost of ownership. Learn More.

• Choose Your Own Infrastructure: Part II

  In this white paper learn how SoftChoice can give you the tools you need toavoid the pitfalls, make the right choices and build the infrastructure that’s best suited for you now and in the future. Learn more.

• Top 10 Reasons You’ll Want to Upgrade to VSphere 5

  VMware’s new vSphere 5 is packed with a great number of new features, but virtualization expert Elias Khnaser knows of 10 features that make this version upgrade worthy. Read more.

• The Essential Series: Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS

  Read this white paper to gain an essential grounding in practices that will ensure you can easily and quickly achieve optimum virtual platform performance on your machines. Read more.

• Top 10 Best Practices of Windows Server Backup for Virtual and Physical Servers

  Read this white paper by Don Jones, a world renown author, speaker and Microsoft MVP about the Top 10 Best Practices of backing up Microsoft Windows Server on Virtual and Physical Servers. Read on.

• Considerations for Optimizing Virtualization Backup

  This white paper explains everything you need to know about virtulization and the benefits of utilizing it to protect your data. Learn more.

• 10 Must Have Features In Your Next Backup Solution

  In this white paper expert David Davis explores the top 10 must-have features you need to consider when evaluating a virtual back-up solution.. Read on.

• The Transformative Benefits of Cloud Computing

  In this white paper learn how replacing in-house infrastructure with a scalable and efficient service, they allow an IT organization to move out of a functional role based on procurement and maintenance. Read more.

• Raising the Hyper-V Backup Standard

  Download the report to find out how enterprises using Hyper-V can now leverage the power of Veeam Backup & Replication to enable server virtualization to improve the standard of data protection and lower its costs. Read on.

• Building A Better Cloud

  Assembling an effective plan for a cloud infrastructure is paramount. When organizations put the right strategic pieces in place the result is maximum return on investment and an ability to achieve competitive differentiation. Read more.

• Free Network Monitoring for up to 100 Devices: Foglight NMS

  Ready to improve network performance and efficiency – for free? Get your copy of Foglight NMS today.

• Best Practices for Cloud Based Recovery

  Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) has been available for some time, and has leveraged a number of infrastructure options and recovery platforms. Many of these options have provided a recovery solution that is flexible, scalable, and secure. Learn more in this white paper.

• Security in the Cloud

  In this white paper learn how Cloud computing is being rapidly embraced across all industries. But this massive shift from local hardware to web-based resources is not risk and hazard free. Read on.

• Is the Cloud Right for You?

  This White Paper explains the right way to evaluate your system and data protection requirements based on industry standard benchmarks so you’ll have a clear understanding of how Cloud computing will impact your ability to recover. Learn more.

• Compliance and the New Reality for IT Resiliency

  This white paper gives you valuable facts to consider as you make the necessary integration between compliance regulations and information availability. Read on.

• The Future and Present is Virtual

  In some areas virtualization simultaneously presents both opportunities and challenges. This white paper expands on these virtualization issues and outlines the role that Vision Solutions plays in the virtualization marketplace. Read on.

• BCROI: Measuring Returns on Your Business Investment

  This whit paper provides a comprehensive review of HA and DR technology options and how to identify and quantify the real financial return on investment inherent in each. Read on.

• Aberdeen Group: The Importance of High Availability

  Companies are under intense pressure to keep their systems running 24/7 and ensure data is continuously available. In this white paper Aberdeen identifies significant Best in Class availability strategies. Read on.

• Windows Server Multi-site Clustering

  Improvements to Failover Clustering do not yet provide a way to replicate the shared data used by a cluster which is truly the "last mile" in terms of building multi-site cluster architectures. Learn more and read on.

• Building the Foundation for the Virtualized Infrastructure

  In this paper read how the Taneja Group highlights the fundamental phenomenon happening around server virtualization by identifying strategic actions that enterprises need to undertake to thwart the challenges that ensue from virtualization changes. Read more.

• Using HP's Converged Storage to Develop and Enhance Business Resiliency in VMware Environments

  In this white paper, Enterprise Strategy Group reviews how HP's portfolio of hardware, software, and services can provide the foundational support for VMware environments. Read on.

• Storage Federation: IT Without Limits

  Learn how HP's Peer Motion software enables the movement of data without physical limitations, all while maintaining continuous access and availability for your data. Read more.

• Defining Tier One Storage in the Modern Data Center

  In this white paper learn how analyst ESG defines "tier one" storage in the modern IT world and in the data centers and services that support it. Learn more.

• Security in Office 365

  This white paper provides an overview of the security practices and technology that support enterprise-grade security in Microsoft Office 365 for businesses of all sizes. For a comprehensive and detailed treatment of security in Office 365 read more.

• VMware Recovery: 77x Faster! New ESG Lab Review

  In this white paper get a detailed, hands-on look at Veeam’s game changing vPower capabilities in this NEW ESG Lab Review of Veeam Backup & Replication. Read more.

• VMware Disaster Recovery Planning: Essential Checklist

  Download this new white paper that functions as a checklist and can guide you on the creation of a top-notch VMware disaster recovery plan. Learn more.

• VMware Disaster Recovery Planning: Essential Checklist

  Download this new white paper that functions as a checklist and can guide you on the creation of a top-notch VMware disaster recovery plan. Learn more.

• Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: 2011 Update

  Declining hardware and software costs have an impact on total cost of ownership. This Gartner white paper illustrates how a higher management level for desktops can achieve lower TCO and improved user productivity.

• A Guide for Enterprise VMware ThinApp Deployments

  This white paper outlines the design considerations and architecture that customers and partners need for enterprise implementations of VMware ThinApp for both physical and VMware View desktop environments. Learn more.

• Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View

  In this white paper, IDC performed an in-depth analysis of the business value of VMware View, defined as the expected ROI associated with the use of the solution as a platform for the targeted deployment of a virtual desktop infrastructure. Read on.

• Desktop Modernization eBook

  This eBook looks at the challenges involved in delivering and managing desktops, today and in the future. Its goal is to demonstrate how VMware desktop virtualization can deliver a solution to address the requirements of IT and end-users without compromise.

• The Total Economic Impact of VMware ThinApp

  The purpose of this white paper is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the ThinApp on their organizations. Forrester interviews with an existing customer and subsequent financial analysis found that the organization will experience many benefits. Read on.

• Comparing VMware Zimbra with Leading Email and Collaboration Platforms

  This white paper explains how VMware Zimbra delivers more value to small and mid-sized businesses than competing email/collaboration solutions, including greater user productivity, efficiency and agility. Read on.

• vSphere Storage Appliance

  This technical white paper covers the the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management. Read more.

• Easy Server, Operating System and Storage Migrations, Without Downtime

  In this white paper learn how organizaions collect more data, for more uses, system upgrades inevitably become necessary. Learn more.

• Lightning Fast Recovery to and from the Cloud

  In this white paper learn how backing up to the Cloud is a simple, cost effective way to get the advantages of a datacenter without the expense of creating and managing a physical center. Learn more.

• Aberdeen Group: The Data Protection Benchmark Report

  In this white paper learn how AberdeenGroup has embarked on a survey of end-users, in different job roles and across numerous industry sectors, to gain insight into customers’ data protection strategies. Read more.

• Double-Take Move

  In this paper you’ll learn how Double-Take Move provides migration functionality that dramatically reduces the impact and risk of migrations in the data center and across any geographic distance. Read more.

• Security Threats, Trends and Risks

  Download this white paper to gain access to the latest information on internet security threats. Protect your business today and learn more.

• The Important Role of Storage for Success in Server Virtualization

  This paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas—cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management—and illustrates how SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.

• Maintaining Continuity of Operations with a Disaster Tolerance Strategy

  When was the last time you assessed your business risks? Download this white paper to learn how to reduce the financial impact and maintain acceptable levels of productivity during an unplanned disaster. Read on.

• Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance & Manageability Barriers

  Download this HP white paper to learn how to reap virtualization’s additional benefits, including high availability, disaster recovery, performance management and ease of management.

• Server Virtualization: Branching Out of the Data Center

  A typical lean branch office has a significantly different server infrastructure than a data center, but despite the differences, multisite organizations have much to gain by deploying server virtualization in their branch offices.

• A Comprehensive Framework for Securing Virtualized Data Centers

  Download this white paper to learn how to protect your high value virtual assets with a combination of purpose-built IPS platforms, management solutions and industry-leading threat research and security filters. Get the paper now.

• Lab Test: VMware Recovery Revolution

  Download this new white paper to learn how Veeam’s new vPower breakthrough technology drastically increases IT’s ability to meet tight RTO requirements. Learn more.

• Effective Monitoring Strategies for vSphere Environments

  Download this free white paper to learn about an effective capacity planning strategy including visualizing growth trends, identifying VM sprawl, and determining which infrastructure investments will pay the greatest dividends. Learn more.

• The Expert Guide to VMware Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

  In this 3rd chapter of the Expert Guide to VMware Data Protection and Disaster Recovery by Eric Siebert explores the methods and challenges for restoring and verifying data in virtual environments. Read more.

• The Essential Guide to Legacy Free Disaster Recovery

  In this paper you'll learn about eliminating traditional data protection shortcomings and how to revamp your VMware data protection strategy with Veeam Backup & Replication v5. Read more.

• Disaster Recovery By the Numbers

  Even if you have never built a DR plan before, you can achieve great results. This paper shows you how to take it step by step and follow the numbers.

• Real-time Protection for Hyper-V

  Double-Take for Hyper-V builds upon and extends the platform provided by Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V to provide numerous options for protection and recoverability of your virtual machine environment.

• Aberdeen Group Disaster Avoidance and Disaster Recovery

  Aberdeen Group has embarked on a survey of end-users to gain insight into customers’ data protection strategies.

• Five Reasons Why Smaller Organizations Should Consider High Availability

  Read about what has changed in both the technology as well as the marketplace that has made it possible for small and mid-sized companies to cost-justify the "luxury" of rapid and complete data recovery.

• Virtualized Disaster Recovery from VMware and Vision Solutions

  This combination of virtualization and advanced protection for both data and applications reduces cost and complexity while increasing the resilience of your recovery infrastructure.

• Virtualization: Do You Believe In Magic?

  This paper provides practical guidance for evaluating and implementing virtualization, with special attention to data protection and availability concerns.

• Continuous Data Protection: A Critical Element in a Complete Recovery Solution

  In this paper you’ll learn how new flexible technologies enable quick and easy recovery of data to any point in time.

• Expert Advice for Effective Backup and Recovery in Virtual Environments

  In this white paper, virtual data protection experts offer five tips that will dramatically increase the effectiveness of backup and recovery in your virtual environment. Read it today.

• Stupid Hypervisor Tricks: Tips for Hypervisor Efficiency

  This white paper details the tips for efficiently wringing the most out of your hypervisors. Learn more.

• The Impact of VMware and Hyper-V Snapshots on Backup Technology

  In this white paper gain a better understanding of the key differences between VMware and Hyper-V snapshot technology. Read on.

• Reducing the Costs and Risks of Branch Office Data Protection

  Tape backup for branch offices is a risky strategy. Solutions that use real-time data replication to automatically backup branch office data to a central server are easier, more reliable and less expensive. Learn more.

• CommVault Extends Its Data Protection and Information Management Strategy with Simpana 9

  In this white paper learn howSimpana 9 provides its customers with greater flexibility by allowing them to extend their data protection tools beyond their physical environments, safeguarding virtual servers and clients as well. Read on.

• The 2010 Virtualization Buyers Guide

  As the virtualization juggernaut continues to build momentum, it’s incumbent upon both current and potential virtualization users to research the market for products that fit their specific needs. Learn more.

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