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  • Virtualisation promises instant recovery

    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).

  • Drills vital for effective distaster recovery

    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.

  • Apple's new disaster recovery not so hot

    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.

  • Disaster recovery is boring but essential

    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.

  • WAN bottlenecks may hamper DR preparation

    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.

  • Disaster recovery costs leave email under protected

    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.

  • Open source tsunami disaster software promises help

    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.

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