The Key Critical Components of a Successful Business Continuity Strategy, Sequel Data, HP, VMware, and Intel.
Attend a workshop where you will learn how HP, VMware® and Intel®can protect your business-critical IT infrastructure by laying the foundation for a successful business continuity strategy. In this workshop, you will see how HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN solutions powered by Intel®Xeon®processors and VMware®virtualization technology can increase availability and reduce overall costs, while improving your infrastructure's performance.
HP has teamed up with Sequel Data Systems to help you realize business continuity through virtualization. During these informative workshops, you will:
Discover the three critical components of a successful business continuity plan with virtualization as the foundation.
Benefit from data center virtualization with VMware vSphere 4.1.
See how a combined HP, VMware, and Intel® high-availability, disaster-recovery, and data-protection solution can overcome system failures that threaten to interrupt business operations.
Assess your business continuity strategy with best-practice checklists
Agenda (local time)
11:00 a.m. Registration
11:30 a.m. Building the high-availability, disaster-recovery, and data-protection components of a business continuity strategy; lunch
1:30 p.m. Adjourn
Where:
Maggino's10910 Domain Dr Ste 100Austin, TX 78758
When:
Thursday September 16th, 201011:00 am - 1:30 pm
Register Here
Running your key Microsoft applications, including Exchange and SQL Server, on a virtual infrastructure can be perceived as risky. But attend this free, technical best practices event and you will discover the reliability and uptime benefits of running your business-critical applications on VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
Register for our free event and see how virtualizing Microsoft applications allows you to:
- Exceed the performance of a physical infrastructure
- Simplify Your IT Environment
- Guarantee application quality of service
- Accelerate application time-to-market
- Minimize infrastructure costs
We encourage you to bring along your application owners, including Exchange Administrators and DBAs. This event is designed for both VMware technical professionals as well as their application counterparts.
Who Should Attend:
- Directors of IT
- Directors of Applications
- VMware Administrators
- Architects and Administrators responsible for Exchange, SQL/Database and SharePoint
Where:
Hyatt Regency Austin 208 Barton Springs, Austin, Texas, USA 78704
When:
August 18th, 2010
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
VMware: Virtualizing Microsoft Applications
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Sequel Data Systems Presentation
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Q&A and Raffle
Learn how to protect your business-critical IT infrastructure with HP and VMware at a free upcoming workshop, Business Continuity through Virtualization. Join us to discover how Sequel Data Systems, HP and VMware are helping businesses like yours implement a comprehensive set of integrated, proven business continuity solutions with virtualization technology.
Throughout the workshop, you'll understand how to lay the foundation with virtualization, recognize critical components of a successful business continuity strategy, learn how to reduce downtime and leave with proven checklists for assessing your own strategy.
Agenda (local time)
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11am to 2pm |
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Lunch |
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11am to 2pm |
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Virtualization from Storage and Servers to Desktops |
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11am to 2pm |
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Mobile Data Center Truck Demos |
Date and Time:
July 29th, 2010 from 11am to 2pm
Location:
Dave & Buster's - San Antonio
440 Crossroads Blvd
San Antonio, Texas 78201
Click Here to Register.
Sequel Data Systems will be an event sponsor for this years Door64.com Austin Technology Fair. This event showcases Central Texas technology companies. We will be there with the Mobile Data Center doing demos on virtualization. Inside the data center, you can gain valuable knowledge on everything from how to configure your systems so they fail-over properly in the event of a disaster, to provisioning new virtual machines in a matter of minutes.
Date: Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Time: 10:00am until 5:00pm
Cost: FREE!
Location: AT&T Conference Center - 1900 University Avenue, Austin, Texas 78705 [Map]
http://door64.com/techfair
Come see the Mobile Data Center that showcases the latest data center technology. We currently showcase the latest VMware products including vSphere, vCenter, and View.
Join us to learn more about how VMware ViewTM 4 delivers desktops as a managed service and provides the best-in-class desktop-user experience.
* Manage, update, and provision thousands of desktops from a single management console.
* Centralize your management of desktops, applications, and data.
* Secure data by moving it from unsecure devices to the data center.
* Reduce total cost of ownership and manageability.
Come see the view everyone's talking about. Experience hands on demos and take View for a test drive.
Enjoy Technology Happy Hour with VMware and Sequel Data Systems.
May 20th from 2:00pm to 4pm
Fox and Hound
11470 Westheimer Road
Houston, TX 77077
Click Here to Register
IDC's analysis of organizations adopting a centralized virtual desktop (CVD) computing environment with the use of VMware View shows that investment in the technology can result in significant business value with very high return on investment (ROI). IDC's analysis also yielded the following observations:
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Organizations deploying VMware View saved on average over $610 per supported end user per year compared with organizations using unmanaged PCs. Savings came from lower device and IT staff support costs - over $480 - and improved productivity (reduced downtime) - over $130.
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Organizations leveraging the advanced capabilities available in VMware View Premier, such as ThinApp application virtualization and View Composer image management, saved an additional $122 per year compared with organizations that had not deployed ThinApp and View Composer with VMware View.
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To maximize the value associated with the adoption of centralized virtual desktops, organizations must be aware of the limitations of the platform, such as performance, mobile access, and datacenter capacity.
S i m p l i f y i n g P C M a n a g e m e n t T h r o u g h V i r t u a l i z a t i o n
Of the technologies currently available, hypervisors represent the most recent addition to the set of tools that can be used to efficiently manage PC environments. After a tremendous growth in demand for the use of hypervisors for server virtualization to enable hardware consolidation as well as other capabilities, hypervisors are now being applied to the desktop environment in various ways. In many cases, legacy hypervisor platforms are installed on physical PCs to provide users with the ability to run multiple isolated and unique desktops on one physical PC, enabling users to run a Windows OS and Mac OS side by side on the same PC, for example.
More recently, IT organizations have been leveraging server virtualization for the purposes of hosting multiple isolated and unique desktop environments, which end users access remotely from their desks through thin clients. This model is referred to by IDC as centralized virtual desktops.
The use of hypervisor technology as an infrastructure for desktops enables a far more flexible architecture. The elimination of the logical bond between physical PC hardware and the applications delivered by the PC can significantly simplify the many tasks necessary for the management of the PC. By using this new architecture, IT organizations can more effectively and efficiently manage their desktop environments, particularly for end users who are largely outside the lasso of existing desktop management tools.
For more about the IDC's White Paper sponsored by VMWare follow the link http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/resources/IDC_Quantifying-Business-Value-VMware-View.pdf
By Chad Berndtson, ChannelWeb
5:44 PM EST Fri. Feb. 26, 2010
HP (NYSE:HPQ) ProCurve has been quietly offering a new program through which Cisco (NSDQ:CSCO)-certified solution providers can be fast-tracked for ProCurve certification if they meet certain criteria.
The program, called HP ProCurve's Accelerated training program, offers Cisco-certified VARs the opportunity to save on expensive ProCurve accreditation if they already have certain Cisco certifications, the idea being to show VARs how they can translate Cisco networking expertise into ProCurve competencies.
There are two tracks, according to a promotion on ProCurve's Website, that will help partners "double your knowledge without shrinking your wallet" and "learn about HP ProCurve and interoperability with other networking vendors."
For Cisco partners holding CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, CCIP, CCVP or CNNP Wireless certifications, ProCurve is offering to "accelerate" training to become certified as a ProCurve ASE (Accredited System Engineer) for HP ProCurve Campus LANs.
For Cisco partners holding CCIE Routing & Switching, CCDE, CCIE Security, CCIE Service Provider, CCIE Storage Networking, CCIE Voice or CCIE Wireless, ProCurve is offering "accelerated" training to become certified as Master ASE.
All that's required is for partners to spend four hours taking Web-based ProCurve training, and pass a web-based exam.
HP claims that the Accelerated program will save partners as much as $12,000 over what they'd pay for ProCurve training if they didn't come in with the stated Cisco certifications.
According to an HP spokesperson, the program was launched in October 2009.
"We have had many engineers within Cisco partners take the course and exam," the spokesperson said in a response to Channelweb.com. "From a partner recruitment standpoint, we have an active program working with them to recruit. We have received good feedback to having this certification available to help them reach the certification requirements for HP at a rapid pace."
HP declined to say how many Cisco-certified partners it had trained in the Accelerate program but said it was seeing new partners continue to take advantage.
"HP understands that you have invested your valuable time into building your networking knowledge and expertise," reads promotional copy on the ProCurve Website. "Taking that into consideration, we have an accelerated certification path available to engineers who have achieved one of the below Cisco credentials."
One Cisco (NSDQ:CSCO)-certified solution provider who requested anonymity said he was aware of the program and was "giving it some thought," though he had not yet contacted anyone at ProCurve or been personally recruited.
"I wouldn't make that big a deal of it, because the big guys do this competitive [stuff] all the time, and sometimes they talk about it and sometimes they don't," said the solution provider. "At the same time, for a reseller, it's a way to make sure your bases are covered and not have to pay through the nose necessarily. I mean, why not, right?"
The program comes at a critical time for HP (NYSE:HPQ) as it attempts to win mind and market share in the channel for ProCurve, especially now that the gulf between former friends HP and Cisco has widened into a chasm.
Cisco last week announced it would not be renewing HP's system integrator contract when it ends on April 30 -- the latest shot fired by Cisco in an increasingly contentious battle between the two tech titans.
"Over the last few years our relationship with HP has evolved from a partner to companies with different and conflicting visions of how to deliver value to customers," said Keith Goodwin, Cisco senior vice president of worldwide channels, in a video post to the Cisco Channels blog.
ProCurve's program is in line with recent moves by HP ProCurve to portray itself as an open architecture networking alternative to Cisco. At Interop in November, HP announced a new set of vendor partners for its Open Network Ecosystem (ONE) program.
HP also played up the open vs. proprietary message in its response to Cisco last week, calling Cisco's choice to not renew HP's reseller contract a proprietary move "not in the customer's best interest."