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Navigating backup and recovery in VMware environments

Backup and storage managers can gain some useful insights from this white paper, particularly if they’re responsible for protecting data, or meeting SLAs for applications on VMware servers.
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Guide to virtual server protection

More than 41,000 customers around the world, and nearly half of the Global 500, rely on HP Data Protector software to protect their critical applications and data. Data Protector simplifies application protection through unified recovery and advanced automation. Global, one-touch backup configuration and a wide range of disk-based recovery options across HP and non-HP arrays, including fully-automated down-to-the-second application recovery, help you meet any SLA for up to 70% less cost than competitive backup software solutions.
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News

VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

Wanova will help VMware realize its vision for the future of desktops

Dell's profits shrinks in the first quarter

Dell's overall revenue falls by 4 percent and consumer revenue falls by 12 percent.

Amazon cloud scalability helped drive Pinterest growth

Rapid increase in Pinterest use wouldnot have been possible without AWS, company engineer Ryan Park says

SAP building on HANA to become big player in databases and mobile

The HANA in-memory platform will be bolstered by Sybase's array of database technologies

Google responds to European questionnaire on new privacy policy

The search giant only found answers to 24 of the European data protection authorities' 69 questions

In Depth

Five secrets your cloud provider wont tell you about multi-tenancy (and how to overcome them)

Low-cost cloud computing and storage can be a boon for IT managers with tight budgets looking to get as much computing power for their money as they possibly can.
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Is your BYOD policy out of date?

As consumerisation continues to spread throughout the enterprise, IT decision makers must remain on their toes, tracking and anticipating end user behavior and deploying technology to protect against productivity losses and data breaches, one researcher says.
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Cloud computing skills shortage forces CIOs to grow their own

When Majestic Realty Co, a Los Angeles-based commercial real estate developer, moved to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) for cloud-based email in early 2011, CIO Jon Grunzweig was shocked by the lack of technical support he found for BPOS in the marketplace.
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BYOD troubleshooting - Security and cost-savings

A few months ago, a Hungarian man got a hold of a business executive's personal mobile device containing corporate customer data. The man called up the company asking for $50,000 to not expose the information. What did the company do? It called Websense, an enterprise security company.
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Data centre efficiency: The metrics that matter

Data centre efficiency has become the holy grail of IT professionals. Virtualisation, together with public and private cloud and rising energy costs have changed the nature of enterprise IT, highlighting new opportunities and challenges.
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