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IT managers and business professionals are increasingly drawn to the cost effectiveness of online services to back up and recover corporate data distributed throughout their business on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

Maximize Efficiency and Availability with Hyper-V R2 and NetApp. View this on-demand Webcast to learn how you can increase resource utilization, streamline management, and maximize uptime in your Microsoft environment.

You'll learn about the best storage configurations for Hyper-V, NetApp's virtualization "sweet spot," and Avanade's firsthand experience with two much-anticipated R2 features: Cluster Shared Volumes and Live Migration.

This paper addresses how NetApp storage supports all strategies for SQL Server consolidation.

View this on-demand webcast to gain insight into design considerations and deployment best practices for SharePoint in a virtualized environment.

This article examines how you can go about virtualizing your SharePoint environment (either SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010) using Microsoft Hyper-VT and NetApp® storage.

This whitepaper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution.

This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft® SQL Server®, Exchange, and SharePoint® Server data along with your Windows® files using NetApp® storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments.

This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment with a goal of simplifying, protecting, and consolidating physical servers hosting Microsoft applications.

Since Adobe debuted the PDF file format in the early 1990s, it has become the defacto standard for electronic documents in many markets. While engineers, publishers, and printers push the format to its technical limits with rich media and 3-D content, the general office worker comprises the PDF-using majority.

Enhance business productivity with streamlined communications and collaboration.

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Microsoft's UC products on their organizations. Forrester's aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis.

Enterprises are always seeking to cut costs and optimize resource utilization. Now, in this harsh economic climate, the need is more compelling than ever. This paper highlights potential savings exceeding $5,000,000 per year for each 1,000 employees through the application of Microsoft Unified Communications to your business and IT operations.

Over the past year, Microsoft and associated research companies have interviewed hundreds of technology professionals at organizations around the world that are either preparing to deploy or in the midst of deploying unified communications (UC). From these discussions, a picture has emerged of the far-reaching impact of UC on the structure of the IT organization, how this affects evaluation and preparation for deployment, and how the resulting changes in IT's structure may be leveraged to promote increased efficiency, collaboration, and employee satisfaction.

The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Microsoft Exchange 2010 on their organizations. Forrester's aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should use this study to better understand and communicate a business case for investing in Microsoft Exchange 2010.

This study illustrates the financial impact of adopting a single-vendor approach for providing the latest collaboration tools while centralizing the messaging environment for lower-cost IT administration.

In our latest Point of View, "The Dirtiest Word In Business," Airfoil has assembled a collective set of best practices to help technology marketers meet the communications challenges of a new digital decade.

Protect Against Business Downtime and Disaster with Rapid, Reliable Backup and Recovery

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This paper addresses the many Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint implementations running on inefficient storage infrastructures, limiting scalability and complicating what should be fairly simple storage management tasks.

LifeLink Foundation needed to provide business continuity and DR of critical transplant related information to multiple locations and needed to manage DR planning and implementation in a hurricane zone. Learn how VMware & Dell EqualLogic worked together to implement two remote sites providing consolidated virtual storage, snapshot-based backup and recovery.

This technical report will discuss the installation and configuration of Site Recovery Manager with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays. It will cover setup, testing, failover, failback and troubleshooting. This document is designed to be used in conjunction with the Administrator Guide for Site Recovery Manager and assumes a prior knowledge of VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

According to recent surveys, employee social networking is growing rapidly. Learn the pros and cons of employee social networking, from creating business development opportunities to just goofing off. Also, learn how social networking is raising new challenges for enterprise security, and the distinct advantages of implementing MessageLabs Web Services.

A close look at the data provides a clear picture of how spammers vary their tactics to overwhelm traditional corporate email defenses, through changes in duration, frequency and intensity among others. This whitepaper will help you understand these threats to your business, and how MessageLabs provides a unique solution.

In order to better understand where spyware is going, or more importantly, where it’s evolved from, we actually need to wind the clock back a lot further than may be first imagined; in fact, over fifteen years. If we look at the embryonic stages of the anti-virus industry, around sixteen years ago there were the first boot-sector viruses. It has taken this time for viruses as we’ve traditionally known them to evolve towards the more commercially viable, or intellectual-property-theft status that we now associate with contemporary viruses, a fact not realized by many. This whitepaper goes in-depth to discuss the history of spyware and its evolving future.