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Utility Computing Buying Guide:
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With IT departments facing complex challenges and limited resources every day, many professionals have come to embrace the concept of on-demand or utility computing for their business. Similar to how cities and towns might provision electricity or water, utility computing supplies users with technology resources on an as-needed basis. Companies are able to take advantage of shared infrastructure resources, from storage to databases to web servers. The benefits of this approach include both deploying new technologies more quickly, and cutting costs by sharing expensive applications. No longer tied to specific systems and departments, they can be put to use on any system, in real-time, whenever they’re needed. How can your company evaluate the opportunities utility computing can provide, and who are the vendors offering these services? The Utility Computing Buying Guide can get you started.
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BEA Reaches Out to Wider IT Audience with AquaLogic
Opinion: With its AquaLogic product line, BEA Systems is reaching out to an influencial new audience, application architects and corporate business strategists, who may keep BEA growing for years to come if they buy into its pitch.

Future of Grids May Be Outside the Enterprise
Opinion: The maturity of grid technologies will lead to wider adoption of grids, but grids within the enterprise may never be mainstream.

Are You Prepared for Disaster?
Disaster recovery consultants can help companies determine if precious assets are protected.

When Designing IT Systems, Get Beyond 'What You Know'
If you have to explain your IT system, back to the drawing board you go.

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Yosemite Backup Advanced
Yosemite Backup™ Advanced delivers scalable data protection for enterprise environments. Consistent, cross-platform support includes native OS support for Microsoft Windows, Linux, NetWare and UNIX. A modular, three-tier architecture ensures investment protection, allowing IT organizations to grow their backup solution with their infrastructure, including shared iSCSI and Fiber Channel storage.

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An eSATA Double Feature
The eSATA Raid+ external storage box features two locking hot-swap drive bays mirrored for redundancy. Using a free SATA port to connect to your PC, this device eliminates the separate eSATA controller card.

Acronis Provides a Fresh System Start
The Acronis True Image 9.1 family of products provides valuable bare-metal restore functions for home users and enterprises alike.

The New Windows View
Vista beta addresses security and installation issues, but there's still lots to do.

Your Portable Network
A powerful technology with some rough edges.

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 How to Buy Utility Computing Products  

From grid computing solutions to virtual storage and networks, the Utility Buying Guide brings together a searchable directory of the products, services and IT vendors that can deliver on-demand solutions to your business. If you’re researching specific utility computing tasks, you can dive right into appropriate categories like data backup, disaster recovery and storage management. You’ll be able to answer:   

  • What are some flexible and scalable storage management solutions that will fully consider your current and potential future storage needs, regardless of your platform and connections?
  • Which utility computing providers maintain their data backup services in more than one location, ensuring its availability at all times? How often do they service and test their backup systems, and what disaster recovery plans are in place?
  • How do vendors compare in their pricing structures, such as processing per hour or storage per gigabyte?
  • Which application service providers offer the best solutions for small and mid-size businesses?

The demand for on-demand services is growing, and the product landscape will only become more complex. With the Utility Computing Buying Guide, you’ll be able to navigate through all the choices faster and more efficiently. Select from the areas above to begin your search through comprehensive product listings, editor and user ratings, white papers, vendor profiles, news and reviews.

The Advantages of a Hosted Messaging Security Solution by Microsoft
Achieving Sales Success with Tablet PCs by Toshiba
What's Missing from SEM? by NetIQ
5 Essentials of Customer Experience Management by Tealeaf
The CIO’s Guide to Mobile Security by Research in Motion
On-Demand Versus On-Premise CRM: Are There Performance Differences? by Business Objects
Overcoming Data Protection Challenges of the Modern Distributed Business by Adaptec
Small and Medium Business Security Solutions by Trend Micro
Is Daily Defragmentation Needed in Today’s Environment? by Diskeeper
Performance Management: New “Hybrids” Combine Agent and Agentless Technology by BMC
A Proven WAN Optimization Approach by Riverbed
Mitigating Fire Risks in Mission Critical Facilities by APC
Architectural Considerations for Archive and Compliance Solutions by Network Appliance
Storage Virtualization: An Overview of Key Technologies and their Capabilities by Datalink
The World of IT has taken a Quantum Leap by Everdream
Fighting the Hidden Dangers of Internet Access by St. Bernard
Secure Optimized Data Protection for Remote Offices by Symantec
Workday Redefines Software by Workday
Simplify & Improve Enterprise Desktop Management by VMware
Spam Filtering: Building a More Accurate Filter by St. Bernard
Intel Energy-Efficient Performance by Dell
Business-Class Security and Compliance for On-Demand Instant Messaging by WebEx
Reducing the Risks of 64-bit Application Porting with Parasoft C++ Test and Parasoft Insure ++ by Parasoft
Reduce IT Costs and Complexity with Effective Application Problem Management by Identify
Understanding E-Mail Hygiene by Mirapoint
Automated Deployment by Dell Managed Services by Dell
From Crisis to Cruise Control: Creating a High-Performance IT Organization by Tripwire
Affordable Data Protection Without the Compromise by EMC
Breaking New Ground: The Evolution of Linux Clustering by Penguin
Preventing Insider Threat with Identity Compliance by Sailpoint
Backup Strategies Re-Examined In Wake of Natural Disasters by CDW