Virtualization is changing the data center architecture and as a result, data protection is is quickly evolving as well. This unique book, written by an industry expert with over eighteen years of data storage/backup experience, shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data in a virtualized environment. You'll get up to speed on data protection problems, explore the data protection technologies available today, see how to adapt to virtualization, and more. The book uses a "good, better, best" approach, exploring best practices for backup, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and more.

-Covers best practices and essential information on protecting data in virtualized enterprise environments

-Shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data while also meeting such challenges as return on investment, existing service level agreements (SLAs), and more

-Helps system and design architects understand data protection issues and technologies in advance, so they can design systems to meet the challenges

-Explains how to make absolutely critical services such as file services and e-mail more available without sacrificing protection

-Offers best practices and solutions for backup, availability, disaster recovery, and others

-This is a must-have guide for any Windows server and application administrator who is charged with data recovery and maintaining higher uptimes.

Additional Details

1 Data Protection Overview.

2 Measuring Risk.

3 The Layers of Data Protection.

4 Better Backups and DPM 2010.

5 File Services.

6 Windows Clustering.

7 Exchange Replication.

8 SQL Mirroring.

9 Virtualization.

10 Management.

11 Monitoring.

12 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.