DCIM Software Five Years Later: What I Wish I Had Known When I Started (Case ...Sunbird DCIM
In this case study presentation from Data Center World 2018, Steve Lancaster, DCA Facilities Lead at Chevron, shared knowledge gained and lessons learned from using Sunbird DCIM to successfully optimize Chevron’s 1300+ rack data center environment. Lancaster discussed critical aspects of his DCIM journey, including what he was looking to achieve with a DCIM solution, and how he is using DCIM today to monitor data center activities and make smarter data center management decisions. He also explored how collaborating with a trusted advisor helped him achieve his objectives, areas where he expects to expand this use in the future, and what he wishes he knew when he started.
Disaster Recovery: Understanding Trend, Methodology, Solution, and StandardPT Datacomm Diangraha
Disaster Recovery (DR)
Provides the technical ability to maintain critical services in the event of any unplanned incident that threatens these services or the technical infrastructure required to maintain them.
Moving Your Data Center: Keys to planning a successful data center migrationData Cave
Moving a data center is something that most IT professionals will have to engage in at some point, and this presentation looks at several areas that can help to make a data center migration as smooth and seamless as possible. We cover areas such as:
-Determining whether to replicate your existing data center infrastructure, or build a new infrastructure as part of the migration project.
-The importance of experience during the logistical side of the data center migration.
-The significance of planning as well as evaluating and fine-tuning your plan on an ongoing basis.
If you will soon be in the process of planning and performing a data center migration, then we encourage you to read up!
DCIM Software Five Years Later: What I Wish I Had Known When I Started (Case ...Sunbird DCIM
In this case study presentation from Data Center World 2018, Steve Lancaster, DCA Facilities Lead at Chevron, shared knowledge gained and lessons learned from using Sunbird DCIM to successfully optimize Chevron’s 1300+ rack data center environment. Lancaster discussed critical aspects of his DCIM journey, including what he was looking to achieve with a DCIM solution, and how he is using DCIM today to monitor data center activities and make smarter data center management decisions. He also explored how collaborating with a trusted advisor helped him achieve his objectives, areas where he expects to expand this use in the future, and what he wishes he knew when he started.
Disaster Recovery: Understanding Trend, Methodology, Solution, and StandardPT Datacomm Diangraha
Disaster Recovery (DR)
Provides the technical ability to maintain critical services in the event of any unplanned incident that threatens these services or the technical infrastructure required to maintain them.
Moving Your Data Center: Keys to planning a successful data center migrationData Cave
Moving a data center is something that most IT professionals will have to engage in at some point, and this presentation looks at several areas that can help to make a data center migration as smooth and seamless as possible. We cover areas such as:
-Determining whether to replicate your existing data center infrastructure, or build a new infrastructure as part of the migration project.
-The importance of experience during the logistical side of the data center migration.
-The significance of planning as well as evaluating and fine-tuning your plan on an ongoing basis.
If you will soon be in the process of planning and performing a data center migration, then we encourage you to read up!
IDC DCIM Webinar - How to Take Control of Chaos in a Lights-Out Data CenterSunbird DCIM
Led by Jennifer Cooke, Research Director, Datacenter Management, IDC, this webinar explores how to overcome the chaos and uncertainty of managing a lights-out data center. In this webinar, you’ll learn:
*Best practices for efficient capacity utilization.
*Tips to avoid downtime during a move to a lights-out data center.
*Benefits of using DCIM for remote monitoring and asset management processes.
Veeam and TwinStrata: On-Demand Disaster Recovery for Virtualized EnvironmentsTwinStrata, Inc
Every IT department wants a disaster recovery site – but many have difficulty allocating the thousands – or even tens of thousands – of dollars to support a hosted, collocated or cloud compute environment that is dormant most of the time.
In other cases, organizations have a disaster recovery plan for their critical data and applications, but no plan for secondary or tertiary applications.
This educational webinar shows how you can use Veeam and TwinStrata to obtain a viable disaster recovery plan that’s affordable for everyone.
09ntc Server Virtualization Session SlidesPeter Campbell
Slides from the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session on Server Virtualization. These slides introduce the main concepts and suggest approaches for small, medium and large business scenarios. the latter set of slides are by matt eshelman of CITIDC, who presented with me.
VMworld 2013: Separating Cloud Hype from Reality in Healthcare – a Real-Life ...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Tim Graf, VMware
Matthew Ritchart, Health Management Associates
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
BackupAgent and LabTech webinar - how to leverage cloud backup to increase pr...BackupAgent
Discover the features that make BackupAgent and LabTech a perfect backup solution for MSPs. In this webinar we will:
- Show how MSPs can benefit from cloud backup
- Tell you what makes BackupAgent a unique, profitable solution
- Give a integration demonstration
Flight Options leverages Dell's Fluid Data architecture to consolidate data center footprint, automate data management and virtualize their environment with Dell Compellent.
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center OperationsVMware
The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.
Innovations that simplify desktop virtualization Dell World
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is an alternative desktop deployment model that offers increased flexibility and simplified management. In this session, you will learn how to sharply decrease the time required to plan, deploy and operate VDI in small to mid-size environments. The discussion will focus on Dell appliances for both Citrix and vWorkspace—part of a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end VDI solutions—optimized to quickly and cost-effectively satisfy a variety of specific use cases and user requirements.
Cloud Storage: Enabling The Dynamic DatacenterEntel
It talk about the business climate today and what we are seeing from an industry perspective, as well as what we’re hearing from our customers and partners in terms of what they need/want to do, what their challenges are, and their requirements to achieve their goals.
It talk about NetApp’s offerings for how we can help you evolve to a dynamic data center.
We’ll highlight some actual NetApp customer
Dell Solutions Tour 2014 Oslo
Christian Ledwidge
Director Monitoring business EMEA at Dell Software Group
Foglight™ for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition The one solution that covers it all Where the market is going with Virtualization
Challenges of monitoring virtual environments
End to everything Virtual Management
Dell solution overview
Go beyond one-dimensional performance monitoring to accelerate IT and cut operational costs by reducing infrastructure complexity with insight into virtual environment performance. Foglight for Virtualization provides the insight to know now, with end-to-end performance monitoring, and the flexibility to do now, with powerful operations management. Take control of your virtual environment with capacity, resource utilization, and configuration management, as well as chargeback, showback, automation, and optimization tools.
Get the power to Visualize, Analyze, and Optimize your heterogeneous virtual environments to enable rapid implementation of virtualization and cloud computing initiatives.
Al 1971, el mític Bruce Lee va pronunciar una d’aquelles frases que, ja des del primer segon, estava predestinada a passar a la història. El “be water, my friend” era el punt final al resum de tota una filosofia de vida: “No t'estableixis en una forma, adapta’t, construeix la teva pròpia i deixa-la créixer, sigues com l'aigua. Buida la teva ment, sigues amorf, adaptat, com l'aigua...". Més enllà de la popularitat que aquesta reflexió va aconseguir a casa nostra, arrel d’un anunci, el cert és que avui dia és perfectament vàlida per definir de quina forma cal apropar-se a les xarxes socials.
IDC DCIM Webinar - How to Take Control of Chaos in a Lights-Out Data CenterSunbird DCIM
Led by Jennifer Cooke, Research Director, Datacenter Management, IDC, this webinar explores how to overcome the chaos and uncertainty of managing a lights-out data center. In this webinar, you’ll learn:
*Best practices for efficient capacity utilization.
*Tips to avoid downtime during a move to a lights-out data center.
*Benefits of using DCIM for remote monitoring and asset management processes.
Veeam and TwinStrata: On-Demand Disaster Recovery for Virtualized EnvironmentsTwinStrata, Inc
Every IT department wants a disaster recovery site – but many have difficulty allocating the thousands – or even tens of thousands – of dollars to support a hosted, collocated or cloud compute environment that is dormant most of the time.
In other cases, organizations have a disaster recovery plan for their critical data and applications, but no plan for secondary or tertiary applications.
This educational webinar shows how you can use Veeam and TwinStrata to obtain a viable disaster recovery plan that’s affordable for everyone.
09ntc Server Virtualization Session SlidesPeter Campbell
Slides from the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session on Server Virtualization. These slides introduce the main concepts and suggest approaches for small, medium and large business scenarios. the latter set of slides are by matt eshelman of CITIDC, who presented with me.
VMworld 2013: Separating Cloud Hype from Reality in Healthcare – a Real-Life ...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Tim Graf, VMware
Matthew Ritchart, Health Management Associates
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
BackupAgent and LabTech webinar - how to leverage cloud backup to increase pr...BackupAgent
Discover the features that make BackupAgent and LabTech a perfect backup solution for MSPs. In this webinar we will:
- Show how MSPs can benefit from cloud backup
- Tell you what makes BackupAgent a unique, profitable solution
- Give a integration demonstration
Flight Options leverages Dell's Fluid Data architecture to consolidate data center footprint, automate data management and virtualize their environment with Dell Compellent.
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center OperationsVMware
The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.
Innovations that simplify desktop virtualization Dell World
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is an alternative desktop deployment model that offers increased flexibility and simplified management. In this session, you will learn how to sharply decrease the time required to plan, deploy and operate VDI in small to mid-size environments. The discussion will focus on Dell appliances for both Citrix and vWorkspace—part of a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end VDI solutions—optimized to quickly and cost-effectively satisfy a variety of specific use cases and user requirements.
Cloud Storage: Enabling The Dynamic DatacenterEntel
It talk about the business climate today and what we are seeing from an industry perspective, as well as what we’re hearing from our customers and partners in terms of what they need/want to do, what their challenges are, and their requirements to achieve their goals.
It talk about NetApp’s offerings for how we can help you evolve to a dynamic data center.
We’ll highlight some actual NetApp customer
Dell Solutions Tour 2014 Oslo
Christian Ledwidge
Director Monitoring business EMEA at Dell Software Group
Foglight™ for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition The one solution that covers it all Where the market is going with Virtualization
Challenges of monitoring virtual environments
End to everything Virtual Management
Dell solution overview
Go beyond one-dimensional performance monitoring to accelerate IT and cut operational costs by reducing infrastructure complexity with insight into virtual environment performance. Foglight for Virtualization provides the insight to know now, with end-to-end performance monitoring, and the flexibility to do now, with powerful operations management. Take control of your virtual environment with capacity, resource utilization, and configuration management, as well as chargeback, showback, automation, and optimization tools.
Get the power to Visualize, Analyze, and Optimize your heterogeneous virtual environments to enable rapid implementation of virtualization and cloud computing initiatives.
Al 1971, el mític Bruce Lee va pronunciar una d’aquelles frases que, ja des del primer segon, estava predestinada a passar a la història. El “be water, my friend” era el punt final al resum de tota una filosofia de vida: “No t'estableixis en una forma, adapta’t, construeix la teva pròpia i deixa-la créixer, sigues com l'aigua. Buida la teva ment, sigues amorf, adaptat, com l'aigua...". Més enllà de la popularitat que aquesta reflexió va aconseguir a casa nostra, arrel d’un anunci, el cert és que avui dia és perfectament vàlida per definir de quina forma cal apropar-se a les xarxes socials.
The 2014 Homearama Show House presented by MJC Homes will open to the public on Labor Day weekend. My "French Normandy" inspired design will be one of 6 distinct homes in what has been billed as the "Ultimate Homearama" at the "Pinnacle" in Oakland Township.
Data, telepathy and town planning - How to build Smart Cities as if people ma...IBMInterconnect
Data, telepathy and town planning - How to build Smart Cities as if people mattered
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology
November 2014 Webinar - Disaster Recovery Worthy of a Zombie ApocalypseRapidScale
80% of companies that do not recover from a data loss within one month are likely to go out of business in the immediate future (Bernstein Crisis Management). With Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, a business is able to survive and thrive after a disaster has struck.
Cloud computing environments offer benefits to business and IT departments that aren't easily gained through the use of traditional IT infrastructures. Here are five of the most common applications for cloud computing right now.
The Great Disconnect of Data Protection: Perception, Reality and Best Practicesiland Cloud
iland and Veeam recently conducted a data protection survey of IT organizations worldwide. In this webinar, we summarize and analyze the survey responses so you canunderstand today’s data protection landscape. Then, we cover best practices that can help ensure thatyour organization, and its data,are properly protected
Watch the webinar on-demand: https://www.iland.com/wb-data-protection-report/
Risc and velostrata 2 28 2018 lessons_in_cloud_migrationRISC Networks
Learn how to accelerate and
de-risk your cloud migration project
Despite the surge in enterprises migrating applications to the public cloud, more than half of all projects are delayed or over budget and an even greater number are more difficult than expected.1
Cloud Migrations don’t begin when you start moving applications into the cloud. They begin with your application landscape discovery and assessment. The second phase comprises the actual migration where applications are moved to the public cloud. Working with purpose-built enterprise-grade cloud migration platforms, especially those that partner to integrate both phases greatly simplifies and accelerates projects.
RISC Networks and Velostrata have teamed up to deliver this webinar where we’ll share real-world examples, tips, and tricks on crafting a seamless cloud migration from start to completion.
School of Computer & Information SciencesITS-532 Cloud ComTaunyaCoffman887
School of Computer & Information Sciences
ITS-532 Cloud Computing
Chapter 13 – Migrating to the Cloud
Learning Objectives
• Define requirements for migrating an application to the cloud.
• Describe the importance of backing up data before and after moving an application to the
cloud.
• Appreciate the benefit of using experienced consultants to assist with a cloud migration.
• Describe an application in terms of its resource use.
• Define and describe vendor lock-in and discuss ways to avoid it.
• Describe the importance of training employees before, during, and after a cloud migration.
• Describe the importance of establishing a realistic cloud-deployment schedule.
• Discuss key budget factors impacted by the cloud.
• Discuss potential IT governance issues related to the cloud.
• Define and describe cloud bursting.
Migration to the Cloud
• An application can be moved to the cloud quickly.
• There are a myriad of cloud-solution providers who will
eagerly assist by giving you instant access to cloud-
based servers, data storage, and support.
• Like all IT projects, the process of moving an application
to the cloud, or the process of creating and deploying a
new cloud application, should be well planned.
System Requirements
• All IT projects should begin with specific
requirements. The process of taking an
application to the cloud, known as cloud
migration, is no exception. The cloud-
migration process should start with defined
requirements.
Common Cloud System Requirements
• Data security and privacy requirements
• Site capacity plan—the resources that the application initially
needs to operate
• Scalability requirements—the measurable factors that should drive
scaling events
• System uptime requirements
• Business continuity and disaster requirements
• Budget requirements
• Operating system and programming language requirements
Common Cloud System Requirements
Continued
• Type of cloud: public, private, or hybrid
• Single- or multitenant solution requirements
• Data backup requirements
• Client device requirements, such as computer, tablet, or smartphone
support
• Training requirements
• Help desk and support requirements
• Governance and auditing requirements
• Open source software requirements
Common Cloud System Requirements Cont.
• Programming API requirements
• Dashboard and reporting requirements
• Client access requirements
• Data export requirements
Real World: CloudSwitch Cloud Migration
• Many companies have enterprise-based applications
that are widely used by their employees.
• These applications, therefore, are mission critical.
• CloudSwitch provides a downloadable application that
companies can install within their data center and that
securely maps the company’s on-site applications to a
cloud-based solution in a matter of minutes.
Protect Your Existing Data
• Before you begin your application migration to a cloud provider,
make sure that you back up your data so ...
RapidScale's CloudRecovery service is about planning and designing your business’ Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) around each application. We provide cost effective high density and low density storage and complete Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions for automatic failover.
Disaster Recovery as a Service works by first securely safeguarding your data in our Cloud. Our recovery and de-duplication testing allows us to have the fastest Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in the industry, Our Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions will secure your business data and ensure minimal downtime in the event of a disaster. Keep your business applications and data safe and accessible at all times with RapidScale's CloudRecovery.
RapidScale's Tier 3, Class 1 data centers feature on-premises security guards, an exterior security system, biometric systems, and continuous digital surveillance and recording. We meet and exceed standards such as HIPAA, PCI compliance, and the majority of other government security standards.
Replication to cloud virtual machines can be used to protect both cloud and on-premises production instances. In other words, replication is suitable for both cloud-VM-to-cloud-VM and on-premises-to-cloud-VM data protection. For applications that require aggressive RTO and recovery point objectives (RPOs), as well as application awareness, replication is the data movement option of choice.
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are expensive and inefficient. With the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, you do not need to let a low budget get in the way of safeguarding and recovering your data. You do not have to be an enterprise-size business to receive the cloud’s protection effectively.
RapidScale helps to eliminate upfront costs while saving money on pricey equipment and maintenance with CloudRecovery. With our pay-as-you-go plan, pay for what you use and experience a service that is scalable according to your needs.
RapidScale's CloudIntelligence team will listen to your business needs and design the right Disaster Recovery as a Service plan for your business. RapidScale offers a 100% uptime guarantee.
Our Cloud Recovery product set is backed by one of the most advanced Storage Area Network systems in the industry, NetApp. With its own proprietary file system and fiber channel network, our SAN’s offer some of the best performance and redundancy available. Our RAID configurations ensure a fault tolerance of no less than two disks which offers one of the highest levels of availability while still offering blazing performance. After failing over to the cloud, you will wonder why you hadn't migrated sooner.
In this presentation, CloudSmartz presented the Buffalo, NY Region of CIO and IT Executives recent trends on disaster recovery and business resilience.
This was great opportunity to learn and discuss new technologies on how you can maintain control of your data and have the flexibility you want over your environment:
• Defining critical applications for Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Disaster Recovery approaches within the secure cloud environment
• Security, Control and Flexibility at your fingertips
• Reduce disaster recovery costs and gain continuous storage access
Business resilience is the ability an organization has to quickly adapt to disruptions while maintaining continuous business operations and safeguarding people, assets and overall brand equity.
Platforming the Major Analytic Use Cases for Modern EngineeringDATAVERSITY
We’ll describe some use cases as examples of a broad range of modern use cases that need a platform. We will describe some popular valid technology stacks that enterprises use in accomplishing these modern use cases of customer churn, predictive analytics, fraud detection, and supply chain management.
In many industries, to achieve top-line growth, it is imperative that companies get the most out of existing customer relationships. Customer churn use cases are about generating high levels of profitable customer satisfaction through the use of knowledge generated from corporate and external data to help drive a more positive customer experience (CX).
Many organizations are turning to predictive analytics to increase their bottom line and efficiency and, therefore, competitive advantage. It can make the difference between business success or failure.
Fraudulent activity detection is exponentially more effective when risk actions are taken immediately (i.e., stop the fraudulent transaction), instead of after the fact. Fast digestion of a wide network of risk exposures across the network is required in order to minimize adverse outcomes.
Supply chain leaders are under constant pressure to reduce overall supply chain management (SCM) costs while maintaining a flexible and diverse supplier ecosystem. They will leverage IoT, sensors, cameras, and blockchain. Major investments in advanced analytics, warehouse relocation, and automation, both in distribution centers and stores, will be essential for survival.
VMworld 2013: Building the Management Stack for Your Software Defined Data Ce...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Bernd Harzog, The Virtualization Practice
Mark Leake, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Time, talent and technology are required to create and maintain a responsive commerce environment. Tap into these assets through CrossView Hosting and Managed Services to increase your agility, lower costs, engage customers more deeply and, ultimately, create competitive advantage.
To learn more visit: http://www.crossview.com
1. Disaster Recovery
Solutions Delivered
877.570.7827 | www.expedient.com
Many companies don’t fully realize the importance of disaster recovery planning until unexpected disaster
events occur. Disaster recovery planning forces organizations to think through critical decisions like data
retention policies, prioritization of systems, recovery time and recovery point objectives. A key question to
consider is, “How long can you afford to have your critical applications unavailable?”
SAN-to-SAN Replication:
Choose your VM server and replicate your data
between any of Expedient’s data centers.
• Virtual platform and application downtime protection
• Low cost of entry, minimal customer configuration and no
additional IT hardware or engineering expenditures required
• Conduct your own failover testing with the push of a button
• Ensure auditing best practices
• Simplified management
• Single pane of glass management: with complete control over
the failover process, you have visibility and control to ensure
your disaster recovery plan will support industry regulations
and best practices.
• 24x7x365 support
Host-based Replication:
Two-way replication, from your hardware to an
Expedient data center and back again.
• Virtual platform and application downtime protection
• Low cost of entry, minimal customer configuration and no additional
IT hardware or engineering expenditures required
• Complements your existing virtual environment
• Ensure auding best practices
• Simplified management
• Single pane of glass management: with complete control over
the failover process, you have visibility and control to ensure your
disaster recovery plan will support industry regulations and best
practices
• 24x7x365 support
VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor
Site A (Primary)
VM VM
SAN
Replication
VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor
Site B (Recovery)
Expedient
Data Center
Expedient
Data Center
Expedient is one of the nation’s
Top 20 Data Center Providers
with over 300,000 sq. ft. of total data center capacity
VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor
Site A
VM VM
Host
Replication
VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor
Site B
Expedient
Data Center
Customer Site or
Expedient Data Center
2. Important Considerations for Disaster Recovery Planning
• Start small. The biggest barrier to both budget approval and project
completion is tackling DR for every system within a company.
- Do an inventory of systems and applications.
- Work with your business to determine what is most important.
• Sometimes, you don’t need an exact replica.
- Determine your ideal RPO and RTO.
- Understanding how fast your system should be back online and what amount
of data loss is acceptable in the event of an outage is critical.
• Leverage technology where appropriate.
-Expedient has many options available to move and replicate data.
Speak with an Expedient Solution Architect to learn more.
AVAILABLE SERVICES
• Cloud Computing/Virtual Services
• Colocation
• Offsite Backups and Archiving
• Disaster Recovery
• Compliance
• Server Management
• Shared SAN Storage
• Firewall
• Hosted Exchange
• Load Balancing
• Dedicated Network Services
• Managed Network Security
• Internet Access
• Migration Services
“A company denied access to mission-critical data for more than 48 hours will
likely be out of business within one year.” –drplanning.org
AboutExpedient
Expedient is a network of nationwide
data centers offering a wide range
of managed services and network
connectivity. Reliable data center
facilities interconnected with a private
10 Gbps network enable Expedient
to deliver premier colocation, cloud
computing, network and managed
services to enterprise, commercial,
education and government
organizations. Expedient’s approach
complements a variety of industry and
government compliance requirements,
including SOX, PCI DSS and HIPAA,
supported by third-party SOC
attestation.
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• Baltimore (x2)
• Boston
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