Online Seminar - Disaster Recovery Solutions for a Windows Networking Environment

 

This seminar was led by Convergent Computing President and author of the #1 selling book in 27 countries on Windows technologies, Rand Morimoto, presented tips, tricks, best practices, and updated strategies used to improve disaster recovery business practices.

Rand covered in this seminar:

  • What’s new in Windows 2003 R2 as well as recent add-ons that help with system reliability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
  • How to best configure Windows 2003 for system hardware, data file, and log file placement and optimization
  • What’s new with the Server Performance Analyzer (SPA) recently updated by Microsoft
  • How clustering and network load balance can be leveraged to improve reliability
  • Where the new Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) can be used to create redundant and high availability file server functionality
  • How DFSR compares with the Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS) product for file recovery
  • What the new practices are for organizations relative to 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 99.999 % uptime.
  • 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

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

 

Video #1 (1-hr 14-min): Covers DR vs Business Continuity, Backup, Clustering, Network Load Balancing, Distributed File System

Video #2 (56-minutes): Covers Exchange E12 Continuous Backup, Virtualization (VMWare, Microsoft Virtual Server), Microsoft Data Protection Server, Microsoft Operations Manager

 

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