Spending axe falls on disaster recovery
I've just taken part in an all-day budgetary bloodbath. Not unexpectedly, my capital budget for 2009 is basically zero.
I've just taken part in an all-day budgetary bloodbath. Not unexpectedly, my capital budget for 2009 is basically zero.
When Auckland company James Odell, which customises cars, was gutted by a fire, it was faced with a wrecked laptop that contained all the vital information about the company.
Virtualisation has been largely responsible for cracking open the market for back-up and business continuity, argues Jake van der Vyver, enterprise business development manager for Lexel (formerly Computer Brokers).
In November, a fire broke out in one of the buildings on ISTA Pharmaceuticals' main campus, forcing about 50 employees to move to another location on the property. After the building's sprinklers kicked in, the entire network had to be shut down because the water threatened the equipment carrying the company's inbound data traffic.
I always do my best to turn misfortune into opportunities for enlightenment, and oh, what enlightenment the past couple of weeks has placed within my grasp. When the MacBook Pro loaned to me by Apple slipped into a coma during a full-volume image backup and subsequently died in my arms, I was forced to deal head-on with the impact of Apple's switch in suppliers and with an irrecoverable loss of data and productivity — a hardship I've never faced in five years with Macs. I lost a full month's worth of work, research, and creative projects, along with every application that requires registration keys and online activation.
Dunedin-based Standby Consulting has struck oil in Bahrain and says the emirate offers rich pickings for Kiwis — perhaps more so than neighbouring Dubai.
Six steps to disaster-proofing
Six years after the events of 9/11, many corporate IT operations are overconfident about their ability to handle a disaster, according to a Forrester Research report.
Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has turned to virtualisation for cost-effective disaster recovery and hardware consolidation.
Business continuity planning isn’t not the sexiest of tasks for people in IT, but if a disaster strikes and there’s been no planning, it can make the headlines.
Two-thirds of large enterprises don’t have enough bandwidth to replicate or back up their remote sites in an emergency, according to a survey of IT managers and directors by Forrester Consulting.
Too many users fail to include email in their disaster recovery planning because of cost, claims Mirapoint as it announces a remote site replication plan for its mail, calendar and security appliances, which compete with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.
The Bank of New Zealand’s John Baddiley knows that in 2009 he and his team will be separated from their datacentre.
TVNZ’s head of news operations denies moves to upgrade newsrooms with new digital systems will result in job losses.
The Sahana project was originally developed to help cope with the disastrous consequences of 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. A free and open source disaster management solution, the integrated system is a set of web-based disaster management applications for managing information before, during and after a disaster.