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Network Storage for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and Home Media
White Papers Network storage is a complex IT discipline that includes a multitude of concepts and technologies, like back-up, mirroring, replication, disaster recovery, RAID, NAS, and SAN. Companies of all sizes and shapes need to consider network storage...
[May 17, 2009, 1:48]
Network Documentation - A Cornerstone for Disaster Recovery
White Papers This vital information can be used to troubleshoot a problem, or completely rebuild a network after a disaster. As the business adds on new hardware and updates their technology, who is keeping track of those changes and blue printing the structure...
[August 18, 2006, 1:00]
The Taiwan Earthquake: A Case Study in Network Disaster Recovery
White Papers With undersea cables severely damaged by the 2006 Taiwan earthquake, the Verizon Business data network spanning six continents was put to the test. On December 26, 2006, an earthquake off the coast of Taiwan severely disrupted communications across...
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
First American Trust Banks on Network Appliance for Compliance and Disaster Recovery
White Papers As First American's computing system and data storage needs grew, it became apparent that trying to meet these objectives with Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) and an outsourced disaster recovery plan would be costly and increasingly difficult to scale.
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
IBM sees profits in smaller firms
News On Wednesday, Big Blue plans to announce the products, which include network management and disaster-recovery services. IBM's new disaster-recovery service includes a two-day workshop in which IBM and the customer create a recovery plan and run...
[April 28, 2004, 8:35]
North Yorkshire gets broadband boost
News The contract, which will see the migration of the entire North Yorkshire County Council network over two years for 484 sites, has already started with the connection of disaster-recovery and storage area network (SAN) facilities in Scarborough.
[February 21, 2008, 9:09]
Backup Exec Desktop Pro v4.5 review
Reviews VAT) Desktop Pro version adds disaster recovery and peer-to-peer network support. The peer-to-peer network support is useful in that you can back up data on a small workgroup as part of a single backup tape, but you will not be able to use the...
[February 12, 2001, 23:00]
How to survive a catastrophic outage
News Joe Laezza, Vice President of Network Operation for the New York City-based company, credits his firm's successful business continuity to its rigorous disaster recovery preparations. Make sure that your disaster recovery plan stays a living document.
[February 2, 2004, 10:50]
Success Story: Bright House Networks
White Papers Located in an area of the country where the threat of a hurricane is high, the senior network administrator for Bright House Networks needs to constantly keep up-to-date disaster recovery information on hand in order to quickly recover systems and...
[March 15, 2006, 23:00]
Networks 'not robust enough' for VoIP
News There are many benefits to such a strategy including reduced costs from a streamlined and efficient network, added value through the ability to support applications such as VoIP and grid computing, improved disaster recovery, greater scalability...
[March 1, 2005, 9:55]
UK firm pushes fibre through the sewers
News The low costs makes the system "ideal as a bespoke solution for a separate secure network or for disaster recovery," said Thomas. H20 has three solutions: Darc provides a low-cost rental of fibre cores and offers flexible terms and unlimited...
[April 24, 2006, 11:30]
Keeping systems threats in check
News While nearly everyone involved in disaster recovery (DR) planning has some idea of the types of disasters that could strike, few have concrete ideas on how to apply those concepts to DR planning itself.
[November 7, 2005, 11:35]
BT: No danger of mass internet outage in UK
News We had a couple of private circuits affected, but we have a disaster recovery plan for our Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), voice and data platforms for corporations. Ovum analyst, David James, said that the cable industry is trying to...
[January 31, 2008, 16:18]
Soca: Russian cyber-gang bribed police
News As the RBN attracted media attention and grew, its leaders began to put a disaster recovery plan into place, said the British policeman. However, although its disaster recovery plan was not carried through, the crime gang remains engaged in...
[October 22, 2009, 13:29]
10 most foolish mistakes of IT pros
News Fail to have a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery plan It's even worse when it comes to fully fledged disaster recovery plans. You'll be glad you did if a physical disaster destroys the machine or the operating system fails and you have to...
[August 31, 2006, 16:05]
Over 70 percent of businesses are hacked
News They may turn to a provider for corporate-class security services, such as disaster recovery services, encryption technology, and intrusion detection, he said. Some IT buyers may have tightened their purse strings in the short term, while others...
[May 27, 2003, 9:09]
You've been hacked: What to do first
News The one unique complication to activating a disaster recovery plan for an organisation is that it is typically centred on a known event with a known time. In addition to determining your specific goals after an attack, you should consider executing...
[May 19, 2003, 12:31]
10 (more) New Year's resolutions for net admins
White Papers Improving that disaster recovery plan. You have a hastily scribbled plan for disaster recovery that was thrown together to satisfy management, but do you really have an effective recovery plan? The only way to prevent 'unexpected results' is to do...
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
News In addition, the disaster-recovery facilities at UNLB were located on the same campus as the Galileo hosting facilities, meaning that "a disaster affecting the UNLB campus will also affect the continuity location", while there was no written...
[January 14, 2009, 16:09]
Accelerating Data Compression With Intel Multi-Core Processors
White Papers Data Domain is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems for a broad range of nearline storage applications, including disk backup, archiving, and network-based disaster recovery. The company's unique data deduplication and replication...
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
