When choosing deduplication, it is important to consider several factors—including use case, service level requirements, and the type of data being protected. Knowing the difference between source based and target based deduplication technology and use cases for each type of technology is important in order to reduce your backup data footprint and associated costs, back up in less time, and provide faster recoveries.

Kia Behnia keynote address at GreenPages 2010 Solutions Summit

Ron Dupler and John Ross welcome address for GreenPages' 2010 Solutions Summit

Like many IT organizations, you may be virtualizing your infrastructure in order to reduce capital expenditures and improve agility. However, the very nature of virtualization increases IT scale and complexity and increases the need to manage and maintain not only the virtual environment, but continue to manage the physical machines and now we are adding cloud applications?

Storage is without a doubt the foundation of any virtual infrastructure, but what should you consider when making this important decision? What protocols are right for which purposes? How do you determine proper sizing for both capacity and performance? Should you utilize the same foundation for virtual servers and desktops? We’ll help provide guidance in these areas and discuss the various technologies available on the market today to ensure you’re laying a solid foundation.

As organizations begin to place compute workloads into the cloud and transform their datacenters and infrastructures to harness the power of virtualization, IT is under immense pressure to rethink and redesign how to deploy and manage technology within their environments. Find out how a Managed Services approach is an incredibly smart solution to supporting the modern infrastructure.

The key to minimizing risk—the chances you’re willing to take versus the ones you’re not—is knowing exactly what is happening at any given time within your datacenter and especially within the virtual environments that together make up cloud computing, private or public. Performance and Capacity Planning, done with intelligence and insight, allows you to completely understand and manage this knowledge and, much more importantly, use it to predict future requirements and proactively address issues before they occur. Issues that could disrupt business critical applications and cost time, money, and your reputation. Join us as we share some tips on how to address these challenges and learn how we are helping others in business truly understand what is happening within their physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments.

As IT is challenged to deliver services – not manage assets – could computing presents itself as an affordable, scalable strategy. And the pressure is mounting for data center managers to move their on-premise infrastructure and applications into the cloud. But security concerns, poor service-level commitments, and lack of organizational readiness – and willingness – are all valid roadblocks that stand

This seminar will be a review of the principles of managing business data for performance, workflow, and capacity management. The audience will be asked to participate to reveal their organizations’ requirements and strategies for storage capacity and data lifecycle management. Providing different kinds of storage based on how it is used, how it performs, and how it is priced is one of the primary storage challenges facing all businesses today. The time for buzz and hype is over: the situation is becoming critical.

There is tremendous benefit in establishing a Project Management Office (PMO), but it is not a one-size-fits-all scenario. Join us in this interactive and engaging session that will offer practical insights, techniques, and real examples of how to go about setting up and establishing a successful PMO. A successful PMO is one that adapts and aligns quickly to changing factors. The PMO has increasingly become an enabler for efficiency within an organization. Learn what to know, do, and think about when it comes to running a PMO. This session will benefit those thinking about starting a PMO as well as those with an established PMO looking for new tips and techniques.

Effective collaboration has become critical in a complex work world where employees are geographically dispersed, travel and budgets have been reduced, and information overload is considered normal. Join us as we discuss ways you can create collaborative teams by bringing together people, information, applications, and social media tools anytime, anywhere.

This session with discuss why a layered approach is more vital than ever to ensuring the security of your organization. We’ll discuss several technologies including how they fit within the infrastructure and what they can do to increase the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your services and data.

Are you thinking about installing UCS and Nexus in your environment? Are you considering any infrastructure upgrades in the near future? GreenPages just completed an upgrade of its entire infrastructure, including switches, SAN, servers, and phone system. Join us to find out how we did it, the real-world challenges we had to overcome, the benefits we’ve seen post-implementation, and our plans for the future.

What you need to know to make smart business decisions around implementing blades versus the traditional rack server. In this session GreenPages discusses the evolution of Blade computing and how new features and technology may revolutionize your datacenter. We'll also discuss server platform convergence with networking and virtualization and how this can change the way computing is done today!

Enhance your communications using integrated video. Social video systems help organizations create highly secure video communities to share ideas and expertise, optimize global video collaboration, and personalize the connection between customers, employees and students with user generated content.

It seems like every other week there is either an update from existing vendors or completely new vendors entering the VDI space. In this session we’ll discuss the latest trends in the VDI landscape including deployment, management, return on investment, and more.

This session will discuss several 3rd party solutions and tools available to improve the utilization of your virtual environment and make the best use of today’s cloud computing technologies.

There is a lot of potential value that can be derived from virtualization but the key to maximizing that value is to understand what the expectations and business drivers are. Each client planning virtualization adopts one or more goals based upon product claims, features and function, cost. One common virtualization goal is to improve the way in which IT manages its resources. This improvement may take the form of increased peak capacity, improved resilience, reduced configuration costs, or reduced systems management errors. One or more of these subordinate goals is often attainable. Perceived virtualization savings may also take the form of reducing the amount of hardware that IT purchases or manages. Although there may be some debate as to where to start and which goal saves the most, there is little doubt that virtualization has value and is here to stay. Learn what best practices provide value and some goals to help you get there.

Virtualization provides opportunities to reduce complexity, improve service levels, and lower capital and operating costs. But is your business and technology aligned? And what exactly is operational readiness? Why does a major new project need operational readiness? In this session you will learn strategies and tactical steps to ease the common non-technical resistance that can affect virtualization rollouts. We will also highlight key areas of IT infrastructure and operations most impacted by virtualization. Come to this session and gain a better understanding of some actionable next steps toward building an effective virtualization support team, assess the readiness of your organization to adopt virtualization, and scope initial projects to help ensure success and develop your organization’s capabilities for broader virtualization deployment.

Having a difficult time keeping up with the latest technologies and solutions in the virtualization space? We’ll discuss the latest updates to existing technologies along with new cutting edge solutions that can help you take full advantage of your virtual infrastructure.

With the release of Windows 7 to the market, organizations face important decisions for the future of desktop computing. In this session we will take a look at how Windows 7 deployment and migration strategies can be leveraged to enable short term adoption of Windows 7, while creating a long range profile for the next generation desktop environment. Beyond traditional OS upgrade impacts, such as application and hardware compatibility, Windows 7 can be a game-changer for how organizations provide desktop deployment, management, access, and security enterprise-wide. The potential benefits for this platform will require a broader vision in the early stages of a migration initiative.