Enterprises pursuing virtual strategies seem to be placing themselves at greater risk of substantial data loss even as the virtual technology they are deploying simplifies and reduces the cost of disaster recovery (DR). That’s the contradictory take-away from a new…
What you will learn in this tip: Disaster recovery and business continuity professionals often turn to hot sites and cold sites for disaster recovery planning. This tip provides a good starting point for those who are investigating hot/cold site options,…
Should you be using outsource data center for a do-it-yourself disaster recovery center? Ten years ago, organizations that wanted to protect their enterprise data center from disaster had few choices. Back then, the mainframe was usually the centerpiece of the…
While I’m by no means trying to take attention away from the horrific environmental and economic disaster that the now largest oil spill in U.S. history has caused, I can’t help but see some lessons that I and other IT…
Continuous data protection is very common in our client’s primary data centers and disaster recovery data centers. Risk mitigation is the reason CIOs are embracing the reliable, disk-based data replication technologies and eliminating tape media. Lower costs of communications in…
