Disaster Recovery Services
Published on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 12:14 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Optimizing Server, Application, and Storage Consolidation with Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance. On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being stored in the Amazon S3 cloud-storage environment.
This announcement coincides with ...
The biggest announcement from Symantec’s Storage Availability & Management Group in five years, this release touches all of the major storage and availability products in Symantec’s portfolio. This is less about products and more about customers and how they think about core competencies: running the business at hand. As IT ...
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 ...
[cross-posted from CentralizedBackup.com]
Every week during the spring and summer, my lawn gets mowed. Specifically, it happens every Thursday morning, while I am working. Some guys come by my home and pick up the check from my wife, and then my lawn magically gets mowed. It’s not that I particularly mind ...
“Cloud-based DR moves the discussion from data center space and hardware to one about cloud capacity planning,” noted Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Massachusetts.
via Advantages of Disaster Recovery as a Service - Data Center Knowledge.
David Chapa, senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, said VBS requires a great deal of coordination between applications and servers throughout an organization. The coordination is handled through Symantec’s VOM, the central management console for all of the storage management and HA products.
“You have to make sure all the connective ...
[cross-posted from CentralizedBackup.com]
Last week, I saw the latest disclosure on what is still too common: “backup tapes are lost and the amount of disclosure is under investigation.”
This time, it was 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients. Click to read the original article. The slightly abridged version is:
The lost data ...
"There are two types of data in our organizations: production data and copies of production data," says Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "Each one of [the] business functions has its own silo of infrastructure with its own storage, housing its own copies of the ...
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 ...
