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1. When Disaster Strikes, Login Here

   [ Blog ] Topic: Disaster Recovery | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 11/12/2009

   When it comes to disaster recovery, the reason that so many companies struggle so much usually has very little to do with the technology. There are plenty of solutions out there today that can make . The issue is that most people simply don’t know what to do when the emergency strikes. To...

2. Countering a Widening Array of Disasters

   [ Blog ] Topic: Disaster Recovery | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 05/04/2009

   The past several years have produced plenty of motivation for enterprises to institute broad disaster recovery programs, so much so that it's hard to imagine even a medium-sized organization without one. Unfortunately, many plans turn into the IT equivalent of a mutual fund: Once the initial...

3. Fair Warning for Business Continuity: Hurricane Season Starts June 1

   [ Blog ] Topic: Disaster Recovery | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 05/22/2009

   IT Business Edge, along with scores of other sites and publications, to coverage of the swine flu pandemic , which continues to cause problems and, sadly, take a very real toll . A portion of the coverage has focused on what companies could have done to be better prepared, and what they...

4. Key Lesson Learned from the Flu Pandemic

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Continuity | Author: Paul Mah | Date Published: 07/12/2009

   When it was clear that the current flu pandemic was going to be a worldwide phenomenal in April, IT Business Edge blogger Rob Enderle asked , suggesting some possible responses. Blogger Ralph DeFrangesco urged that a . Well, the worst of the current flu pandemic appears to be past us for...

5. Cloud Is Here to Stay

   [ Blog ] Topic: Cloud Computing | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 10/16/2009

   A promising new technology suffers a technical setback and judgment is swift that the party is over -- that we all knew it was too good to be true. That pattern reasserted itself again this week with the outage on T-Mobile's Sidekick service , which cut close to 800,000 users off from their...

6. Staying Safe on Cyber Monday

   [ Blog ] Topic: e-Commerce | Author: SueMarquettePoremba | Date Published: 11/20/2009

   Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving that has become the online retailer’s version of Black Friday, will likely be more popular than ever this year, thanks, in part, to concerns about the . In fact, Forrester Research forecasts an 8 percent increase in online retail sales over last year....

7. Virtualization Key to Business Continuity

   [ Blog ] Topic: Virtualization | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 04/16/2007

   Virtualization is emerging as more than just an effective means for hardware consolidation and improved data management. It turns out that it offers significant improvements in the areas of disaster recovery and business continuity. Organizations that specialize in disaster recovery are...

8. The Perils of Server Migration

   [ Blog ] Topic: Server Migration | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 08/07/2007

   The perils of consolidating data center operations in the wake of an acquisition came into view this month as customers of Web-hosting firm Hostway found themselves without service for several days. It seems that on July 27, Hostway began moving close to 3,700 servers that it gained from...

9. Intelligent Disaster Recovery

   [ Blog ] Topic: Disaster Recovery | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 12/28/2007

   Disaster recovery could see a significant improvement in the coming years as multiple technologies come together to help enterprises get back on their feet more quickly and completely than in the past. One of the trends pushing things along is intelligent automation . These integrated...

10. Quality Storage for the Masses

    [ Blog ] Topic: SAN | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 04/10/2008

    High-end enterprise technology continues to trickle down to the mid-level market, with appliances emerging as one of the key means of delivery. Fujitsu Computer Systems has released the Eternus 4000 Model 300 SAN business continuity appliance that provides many of the same storage...

11. New Thinking in Disaster Recovery

    [ Blog ] Topic: Disaster Recovery | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 06/25/2008

    There's nothing like a disaster to get people thinking about, well, disaster. If there can be any positive spin put on the Midwest flooding and Southwest wildfires, it's that they at least get the top brass of companies everywhere to give some thought to their own DR policies. The trick is to...

12. Disaster Recovery for the Virtual Set

    [ Blog ] Topic: Disaster Recovery | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 07/29/2008

    Data center resources are continually making the leap from the real world to the virtual, but the fact remains that virtual environments are just as prone to disruption as physical ones. So it's no surprise that we're starting to see disaster recovery solutions tailor-made for the main virtual...