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Virtualization Video Series
See the Adexis seven-part video series "Virtualization, Avoiding the Hype." Learn real world tips and techniques about implementing and maintaining a virtualized environment.

Video 1: Virtualization: Beyond the Hype

Video 2: Virtualization: My servers are virtualized. Now what?
Data Storage

Video 3: Virtualization: My servers are virtualized. Now what?
Disaster Recovery

Video 4: Virtualization: My servers are virtualized. Now what?
Server Hardware

Video 5: Virtualization: My servers are virtualized. Now what?
Network

Video 6: Virtualization...An integrated approach.

Video 7: Virtualization Services: why they make a real difference.

State of Enterprise Storage
An analytics report from Information Week discusses the "State of Enterprise Storage: Changing Priorities, Changing Practices." Interviewed were 328 business IT professionals.

"IT, it seems, is always in a state of transition, responding to evolving business challenges, vetting new technologies, and seeking innovative ways to maximize what we already own. Storage is no exception.

Out in 2009: The treadmill of piling on capacity to keep up with data growth. In: A considered management strategy that takes into account everything from data security to environmental concerns to disaster recovery and is in lockstep with the evolving needs of the business.

Sure, adding more capacity and I/O performance as the organization demanded it was an easy approach over the past decade or so. But the hangover has finally hit in the form of massive amounts of money, power, and data center floor space maintaining storage systems that all too often house data that, at best, isn’t useful to the organization and at worst represents a liability in terms of potential litigation.

Download the entire report

Data Deduplication Calculator
Estimate your potential savings with our free and easy to use Deduplication Calculator. Adexis offers industry expertise in data deduplication along with a host of other data storage solutions.

Storage Efficiency Calculator
If you want to see how efficient your storage could really be, take a look at our complimentary calculator.

Nick's Data Storage Blog
Check out Nick’s Data Storage Blog for trends, tips, ideas and informed opinions surrounding the data storage industry.

Data Protection Optimization
The key to optimizing your computing and storage infrastructure is understanding the requirements for records management and availability and protection. These focal points for requirements must comprehend and deal with different data types―application criticalilty, technical and business governance. The result? Your business units have data that is relevant, current, efficient and cost effective, and your organization gets maximum value from its investment.

Virtualization Health Check
After servers are virtualized, the impact resounds in your infrastructure. The Adexis Virtualization Practice can help assemble a strategy to maximize your virtualization investments and initiatives.

Virtual Desktops-
The hot IT topic in 2009
Over the last eight months VDI has become a main topic of discussion, especially in larger companies who see the soft cost benefits of virtualization on the server side and want to dabble in the VDI arena to save money and give the end user a better desktop experience.

NetBackup Health Check
For companies using NetBackup to manage, protect and recover data across storage tiers and operating systems, it's critical to ensure that everything is maximized for optimum performance. Learn how you can insure your environment is operating most efficiently.

Adexis certified experts design, implement and support data storage solutions that align business and IT for mid-size to large organizations. Adexis comprehensive storage solutions span the gamut of data storage issues, including storage management, archiving and data protection solutions, storage consolidation, data storage backup and recovery, disaster recovery (DR), business continuity, information lifecycle management (ELM) and virtualization (storage, server and desktop).