SteelEye Technology: Move it or lose it

Author : SteelEye Technology
Date : 3/13/2009 2:43:00 PM

Eric Burgener (Taneja Group) and Dave Bermingham (SteelEye Technology) discuss replication technology and the advantages—and disadvantages—of various approaches to securing your firm’s data.

One of the most popular solutions is to use replication to enable disaster recovery. Users face the problem of getting data offsite; in the past people generally backed up to tape and took it offsite only at the end of the day or week. Data replication now enables users to keep a real-time copy of data offsite, which can happen in real-time through asynchronous replication across a wide area network to a recovery site or even to a cloud storage repository.

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IMI interviews Guy Churchward Vice President of WebLogic

IMI interviews Guy Churchward, BEA Vice President of WebLogic Products to discuss trends in the industry and new product developments at BEA around virtualization and event driven architectures.

BEA is focused on increasing utilization, getting performance rates back up and is also looking at migration technologies. This expands their existing customer portfolio and offers value for them to get increased virtualization in industries such as financial services, government and telecommunications.

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Microsoft Virtualization Podcast, Douglas Brown interviews Dr. Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Technical

Security implications of virtualization Advantages and disadvantage of virtualization "Virtualization is the end of the OS"

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Microsoft AppV Application Virtualization

Author : Microsoft Corporation

Karri Alexion-Tiernan, Director of the Windows Client division has done a great Podcast on the features AppV 4.5, Microsoft’s newest version of the Application Virtualization software formerly known as Softgrid. Karri does a great job of talking about the features, benefits and limitations of AppV.

Application virtualization is able to be layered on top of other virtualization technologies to create a fully virtual IT environment where computing resources can be allocated based on real-time needs. App-V's patented application virtualization, dynamic streaming delivery, and centralized management technologies make everything from deployments and upgrades to migrations and business continuity initiatives easier and faster with better agility.

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PlateSpin: Under the Microscope

Author : PlateSpin

Disaster recovery just got simpler. Join Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group Data Center Strategies and John Stetic, Director of Product Management for the Systems and Resource Management Unit, Novell, as they discuss PlateSpin’s latest recovery software products: PlateSpin PowerConvert and PlateSpin Forge.

PlateSpin have taken a very interesting approach to being able to help people change the way they look at doing disaster recovery or operational recovery assistance. They focus on whole workload protection. When talking about a server workload, they talk about the operating system application data; the software stack that’s running in your environment. PlateSpin’s approach is to help people focus on being able to use virtualization as a recovery platform for their production environment.

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