Technology for technology’s sake is not the answer. When applied properly, in the right amounts, technology can dramatically improve a company’s ability to provide their product/service, build relationships with customers and simplify day-to-day processes. For over 11 years, I have worked to help companys understand how technology can revolutionize their business without breaking their budgets. Techgility.com is a collection of my work and a little bit of information about my background for those that are interested in such things.
TechEd 2009 Presentation - Hyper-V HA/DR
High Availability, Disaster Recovery Considerations for Microsoft Hyper-V
Download the PPT Here
Hyper-V Virtualization enables multiple IT workloads to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. With this capability, however, […]
VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 3 of 3
Trends for the disaster recovery market for 2009.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/194/
VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 2 of 3
Speaking about an important strategy change, new products and services that are coming in 2009.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/195/
VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 1 of 3
Why haven’t storage vendors moved more into the DR market in terms of broad-based replication or DR solutions?
http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/196/
VMworld Europe 2009 Presentation
An Optimized Approach to Workload Availability in Virtualized Environments
Virtualization enables multiple IT workloads to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. However, not every application can or will […]
TechReady 2009 - Internal MSFT Presentation
Disaster Recovery Solutions with Hyper-V and Double-Take Software
Technical presentation to internal Microsoft field technical sales and professional services personnel about disaster recovery and high availability for Hyper-V virtualized environments.
Microsoft Virtualization Solutions: Making It Real
I was lucky enough to be asked to co-present at the 2008 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. The session, also presented by Microsoft’s Virtualization Solutuions Director, focused on helping the audience understand how other partners are leveraging Microsoft virtualization solutions and making the case to customers. This session also focused on how Microsoft partners have […]
SQL Connections 2008 - HA, DR and SPS 2007
http://www.devconnections.com/shows/SP2008SQL/default.asp?c=1&s=114
Companies rely on Office SharePoint Server 2007 to collaborate and streamline their business workflow across the company—so, how can they make sure data is highly available and easily recovered in the event of a disaster? This session will provide a brief overview of the SharePoint Server 2007 architecture, focusing on the recovery and availability features […]
ESJ - Backup and Recovery for Virtualized Environments
Working in a virtualized environment brings several challenges, including how to protect it. In this conversation, we discuss the pros and cons of the different approaches to this job with Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering at Double-Take Software.
Bob explains what built-in tools are available for backup and what tools are still missing, plus the […]
Replication, Disaster Recovery, and DoubleTake Software
I participated in a podcast w/Gregg Sheilds at Realtime Windows Server. Here’s an absract and a link to the MP3.
In the old days, building and maintaining a backup site for disaster recovery was financially impossible for all but the most critcial of network services. Buying and managing duplicate servers in a redundant site that […]
