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          New Directions for Next Gen Data Centers
          Storage is a critical consideration as organizations streamline their IT environments. Listen in as Chet Jacobs from HP explains HP’s acquisition of cloud-friendly 3PAR and the potential of the synergistic and transformative technologies that will define that next gen data center.
          Meet the Expert: Top Storage Solutions
          Travis Williamson, Director Practice Initiatives and Storage Practice Lead for the PC Connection family of companies, discusses the ever-changing world of storage inside and out.  Learn about strategies to address some of the biggest storage challenges faced by IT professionals, energy-saving solutions, better disaster recovery, storage management tools, and much more.
          Meet the Expert: How to Work Effectively with IT Partners
          For your IT department to meet the needs of your organization, you need access to the right technical resources to do the job. In this “Meet the Expert” podcast, Aaron Russo, Manager of Technical Sales for the PC Connection Family of Companies discusses IT trends he’s seeing in the field, and when and why you may want to reach out to your IT partners to get access to the technical help you need.
          Selecting Network-Attached Storage Systems
          The importance of a solid IT strategy and network infrastructure cannot be overstated for small- to medium-sized organizations. A right-sized, affordable solution will keep your mission-critical data safe and enable your staff to share files quickly and reliably. Drew O’Brien of Overland Storage explains how Network-Attached Storage (NAS) systems secure your data, while making it available to the systems and people that keep you moving forward.
          Secure Your Data with Online Backup
          Are online backup services a good fit for securing your organization’s valuable data? Listen to this lively and informative podcast with EMC Mozy to learn about an easy-to-use and affordable way to back up your growing organization’s PCs, Macs, or Windows servers and protect your irreplaceable assets. EMC’s Sean Finnegan also offers tips for developing a solid backup strategy.
          Case Study: Disk-Based Backup at a Federal Agency
          Looking at a new option for storage? Join us an IT group at a federal agency worked with our experts to evaluate and select a new backup solution, resulting in improvements while reducing the time the team spends to support backup.
          Best Practices for Storage in Virtualized Environments
          Expanding a virtual environment to reach its full potential requires a capable storage solution. Randy Chalfant, Vice President of Strategy at Nexsan Technologies reviews best practices and important storage-related considerations when building a cloud or virtual infrastructure — specifically for mid-sized organizations.
          Optimize Storage Using Disk Backup with De-duplication
          With exponential growth of data, companies are always looking for ways to eliminate wasted space and maximize efficiency of their storage environments. Marc Crespi of Exagrid presents tips on how you can optimize your backup and recovery environment, shorten your backup window, and reduce your restore times – by boldly eliminating redundant files and reliably protecting data using disk backup with de-duplication.
          Stop Doing Backups! Data Protection Strategies for High Availability
          Shrinking backup windows are one of the many challenges that storage managers face every day — along with putting together robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans and dealing with regulatory compliance. Join us as Mike Phelan from DotHill discusses data protection options that maximize application availability and do not increase the workload for your IT department. Presented in partnership with Dot Hill.
          Enhancing Business Continuity in Clinical Environments
          Human error and site failures happen in the IT world, but your healthcare organization cannot afford to miss a beat when patient care is your mission. Join Travis Williamson, our Storage Practice Lead, as he outlines top requirements to build a business continuity strategy, invaluable insight on making virtualization a key part of your solution, the benefits of automated failover, and tips for selecting storage for healthcare organizations of all sizes.
          Implementing a Document Management System
          Join us as Brian Brown from HP discusses the need for document management, the benefits of the solutions available to capture and manage the data, and how to track and archive sensitive documents.
          Beyond Traditional Tape-Based Backup
          Need a faster and more scalable solution for your backups?  It’s time to learn more about disk-based backup with deduplication!  With Marc Crespi. Presented in partnership with Exagrid.
          Flexible, High Performance Storage Options
          Facing rapid data growth, shrinking backup windows, and implementing a reliable disaster recovery plan?  Learn more about the technology choices available to address your needs. With Mike Phelan. Presented in partnership with Dot Hill.
          Managing Storage
          Among traditional storage challenges, we also discuss which approaches offer the benefits of energy efficiency in a smaller space footprint. With Gary Watson. Presented in partnership with Nexsan.
          Storage within the Virtual Environment
          Join the VMware Specialist from EMC as he discusses how storage vendors are integrating virtualization into their solutions frameworks. With Denis Guyadeen, Sr.
          Planning for Storage in VMware Environments
          Factoring in the right storage solution for your virtual environment is a very important consideration to truly reap the benefits of an agile, lower-cost infrastructure. Join us as Chris Carrier discusses how to choose the right storage solution for your environment!
          Benefits of Energy Efficiency in a Smaller Space Footprint
          Join Gary Watson from Nexsan as he explores a collection of solutions that reduce power consumption, increase performance, and optimize space and cost efficiency.
          Storage Makes IT Happen: High Availability and Efficient Virtualization
          Virtualization opens up a range of possibilities for your data center, including improved server utilization with enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capability. Don't lose what you gain with server virtualization to inefficient storage. Learn about SAN solutions that fully support your virtualized environment, and view a demo of HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN solutions to discover how this technology improves overall storage efficiency.
          Storage Strategies: Shrink Your Data Storage Footprint and Become 20% More Efficient
          Your organization's data is growing exponentially, and you need a sustainable solution.  Storage consolidation could be the answer. EMC and our storage experts discuss how to drive down costs with consolidation, get control over backup and recovery times, and much more. We present EMC unified storage solutions that will shrink your data storage footprint and tell you about EMC's "20% more efficient" out of the box guarantee.
          Top Tips for Maximizing Tangible Business Benefits with Storage Virtualization
          With the uptake in virtualization, and increased efficiencies in server and network performance, you may want to re-evaluate your storage infrastructure. PC Connection's Travis Williamson describes how storage virtualization offers advanced functions like improved disaster recovery models and better resource allocation that can make life easier and save you time and money. You'll also see a demo of HP high-performance disk arrays suited for fully virtualized environments.
          New Storage Strategies: Support Rapid Virtual Desktop Deployment
          View this webinar to learn about the latest tools for managing your virtual desktop infrastructure and storage solutions from EMC that enable rapid deployment and high performance for VDI. You’ll see a live demo of EMC Celerra features and integrations that extend the value of VMware View 4.5.
          Want a Roadmap to Optimize Your Infrastructure?
          Does your organization need to drive down energy costs, reduce operating expenses, and do more with less? Join Travis Williamson from the PC Connection of Families as he discusses smart tools to help you optimize your IT infrastructure.
          Remove the Risk and Worry for DR in Virtual Environments
          Join Mark Collins from the PC Connection of Families for an online demonstration of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Our expert will show you how to set up a disaster recovery plan that eliminates unknowns, so you can expand your virtualization initiatives with confidence.
          Are You Prepared to Deal with Your Data Growth?
          Listen to Travis Williamson and Enrique Retana discuss getting control over backup and recover time and costs to ensure what you buy today can be used tomorrow. Includes a live demonstration on the EMC Celerra NX4. See how simple it is to go from power-up to production in as little as 15 minutes! Presented in partnership with EMC.
          Speed and Extend Your Virtualization Initiatives
          Your organization's agility really depends on "IT agility". But, if you are managing a complex and brittle infrastructure, then a lion's share of your IT budget will be spent on just maintaining the status quo. Join this webinar to learn how to enhance your virtualization strategies - leveraging unified storage platforms - that will make your data center flexible, scalable, and easier to manage. Presented in partnership with EMC.
          How Storage Virtualization Opens New Doors in the Data Center
          The key to unlocking higher efficiency, availability, and performance.
          Does Data Deduplication Have You Seeing Double?
          Data deduplication is a fairly common practice in disk-based backups and archives, and the next frontier for deduplication is in the area of primary storage. However, not all data is suitable for primary storage deduplication. This article details how to develop a data deduplication strategy, including data selection tips.
          If You Think Solid-State Storage Is Complex, Think Again
          Improving storage performance and cutting costs is easy, when you’ve done your research.
          Defeat the Data Monster
          Follow these steps to boost your storage and safeguard your organization.
          Storage: The Missing Piece to Your Virtualization Puzzle
          Five storage considerations to help you put together the big picture.
          What You Need to Know About Storage and Virtualization
          How to unlock the full performance benefits of your virtual environment.