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Five Imperatives For Extreme Data Protection In Virtualised Environments
Transforming an organization through server virtualization requires a strategic and coordinated approach. Data protection – which includes not only backup, but also secondary storage and...
The Nebulous Notion Of Securing The Cloud
In a recent business survey covering the UK, France and Germany, 65% of all respondents said security is the most important aspect of their Cloud-based...
REVIEW: Symantec Backup Exec 2010
The backup market is no longer just about copying data from disk to tape and back again. Scalable disk-to-disk backup has become a prime requirement,...
What Should You Look For In A Hosting Provider?
Internet, IT and hosting can be a minefield of jargon. There are lots of new suppliers and services to think about, so over the next...
Throwing The Availability Lifeline
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...
The Real Aim For Business Continuity
I came across this paper earlier this week, which shares one proven way to position business continuity management issues so that board members will listen....
Zero Tolerance On Misuse Of The Phrase ‘Fault Tolerant’
I’ve long been aware that misuse of the term “Fault Tolerant” (FT) “ is laying companies open to business risk and financial losses from system...
Green Data Centres Are An Oxymoron: Eco-friendly Ones Aren’t
Recently, two of America’s largest online businesses relocated their data centres close to a hydroelectric dam to reduce power consumption and save money. After employees,...
Virtualisation And ‘The New Availability’
Long established techniques addressing application resilience, data availability and disaster recovery are being challenged by server virtualisation technologies from companies such as VMware, Citrix and...
Virtualisation Or Hosting: Why The Confusion?
The inescapable buzzword in the IT industry today is ‘virtualisation’. But this relatively straightforward concept is causing almost unprecedented degrees of confusion with most explanations...
Risking Business Value
Poor asset management is undermining business integrity, says Karen Conneely, Group Commercial Manager, Real Asset Management. Growing risk awareness and an increasingly unstable business environment...
Disaster 101: Better Business Continuity With Unified Data Management
There are a number of obvious business benefits for business to ensure regular data protection is completed and recovery assured, not least issues of business...
Business Continuity In An Economic Downturn
Business continuity once had a lower priority than other IT issues, but today’s IT managers recognise that any enterprise is vulnerable to unplanned disruptions. Reliance...
Five Cost-Effective Ways To Ensure Fast, Complete Data Recovery
The best data protection systems incorporate the ability to restore your most critical data first, then use a tiered approach to recovering less critical information....
Disaster Recovery Best Practice And The Promise Of Virtualisation
Why have so many organisations historically failed to prepare properly for IT disasters? Well, the fact is that IT disaster recovery (DR) is complicated. Doing...
