Articles about backup

The Coming Data Crisis

Existing backup and archiving technologies will not meet current data management challenges. Continue Reading »

Automatic Backup: A Key Disaster Recovery Component

Many people confuse backup with disaster recovery, often with disastrous results. Nowhere is this more apparent than in small business and branch office locations that lack dedicated IT staff. Continue Reading »

Cloud Storage Gateways: Three Key Considerations

As an emerging data protection alternative, cloud storage is quickly becoming a popular option for backup and archiving. Continue Reading »

Replicating the Hypervisor

Disaster recovery tasks today are still based on the same basic replication technologies that have been a hallmark of backup and recovery for more years than anyone cares to remember. Continue Reading »

IBM Unleashes Wave of Secondary Storage

New launch includes tape library system capable of storing up to 3 exabytes of data. Continue Reading »

Plenty of Amazon Outage Blame to Go Around

There’s been a lot of pointed criticism leveled at Amazon specifically and cloud computing in general as of late following recent high-profile outages that have affected some fairly well-known sites. Continue Reading »

Time to Put Backup and Recovery in the Cloud

When you think about all the time and effort that IT organizations put into backup and recovery, you can’t help but wonder why. Continue Reading »

EMC Couples Backup Tool to VMware

EMC has leveraged its ownership of VMware to deliver a backup and recovery solution for virtual servers that it claims is three times faster than any rival offering. Continue Reading »

Truly Preparing for the Worst

A couple of days ago, while I was watching the horrific scenes of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I thought about writing about disaster planning in this blog. But the more I watched, the more it became obvious that Japanese businesses and the Japanese government had done far more planning, and had been doing it for many more years, than anyone I know of in business in the U.S. Continue Reading »

IBM Previews Virtualization Management Tools

Suite of new tools helps IT organizations dynamically scale virtual machine deployments. Continue Reading »

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