Online Seminar - High Availability and Disaster Recovery of a Windows Environment
 

 

In this free seminar, led by Convergent Computing Author/Experts Rand Morimoto and Ross Mistry, Rand and Ross addresses best practices at keeping Windows, Exchange, and SQL operational as close to 24x7 as possible as well as providing strategies on how to setup these technologies so you can failover from your primary data center to a remote Disaster Recovery site.

 

Rand and Ross cover in this seminar:

  *  Technologies built in to Windows 2003 R2 that address system reliability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery (including DFS-R file replication, Windows clustering, network load balancing, and current disk to disk to tape strategies)

  *  How to keep Exchange operational (including Exchange 2003 dialtone recovery, Exchange 2007 cluster continuous replication, and Exchange 2007 SP1 standby continuous replication)

  *  Utilization of SQL high ability technologies and log shipping replication for zero downtime

  *  Best practices at backing up and recovering from a failure of a Windows, Exchange, or SQL server

  *  How virtualization technologies are being leveraged for server and remote site recovery strategies

  *  Use of disk to disk to tape backup strategies

 

Key areas of discussion include the following:

  *  Leveraging New Technologies to Meet Business Continuity Goals: Practical advice on how to create attainable Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to plan for minimal or no down time.

  *  Protecting Against Failure: Learn about specific strategies that provide protection against failures in server systems (hard drives, power supplies, error correcting memory) and improve data recoverability of applications

  *  Proactive Monitoring: Identify controllable failures before they occur rather than reacting after they occur

  *  Strategies for Migration: Understanding where the new technologies from Microsoft provide built-in high availability and disaster recovery technologies that might make sense to upgrade to the latest product from Microsoft to get the built-in capabilities desired.

 

You should download and print the slide deck that will be used throughout this session

 

Video #1 (1-hr 2-min): Solutions for high availability, data corruption prevention, disaster recovery, and business continuity, plus specific drill down on single copy clustering and database mirroring

Video #2 (59-min): Data corruption avoidance, Shadow Copy snapshot for applications, Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity

 

Rand Morimoto is the President of Convergent Computing and is the lead author and editor for the "Unleashed" and "Management and Administration" series of books from Sams Publishing.  Ross Mistry is the author of the best selling book "SQL 2005 Management and Administration" and is the partner that runs the Database and Business Intelligence practice at Convergent Computing.

 

Convergent Computing is a technology consulting firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area that helps organizations plan, implement, and support their networking environments. If your organization can use assistance implementing, supporting, or just getting better use of your Windows Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, or other network or application technologies, please contact our organization for assistance mailto:sales@cco.com