Growing Demand for Enterprise-Class Remote Replication and Disaster Recovery Strategies


Written by drjournal on November 27, 2012 in Disaster Recovery.

Exponential data growth is nothing new to today’s large enterprise data centers. For the past several years, data has grown at unprecedented rates, pushing IT managers to find new, more efficient ways to move, manage, and protect their data.

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Websites Scramble As Hurricane Sandy Floods Data Centers


Written by Phil on November 2, 2012 in Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management.

As Hurricane Sandy made landfall Monday, the freak storm flooded data centers in New York City, taking down several major websites and services – Datagram including The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Gawker – that depended on them to run their businesses.

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Sungard’s Stern Says Data Centers Need Disaster Plans


Written by Phil on November 2, 2012 in disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery.

Andrew Stern, chief executive officer at SunGard Availability Services, talks about data center disaster preparation and recovery operations following Atlantic superstorm Sandy.

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Websites Scramble As Hurricane Sandy Floods Data Centers


Written by Phil on November 1, 2012 in Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management.

As Hurricane Sandy made landfall Monday, the freak storm flooded data centers in New York City, taking down several major websites and services – Datagram including The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Gawker – that depended on them to run their businesses.

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Five Ways to Prepare for Disaster Recovery


Written by Phil on September 26, 2012 in Disaster Recovery.

We all hope disasters will never happen, and although we certainly don’t want to expect something to go wrong, IT organizations worldwide need to be prepared just in case. We all need to have disaster recovery plans in place that meet our individual needs, and organizations should take specific steps to ensure a backup strategy is in place that is right for them.

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Focus On The Largest Source Of Risk: The Data Center


Written by Phil on June 20, 2012 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery.

Recently, some have said that the ultimate goal for business continuity management (BCM) practitioners is to get “business continuity management activities out from the computer room and into the business and boardroom.” Most likely this is the remnant from a bygone era in business continuity.

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Recovering from a disaster: A data center checklist


Written by Phil on June 24, 2011 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery.

When you developed your data center disaster recovery (DR) plan, you designed it to protect your organization’s investment in information technology, communications and its staff. Depending on the nature of the disruption, your data center’s overall integrity may be untouched or it could be totally destroyed.

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Japan Quake Serves as Wakeup Call for IT Managers


Written by Phil on March 29, 2011 in disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery.

The horrific crisis in Japan is a clear reminder to IT managers about their own business continuity systems and how well-prepared they are for such an event.

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5 Cheap-and-Easy Disaster Recovery Tips


Written by Phil on February 22, 2011 in Disaster Recovery.

The problem many small businesses cite for lack of disaster recovery is cost. They don’t have the funds to buy a second set of hardware and software to keep in a different location in the event of a catastrophe. Nor do they typically have the IT resources internally to do an adequate job of protecting their data and systems. So what can they do? Here are five affordable disaster recovery options for your small business.

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Forrester Survey: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Are Top IT Concerns for Next 12 Months


Written by Phil on October 12, 2010 in Disaster Recovery, survey.

According to Forrester’s recent survey of 2,803 IT decision-makers, improving their business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities is the number-one priority for smaller and mid-sized businesses and the second highest priority for enterprises for the next 12 months.

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Survey: IBM Global IT Risk study 2010


Written by Phil on October 12, 2010 in Disaster Recovery, Risk Management.

IBM asked 560 IT managers and CIOs in all types of companies all over the world to talk to us about IT risk — what their biggest obstacles are, where their biggest challenges lie, where they see the greatest potential for adding business value.

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