Want to minimize the impact of disasters on Microsoft Windows Server applications?
Windows Server applications are often mission critical. The impact of natural, random and man-made disasters on these applications, especially email, and their subsequent disruption can cripple an organization. This white paper from Dell AppAssure Software offers advice for protecting your existing Windows Server infrastructure from disruptive application outages.
True disasters are unseen and insufficiently forecast. To minimize the impact of disasters on Microsoft Windows Server applications, proper planning, testing, and investments are required. This eGuide from Dell AppAssure Software provides information critical to any organization that seeks to avoid total disaster in the event of the unforeseen.
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At small companies or in brand-new virtual infrastructures, backup appears easy. You may be able to use a free tool that came with your hypervisor that makes VMware backup deceivingly simple. However, over time, your infrastructure will grow, the virtual machine quantities will grow, and so will the virtual disk files. At some point, usage of the virtual infrastructure will increase and the interdependence of the virtual machines will become more complex. As this happens, you’ll find what other virtualization experts have already figured out – virtualization backup can be much more complex than it seems and you need the right tool for the job. Written by David Davis, VMware vExpert.
Virtualization changes everything for IT infrastructure administration and management. One of the many traditional, and most critical, infrastructure management processes that server virtualization breaks is backup and recovery. Once server virtualization is in place, backup and recovery systems, as well as admins, have to adapt. For example,

