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Clonezilla: A Drive-Duping Monster With a Fearsome Face December 28, 2011 
Backing up data and restoring a crashed computer are two of those "I wish I hadda" moments in the life of every computer user. When you maintain a collection of computers for your job or organization, those tasks can be critical. One of the fastest and most reliable ways to restore an afflicted computer is to copy its previously saved image onto the hard drive.
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Microsoft Adds Firepower to Dynamics CRM October 25, 2011 
Microsoft is rolling out a service update for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for both the partner-hosted and on-premises deployments. The update includes its promised "Activity Feeds," as well as administrative enhancements and stepped-up disaster recovery practices. Microsoft has put Dynamics CRM on a rapid release schedule, said Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
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VMware Floats a Global Cloud August 29, 2011 
VMware made a number of announcements at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas on Monday. Among its new projects is a global cloud offering. This is, so to speak, a network of clouds from multiple services in various countries. Customers will work with their local vCloud Datacenter service provider to get into the global cloud.
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Disaster Recovery: It's More Than a Plan - It's a Process April 16, 2011 
Disaster recovery is a term often used in Information Technology circles to describe the necessity for backup technology systems to safeguard an organization's data. While this type of safeguard is absolutely a necessity to protect valuable data, and also reduce the amount of time your organization will need to recover from an incident, a true disaster plan goes far beyond backup servers and drives.
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2 Smart Backup Apps Show You the Way to Go Home September 01, 2010 
In my dumber days when I ran Microsoft Windows, I was more concerned with backup programs. After I moved into the Linux desktop, I became much less paranoid about system failures. The Linux environment just never crashed. That does not mean that I never make backup copies of my critical data files.
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Veeam VM Backup Boasts Speedy Path to Resurrection August 30, 2010 
Veeam Software on Monday demonstrated its new vPower technology for backing up and restoring virtual machines when disaster strikes. The technology's capabilities include restoring an entire virtual machine within minutes; recovering individual items from any virtualized operating system; and verifying the recoverability of every backup of every VM.
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Put Tough Questions to Your Hosting Provider (Before the Going Gets Tough) July 19, 2010 
Just how secure is your website? How tough is your webhosting provider's backbone? How vulnerable are you to cyberattacks like those that played havoc with Facebook and other sites in the past -- the victims of a rogue blogger? While no site is absolutely safe from assault, it pays to be vigilant and to determine the strength of your webhosting provider's defenses and its tenacity.
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5 Ways Disaster Recovery Can Calm Hurricane Jitters July 15, 2010 
The word "hurricane" means "evil wind spirit" -- and the 2010 hurricane season is predicted to be the most active of the past five years. In fact, in just the first two weeks of the season there were nine named storms in the Atlantic basin. If you don't have a solid technical disaster recovery plan, your business is at serious risk.
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Clustering Alone Does Not a Disaster Recovery Plan Make July 06, 2010
Windows OS High Availability is a tricky part of your disaster recovery planning. Many Microsoft and third-Party server tools and platforms come with some form of native HA toolset, and for the larger portion of these, Microsoft Cluster or Failover Clustering are the tool of choice. Enterprises may be surprised to find, though, that clustering alone is not sufficient to meet the needs of enterprise DR.
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Technology Is Only Part of Disaster Recovery Planning June 25, 2010 
As a Disaster Recovery professional, I cannot tell you how many of my clients focus only on the server systems when they do DR planning. Every server must be accounted for, protected, backed up and ready to be brought back online if they lose the physical site that hosts the production system.
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Getting Realistic About Your Data Recovery Goals June 21, 2010 
Recovery point objective metrics are commonly defined as how much data a system can afford to lose without endangering business processes. Let's face facts: Some applications require zero-data-loss protection both within one site and between sites. These applications move millions of dollars or potentially company-crashing information in every byte they process.
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A Big, Fat Enterprise Data Backup Plan June 19, 2010 
Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series coming to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington, D.C. We're here to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP's ecosystem of customers, partners and developers.
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Learning to Love Reasonable Downtime May 24, 2010 
Working for a disaster recovery solutions designer is often difficult. After being bombarded by ad slogans, magazine articles and just plain life experience, many company executives are looking to achieve a mythical figure for server uptime. Perceived uptime of 99.999 percent -- or "five nines" -- equates to about five minutes and 30 seconds of unexpected downtime per year, and the number is achievable.
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4 Steps to Simplified Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery May 20, 2010 
No company can afford to have a disaster disrupt its business. Despite this, the opportunity and technology costs of a feasible disaster recovery plan have traditionally been too high for the masses to properly plan for and ensure continuity. However, recent advancements in infrastructure and the proliferation of technology have made BC/DR less about the technology and more about planning.
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The Virtual Machine Backup-and-Recovery Conundrum May 12, 2010 
Server virtualization has crossed the proverbial chasm. Not long ago, when deploying new servers, one had to justify making them virtual, rather than physical. Now, IT managers in many organizations have decreed "virtual first" policies, requiring new server deployments to be virtual unless there is specific justification for a physical server.
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Rethinking Failsafes for Critical Linux Systems March 19, 2010 
The Linux operating system is highly compatible with two hot computing trends: virtualization and cloud computing. Just as the 2001-2002 recession helped usher in Linux as a mainstream solution, virtualization may accelerate Linux usage during and after the current recession. Linux already has a powerful presence in the database and ERP realms.
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