Disaster Recovery

Tue, January 10, 2012 - A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced data centers instead of hot-cold data centers. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their datacenters to take care of disaster needs. If one datacenter suffered from a disaster, the other datacenter would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity.

Tue, January 10, 2012 - CommVault plans to announce an upgrade to its flagship Simpana software in the next several weeks that will allow backed-up data to be archived while still leaving end users will an easy way to retrieve that data.

Tue, November 29, 2011 - NetApp is teaming up with Iron Mountain to offer its StorageGRID object storage software with two Iron Mountain medical data archiving services: the Digital Record Center for Medical Images and its vendor-neutral archive offering.

Thu, November 10, 2011 - With operations disrupted at more than a dozen hard disk drive (HDD) factories due to flooding in Thailand, PC manufacturers should prepare for significant supply shortages, market research firm IDC said.

Tue, November 08, 2011 - Over the next two years, about 30% of midsize businesses will be using a recovery in the cloud service aimed at replicating and restoring virtual machine instances, according to Gartner.

Tue, November 01, 2011 - Forrester Research finds organizations understand the importance of spending on business continuity and disaster recovery, but put it off

Mon, October 31, 2011 - They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but apparently a single bolt of lightning can take out two cloud provider data centers at once. At least that's what initial reports cited as the cause of concurrent outages at the Dublin data centers that serve as Microsoft's and Amazon's major cloud computing hubs for Europe. These reports serve as a good reminder of why it's a good idea to consider disaster recovery and business continuity when contracting with a cloud computing provider.

Fri, October 28, 2011 - When consumes ship FedEx packages they get a reliable, impressive IT experience as part of that $10 service. Yet many of the world's biggest corporations still only dream of having FedEx-like technology to support their global supply chain operations, but cloud-based services promise to change that.

Wed, October 26, 2011 - For the second time in six weeks, Target's Web site crashed Tuesday, and that is scary news for any major retailer heading into the holiday shopping season.

Mon, October 17, 2011 - Companies less interested in compensation than making sure RIM keeps the network up and running

Wed, October 12, 2011 - BlackBerry email service delays continued globally on Wednesday, with BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging and Web browsing still down in many regions after three days.

Tue, October 11, 2011 - BlackBerry service delays experienced by users around the world on Tuesday were caused by a core switch failure within the RIM infrastructure, the company said late Tuesday.

Tue, October 11, 2011 - Over the past several years, JetBlue has transformed itself from a traditional IT infrastructure with multiple data centers run by its employees to an almost completely outsourced model with virtual everything, from desktops to servers.

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