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Disaster Recovery Testing Is Becoming a Dying Art
Many companies have disaster recovery systems in place. Relatively few, though, know if they’ll work when disaster strikes. Speaking at a video briefing sponsored by Accela Communications, Gartner Research Vice President David Russell maintained that disaster recovery testing is... -
Shrinking Backup Windows Squeeze Disaster Recovery Plans
The days of nights and weekend backup windows are over for many businesses. The global economy and the seven-day shopping week have made round-the-clock operations a necessity for many enterprises. What’s more, burgeoning data volumes with annual growth rates... -
Better Backups of Virtual Data
Virtualization has produced many benefits for corporate data centers, but it’s also produced some challenges. One of those challenges is how to protect the data on the new crop of virtual servers while maintaining their high availability to users. -
Playing Russian Roulette with Corporate Data
A recent survey of IT professionals revealed some startling findings about the state of corporate data management. Due to budget constraints and data overload, it seems many IT departments are engaged in a dicey game of Russian roulette with... -
Cloud Disaster Recovery is Just Pie in the Sky (at least right now)
While some cloud computing vendors would like you to believe backing up data to the nimbus is the same as disaster recovery from it, it isn’t. Cloud backup involves replicating data and storing it off the premises of its... -
Staff Cuts & Talent Shortages Are Plaguing Data Centers
Data center managers are being whipsawed by payroll paring and a dearth of qualified candidates, according to a recent survey conducted by Applied Research for security software maker Symantec. The worldwide poll of data center specialists in 1,780 enterprises... -
Why Data Categorization Is Essential when Creating Security Plans
When planning security for a data center many things pop into mind—firewalls, anti-virus software, filtering—but data categorization may not be one of them. Yet, some security experts would argue that building silos for classifying data is the cornerstone of... -
Where should you locate your next data center?
Geography may have lost its luster among curriculum creators, but it remains an important consideration when planning a data center. After all, no business wants to locate such a critical component to its overall mission in a place where... -
Great Article on Managing Your Tape
Just finished reading Managing Your Tape Is No Longer an Oxymoron by David Hill in InfoStor magazine’s August 2009 online issue. (And in the spirit of full disclosure, Dave Simpson does mention B&L’s Vertices and VaultLedger Tape Management Systems in the Keeping Track of... -
What Is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing has been on the tip of everyone’s collective tongue for the past few months. The problem seems to be agreeing on what cloud computing actually is. Is the cloud the Internet? Can you have an internal cloud?...