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		<title>VDI Monitoring and Capacity planning choices (Part 1 of 5)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few days I have been setting up some evaluations of various tools used to monitor a VMware View implementation. I thought I&#8217;d share what I&#8217;ve seen so far. These are not full technical reviews of the products, in fact I&#8217;ve linked to quite a bit of external content that I&#8217;ve found, but rather [...]


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		<title>Establishing a cost basis for disaster recovery (part 2 of 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A simple cost model can be developed using a spreadsheet tool. A pre requisite to building the cost model is an awareness of what hardware and software is in place and how this hardware and software has been allocated to each of the disaster recovery service offerings. This was discussed in our previous blog on [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.glasshouse.com/blog/the-business-impact-analysis-provides-an-empirical-basis-on-which-to-determine-business-aligned-recovery-services-and-their-attributes-part-1/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The business impact analysis provides an empirical basis on which to determine business aligned recovery services and their attributes &#8211; Part 1'>The business impact analysis provides an empirical basis on which to determine business aligned recovery services and their attributes &#8211; Part 1</a> <small> In previous blogs we covered the identification of policies...</small></li>
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		<title>Establishing a cost basis for disaster recovery (1 of 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business units are accustomed to making decisions based on cost/benefit and risk/reward assessments. Their choice of the appropriate investment in Disaster Recovery protection should be made in a similar manner. Visibility to the cost of each DR service offering allows the business units to make a rational choice of their investment in recovery protection based [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.glasshouse.com/blog/the-business-impact-analysis-provides-an-empirical-basis-on-which-to-determine-business-aligned-recovery-services-and-their-attributes-part-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The business impact analysis provides an empirical basis on which to determine business aligned recovery services and their attributes &#8211; Part 2'>The business impact analysis provides an empirical basis on which to determine business aligned recovery services and their attributes &#8211; Part 2</a> <small>continued from part 1 Build an excel table and enter...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.glasshouse.com/blog/the-business-impact-analysis-provides-an-empirical-basis-on-which-to-determine-business-aligned-recovery-services-and-their-attributes-part-1/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The business impact analysis provides an empirical basis on which to determine business aligned recovery services and their attributes &#8211; Part 1'>The business impact analysis provides an empirical basis on which to determine business aligned recovery services and their attributes &#8211; Part 1</a> <small> In previous blogs we covered the identification of policies...</small></li>
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		<title>Developing Recovery Service Objectives (2 of 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Recovery Service Objectives (RSO) are the publicly visible service commitments that dictate the infrastructure needed to deliver the DR Service Offerings.
The next service objective is the RPV (Recovery Production Volume). The relative volume capability projected following a disaster event. Many organizations do not address this critical component of recovery. How much data will be processed [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.glasshouse.com/blog/thinking-about-disaster-recovery/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Thinking about Disaster Recovery'>Thinking about Disaster Recovery</a> <small>There are many platforms and requirement metrics to consider when...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.glasshouse.com/blog/developing-for-the-cloud/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Developing for the cloud ?'>Developing for the cloud ?</a> <small> VMWorld 2009 All this week at VMworld 2009 we...</small></li>
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		<title>Developing Recovery Service Objectives (1 of 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Developing Recovery Service Objectives
Recovery Service Objectives (RSO) are the publicly visible service commitments that dictate the infrastructure needed to deliver the DR Service Offerings.
In previous blogs we covered the empirically based Business Impact Analysis or BIA. The BIA process provides us with the tangible cost to the organization should a business unit be unable to [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.glasshouse.com/blog/establishing-a-cost-basis-for-disaster-recovery/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Establishing a cost basis for disaster recovery (1 of 2)'>Establishing a cost basis for disaster recovery (1 of 2)</a> <small>Business units are accustomed to making decisions based on cost/benefit...</small></li>
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		<title>VPLEX for Storage Federation: A New Approach to Virtual Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
EMC&#8217;s VPLEX can integrate with VBlocks and leverage VMware, Cisco, and EMC packages which provide a solution for computing, network, storage, and management.
VPLEX is a pay as you grow module, starts small and grow as you need. The VPLEX comes in two configurations:
• VPLEX Local &#8211; allows data mobility across arrays in a local data center [...]


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		<title>Customer Support Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Service is everywhere. And most days, we don’t even notice it.  Think about it.  Go to your local hamburger place.  You get ‘service’.  Wait in line at the Dairy Queen..At the window, you get ‘service’. Or what about the folks who greet you at Walmart?  The sales people at Macy’s? Your insurance agent.  Your real [...]


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		<title>Taking a low tech approach to a high tech event &#8211; EMC World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking a low tech approach to a high tech event
I showed up at the EMC World event with nothing more than my jacket and trusty analog recording device (pen). Not wanting to drag a laptop bag around all day or be distracted by any games installed I figured this was the best way to sample [...]


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		<title>Thinking about Disaster Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many platforms and requirement metrics to consider when developing a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan and the infrastructure design to support it. The recovery of the compute platform and to what level of performance is usually pushed toward the end because of the metrics involved. A metric that is routinely examined, but is difficult [...]


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		<title>Reduce costs with Deduplication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays, the economic situation globally is not quite stable. Enterprises are looking for ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency &#8211; optimization technologies are considered to be the most important and significant. Enterprise industries are facing a two-sided challenge: store and manage increasing amounts of data while simultaneously reducing the carbon footprint — they are [...]


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