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Today's attacks on IT infrastructure are becoming more frequent, targeted and sophisticated. They range from well-funded, state-sponsored attacks to attacks from trusted employees and consultants.
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As organizations today face the challenge of protecting their valuable data, they must balance that protection with giving business users and customers access to the data.
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Today's threats to critical systems and valuable data come from more sources than ever-a ticked off employee who seeks revenge, or activists seeking to expose sensitive data.
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Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. For some organizations, it allows disk-based backup-and, importantly, recovery-to be extended to additional workloads in the environment. For others, deduplication makes it possible to introduce disk-based backup where it may not have been feasible before.
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As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
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Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance.
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Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
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Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
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The CIO Executive Council is launching a new program to gather and distill investment and benefits data on major IT initiatives in six technology areas: BI, Cloud, CRM, Desktop Virtualization, ERP and Mobility. The survey will take less than 5 minutes, and at the end you will have the opportunity to sign up to directly receive overall results, providing peer intelligence for you to use as you make strategic IT decisions. Take the Survey
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