Communicating IT Solutions and Their Benefits to Management
Technical people and business people don’t always speak the same language. IT managers and administrators who understand the business goals and realities of their company are able to evaluate and select technology that will help meet goals while staying within budget. In best case scenarios, the technology they select actually saves the company money. The hard part is often explaining the benefits of chosen technology to business people who have to sign off on the investment.
This white paper outlines and illustrates how to create a business case for new technology. It uses the example of fictitious companies that is currently spending quite a bit of money on a tape‐based data backup and restoration solution. While features and benefits are an important part of the case, the focus is on business advantage: cost savings through improved operations and fast return on investment.
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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.
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,
