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In This Issue:  Backup/Recovery Performance and Best Practices for Exadata Cell       Making Virtual Desktops Work for Growing Businesses       Systems Optimization Self Assessment       A Practical Guide to Successful Data Deduplication       CIO Challenges: The Best Defense is a Good Offense         Virtualized Disaster Recovery       Optimizing Server Management     Embracing and Empowering the Consumerization of IT               Featured Webcast:      T O M O R R O W ! Elastic Caching: How the Performance and Scalability of Web Applications Directly Impacts your Organization Sept 22, 2011 - 2PM EST   Elastic caching enables the enterprise to scale to more effectively service the smarter, instrumented, interconnected and intelligent devices and machines.   IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale can deliver sub-second response time for each application, freeing up resources to enable more business transaction processing.    Join WebSphereTechnical Evangelist, Charles Le Vay and learn how IBM elastic caching can give you the competitive edge that you need to create smarter customer solutions.         Visit the Webcast library!  Webinars, Videos, Digital Events and More!

Whitepapers & Technical Briefings  Embracing and Empowering the Consumerization of IT Employees’ selection and use of hardware and software platforms – made independently from and without IT’s blessing – is becoming increasingly common in organizations of all sizes.  The result is that a growing proportion of the IT infrastructure in many companies actually consists of tools that individual users and workgroups are deploying without IT’s knowledge or blessing.  Understand the upside and downside of this trend, as well as how to turn it into a competitive advantage.   Optimizing Server Management HP Insight Control is essential server management that unlocks the management capabilities built into your HP ProLiant servers.  Insight Control delivers powerful capabilities that enable you to proactively manage ProLiant server health - whether physical or virtual, deploy ProLiant servers quickly, optimize power consumption, and control ProLiant servers from anywhere.  Read more to find out how HP ProLiant servers with Intel processors utilize Insight Control.     Virtualized Disaster Recovery Cost-efficient, dependable solutions for virtualized disaster recovery and business continuity.  Ensuring business-critical data and applications survive a site outage is paramount to the life of your business.  Growing data volumes, complex applications and the cost of additional hardware, tools and training for a secondary location make the insurance policy of an effective disaster recovery plan expensive and hard to implement. Virtualization continues to gain widespread adoption in mainstream IT, and the benefits are evident - it allows businesses to improve their IT efficiency while continuing to drive down costs through consolidation.   CIO Challenges: The Best Defense is a Good Offense Today, there is a lot of pressure on executives to perform during this time of economic recovery.  Survey results show that the best defense from the downed economy is an aggressive offensive of current and future revenue generation.  It is also clear, however, that this is a short-term strategy.  Learn how CIOs are building a foundation for a much more agile business that holds the potential for working in a more flexible way and enabling faster innovation by actively evaluating and experimenting with newer technologies.     A Practical Guide to Successful Data Deduplication The data explosion shows no signs of slowing down.  It’s a primary contributor to IT sprawl - which is taking business performance to the breaking point. The benefits from data deduplication start with increasing overall data integrity and end with reducing overall data protection costs.  What are the pragmatic questions to ask your deduplication implementation team/vendor and considerations designed to minimize surprises along the way.   Systems Optimization Self Assessment Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources.  Drive out cost and improve service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization self assessment.     Making Virtual Desktops Work for Growing Businesses Virtualization has quickly moved from the enterprise data center to the desktop and is now an affordable solution, promising to make desktops as efficient as today's bleeding-edge data warehouses. This IT Managers' Journal covers all the topics needed to effectively deploy Virtual Desktops in today's small and mid-sized organizations. Topics covered include: desktop management, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), best practices, cost savings and TCO recommendations; and much more.     Backup/Recovery Performance and Best Practices for Exadata Cell The Sun Oracle Database Machine is an easy to deploy, out-of-the-box solution for hosting the oracle Database.  It’s a “grid in a box” that is composed of database servers running Oracle Database, Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers (Exadata), an InfiniBand fabric for storage networking, and all the other components required to host an Oracle Database. Exadata delivers outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW), and consolidation of mixed workloads.   This paper describes the best practices for setting up the optimal backup and recovery strategy to protect your mission-critical data.

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