Disaster Recovery

Fri, April 27, 2012 - "Everything fails, all the time," so says Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels.

Mon, April 23, 2012 - Demand for data center space is on the rise as enterprises try to accommodate growing requirements for computing and storage space.

Wed, April 11, 2012 - IPv6 appears to have found a new killer app: business continuity.

Wed, April 04, 2012 - As tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, hurling tractor-trailer trucks in the air and shredding houses, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.

Mon, April 02, 2012 - In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers.

Mon, March 26, 2012 - More and more IT shops are using technologies such as virtualization and replication to make disaster recovery just another service, sometimes using the same servers, network and storage that run order entry, email, application development or other services.

Wed, March 21, 2012 - Quantum today announced an enterprise-class backup service that includes data deduplication aimed at protecting data in virtual server environments.

Tue, March 20, 2012 - We all know that the data we rely on to run our businesses can be subject to subpoena and other government actions. Such actions create additional risks when that data is in the cloud.

Thu, March 08, 2012 - We have all seen the question of whether or not our organization needs business continuity software come up many times over the last several years, and it is a question worth seriously considering.

Fri, February 24, 2012 - CA Technologies has launched a disaster-recovery software-as-a-service offering that combines on-site data protection with a cloud-based service, using Microsoft Azure's infrastructure.

Fri, February 24, 2012 - It's the first software acquisition by Dell since the appointment of software chief John Swainson

Thu, February 23, 2012 - The complex and ever-changing security landscape can befuddle small businesses, and the plain truth is that there is no silver security bullet. Small businesses would be well-advised to deploy a multi-faceted security strategy. Here are eight must-have checklist items.

Wed, January 11, 2012 - Data-recovery service providers are supposed to be saving important data for you when something goes wrong -- a drive crashes or storage device is dropped, and no backup is available. But do you trust them with the important data you let them recover or could they actually be a source for a data breach?

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.