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A VMworld Expert Session lets you interact with an industry speaker. The expert records a presentation and then sticks around for two weeks on a discussion forum to answer questions and keep the discussion going. The lastest expert session is from Kevin Epstein of Scalent Systems, who help keep your data center running smoothly with business continuity and automation solutions. Link: VMworld.com: Scalent Expert Session.

• Are you responsible for ensuring the uptime and availability of hundreds of server systems?
• Are you wrestling with the tradeoffs between budget and reliability, availability, performance, and utilization?
• Have you ever wondered how long it would really take to bring back your business if your data center were hit by a disaster?
  
  

Join this presentation and discussion on the big three challenges facing server failover—software configuration, network connectivity, and storage access. Contrast several different approaches—from traditional backup—to the use of virtual machines—to the next generation of workflow engines (such as VMware Site Recovery Manager) and complementary real-time data center automation (such as Scalent V/OE). This presentation features case studies from several Scalent clients, as well as a discussion of real cost savings based on actual reduction of disaster recovery hardware, even as reliability was improved.