Webcast and Podcast Library

While some VDC technologies are still in their infancy, the idea of virtualizing the data center is here to stay -- and many organizations are well on their way to making this migration. This Datalink webcast provides a discussion on what you can do today--from a server, storage, and network perspective--to adopt a VDC strategy in your organization. Whether you're taking small incremental steps to build a VDC foundation or enacting a more robust plan of action, the webcast provides valuable insight to ensure you avoid missteps along the way. It also features first-hand insight from a principle data center architect regarding experiences he has had implementing virtualization solutions for various Datalink customers.

In this webcast, Datalink provides an overview of how organizations can scale their virtual environment, including how to overcome performance issues as well as design a backup architecture that adequately supports a virtualized server infrastructure.

This podcast provides an overview of how snapshot technologies can drive efficiences in the data center.

This podcast provides an overview of how a tiered storage strategy can help drive data center efficiencies.

This podcast provides an overview of how to use a de-duplication strategy to drive data center efficiencies

Traditional recovery methods can present challenges in growing virtual server environments. Recoveries are often unreliable and slow. Recovery plans may be more complex than they need to be. How do you develop an effective backup and DR strategy? How do tools like VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) fit in? Learn about key considerations when developing a DR strategy. Get an independent overview of the technologies that can help you meet your challenges.

Are you struggling to scale your virtual environment? Many organizations are finding that their backup architecture does not adequately support a virtualized server infrastructure. Performance issues are difficult to diagnose. And DR becomes even more complex and critical. View this webcast during which we'll address how to overcome these hurdles.

Backing up and recovering Oracle® data presents unique challenges. With mission-critical and 24x7 operations, slow backups and performance issues are crucial to solve. It isn't easy though. Databases are typically large and growing rapidly. And the systems are complex. Beyond that, recovering a database to a consistent point in time can be a very manual and overwhelming undertaking. Often this decreases your ability to meet your company's Service Level Agreements (SLAs), consuming expensive resources and increasing your organization's risk. This webcast presents options that can help you cost-effectively manage the challenges of backing up and recovering Oracle environments.

Organizations are deploying server virtualization at a rapid pace. With multiple applications consolidated on fewer physical servers, meeting backup and recovery windows becomes even more challenging. This podcast offers a Q & A session, with Datalink virtualization practice manager Kent Christensen posing questions to Datalink Storage Architect Jason Anderson, who has designed and deployed a number of server and storage consolidation initiatives. They discuss the pros and cons of using VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) for local backup and recovery, where it makes sense to leverage the advantages of consolidated storage for a virtual server environment, and the unique challenges and opportunities around DR in a consolidated server environment, including how Site Recovery Manager (SRM) fits into the overall picture.

Backing up and recovering Oracle® data presents unique challenges. How can you back up your large and growing databases within a limited window? How do you recover your environment in under a day, let alone a few hours or even minutes? Where do Oracle solutions work well for your business needs and which limitations can be addressed by additional solutions? With your mission-critical and 24x7 operations, issues such as slow backup and performance can put your organization at risk. Beyond that, recovering a database to a consistent point in time can be a very manual and daunting task, decreasing your ability to meet your company's Service Level Agreement (SLA). This podcast addresses: -Native features of Oracle and third party solutions for enabling backup and recovery and how they compare, contrast and work in conjunction with one another . -Options such as triple mirroring, array based replication and snapshots that enable near instant backup and recovery of large data sets as well as cloning for development and testing. Hosted by: Ari Kaplan, senior consultant, Datalink, and previous president of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG).

Stories about lost data in the news coupled with legal and corporate requirements for safeguarding data are putting pressure on IT organizations to revisit the security of their data at rest. Data encryption is emerging as a key solution. The technology, which is typically deployed for the most sensitive of corporate data, encodes information so that it is unintelligible until it is unscrambled by the intended recipient. This podcast discusses the drivers behind data encryption as well as the various encryption methods that are available. It highlights a data encryption deployment and covers some of the common questions that organizations have about encryption. Speakers: Scott Robinson, Chief Technology Officer, Datalink and Juan Orlandini, Client Solutions Consultant, Datalink

Among today's storage technologies, de-duplication is generating significant buzz and is at the top of the 'what's hot' list. The hype comes with good reason. De-duplication provides compelling benefits and offers the potential for significant savings for most IT organizations.-

As companies' information assets have grown, their storage environments have become increasingly heterogeneous and complex, and thus difficult to manage. The good news is that storage virtualization technologies are providing organizations with tools to more easily and efficiently manage their storage infrastructure, ultimately helping maximize IT resources and enabling capabilities that were not possible before. This podcast provides an overview of storage virtualization, detailing the various approaches in the marketplace today and assessing the pros and cons of each. Attendees will learn about the operational and business benefits that storage virtualization provides, including: simplified management; increased storage utilization; easier disaster recovery planning; seamless data migration; and foundation for a tiered architecture. Listeners will also hear first-hand experiences from a Datalink engineer who has implemented virtualization technology in several environments. He'll describe how companies he's worked with have used virtualization to address their business issues. For organizations looking to simplify and consolidate their IT infrastructure, this podcast provides a detailed account of how virtualization technologies can help.