Articles about disaster recovery

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 »

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

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 »

SEPATON recently conducted a survey of large enterprise IT managers to understand the data protection challenges that most concern them. Not surprisingly, the survey showed that the volume of data under protection continues to skyrocket. Continue Reading »

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

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

You’ve probably seen those catchy Microsoft commercials by now where an exasperated couple or individual turns to the camera and exclaims, “To the cloud!” and voila, problem solved. As enterprises move toward migrating applications and workloads to the cloud, it becomes painfully clear that the old ways of doing things don’t always work so well in this new computing model. Continue Reading »