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The Shifting Sands Of Business Continuity Management
September 10, 2010
The sands are indeed shifting in terms of Disaster Recovery (DR) and David Honour raises some very interesting suggestions here as to what is challenging...
Server Virtualisation Is The New Clustering
September 06, 2010
“Virtualisation has, without doubt, brought a level of protection to a whole class of customer that couldn’t do it before …” I paraphrase here, but in...
MS Vs VMware: Who’s Better At Disaster Recovery?
September 02, 2010
Anybody who is involved in running high availability services in a virtualised world ought to read through this very informative article. It discusses the various techniques...
Desktop Virtualisation In The Smartphone Era
August 10, 2010
Desktop virtualisation is something that I haven’t really honed-in on before. There is a valid question to ask as “how important is a single desktop in...
When You Turn Your VMhost Into An iSCI, It Better Be A Good Host
July 30, 2010
There are some great new storage software solutions coming onto the market and this one caught my attention as it gives the ability to turn...
Fault Tolerant Hardware: No Fast Restarts, It Simply Keeps On Computing
July 27, 2010
I often wonder about the back-end infrastructure that supports new services which are likely to increase demand, as highlighted in this article about a new...
Cloud Computing: Looking For Security, Reliability And Resiliency?
July 23, 2010
In case you haven’t picked up on the theme before, here is a reminder here that reliability is a MAJOR ISSUE for cloud computing. I recently...
What Do Fridges And Fault Tolerant Platforms Have In Common?
June 14, 2010
I really enjoyed reading this article by Freeform Dynamic’s Jon Collins. I wish, of course, that he would focus more on ‘continuous’ rather than ‘high’...
Companies Require Higher Availability But Settle For Less, Survey Says
June 11, 2010
IT organisations classify more applications than ever as “business critical” but they are accepting more downtime by moving to the cloud, according to ITIC’s 2010...
Why Learn To Love Reasonable Downtime?
June 10, 2010
Ummm……don’t want to be too dispiriting about this article but it is actually quite easy to achieve six nines of server availability, let alone the...
Storage Super Solution Revealed
April 13, 2010
I see The Register is having a Storage Love-In. True, people don’t ask for opinions on storage vendors everyday, maybe because they’re not...
What Could Server Clustering Learn From F1?
March 31, 2010
A great ‘What You Should Know About Server Clustering’ piece published by Dedicated Server School brings to light the problem with clustering, i.e. that it...
The Truth About Virtual Machine Overload
March 26, 2010
There are a couple of phrases in this article exposing the myths of virtual machine overload which really strike a chord with me. Mike Laverick...
Top Tips On Improving Hard Drive Performance
March 18, 2010
Having done a load of performance testing lately – raid1, raid5, raid10, raid01 (yes, there is a difference), it’s fascinating trying to ...
Throwing The Availability Lifeline
March 12, 2010
Ummm…..so what did you think of spending an hour in the middle of the working morning to tune into The Register’s web cast I promoted...
