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Webinars
- Best Practices for Preventing Downtime in Automation Systems
If you’re involved with managing process automation systems for pharmaceuticals, oil & gas, power generation and delivery, and other industries, you know the complexity of your IT systems can often create failures and indecision that result in downtime. And downtime can blow your production schedule, put lives at risk, and create significant financial consequences for your company. Join ARC Advisory Group Research Director Craig Resnick for this 45-minute webinar to learn about the best practices that you can put in place today to prevent downtime, including:
- Reducing the human error that leads to downtime
- How to protect your hardware, storage and networks for complete availability coverage
- How to protect against a complete site failure
About Craig Resnick, Research Director , ARC Advisory Group
Craig Resnick is part of the Automation consulting team at ARC covering the PLC, PAC, HMI, OIT and Industrial PC markets as well as the Packaging, Plastics and Rubber Industries. Craig’s focus areas include Production Management, HMI, I/O, Industrial PCs, OITs, PLCs, OEE, PACs, PC-based Control, and Embedded Systems; Packaging, Plastics and Rubber Industries. Craig is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston with both an MBA degree as well as a BS degree in Electrical Engineering.
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Time: 1:00PM EST, 10:00AM PST, 6:00PM GMT
Events
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Webinar Recordings
- Finding a Cure for Downtime
7 Tips for Reducing Downtime for Healthcare Information Systems
Adoption of electronic medical records, picture archiving (PACS) and other health information systems is on the rise, while at the same time regulatory mandates such as HIPPA require strict control over patient data. As healthcare information systems become an increasingly integral part of the delivery of patient care, tolerance for application downtime is approaching zero. This webinar will outline seven key steps that you can take today to protect the availability of your critical information and records systems, including:
- How to reduce the #1 source of downtime – human error
- How to protect against hardware, storage and network failures
- Real-world examples of healthcare organizations that reduced downtime using everRun software from Marathon
- Application Availability for Branch or Remote Locations
Top 5 Best Practices from Forrester Research
Keeping your IT infrastructure up and running is always challenging, but can be particularly tricky for remote locations where you probably have little or no IT staff. If you’re responsible for supporting critical applications at remote or branch locations, such as retail stores, banks, hotels, financial services firms and others, this is a must-attend webinar. Forrester senior analyst and availability expert Stephanie Balaouras will review her recent research on this topic and provide her Top 5 best practices for optimizing availability at your remote locations including:
- Reducing human error through proper planning and documentation
- Measuring availability from the end user perspective
- Automating your HA systems
Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research and Michael Bilancieri, Sr. Director of Products, Marathon Technologies
- A Simpler Approach to SharePoint High Availability
Protecting SharePoint via traditional methods can be difficult because of its complex implementation architecture, which requires a six-server farm to protect the front-end IIS Web server, the SharePoint application server and the back-end SQL database server. Attend this webinar to learn about a simplified, cost-effective approach to SharePoint high availability using Marathon’s everRun high availability software. During this webinar, we’ll review:
- How SharePoint can be fully protected, using as few as two servers
- How everRun reliably protects all three architecture tiers—including the indexing service
- A real-world SharePoint availability deployment at a large financial services company in Canada
Tom Reed, Senior Technical Evangelist, Marathon Technologies
- High Availability Doesn't Need to be Expensive
High availability solutions are no longer an all or nothing discussion. Today there are wide range of alternatives that provide the required level of availability at a cost justified by the risks of downtime. Attend this webinar, which includes new research from Realtime Publishers, and learn how to:
- Align your business needs to today’s spectrum of HA technology options
- Mix & match HA solutions for the fastest ROI
- Present your HA recommendations and ROI analysis to management in business (not technology) terms.
Steve Keilen, Vice President of Marketing, Marathon Technologies
- 4 Simple Steps For Preventing Downtime
When it comes to downtime, IT departments appear to be their own worst enemy. A number of recent reports from IDC, Gartner and others have found that human error is the single largest cause of IT downtime.
Niel Nickolaisen, CIO and Director of Strategic Planning at Headwaters, Inc., has faced this same issue many times in his 25+ years in IT. Through his own research and analysis, Nickolaisen found that there are some very simple and straight-forward IT processes and procedures that IT managers can put in place to prevent downtime and ensure continuous business operations.
Drawing from his own first-hand experience, Nickolaisen will provide attendees with his techniques for:
- Conducting a gap analysis of your current IT processes
- Identifying weaknesses that can lead to downtime
- Simplifying IT processes so that your entire staff can understand and follow them
- everRun 2G Demo
Now’s your chance to see a live demonstration of Marathon’s everRun 2G, our next-generation high availability solution for Windows Server environments. everRun 2G eliminates the complexities and hidden costs of traditional high availability and data protection products to give you more reliable, affordable application protection. everRun 2G makes high availability practical for a wide range of applications, such as Microsoft Dynamics, SQL Server, Exchange Server or SharePoint Server or specialized applications used in manufacturing automation, building security and healthcare— without worries of outages or data loss.
During this 60-minute webinar, we’ll provide:
- A brief overview of the features and benefits of everRun 2G
- A live demonstration of the set-up and administration of the software
- A Q&A session to answer your questions about high availability with everRun
Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products, Marathon Technologies
- Windows Server 2008 High Availability: Technology Comparison
Savvy IT professionals know that downtime carries many risks for their business—from disruption of user productivity, to slow customer response times, as well as significant financial and regulatory non-compliance consequences. Based on the findings of a recent independent report from Realtime Publishers, this 60-minute webinar will give you a solid foundation of what you need to know as you plan your HA strategies for Windows Server 2008, including:
- The important distinctions between high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery (and why it’s critical to know the difference
- Windows Server 2008 HA native technologies: multi-instance, network load balancing and clustering
- Non-native options for Windows Server 2008 HA: data replication, virtualization, application controlled HA, and synchronized systems
- An executive summary of the people, processes, and technology that you need to have in place to ensure high availability for your Windows Server 2008 environment
Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products, Marathon Technologies
- How to Get at Least 2x Greater Cost Savings from Server Virtualization
Learn how you can confidently run many more of your applications in virtual machines for a much greater ROI
Companies that have consolidated applications through virtualization have been able to lower capital and operating expenses significantly. But the amount of savings varies dramatically from company to company. This webinar will explore how some companies are cutting costs faster and getting a higher return on their virtualization investment by confidently running a greater percentage of their applications in virtual machines.
Speakers:
Brian Mullins, Sr. Director, Marketing, Marathon Technologies, IT ROI Analysis Certification from Babson College and Nucleus Research; and Steven Keilen, VP of Marketing, Marathon Technologies
- Direct from Microsoft - The Top 10 Reasons you Should Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 Now
Cut Costs by Migrating Mission Critical Applications to Windows Server 2008 and everRun
Windows Server 2008 delivers exciting, valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the core operating system to help organizations of all sizes to increase control and manageability, provide high availability, and have more flexibility for their most demanding business applications. And by combining Windows Server 2008 with Marathon’s everRun® fault tolerant protection, you can migrate your mission critical applications with confidence, and achieve significant cost savings over expensive Unix or proprietary platforms.
Speakers:
David Hanna, Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft Corporation and Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products, Marathon Technologies
- Direct from Citrix - Increasing Citrix XenServer Availability with Marathon
Citrix has a long standing relationship with Marathon Technologies which has been taken to the next level with the release of Marathon everRun VM version 5.0. Learn how the three levels of high availability in everRun VM can be applied to XenServer workloads, depending on their criticality. This ranges from Basic Failover for less critical servers to Full System Fault Tolerance for Mission critical servers that require zero downtime.
Speakers:
Lee Bushen, Systems Engineer Team Leader, Citrix Systems and Martin Kyprianides, Senior Systems Engineer, Marathon Technologies
- SQL Availability: Protecting Your Database and Applications
Protecting SQL Server and its databases is a top priority for many businesses, but it is generally not enough. If associated SQL applications are not also protected, business operations can be disrupted. Almost all database applications include a separate application element that includes application logic, user interface control and sometimes communication with other applications or networks. Applications may include in-memory data or file system data, in addition to SQL Server data, all adding to the complexity of the protection challenge.
Speakers:
Stephen Wynkoop, founder, SSWUG.org and Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products at Marathon Technologies
- Optimizing Exchange High Availability - A New Approach
How tiered availability can help you achieve your SLA commitments with less resources and lower cost
Effective Exchange high availability involves more than just protecting the mailbox server-you need to protect your entire Exchange environment. But over-protection can waste valuable system resources, while under-protection can result in costly downtime. A new approach that allows you to tailor the levels of availability by user groups and Exchange components is a much better way to get effective Exchange high availability.
Speakers:
Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products, Marathon Technologies and Tom Reed, Senior Solutions Architect, Marathon Technologies
- Fault Tolerant Virtual Servers in 10 Minutes or Less!
Join HP, Citrix & Marathon for this webinar discussing a joint integrated virtualization solution that is fast to deploy, easy to manage & always on for business critical apps running in virtual environments. Find out why HP, Citrix & Marathon provide the best virtualization solution for enterprise organizations.
Speakers:
-John Humphreys, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Virtualization Management Division, Citrix Systems
-Doug Strain, ESS Software 3rd Party Virtualization Marketing, Hewlett-Packard
-Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products, Marathon Technologies
- Virtualize and Fortify XenApp for Lower Costs & Higher SLAs
Learn how virtualizing Citrix XenApp with Citrix XenServer helps you:
- Lower operating expenses by consolidating XenApp servers
- Increase IT flexibility by provisioning XenApp across physical and virtual servers
- Enable zero-downtime maintenance with XenMotion live migration
- Increase your SLAs for your most critical XenApp deployments
- Protect your Citrix License Server and Data Store from downtime with automated availability
-Sridhar Mullapudi, XenApp Senior Product Manager, Citrix Systems
-Peter Blum, XenServer Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Citrix System
-Tom Reed, Senior Solutions Architect, Marathon Technologies, Citrix Partner Technical Expert Council
- Virtualizing Exchange – The Cold, Hard Numbers on Why Citrix XenServer + everRun VM is the Best Platform
Moving your Microsoft-Exchange servers to the latest server virtualization technologies offers compelling benefits. View this webcast to discover:
- The benefits of virtualizing Exchange
- Why Exchange 2007's new architecture makes it even better for virtual environments
- The cold, hard benchmark numbers that demonstrate Citrix XenServer's native 64-bit performance advantage for Exchange scalability and flexibility
- Why the multi-award winning everRun VM software is an essential component for XenServer to keep Exchange users continuously connected
Matt Fairbanks, VP Product Marketing – Citrix Systems and Jerry Melnick, CTO – Marathon Technologies
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Fault Tolerant-Class Availability: Protect Your Windows Server Workloads from Downtime
Speaker: Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products – Marathon Technologies
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The "Best of VMworld" Approach to Protecting Virtual Machines
Speakers: Chris Wolf, Analyst – Burton Group, Simon Crosby, CTO – Citrix, Jerry Melnick, CTO – Marathon Technologies
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Making the Business Case for Virtualization - It's Not Just For Server Consolidation Anymore
Speakers: John Humphreys, Program Vice President – IDC, Simon Crosby, CTO – Citrix, Jerry Melnick, CTO – Marathon Technologies
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The “Best of VMworld Approach” to Virtualization and Availability
Speakers: John Humphreys, Program Vice President – IDC, Simon Crosby, CTO – Citrix, Jerry Melnick, CTO – Marathon Technologies
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