TechRepublic Resources
- Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based...
- Tags: Failover, Continuous Data Protection, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Best Practice, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-04-23
- Network Load Balancing Technical Overview
- Network Load Balancing, a clustering technology included in the Windows® 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server operating systems, enhances the scalability and availability of mission-critical, TCP/IP-based services, such as Web, Terminal Services, virtual private networking, and streaming media servers. The unique and fully distributed architecture of Network Load Balancing enables...
- Tags: Network Load Balancing, Network, Clustering, Failover, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers
- TechNet Webcast: Achieving Higher Scalability With SQL Server on Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (Level 300)
- This webcast focuses on planning, implementing, and administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 failover cluster on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition. To ease the upgrade process for existing users of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 failover clustering, the webcast also point out the differences between a SQL Server 2005...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Failover, Scalability, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Databases, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- Universitas 21 Global Extends Its Reach and Slashes IT Costs by 50%
- Established in Singapore in 2001, Universitas 21 Global conducts all its classes online. With all its business in online, high availability is critical to Universitas 21 Global's success. However, before the business school deployed Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters, its standalone database servers were not integrated and information updates...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Failover, Server, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Company Achieves the Security of True Mirrored Data and a Disaster-Resistant Enterprise Platform
- WildCard Systems is a leader in stored-value cards. The company recognized that future growth was imminent and wanted to institute a replication method that would provide a highly available and scalable database solution - with mirrored data in its two data center locations. The company chose to upgrade to Microsoft...
- Tags: Security, Data Center, Failover, Microsoft Corp., WildCard Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- German Paper Manufacturer to Deploy SAP With SQL Server 2005 (64-Bit)
- Koehler Paper, which has five plants in Germany creating specialty papers, and annual revenue of U.S.$715 million, needed a better failover system for activating the backup computer for its 200 gigabyte relational database supporting its SAP deployment. The company also wanted to centralize information from more than 300 Microsoft Access...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Failover, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, 64-Bit, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- Regional Hospital Avoids Disaster by Virtualizing Mainframe Gateways
- Denver Health uses a mainframe application to track nearly every aspect of patient health care, from hospital records to billing information. Connections to the mainframe are routed over SNA (Systems Network Architecture) gateways in the data center. Most of the gateways were running on old, outdated hardware and were not...
- Tags: Hospital, Failover, SNA, Denver Health, Mainframes, Networking, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Real Estate Company Reduces TCO by 50 Percent and Expects to Increase ROI
- Real estate services provider SARES?REGIS Group wanted to upgrade to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne release 8.9. However, its current environment used an IBM AS400 server computer that had already exceeded its expected life cycle, making it difficult to support and limiting its functionality. In addition, the IBM mainframe also lacked failover...
- Tags: Failover, ROI, TCO, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Roi/Tco, Real Estate, Mainframes, Servers, Databases, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Achieve Cost Effective HA With Veritas Cluster Server
- Achieving High Availability/Directory Recovery does not need to be expensive. The presenter of this webcast will explain how to drive down the costs of providing high availability protection for mission critical applications by deploying large HA clusters employing advanced failover logic. Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) enables cost effective high availability...
- Tags: VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS Software Corp., Failover, High Availability, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Packaging Company Lowers Costs and Administration Time With Messaging Server
- Paperboard packaging manufacturer Graphic Packaging International (GPI) wanted to consolidate 22 messaging server computers, migrate 1,800 Lotus Notes mailboxes, and upgrade 1,700 mailboxes at a new centralized location in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition, GPI wanted to simplify how remote users log on to its network. Because of the company's previous...
- Tags: Administration, Failover, Microsoft Exchange Server, Server Computer, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Operating Systems
- Case studies
- Architecting Linux High-Availability Clusters - Part 2
- In the past, clusters for high-availability (HA) solutions were expensive and usually required proprietary hardware and software support. Today, with the availability of Linux HA software solutions, users can build a cost-effective, high-availability environment for their business-critical applications. This paper addresses methods for protecting shared storage, resolving internode communication failures,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Failover, High-availability, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers
- Directory Proxy
- LDAP Directories are already among the most highly-reliable directory services available. However, off-the-shelf applications are rarely designed to take full advantage of the failover capabilities available in different directory products and the complex designs that directory architects create (they are "minimally" LDAP-enabled). OctetString's Virtual Directory Engine (VDE) and the VDE...
- Tags: Failover, OctetString Inc., LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- Portal-based delegation of network services? You can with iControl
- I have found great benefits in using delegation of network services internally. These services include virtual IP addresses for load-balanced Web servers, application servers that run Web services, and systems that have a remote data center or failover capability. The virtual IP addresses, when paired with DNS names, offer great...
- Tags: Team, Network, Network Service, Failover, Delegation, Portals, Team Management, Networking, Internet, Management, Rick Vanover
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid failover Scenarios Version 1.1
- The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In...
- Tags: Failover, Grid, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Storage Management, Mainframes, Utility Computing, It Services, Hardware, Storage, Servers
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Ensure basic Web site security with this checklist
- While I normally advocate a principles-based approach to maintaining system security --Â and deplore the typical "best practices" checklist approach --Â that doesn't mean that security checklists are without value. Employing a security procedures checklist is only the first step toward securing a resource, a means of aiding your memory...
- Tags: Web, Password, Network, Failover, TLS, Server, Web Site, Resource, Encryption, Authentication, Login Credential, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Valero Uses failover Clustering to Reduce System Recovery Time From Days to Minutes
- Valero needed an IT infrastructure with the resiliency to support refinery and business operations in a disaster situation. To protect mission-critical applications and communications, Valero deployed Windows Server 2008 with failover clustering to 90 users in its IT Infrastructure team. It built a two-node failover cluster in Microsoft Exchange Server...
- Tags: Recovery, Failover, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 16: Deliver IBM Tivoli System Automation Configurations Quickly Using the failover Configuration Pattern
- This paper, Part 16 in the series, shows the user how to rapidly deliver IBM Tivoli System Automation (TSA) configurations using IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA). Businesses need High Availability (HA) enterprise solutions, but current methods of delivering those solutions are complex and expensive. Common solutions exist, but reuse is...
- Tags: Failover, IBM Corp., J2Ee, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-01-09
- TechNet Webcast: failover Clustering and Quorum in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Storage (Level 300)1
- This webcast covers the new cluster storage architecture and describes how the new quorum model works in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The presenter explores the new way that how shared storage is managed, how clustering is now totally Storage Area Network (SAN) friendly, how failover clusters arbitrate for disks to...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, Enterprise Storage, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-01-31
- TechNet Webcast: Geographically Dispersed failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (Level 300)1
- As Windows Server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large-scale, high-end, mission-critical parts of organizations, the requirements for disaster tolerance and business continuance become more and more important. The goal in this webcast is to cover how to build a complete high-availability solution with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise failover...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-01-28
- Bridgestone Uses failover Clustering to Cut Disaster-Recovery Time and Penalty Costs
- Bridgestone Australia Ltd. is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of tires in Australia. Bridgestone relies on its e-mail system for order fulfillment and other business-critical activities. In the past, if e-mail servers were to have failed, manual recovery procedures may have required as much as an entire day....
- Tags: Fulfillment, Failover, Disaster Recovery, Bridgestone Australia Ltd., E-mail, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-01
