http://www.burtongroup.com/Research/DocumentList.aspx?cid=49 Data Center Strategies (DCS) organizations gain access to the industry’s leading thought leadership and technical insight on server hardware, software, storage, virtualization, management and orchestration with advice and direction on best architecture and management techniques to ensure flexibility and efficiency into the future. en-us © 2008 Burton Group. All rights reserved http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1433 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1433 As business operations’ dependency on IT infrastructure continues to increase in response to the need for faster and leaner business processes, the need for these systems to be highly and continuously available also increases. Not only do high-availability designs focus on automatically detecting and reacting to failures, but, more importantly, they also focus on mitigating the downtime required for standard maintenance tasks. This Reference Architecture template outlines the approach and architecture to five levels of availability from no-recoverability to continuous availability and disaster recovery. Template Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1485 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1485 As business operations’ dependency on IT infrastructure continues to increase in response to the need for faster and leaner business processes, the need for these systems to be highly and continuously available also increases. Not only do high-availability designs focus on automatically detecting and reacting to failures, but, more importantly, they also focus on mitigating the downtime required for standard maintenance tasks. This Reference Architecture template outlines the approach and architecture to five levels of availability from no-recoverability to continuous availability and disaster recovery. Template Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1486 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1486 As business operations’ dependency on IT infrastructure continues to increase in response to the need for faster and leaner business processes, the need for these systems to be highly and continuously available also increases. Not only do high-availability designs focus on automatically detecting and reacting to failures, but, more importantly, they also focus on mitigating the downtime required for standard maintenance tasks. This Reference Architecture template outlines the approach and architecture to five levels of availability from no-recoverability to continuous availability and disaster recovery. Template Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1487 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1487 As business operations’ dependency on IT infrastructure continues to increase in response to the need for faster and leaner business processes, the need for these systems to be highly and continuously available also increases. Not only do high-availability designs focus on automatically detecting and reacting to failures, but, more importantly, they also focus on mitigating the downtime required for standard maintenance tasks. This Reference Architecture template outlines the approach and architecture to five levels of availability from no-recoverability to continuous availability and disaster recovery. Template Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1541 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1541 Virtualization continues to spread through enterprise IT like wild fire. More and more critical workloads are being virtualized resulting in a greater number of business critical processes running on a given physical server, in turn demanding higher availability for those systems. High availability solutions for virtual environments are in various stages of maturity and development throughout the industry. In this TeleBriefing, Service Director Richard Jones will review the best practices for building highly available virtual environments and will discuss the progress, or lack thereof, in high availability solutions. The state of continuous availability and orchestration solutions will also be reviewed. TeleBriefing Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1477 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1477 Data center storage infrastructures and components are rich in diversity. It can be a daunting challenge to select an appropriate configuration of storage hardware, transport protocol, connectivity and a management system to bring a storage ecosystem under control. One size does not fit all. Diverse requirements add complexity and may prevent implementation of a monolithic storage ecosystem. In this Reference Architecture “Storage Virtualization,” Analyst Gene Ruth examines the architectures for implementing a storage ecosystem. Template Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1478 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1478 Data center storage infrastructures and components are rich in diversity. It can be a daunting challenge to select an appropriate configuration of storage hardware, transport protocol, connectivity and a management system to bring a storage ecosystem under control. One size does not fit all. Diverse requirements add complexity and may prevent implementation of a monolithic storage ecosystem. In this Reference Architecture template “Unified Storage Connectivity,” Analyst Gene Ruth examines the architectures for implementing a storage ecosystem. Template Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1479 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1479 Data center storage infrastructures and components are rich in diversity. It can be a daunting challenge to select an appropriate configuration of storage hardware, transport protocol, connectivity and a management system to bring a storage ecosystem under control. One size does not fit all. Diverse requirements add complexity and may prevent implementation of a monolithic storage ecosystem. In this Reference Architecture template “Storage-Only Connectivity,” Analyst Gene Ruth examines the architectures for implementing a storage ecosystem. Template Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1480 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1480 Data center storage infrastructures and components are rich in diversity. It can be a daunting challenge to select an appropriate configuration of storage hardware, transport protocol, connectivity and a management system to bring a storage ecosystem under control. One size does not fit all. Diverse requirements add complexity and may prevent implementation of a monolithic storage ecosystem. In this Reference Architecture template, Analyst Gene Ruth examines the architectures for implementing a storage ecosystem. Template Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1302 http://www.burtongroup.com/Client/Research/Document.aspx?cid=1302 Data center storage infrastructures and components are rich in diversity. It can be a daunting challenge to select an appropriate configuration of storage hardware, transport protocol, connectivity, and management system to bring a storage ecosystem under control. One size does not fit all. Diverse requirements add complexity and may prevent implementation of a monolithic storage ecosystem. In this Reference Architecture template “Storage Ecosystem,” Analyst Gene Ruth examines the architectures for implementing a storage ecosystem. Template Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT