VDI and Branch Consolidation

VDI, Virtual Desktop, VMware, Consolidation

Should you consolidate branch office desktops to a VDI running at the core datacenter?

Pros:
1. For companies with a single IT staff at the main site, it will reduce the amount of support required at the branch sites.

2. Improves security. You won't have any data residing at the branches.

3. Will allow you to consolidate servers as well - desktops and servers woul...

ISO 27001 and you

Disaster Recovery, backup, Risk Mitigation

ISO/IEC 27001:2005 - Information technology -- Security techniques -- Information security management systems is a series of best practice's for security control to meet the Information System Security Management minimum standards. These standards have been met out to insure global completeness of risk mitigation in IT. Corporations can, although they are not required to be, certified in ISO...

Disaster Recovery Options

SAN, Disaster Recovery, DR, Test, Replication, backup, Risk Mitigation, VDI, Virtual Desktop, VMware, Consolidation

My opinion on Offsite Disaster Recovery....

Why are people still using tape backups for offsite recovery? They're slow, unreliable and require a lot of management overhead. I'm guessing that people just aren't aware of their options.

Consider this: You can configure a spanky new, fully replicated 4TB Storage Area Network for less than $50k (that's two arrays, one on each side)....