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The other guy's job -- disaster recovery

Mother Nature has wrought havoc in the Gulf and many of us were once again faced personally with worries over friends and family in harm's way and professionally with concerns about organizations facing uncertainty over their ability to continue or even recover their businesses. In a timely coincidence, I happened to be attending a disaster recovery (DR) conference on the west coast, and, appropriately, Hurricane Ike occupied center stage for much of the discussion. A number of would-be participants never made it to the conference as they were attending to more pressing matters back home.

By Jim Damoulakis | 23 September, 2008 09:17

Tags: backup, disaster recovery

Disaster-recovery planning: You can't live without it

In our daily lives we try to protect ourselves from the worst. We buy insurance for our cars, homes and health and we safeguard personal information. Shouldn't business owners and IT managers treat their networks and critical infrastructure the same way?

By Jeff Godlewski | 22 September, 2008 09:32

Tags: backup, disaster recovery

Disaster Recovery: a C-level issue?

In August Symantec released the results of its 2008 IT Disaster Recovery survey, reporting global business trends around disaster recovery planning (DR) and preparedness. Perhaps the most compelling (and certainly the most reported) finding in the report was the apparent decline in C-level executive involvement in DR planning.

By Simon Durkin | 22 September, 2008 08:00

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De-duplicating VMware

It's been said that a server virtualization project is actually an infrastructure redesign project, and certainly in areas related to storage and data protection, the impact can be dramatic both in terms of the volume of data and in the operations to support and protect it. Backup is a particular case in point.