Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers
- 11h 6m
- Jason Buffington
- Sybex
- 2010
Essential information on how to protect data in virtual environments!
Virtualization is changing the data center architecture and as a result, data protection is is quickly evolving as well. This unique book, written by an industry expert with over eighteen years of data storage/backup experience, shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data in a virtualized environment. You'll get up to speed on data protection problems, explore the data protection technologies available today, see how to adapt to virtualization, and more. The book uses a "good, better, best" approach, exploring best practices for backup, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and more.
- Covers best practices and essential information on protecting data in virtualized enterprise environments
- Shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data while also meeting such challenges as return on investment, existing service level agreements (SLAs), and more
- Helps system and design architects understand data protection issues and technologies in advance, so they can design systems to meet the challenges
- Explains how to make absolutely critical services such as file services and e-mail more available without sacrificing protection
- Offers best practices and solutions for backup, availability, disaster recovery, and others
This is a must-have guide for any Windows server and application administrator who is charged with data recovery and maintaining higher uptimes.
About the Author
Jason Buffington is a senior technical product manager within Microsoft System Center, focusing on Data Protection Manager and management technologies for mid-sized organizations. Jason has been working in the networking industry for over twenty years, specializing primarily in data protection and availability. Throughout his career, he has held Certified Business Continuity Planner, MCSE, MCT, and MVP titles, and has been published in several periodicals, including Storage Networking World, Storage Inc., Storage Management Solutions, and many others.
In this Book
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Introduction
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What Kind of Protection Do You Need?
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Data Protection by the Numbers
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The Layers of Data Protection
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Better Backups
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File Services
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Windows Clustering
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Microsoft Exchange
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Microsoft SQL Server
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Virtualization
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Management and Deployment
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Monitoring Systems
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
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