This presentation will guide you through the benefits of virtualisation in business continuity and will look at its benefits while giving you some real world best practice advice on deployment and delivery

Allpoint Security is a specialist information security consultancy - specialising in the security of data (at-rest and in-transit). We have several years experience in the virtualisation arena. Security consultants to the European Union, several financial and commercial organisations – Allpoint also work on UK Government projects up to secret level.

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Anue Systems: Network Emulation and Monitoring Optimization solutions. Network equipment vendors, enterprises, and service providers use the Network Emulator to test the impact of the WAN on networked applications. Fortune 2000 companies use the Net Tool Optimizer to optimize their network visibility, tool utilization, and staff productivity for monitoring activities.

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Atlanta Technology is a trusted IT partner offering scalable, cost-effective IT solutions to SMEs. Atlanta has developed a cloud-based offer that removes the burden of managing expensive in-house IT resources, allowing customers to focus on core business issues. Corporate Cloud Computing; Hosted Disaster Recovery; Server & Storage Virtualisation.

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brightsolid online technology is a leading provider of Utility and Cloud Computing Services. brightsolid provides business critical managed hosting, high speed connectivity, robust disaster recovery and business continuity services from its state of the art data centre. brightsolid utilises the latest virtualisation technologies and is the trusted technology partner for a broad range of businesses and government organisations throughout the UK. brightsolid minds – consultancy practice....

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Check Point Software Technologies is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for physical or virtual networks, data and endpoints. Check Point's dynamic Software Blade architecture delivers secure, flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customised to meet any organisations security needs. Check Point's VPN-1 Virtual Edition (VE) works with VMSafe to offer enterprise class security to the virtual world.

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Dataplex Systems Ltd is the UK’s leading independent ICT consultancy delivering pervasive and innovative solutions from the desktop to the datacentre. Our solutions are architected by skilled consultants and architects who have been responsible for some of the most pioneering and successful projects in the UK and Europe.

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F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast, and available for everyone. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications and optimize the data storage layer, F5 extends the power of intelligent networking to all levels of application delivery. F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network, and delivers a...

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Intel Corporation

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Intergence Systems is a leading independent IT Optimisation Consultancy, headquartered in Cambridge, UK, and with regional offices in the Middle East and the Americas. The company was established in 2003 in response to clients' growing requirements for high level impartial expertise in networks and IT. We enable all types of business to extract incremental value from their existing IT environments, particularly in voice/data networks, data centres and security. Our solutions integrate our...

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Integrating network solutions, management and technical support services 24x7, our expertise spans a range of technologies, turning technology into effective solutions, improving productivity, efficiency, and delivering real ROI. Fully accredited with our partners, we deliver secure, high-performance solutions. Clients include the largest SPs, Enterprise, and the Public Sector.

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Overland Storage is the trusted global provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the data lifecycle. By providing an integrated range of technologies and services for primary, nearline, offline, archival, and cloud data storage, Overland makes it cost effective to manage different tiers of information over time. Whether distributed data is across the hall or across the globe, Overland enables companies to focus on building their business instead of worrying a...

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Pro-Net have been providing Intra/Internet related services to UK business and government departments for over 14years. We are a leading edge technical solutions provider that is well respected for being independent and impartial. Our goals are: * Independence * Innovation * Flexibility * Specialisation * Technical excellence

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Customers as different as the New York Stock Exchange, DreamWorks, Credit Suisse, Amazon.com, Autotrader, Transport for London and Morgan Stanley depend on Red Hat for innovative, affordable solutions based on open source technologies. Why choose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization? Red Hat removes the cost, security and scalability barriers that currently hold back 100% enterprise-wide virtualization. Choosing Red Hat means: -Ready-to-go virtualization for even the most demanding mis...

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RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, is driving a fundamental shift in the way organizations of any size manage and reduce the cost of their PC populations. The company empowers customers to manage an increasingly complex desktop ecosystem and meet the essential needs of a dynamic workforce that requires on-demand access to their personalized workspaces. Designed for physical or virtual desktop platforms, RES Software’s award-winning, patented technology enables IT pr...

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Systancia is a software company specialising in desktop and application virtualisation solutions. In just a few years, Systancia has established itself as the leading alternative application and desktop virtualisation solution provider on the market, based on its capacity for innovation. Currently experiencing substantial growth in France and the rest of Europe, Systancia expects a revenue growth of 150% in 2010. Systancia has recently launched AppliDis Fusion 4, the industry’ first so...

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By developing simple yet intelligent software, triCerat’s solutions prevent known system limitations while maintaining and improving the end users experience. triCerat is a Citrix Ready Technology Partner, a Certified Microsoft Partner, and VMWare Technology Alliance Partner.

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Vcentral specialise in the design and delivery of innovative business solutions which help organisations streamline processes, optimise existing assets and save money. By providing vendor independent advice and expertise in all areas of virtualisation, from desktops and their applications, to servers and storage, Vcentral tailor solutions to meet the individual requirements and budgets of today’s enterprise. Working with Vcentral our customers are finding new ways of empowering technology...

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Veeam Software, a premier-level VMware Technology Alliance Partner and member of the VMware Ready Management program, provides innovative software for managing VMware vSphere 4 and VMware Infrastructure 3. Veeam offers an award-winning suite of tools to assist the VMware administrator, including #1 for VMware backup: Veeam Backup & Replication; Veeam Reporter, for VMware documentation, change management, and capacity planning; Veeam Monitor, for VMware performance monitoring and alertingacros...

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Vizioncore Inc. an industry leader is helping thousands of organizations maximize their ROI from their virtualization environments. Uniquely offering a comprehensive set of virtualization management solutions that automate complex processes, P2V/V2V conversions, DR, storage optimization, process automation/provisioning and performance monitoring & chargeback. Founded in 2002, Vizioncore Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quest Software,headquartered in Chicago, IL, Vizioncore is a lead...

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“With Veeam Reporter Enterprise,
I was able to install the product
and get the documentation I
needed, all within 90 minutes.”

— Daryl Hunter,
Senior IT Architect
LifeChurch.tv

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“We don’t have to switch to another console
to monitor our virtual infrastructure
because the Veeam nworks Management
Pack supports a centralized monitoring
approach using Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager.”

— Roy Braad
IT Coordinator
ArcelorMittal Bremen

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Oxford County Council is responsible for running a wide range of community services such as education, social and community services, environment and planning, roads and transport, fire services, and trading standards. There are some 8,000 Council network users and an installed base of 7,000 PCs and laptops.

RES_RC_Oxfordshire_County_Council.PDF 150.13 kB

“Veeam Monitor has exceptional
scalability and is now our
preferred standard for VMware
management software.”

— John Ross
Chief Technology Officer
GreenPages

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“From our experience, we see no other
solution that provides the speed,
reliability, and efficient use of backup
storage space of Veeam Backup &
Replication. If you look closely at how
other products ‘integrate’ with VMware,
most will come up short.”

— Don Richhart, CTS
Network Administrator
KJWW

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When it comes to the environment, thin clients provide an ecologically advantageous alternative to the classic PC. A world class leader in the thin client industry, IGEL Technology shows how its devices are environmentally safe and user friendly.

Under the environment hub.pdf 470.99 kB

VMware’s latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere,
includes many new features and technological enhancements over
its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). While there are several
reasons to upgrade to vSphere, this white paper focuses on how
VMware improved various storage technologies, how these relate to
data backup and recovery, and how the new vStorage application
programming interfaces (APIs) allow for better storage integration
with third-party backup applications.

_files_whitepapers_5-ways-vmware-vsphere-improves-backup-and-recovery.pdf 659.70 kB

The volume of data created and stored by organisations continues to grow at amazing rates. Driven by the continued automation of many business processes, and the expansion of customer facing systems, the sheer quantity of data is causing problems for most IT departments.

A Comparison of Disk Based Data Protection Techniques.pdf.pdf 1.25 MB

A simple introduction to Intelligent Building using SYSTIMAX Solutions from CommScope

An Introduction to Intelligent Buildings.pdf 839.15 kB

This guide provides an overview of our security product offerings and services. It also explains market trends and provides several security system diagrams.

IP_Security_Infrastructure_Guide.pdf 1.77 MB

A guide that focuses on educating security installers and integrators on the importance of installing the correct infrastructure whether the customer is requesting a security solution that requires traditional analog, hybrid or full-blown digital/IP.

IP_Video_Surveillance_Guide.pdf 1.56 MB

To establish highly efficient operations, the consensus among CIOs is that
virtualization of systems and storage is the magic bullet for achieving higher IT resource
utilization and lowering management costs. That has administrators at many IT sites
now working with limited numbers of abstract device pools rather than multiple
instances of proprietary devices. Nonetheless, system and storage virtualization also
introduces multiple levels of logical abstraction and resource redirection that can obscure
and complicate important IT operations.

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IGEL Technology, one of the world’s top five thin client vendors, has delivered a new range of Universal Desktop devices. Its thin client devices are aimed at small, medium, and large organisations across all verticals and address both the issues associated with traditional PCs, and the opportunities offered by digital services and desktop virtualisation. IGEL’s new Universal Desktop devices and Universal Management Suite offer a good range of hardware functionality and management controls, supporting the full spectrum of digital services using a variety of connection methods. Of particular note is IGEL’s introduction of a Universal Firmware Concept, whereby just one firmware image per operating system is available across all hardware platforms and Entry, Standard, and Advanced digital service ‘packs’ can be unlocked during manufacture. In Butler Group’s opinion, IGEL’s solution would benefit any organisation that wants to reduce its power consumption (and associated carbon footprint), consolidate desktop devices (remove the need for telephones, for example), and reduce the overall management overhead of desktop device provision.

Butler Group Technology Audit.pdf 670.38 kB

IT managers all have a common dream: a secure, economical and easy-to-administer standard desktop unit that can handle all user scenarios. But the reality often looks quite different as they need to cope with a varied assortment of PCs, thin clients, laptops, PDA and smart phones. So, the big question is: What desktop strategy comes as close to the ideal one imagined by users, security administrators and CIOs?

Desktop strategy for the future.pdf 271.09 kB

In order ensure that the transition to a new or improved desktop infrastructure runs smoothly, IT departments need to consider User Workspace Management solutions as essential. Desktop Transformation solves the problem of how to make the move from a desktop situation to managed User Workspaces.

By using the Desktop Sampler, the Workspace Designer, and the Workspace Model together, the IT professional is able to transform desktops to managed user workspaces step-by-step, whilst maintaining a clear picture of the effects each action has.

Desktop Transformation is an integral part of RES PowerFuse 2010 user workspace management software from RES Software. For more information please visit www.ressoftware.com. Here you will not only find more information about RES PowerFuse, but you can also download a 60-day evaluation version of RES PowerFuse 2010 so that you can see for yourself what Desktop Transformation can mean to your organization

Desktop Transformation[1].pdf 432.45 kB

Key ingredients for building an Internal Cloud

eight-key-ingredients-building-internal-cloud.pdf 1.23 MB

A helpful tool that provides detailed information on the industry’s up-to-date standards.

Stand_Ref_Guide.pdf 1.31 MB

Different business needs and changing IT strategies have created heterogeneous desktop environments that combine PCs, thin clients, laptops and other mobile devices. The right computing and management strategy is key to a permanent reduction in administrative overhead.

How to deal with mixed desktop environments.pdf 281.32 kB

Continuous data protection (or CDP) has been used by large enterprises for some
time for disaster recovery and to achieve the highest level of business continuity.
CDP synchronizes tier 1 data between sites to ensure availability of the most critical
enterprise applications. Until recently, CDP has been used only by the largest
companies and only for their most critical data. Even though these enterprises
would like to use CDP for lower priority tier 2 data—and small and medium
businesses (SMBs) would love any type of CDP—it was simply cost-prohibitive.

_files_whitepapers_virtualization_makes_disaster_recovery_affordable_david_davis.pdf 1,018.78 kB

CommScope answers some frequently asked questions about Intelligent Building Infrastructure Solutions

IBIS Questions and Answers.pdf 139.03 kB

CommScope offers intelligent Building Infrastructure Solutions that provide a robust common infrastructure and convergence for all of a building's systems.

An exconomic overview

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In the current versatile user community, a user is no longer bound to any single device. Although assets still need to be kept secure, the need arises for a user-centric security approach, where security rules are aligned with the use of those assets.

RES whitepaper - Security Realizing asset-centric and user-centric approaches to security_LR.pdf 221.67 kB

With the increased reliance on information technology, the success of an organization is dependent on the high availability of its IT infrastructure, data, and applications. Today, data is the lifeline for organizations, and any unplanned downtime affects the company’s bottom line. Because of this, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity are no longer an option, they are a requirement. By combining Riverbed’s award-winning Wide-area Data Services (WDS) appliances with VMware’s virtualization solutions, enterprises can implement a high performance DR solution that will result in improved uptime of data while simultaneously reducing bandwidth costs.

VMware Disaster Recovery.pdf 480.87 kB

With the increased reliance on information technology, the success of an organization is dependent on the high availability of its IT infrastructure, data, and applications. Today, data is the lifeline for organizations, and any unplanned downtime affects the company’s bottom line. Because of this, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity are no longer an option, they are a requirement. By combining Riverbed’s award-winning Wide-area Data Services (WDS) appliances with VMware’s virtualization solutions, enterprises can implement a high performance DR solution that will result in improved uptime of data while simultaneously reducing bandwidth costs.

VMware Disaster Recovery.pdf 480.87 kB

With the increased reliance on information technology, the success of an organization is dependent on the high availability of its IT infrastructure, data, and applications. Today, data is the lifeline for organizations, and any unplanned downtime affects the company’s bottom line. Because of this, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity are no longer an option, they are a requirement. By combining Riverbed’s award-winning Wide-area Data Services (WDS) appliances with VMware’s virtualization solutions, enterprises can implement a high performance DR solution that will result in improved uptime of data while simultaneously reducing bandwidth costs.

VMware Disaster Recovery.pdf 480.87 kB

FINAL IDC White Paper.pdf 381.87 kB

The Next Generation Data Center

Next generation data centers will not tolerate the inefficiencies of today. The data center of the future will do away with the physical ties that hold us back from meeting top business priorities. Perhaps more importantly, nothing in the data center will be useless. Business decisions will drive application choices and policies. The applications will provide their requirements to the virtualized platform and that platform will instantly respond. The virtualized platform will consist of processors running at different speeds connected by network connections of different bandwidths and protocols to storage and data that spans different storage systems on different continents. All components are disposable and will run at or near 100% utilization.

_files_whitepapers_esg_wp_the_data_center_of_the_future.pdf 455.00 kB

Learn how to maximize your network performance by choosing the right cabling for your needs.

Twisted-pair_Ethernet_CopperCablingforHighPerformanceNetworkign.pdf 376.43 kB

This White Paper provides a brief description of User Workspace Management and its critical importance to desktop virtualization deployments.

User Workspace Management and Desktop Virtualization[1].pdf 311.77 kB

The nworks Management Pack (MP) 5.0 updates Veeam’s leading‐edge solution for distributed VMware Infrastructure monitoring and management with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.
Responding to customer feedback and continuing to work closely with VMware, version 5.0 includes the following enhancements while maintaining VMware VI3 backward compatibility:

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Virtualization Guide on vSphere 4.0

VMware_vSphere4_overview.pdf 1.09 MB

Many IT organisations are, to varying degrees, implementing VMware technology to create multiple virtual servers on selected physical servers. Use of these virtual servers provides a variety of benefits – including reduced capital spending on hardware, reduced demands on power and cooling capacity, and more flexible allocation of processing capacity.

This article discusses tools and approaches that can be used to both overcome the limitations of VMware’s tools and also to manage the complexity within a partially virtualised data centre, concluding that these approaches will also enable virtualisation to be more broadly deployed.

Avocent_VM_Management_WP.pdf 790.38 kB

VMware Virtualization Advantages

VMware virtualization advantages.pdf 1.01 MB

Converged Infrastructure:
A converged infrastructure enables an organisation to do more with fewer resources. Converged Infrastructure solutions drive business agility, innovation and performance improvements, while reducing risk, complexity and cost.
IT proliferation has stretched many businesses to breaking point, and business agility is severely constrained. Converged infrastructure, a holistic solution that enables all end user sub systems to work in tandem on a single IP network, offers new and more effective ways of working which address the following typical challenges:

• Escalating IT management and administration costs
• A desire to move mission-critical environments to standards-based infrastructure
• Limited datacenter space; need to improve server consolidation, virtualisation, and utilisation
• Risk associated with older legacy systems
• A need to grow and scale capacity in line with shrinking IT budgets
• Break free of proprietary solutions to achieve true inter-operability through the adoption of open industry standards
• An approach to unifying multiple communications methods: voice, e-mail, messaging, video etc
• Security threats

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VMware Monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Plugin for VMware monitoring management with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Get more value from your investment in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager with the Veeam nworks Management Pack for VMware.

The nworks MP provides distributed monitoring and management of the VMware infrastructure (VI3 and vSphere) fully integrated into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. It publishes VMware configuration, performance, state, capacity, topology, and VMware vCenter™ events directly into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, giving you a common view across your physical and virtual infrastructures.

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VMware Monitoring with HP Operations Manager

VMware monitoring management for HP Operations Manager

Get more value from your investment in HP Operations Manager with the Veeam nworks Smart Plug-in™ (SPI) for VMware.

The nworks SPI provides distributed monitoring and management of the VMware infrastructure (VI3 and vSphere) fully integrated into HP Operations Manager. It publishes VMware configuration, performance, state, capacity, topology, and VMware vCenter™ events directly into HP Operations Manager, giving you a common view across your physical and virtual infrastructures.

veeam_vmware_spi_datasheet_en.pdf 880.63 kB

NEW Veeam Backup & Replication 4 offers a major breakthrough in full and incremental backup speeds. Using technological advancements within VMware vSphere 4 and the VMware vStorage APIs for data protection, Veeam customers experienced the following benefits derived from native support of thin provisioned disks and changed block tracking:

* 10+ times faster for incremental backups
* Up to 5 times faster for full backups
* 80% lower cost for near continuous data protection (CDP) compared with traditional CDP
* Up to 30 percent lower storage costs
* Increased reliability by leveraging the latest vStorage technology

Veeam Backup & Replication is the first enterprise-ready solution that combines backup and replication in a single product for fast recovery of your VMware ESX and ESXi environment.

veeam_backup41_en.pdf 967.51 kB

Veeam understands that small and remote office VMware deployments need reliable, cost-effective management tools that are packed with innovative features at an affordable price. That's why we offer The Veeam Essentials bundle - the perfect companion to VMware Essentials that includes our three most popular products for small businesses, at one affordable price.

Leverage and protect your investments in VMware with the Veeam Management Suite.

The Veeam Management Suite is a set of industry-leading solutions for VMware backup and management, designed to provide significant cost savings, increase administrator productivity, and mitigate daily management risks for VMware deployments of all sizes. This cost-effective solution will help you automate routine processes of VMware management and gain complete control over your virtual infrastructure.

Industry standard VMware performance monitoring, capacity planning and troubleshooting.

Veeam Monitor is an easy-to-deploy, framework-independent VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators. Built from the ground up specifically for the virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides support for troubleshooting and issue resolution, as well as trend reporting and capacity planning - equipping you to proactively manage Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) and vSphere system health and performance today and over the long term.

veeam_monitor_en.pdf 368.29 kB

Veeam Reporter Enterprise- VMware ESX/ESXi reporting, documentation & change management for VMware
Veeam Reporter™ discovers, documents and analyzes your entire virtual infrastructure. It maintains a complete history of all objects, settings and changes. And it trends performance and utilization. So you can really understand your virtual infrastructure—past, present and future.

When it comes to documenting and reporting on your virtual infrastructure, Reporter does it all. In particular, Reporter addresses these key virtualization management challenges:

* Enterprise reporting
* Change management
* Capacity planning

veeam_reporter_en.pdf 717.14 kB