The 9th of September 2011 saw a power outage in the U.S. affecting 5 million people in the area of Southern California — the root cause analysis of which is said to have been one single employee switching out a piece of problematic equipment. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst Friday, August 26, 2011
Up and down the East Coast preparations are being made for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, people are boarding up windows, battening down hatches, buying bottled water and so on. However, what are businesses doing to prepare for this pending disaster? Continue Reading »
IT Management | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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 »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Monday, June 27, 2011
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 »
Data Center | Blog Post | Wayne Rash Monday, May 23, 2011
A few days ago when I wrote in Forbes about using the cloud as a means to ensure your data is safe for disaster recovery, I got an interesting question. What, the questioner asked, do you do with the data once it’s there? How, he wondered, do you recover the data so that you can use it after the disaster? Continue Reading »
IT Management | Blog Post | Wayne Rash Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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 »
