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Analyst Webcast with Merv Adrian: Leverage your Data Assets Across the Global Enterprise

We are pleased to have Merv Adrian, IT Market Strategy Analyst, join us in this Sybase sponsored webcast to explore the critical issue of data integration environments in the enterprise - many of which are fragmented and poorly managed.

Mr. Adrian will address how heterogeneity is the new standard in today's data center, where multiple DBMSs, multiple versions of the same DBMS, and applications running on different DBMSs exist side by side. As organizations begin to realize the need to keep data synchronized and available in these multiple locations, replication technologies fill a critical need. Keeping data warehouses fresh, supporting product migrations and disaster recovery depends on an effective data replication strategy. Multiple, single source, point-to-point connections are not the answer - he will show you how to take a comprehensive view of unifying your data.

Join us to:

• Learn about critical data integration issues in the enterprise and how they can be addressed with strategic data synchronization solutions
• Hear how specific companies like yours are meeting their data movement and real-time reporting needs
• Understand how Sybase Replication Server enables pervasive data accessibility and real-time data delivery across mixed data environments including Oracle, MS SQL, IBM UDB, and Sybase

Insurer to Boost Availability, Cut Costs, and Enhance Security With E-Mail Solution

VSK Insurance House, a leading insurer in Russia, provides a range of insurance products to customers across the country. Because e-mail is critical for communications with employees and subscribers, the company needs a reliable, easy-to-manage system. VSK wanted to increase the availability of its e-mail system while also simplifying management and cutting costs. In October 2009, it started to implement Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By using the Database Availability Group feature, VSK expects to increase system availability and cut in half the time it spends administering high availability and disaster recovery. VSK also anticipates that expanded storage options will lower costs, Information Rights Management (IRM) features will enhance messaging security, and integrated e-mail archiving and discovery capabilities will ease compliance.

Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard Reaches High Database Reliability With 15% Lower IT Costs

Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard (HC&FG) wanted to support HC&FG's nonstop operation with a highly reliable and available database solution and ensure the connectivity of different subsystems to cooperate internationally, especially with EU systems. The challenge was to ensure the security of sensitive data and provide a secure environment for automatic data processing and provide high availability for the organization's constantly growing data files, enabling appropriate speed-to-answer. Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard (HC&FG) worked with Oracle Consulting and Oracle Partners FreeSoft and Synergon to deploy Oracle Real Application Clusters to ensure the 24/7 database availability required for HC&FG to perform its trade control duties according to local and international regulations.

TOT_Top Five Hyper-V Best Practices

NetApp best practices cover important new features of Microsoft® HyperV™ as well as lessons learned from numerous deployments. Learn how to configure networks, set appropriate iGroups and LUN types, avoid alignment problems, and configure CSVs.

Rejuvenating High Available Virtualized Systems

Virtualization technology in the form of server consolidation makes running of hot-standby replicas on one system possible, while software rejuvenation provides proactive recovery of failure. Both technologies have been used to make systems more dependable. However, the deployment of rejuvenation in virtualized systems had been limited only to Virtual Machines (VMs) or only to virtual machine monitors (VMMs), requiring changes to applications too. The paper proposes a new rejuvenation technique for high available virtualized systems that is applied at both VM and VMM levels and yet it does not require any modifications to applications. The proposition leverages the encapsulation of an application into a VM using this new combinatory rejuvenation technique that uses a time-based policy for VMM and a prediction-based policy for VMs.

TCO Study: Managing Data Growth, Improving Performance, and Enhancing Disaster Preparedness with Storage and Server Virtualization

Find out how NetApp and VMware customer, Tucson Electric Power, improved disaster preparedness while saving money, by standardizing on NetApp® storage and launching an aggressive server virtualization program.