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Essential Guide Exchange 2007
Exchange 2007 was released with a number of high availability options and Service Pack 1 will bring yet another HA option for Exchange professionals to consider. In this Essential Guide, from Windows IT Pro, we provide an overview of options available from Microsoft - and we address situations where third-party high availability solutions for Exchange 2007 are worth considering.
Essential Guide Risk Management
In general, most IT professionals understand the basic concepts of risk management, even though they may not have been exposed to formal training. However, two things are happening in the IT field: the number of potential risks is growing, and the impact of some riks is increasing rapidly. Given these two changes, it may be time to consider changing the way you evaluate and protect against risks to your IT operations, and those changes begin with understanding some essential aspects of risk management..
The Future of Business Community
Having your customers depend on your IT services in order to communicate, purchase, or manage orders is great for your business. It cements customer loyalty as customers willingly bind their processes to yours. But this all breaks apart when your applications or Web sites are suddenly unavailable. At one time, ensuring that your IT systems supported your business without a hiccup during tornados, hurricanes, bombings, widespread power grid failures, or just plain server downtime was a very expensive proposition. This paper from the Patricia Seybold Group, discusses solutions offered by Neverfail that eliminate disruptions of any cause. Customers, employees, traveling professionals, partners, and branch offices need never know that IT is bailing 12 inches of water out of the server room. Neverfail can deliver most of the necessary expertise embedded in technology, rescuing companies from relying on less-than-expert staff to manage continuity procedures.
Enhancing Exchange Server 2007
Uptime is the boogeyman of the IT world. Everyone wants it, few are willing to pay for it, and even fewer are willing to take the steps necessary to guarantee that their organization won't be without it. While on the surface it might sound like an oxymoron, to the vast majority of users affected by the performance of the corporate network, the issue isn’t uptime, but downtime. And this doesn’t simply refer to the actual time when network resources are down, but to user downtime, which is the much more nebulous concept of that period of time when the end user can’t get their work done. This goes far beyond the relatively simple concept of keeping the components of the corporate enterprise up and running and delves into the area of keeping the end user productive, or at least making sure that the tools that are necessary for them to be productive are always at hand.
Devising a DR Plan
It might be an old Cub Scout motto, but those two words ring true to any disaster recovery (DR) planner. Since it's impossible to tell where, when or by what force of man or nature a disaster will strike -- it's critical in today's business environment to be prepared for everything. Setting up, implementing and testing a good DR plan is not easy and can be a big drain on resources, time and money. Since a plan is generally perceived as a preventative measure, with little up-front business value associated, it can be overlooked by management or pushed down the task list. This DR e-book, from content published in Storage magazine, provides hints on how to craft, implement and test your plan and -- find tips on how to sell this vision to management.
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