Feb 18

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager – Data Disaster Recovery for Servers

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Take the Disaster Out of Disaster Recovery

Easily manage and implement your recovery plan with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

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Build, Manage and Execute ReliableDisaster Recovery Plans

As an integrated element of VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager helps you:

Accelerate recovery for the virtual environment through automationEnsure reliable recovery by enabling non-disruptive testing

Simplify recovery by eliminating complex manual recovery steps and centralizing management of recovery plans

Accelerate RecoveryEnsure that you are able to meet your recovery time objectives RTOs by automating the recovery process.

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager eliminates the slow manual steps of recovery, turning the complex paper runbooks associated with traditional disaster recovery into an integrated part of your virtual infrastructure management.

Ensure Reliable RecoveryEliminate common causes of failure during recovery and make it possible to test your recovery plans thoroughly and easily.By automating recovery, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager eliminates error-prone manual steps in the recovery process and ensures that recovery procedures will be consistently executed as intended.

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager also makes it easy to execute non-disruptive tests of recovery plans within an isolated testing environment so that you can ensure that they are up to date and will execute successfully. Simplify Disaster RecoverySimplify and centralize the process of creating, updating and managing recovery plans.

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager guides users through the process of building, managing and executing disaster recovery plans.  It integrates seamlessly with VMware Infrastructure and VMware vCenter Server to make recovery plans significantly easier to manage and update. It also integrates easily with storage replication software from leading storage vendors to simplify the use of advanced replication software with VMware vSphere.

via VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager -- Data Disaster Recovery for Servers.

Feb 08

Olympics and Green tech: ‘No room to fail’ – Vancouver Winter Games

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This is not your grandfather’s winter games. Every Olympic city makes major investments in technology, security and infrastructure in the 21st Century, and the Vancouver Winter Games are no exception.  The Olympic Cauldron will be lit on February 12, 2010. And yet, the hard work began immediately after Canada was selected to host the 2010 Winter Olympics back in 2004.

Want some examples?

1)      Technology companies are certainly talking about their unique role in these Games.  Green technology is a central element. Check out this Canadian website on technology related to the Olympics.

2)      Stopping terrorism is essential. One article back in 2005 estimated that the security budget would be about $177 million with a 50-50 split between the federal and provincial governments, but USA Today called actual security spending to be closer to $1 billion. More than 1000 security cameras are in place for the Winter Olympics.

3)      Infrastructure development has been important. There are plenty of stories online about the people behind the scenes who make the Olympic Games happen. There are also stories about the technology being used. If you look hard enough, you’ll find just about every big IT company is involved in some way. One example is Sun, but AT&T and others are right there as well.

4)      The economic development aspects and wider role of the Olympics can be seen in YouTube videos like this one.

5)      The role of the city mayors and Vancouver Government overall has been a huge part of this story.

Bottom line, this is big business. Just like the involvement of the South African Government in preparing for the 2010 World Cup in June, the Vancouver Olympic Games required an incredible investment in everything that we do in government technology every day. The difference is the scale, and the number of people watching.

So when you watch that beautiful opening or closing ceremony, when the US Hockey Team is skating to victory or those international downhill skiers fly past your TV screen, remember the technology and security infrastructure that made it all possible.

Let the games begin…

Dec 15

Past Events | Service Management Specialist Group | Our Groups | Specialist Groups | Membership and Networking | BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT

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Dec 13

VMware vSphere 4: Private Cloud Computing, Server and Data Center Virtualization

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Build your Infrastructure on the Most Trusted Virtualization Solutions.

Bring the power of cloud computing to your IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere, the next evolutionary step in IT computing and the most trusted virtualization platform available.

Build on a proven virtualization platform as the foundation for private and public clouds, using federation and standards to bridge cloud infrastructures—creating a hybrid cloud structure that can respond to your evolving business needs.

Reduce your capital and operating costs and increase control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware. Let your IT staff shift their energies towards creating transformative business solutions instead of routine maintenance of hardware and software

Get more from your existing IT assets and reduce capital expenses of the datacenter by up to 60% Significantly lower power, cooling and real estate needs and cut your energy costs by up to 80%Available in several different editions, VMware vSphere delivers targeted benefits to small business and mid-size and enterprise business customers.

via VMware vSphere 4: Private Cloud Computing, Server and Data Center Virtualization.

Nov 30

RTFM Education » vSphere

By jeromewagner cloud computing, industry best practise, insights, operating systems & collaborative tools, server architecture, training No Comments »

VMware vSphere 4.0 Implementation Book – READY FOR PRE-ORDER – Via the RTFM Blog:

“As you can see by the image bar at the top of this blog post – this week my book on vSphere4 has been listed on Amazon for pre-order. The book has been been placed on a Fast-Track programme internally to McGraw-Hill.

At the moment the book is in what they call “copy edit” phase. So essentially the writing has stopped, and its in the hands of the publisher. It’s been proof-read a number of times – but goes through round of checking, and prep work ready to roll through the printers factory. When they have done that round of checking – it will be my last chance to make any tweaks.

I’ve got about 2 pages of A4 notes to impleament and couple of images to add – but nothing major. For example this week I discovered some ESX hosts which had fan/heat problems – and of course, vSphere4’s “health status” was alerting me to this fact. I wanna put that image into the book to show how vSphere4 has much better hardware awareness than previous versions.”

via RTFM Education » vSphere.

Oct 13

HP Integrity BL860c Server series overview – HP Small & Medium Business products

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The HP Integrity BL860c server blade introduces the latest generation HP Integrity capabilities to the BladeSystem c-Class customer. HP-UX and OpenVMS operating environments, in addition to Integrity Linux and Integrity Windows, are now available in the BladeSystem c-Class.

The HP Integrity BL860c server blade is a two socket full-height blade server featuring three models of the latest Intel ® Itanium®2 dual-core processors supported by up to 48GB memory 12 DIMM slots. The BL860c features four Gigabit Ethernet ports standard, support for three standard c-Class I/O mezzanine cards and up to two internal SFF SAS hot plug disk drives. The HP Integrity BL860c server blade coexists with ProLiant server blades and StorageWorks storage blades within the c-Class enclosure.

via HP Integrity BL860c Server series overview – HP Small & Medium Business products.

Oct 12

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud – Great for Small Business

By jeromewagner 24x7 Management And Support, cloud computing, disaster-recovery, green-it, offsite-backup, online tools, operating systems & collaborative tools, server architecture No Comments »

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources.

Amazon VPC integrates today with Amazon EC2, and will integrate with other AWS services in the future. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no long-term contracts, minimum spend or up-front investments required. With Amazon VPC, you pay only for the resources you use.

Let us show you how to utilize the power of AWS!!! – get in touch

via Amazon Virtual Private Cloud.

Oct 11

Disaster recovery for small business file servers

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Small businesses have less volume to contend with, but often smaller budgets for protecting the file servers. Here are some disaster recovery tips that even the smallest organizations can use to protect critical data.

Even though small businesses don’t have the budget or the sheer volume of files that some of the larger enterprises do, you still have to protect the data. Smaller shops have their own issues to overcome that are just as difficult and just as important as the big guys.

Most notably, many small businesses will have only one server for file storage. The major issue with this strategy is that all your eggs are in one basket, and you rely on that same basket to serve all of your other office needs. Therefore, it becomes even more important to properly protect this file server from a possible disaster. Since the bandwidth and hardware required for most off-site replication systems is out of the question here, your choices are limited, but there are options available for you.

via Disaster recovery for small business file servers.

Oct 11

Small Business Server | Microsoft Small Business

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Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) is an “all-in-one” server solution designed to help you keep your data more secure, your company more productive, and gives you the tools to present a more professional image to customers. It provides many of the features used by larger companies-e-mail, Internet connectivity, internal Web sites, remote access, support for mobile devices, file and printer sharing, backup, and restore-all at one affordable price.

Use an Affordable, Integrated Solution Windows Small Business Server 2008 is designed for small businesses. It brings together the Microsoft® technologies that small businesses need most into a single solution. These technologies are integrated to deliver a comprehensive network at an affordable price.

Protect Your Business Data Windows Small Business Server 2008 helps protect your vital business information from loss by automatically backing up the PCs and servers in your network and helping enable you to recover accidentally deleted files. Antispam and antivirus technologies help protect your information from malicious attacks, viruses, and spam.

Grow Your Business Capacity Windows Small Business Server 2008 gives you secure access to business contacts, calendars, e-mail, files, and other important desktop resources from any Internetconnected PC, from virtually anywhere at any time, so you can be productive while you’re away from the office or on the road.

via Small Business Server | Microsoft Small Business.

Oct 01

VMware: VMTN Blog: Join us: Intel-VMware supercharged live chat next Tuesday

By jeromewagner cloud computing, hardware, industry best practise, insights, server architecture No Comments »

September 30, 2009

Join us: Intel-VMware supercharged live chat next Tuesday

The Intel® Xeon® Processor Live Expert Chat. Live 10.06.09

There’s an interesting event that has been traveling under the radar until now, but it’s a unique opportunity to interact with virtualization experts from both Intel and VMware, so pay attention to this blip on your screen.

What: the Intel Xeon Processor Live Chat

When: Tuesday, October 6, 10am-12noon PDT (-7 UTC)

Where: Intel’s Open Port community site

Who will be there? This is where it really gets interesting. I’m still assembling the official biographies of the various attendees, but here’s what I know about the attendees on the VMware side:

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via VMware: VMTN Blog: Join us: Intel-VMware supercharged live chat next Tuesday.

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