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Storage and virtualization: Options for storage for VMs and Virtualized Environments

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30 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) |
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Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, Focus Consulting
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| SPONSOR: |
EMC Partner Organization |
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This Videocast Q&A discusses considerations and challenges around managing storage in a virtual infrastructure. Topics include what to consider when choosing a networked storage option and desktop virtualization's impact on storage.
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Formulating a Disaster Recovery Plan - Vendor Podcast

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30 Jun 2008 |
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Jon Bock, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware
Ian Selwig, Worldwide Solutions Manager, HP StorageWorks
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| SPONSOR: |
Hewlett-Packard Company |
| SUMMARY: |
This podcast from VMware and HP showcases the simple steps to looking at disaster recovery and how to implement against the needs and wants within a current storage infrastructure.
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Connecting the Dots Between Storage and Virtualization

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27 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) |
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Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
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| SPONSOR: |
EMC Partner Organization |
| SUMMARY: |
This videocast covers the usage of storage transports for server virtualization, iSCSI's readiness for virtualization deployments, and how to choose between using iSCSI over fibre channel, and vice-versa, in virtualization deployments.
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Enhancing IT infrastructure availability with virtualization and fault tolerant servers - Expert Webcast

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Available On Demand |
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Bill Weinberg, Analyst
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| SPONSOR: |
Marathon Technologies |
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In this webcast, we discuss the ways organizations can improve the fault tolerance of their servers, new features in servers that improve fault tolerance, and best practices for keeping virtualized servers up and running.
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Protecting your Virtual Environment: Backup and Storage

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| WHEN: |
25 Jun 2008, 14:15 EDT (18:15 GMT) |
| SPEAKER: |
Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
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| SPONSOR: |
Data Center Decisions |
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In this videocast Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst for Burton Group's Data Center Strategies digs through the various methods and technologies including:
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Virtual Infrastructure Automation and High Availability Best Practices

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| WHEN: |
25 Jun 2008, 13:00 EDT (17:00 GMT) |
| SPEAKER: |
Richard Jones, Vice President & Service Director, DCS, Burton Group
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| SPONSOR: |
Data Center Decisions |
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In this videocast, HA best practices for major virtualization platforms are highlighted, along with available tools that allow organizations to take their virtual infrastructures beyond simple failover to application level orchestration and automation.
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Virtual Infrastructure Tuning and Advanced Management

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| WHEN: |
25 Jun 2008, 10:00 EDT (14:00 GMT) |
| SPEAKER: |
Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
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| SPONSOR: |
Data Center Decisions |
| SUMMARY: |
In this videocast Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst for Burton Group's Data Center Strategies service explores tuning and management concepts of the virtual infrastructure.
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Virtual Seminar: Advanced Enterprise Virtualization - Expert Webcast

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| WHEN: |
Available On Demand |
| SPONSOR: |
Data Center Decisions |
| SUMMARY: |
Participate in this seminar on June 25th to get expert guidance on managing your virtual infrastructure. The experts will touch upon topics such as how to choose virtualization candidates, migration strategies, disaster recovery considerations and more.
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Solving IT Hardware Issues: Part 1 - Server Virtualization

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20 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) |
| SPEAKER: |
Jonathan Eunice, Founder and Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata Inc.
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| SPONSOR: |
Intel Corporation |
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Watch this video with expert Jonathan Eunice, founder and principal IT advisor, at lluminata Inc. to learn about running a virtualized environment and how to create a high performance virtualized world.
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Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Virtual infrastructure analysis - Expert Videocast

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| WHEN: |
20 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) |
| SPEAKER: |
Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
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| SPONSOR: |
Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc |
| SUMMARY: |
In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification.
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Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Analysis tools and platform decisions - Expert Videocast

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| WHEN: |
20 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) |
| SPEAKER: |
Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
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| SPONSOR: |
Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc |
| SUMMARY: |
Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management.
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Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Solutions to virtual infrastructure challenges - Expert Videocast

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| WHEN: |
20 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) |
| SPEAKER: |
Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
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| SPONSOR: |
Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc |
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In this final session, Wolf discusses application selection, focusing on using chargebacks to counter physical storage challenges. He gives network architecture examples, offers some CPU considerations, and tackles issues with heterogeneous VM management.
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Choosing Servers for Production-Level Virtualization Environments: A Q&A - Expert Podcast

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17 Jun 2008 |
| SPEAKER: |
Joe Clabby, President
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| SPONSOR: |
Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc |
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In this podcast, analyst Joe Clabby is interviewed about server platform decisions points in production-level virtualization.
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Server Selection for Production-Level Virtualization Environments - Expert Webcast

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Available On Demand |
| SPEAKER: |
Joe Clabby, President
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| SPONSOR: |
Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc |
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In this webcast, analyst Joe Clabby covers the many server platform decisions points in production-level virtualization.
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Using virtualization backup and replication to protect physical servers - Expert Webcast

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Available On Demand |
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David Davis, Consultant
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| SPONSOR: |
Dell, Inc. |
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In this webcast, server virtualization expert David Davis describes the pros and cons of and best practices for using virtualization-based backup and replication to protect physical servers.
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