Fast-Start Failover: Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2
White Papers Fast-start Failover is a new Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2 feature that provides the ability to automatically, quickly, and reliably fail over to a designated, synchronized standby database in the event of loss of the primary database, without...
[November 29, 2005, 0:00]
OTN Case Study: Automatic Failover With Oracle Data Guard Fast-Start Failover
White Papers Fast-Start Failover is an Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2 feature that automatically, quickly, and reliably fails over to a designated, synchronized standby database in the event of loss of the primary database, without requiring manual...
[March 10, 2006, 0:01]
Fast-Start Failover Best Practices Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture White Paper
White Papers Fast-Start Failover is an Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2 feature that automatically, quickly, and reliably fails over to a designated, synchronized standby database in the event of loss of the primary database, without requiring manual...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Fast-Start Failover Best Practices: Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2
White Papers Fast-Start Failover is an Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2 feature that automatically, quickly, and reliably fails over to a designated, synchronized standby database in the event of loss of the production database, without requiring manual...
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2: Switchover and Failover Best Practices
White Papers In Oracle Database 10g Release 2, the Fast-Start Failover feature was introduced plus significant improvements were implemented to the traditional failover and switchover features, reducing the time needed to perform these Data Guard role...
[March 3, 2006, 0:01]
A Virtualized Dell Server Environment and Dell Storage Help a California School System Safeguard Data With a 72x Improvement in Failover and Recovery Time
White Papers California school wanted to protect vital school data and operations against potential natural disasters and human error, while working with limited data center space and tight budgets. The school deployed a Dell/EMC storage area network to...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Blade software cuts desktop hassles
News The two applications, called Data Failover with PeerSync and Move Manager, are essentially modifications of management tools that the company sells with its bladed workstations. ClearCube's Data Failover application is largely aimed at the problem...
[March 17, 2003, 14:33]
TechNet Webcast: Ensuring Business Continuance With SQL Server 2005 Data Availability Solutions (Level 300)
White Papers The webcast includes an overview of the complete suite of data availability solutions, including enhancements to Failover Clustering and Replication, the Database Snapshot feature, and online operations such as Fast Recovery.
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
Accelerate Backups and Improve Disaster Recovery With Remote Replica Management
White Papers EMC's replica failover management solution for SQL Server and Exchange environments ensures faster, low-impact backups and production data repurposing - while automatically continuing data replication remotely in the event of a site failure.
[April 25, 2009, 1:23]
HDS storage controller gets failover clustering
News Hitachi Data Systems on Wednesday introduced software that adds failover clustering to its enterprise-oriented Universal Storage Platform V controller. The software can be used with HDS' Universal Replicator and TrueCopy replication technologies to...
[May 28, 2009, 17:14]
EMC offers storage de-dupe and flash
Blog Looking at the storage blades in turn, the NS-120 can carry one or two blades and from 32TB to 64TB of storage and it offers failover protection for the data rather than clustering. Recovery Manager Automated Failback is a VMware vCenter plug-in...
[February 23, 2009, 10:40]
The pros and cons of high-availability systems
News In cases where cost and failover time are important issues, you must create failover scenarios for your critical data systems that won't break the bank and won't have long failover times. Specifically, HA can help prevent difficult and inconvenient...
[June 17, 2005, 12:50]
The basics of backup
News There are several important issues to address when mapping out your business continuity plan — these include data backup; hardware redundancy; software failover; continuity of network connectivity and the human factor
[November 15, 2005, 15:00]
Recovery after the first 24 hours of a disaster
News Organisations generally don't protect these servers with real-time replication and failover systems, since the recovery point objectives (RPO) for these servers typically allow for the loss of a day's worth of data or more.
[June 24, 2005, 12:05]
Using Cisco IOS Zone-Based and Classic Firewall in High-Availability Network Environments
White Papers Cisco IOS Firewall offers features that address stateful failover security requirements, but specific recommendations must be observed for network design and implementation when Cisco IOS Firewall is used for stateful inspection of IP traffic in...
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
Custom applications and disaster recovery
News When you attempt to plan for DR, you may find that you have no clue how to properly configure and/or manage this application either for backup or for failover. Can it be installed on more than one server at a time, or will you have to use advanced...
[November 2, 2005, 16:40]
Oracle is not the only database
Blog DataDirect’s latest Connect 4.0 database drivers for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) have been released in a new standard format that the company says will support application failover in any database, for the first time.
[September 1, 2008, 23:20]
RIM explains BlackBerry outage
News After RIM isolated the database problem and tried unsuccessfully to fix the issue, it began its failover process to a backup system. Although the backup system and failover process had been repeatedly and successfully tested previously, the...
[April 20, 2007, 9:39]
Backup on a budget
News The Exchange 2000 cluster was set up as "active failover," and we had to back it up on the front-end network. The existing solution had been Novell 4.11 using two HP servers with manual failover and a cabinet full of disk arrays using RAID 5 with...
[October 1, 2002, 12:13]
Managing Data Center Virtualization
White Papers For many companies, the daunting amount of time, money, and people required to manage the traditional server cluster and failover configurations in their data centers has made managing service availability harder, not easier.
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]



