Data Management

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. So if the technical disaster recovery plan that you have in...

Research In Motion on Monday announced BlackBerry Protect, a free service that will enhance the security of both enterprise and private BlackBerry device owners. BlackBerry Protect will enable remote wipe and wireless backup and restore, among other things. It is being launched in limited beta this ...

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 ma...

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. The...

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 pot...

The winds of change are buffeting businesses like never before. Consumer and workforce demands for Web 2.0 technology, the need to cut costs by going to the cloud, and the continuing need to control general spending in this economy are among the forces currently hammering away at enterprises. That's...

year over year, the amount of Internet traffic has grown and will continue to grow. These trends are facilitated by the continuous growth of smartphone usage and the recent introduction of the iPad. This growth in Internet traffic means that most websites today are expected to see more traffic and m...

Seagate Monday began shipping its second-generation hybrid solid state/hard disk drive to original equipment manufacturers and its sales channels. The Seagate Momentus XT is priced much lower than full solid-state drives. The device spins at 7,200 RPMs and comes in capacities of 250 GB, 320 GB and 5...

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Learning to Love Reasonable Downtime

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" --...

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 pr...

The Federal Trade Commission has responded to an April 29 letter from Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., expressing concerns about sensitive data stored on digital copiers' hard drives. Markey's letter followed CBS News' April 19 airing of a report on its investigation into the matter. The FTC said it ...

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...

Much has been said recently about virtual servers and networks and their ability to both save IT groups hardware costs and let users access software applications and Web-based tools regardless of location. However, data storage has remained a sticking point in the full realization of cloud-based com...

Google may have been the primary target of a sharp attack by privacy commissioners from 10 nations on Tuesday, but later that same day, the company revealed a new tool that could effectively turn the tables on those and other governments. Specifically, the company's new Government Requests tool is d...

IBM is joining forces with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to protect the nation's civilian aviation system from the ever-growing threat of cyberattacks. They are working on building a prototype security system capable of protecting the vast amount of information flowing daily through the F...

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