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• Go-to storage and disaster recovery products

  LEAF Commercial Capital used to wrestle with tape backups for disaster recovery. Now the equipment leasing and finance company is using a software-based service from Evolve IP for disaster recovery.

• Our bullet-proof LAN failed. Here's what we learned

  In my organization we manage almost all IT in-house, including the LAN, which is highly redundant. We have 35 Floor Wiring Concentrators around campus, each with around 300 active ports, and the concentrators have dual Gigabit uplinks to network cores in two data centers that are 300 meters apart. The data centers are linked by multiple 10Gb links, and each is connected to the Internet via two trunks that follow different paths.

• The show must go on: How to prepare a business continuity plan

  Always expect the unexpected: You never know when disaster might strike and you need to have a plan to keep your business operating.

• If Ebola's a problem here, just imagine it in India

  As the U.S. has discovered, it only takes a few cases of Ebola to turn things upside down.

• TasWater archives to deal with data deluge

  Tasmanian bulk water authority TasWater is implementing tiered storage to better manage its growing data volumes.

• Strong solar storm set to arrive won't fry electronics

  Back-to-back solar flares, including one that received the highest classification of "X-Class," are striking the earth. U.S. scientists say electronics shouldn't be hurt, but there could be some GPS issues.

• In earthquakes, alerts may turn machines into action heroes

  The UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory issued an alert about the recent earthquake in California's Napa Valley 10 seconds before it struck. That may not seem like much time -- unless you're a child of the 1950s and 1960s who was trained in school to duck and cover the second you saw a large bright nuclear flash.

• In Napa quake, power surges led to PC damage

  Sunday's 6.0 earthquake in Napa County, Calif. caused power surges that may have led to much of the damage to computers in homes and small businesses, according to computer technicians in Napa.

• IT outages are an ongoing problem for the U.S government

  Fully 70% of federal agencies experienced downtime of 30 minutes or more in a recent one-month period.

• IBM opening two state-of-the-art disaster recovery/resiliency centres

  IBM is about to cut the ribbon officially opening two new state-of-the-art datacentres intended to provide disaster recovery and resiliency services, one in the Raleigh, N.C. area and other in Mumbai, India.

• FCC warns that it's still better to call 911 instead of texting

  The FCC says the public should not rely on text messages to reach 911 in emergencies because the technology is only available to 59 of the more than 6,000 emergency communications centers nationwide.

• After first day problems, robotic sub resumes search for Flight 370

  The autonomous underwater robot that began searching for the missing Malaysian airliner Monday ran into trouble on its initial mission but is expected to try again today.

• A CIO who masters disasters

  John Halamka, the CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, doesn't let any crisis go unused as either a teachable moment, or as a chance to lead IT into new directions.

• Disaster recovery options for smaller companies

  New technologies are giving small companies enterprise-like DR capabilities

• How to keep your Linux-heavy data center up and running

  Linux is an excellent tool for creating the flexible IT environment you want, but find a technology provider to help keep your business up in the event of a disaster.