Data Replication Software
"All we can afford is tape."
"We're small - so we can't afford enterprise stuff."
"We only have 40 people. If we have to recreate something, it isn't too bad."
Respectfully, none of these are reasons -- they are all excuses -- and they are mostly inaccurate.
The US Dept. of Labor once surveyed ...
The best part of BC/DR planning is not being prepared for your eventual disaster--it's what you get beforehand.
In my earlier post, I talked about the 10 professional practices of Business Continuity Planning.
Practices 2 and 3 include "Risk Evaluation and Control" and "Business Impact Analysis." They are essentially about gathering an ...
It wasn’t that many years ago that ‘Disaster Recovery’ was a key buzz word for IT. Somewhere along the way, it became ‘Business Continuity.’ Nowadays, it is simply a feature of your backup or storage solution. Or is it?
First, let’s talk through the layers from a ...
Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst David Chapa reviewed disaster recovery trends, components of DR plans and the benefits of replication technology for DR in his recent report, "Replication Technologies for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery." In this podcast, Chapa discusses some of the results of that study with SearchDisasterRecovery.com Editor ...
Lab Reports:
EMC VNX Total Protection Pack: Continuous Local, Remote, and Application Protection with Unified Management
Published on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 at 10:27 am | 5 Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Vinny Choinski |
This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of local, remote, and application protection components of the EMC VNX Total Protection Pack, which consists of RecoverPoint/SE, Replication Manager, and Data Protection Advisor for Replication Analysis. ESG Lab evaluated both replication and consolidated management capabilities at an EMC ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Vinny Choinski |
Replication technologies have been around for many years. There are plenty of ways it can be used, which ultimately will determine what technology strategy and solution category to evaluate. This report focuses on replication implemented to aid in high availability and disaster recovery architectures—both of which can be used to ...
Today a friend of mine shot me a txt message quoting one of his customers regarding a disaster they had declared about a year ago and lessons learned.
“I had backups, but nowhere to go to recover after the flood”
THAT is not a DR plan.
Lessons learned: in the event your ...
Published on Friday, June 10th, 2011 at 10:58 am | No Comments »
Authors: Lauren Whitehouse | Vinny Choinski |
This ESG Lab report documents hands-on testing of Veeam Backup & Replication. Topics explored include getting started with Veeam, Instant VM Recovery, Recovery Verification, and Universal Application-Item Recovery.
The Challenges
Organizations have enthusiastically adopted server virtualization and continue to expand their implementations beyond test and development into production and mission-critical applications. But ...
Authors: Lauren Whitehouse | Vinny Choinski |
The last five years have been all about IT efficiency–operationally, as well as making “stuff” more efficient. We’ve made storage, networks, and servers more efficient by virtualizing them. Now it’s time to stop concerning ourselves with making gear more efficient and start focusing on making our data ...
EMC enters the mainframe VTL business.
On November 10, 2010, EMC announced it had acquired privately held, Massachusetts-based Bus-Tech, Inc. Bus-Tech provides VTL (Virtual Tape Library) solutions for mainframes using open systems disk storage to support mainframe tape for data protection through FICON or ESCON interconnects. Essentially ...
