Disaster Recovery

How to Address IT Needs in Today's Economy Through Virtualization

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:15:00 EST

The current economic crisis is affecting how organizations look at their IT. Existing systems are being stretched to increase their value, while investment in new systems is under greater scrutiny than ever before. For the channel, customers are demanding more from their spending. While this is putting some "nice-to-have" projects in jeopardy, money is still available in IT budgets for initiatives that can deliver real results both now and in the future.

VMware Virtualization Platform Enables Tropics Software to Implement Disaster-Recovery Plan

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:13:00 EDT

VMware announced that Tropics Software Technologies (Tropics Software) has deployed VMware’s virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3, as the foundation of a robust business-continuity solution. Headquartered in Sarasota, FL, Tropics Software offers workers’ compensation software to benefits administrators and insurance companies throughout the U.S.

Baking Company Preserves Tradition With Acronis' Recipe for Disaster Recovery

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:34:00 EDT

Specialty Bakers recently deployed IT backup and recovery software from Acronis resulting in uninterrupted customer service and protection of information that keeps the business running. To reduce downtime during system recovery, Specialty Bakers replaced its time-consuming, file-based tape technology with both Acronis True Image Workstation and Acronis True Image Server for Windows.

SunGard Availability Services Introduces Server Virtualization Service

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:45:00 EDT

SunGard Availability Services announced Virtual Server Replication Services, an AdvancedRecovery solution for organizations using virtualization technology to run their business applications. The offering provides companies an affordable way to implement a comprehensive second site recovery program for virtual and physical IT environments, with failover within six hours.

3Leaf Systems Delivers Disaster Recovery for Large Scale Server Farms with New I/O Virtualization Release

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:30:00 EDT

3Leaf Systems announced the general availability of 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server version 2.0, a key component of 3Leaf Virtual Compute Environment. The new software release delivers disaster recovery, streamlined management, and enhanced availability for large x86 server deployments. Executing on 3Leaf's strategy of enabling virtualization by running on standard hardware, the V-8000 version 2.0 software is an I/O virtualization solution that runs on standard off the shelf commodity x86 servers.

SteelEye Introduces Disaster Recovery Protection for Citrix XenServer Virtualization

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT

SteelEye announced the general availability of SteelEye Protection Suite, a comprehensive solution that provides disaster protection of virtual machines running on Citrix XenServer. SteelEye Protection Suite delivers real-time LAN and WAN replication of XenServer virtual machines. It is designed for companies that have migrated critical enterprise applications to XenServer virtual machines and want enhanced protection against data center outages to ensure business continuity.

Alameda County Medical Center Selects DataCore's Storage Virtualization

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EDT

DataCore Software announced that its SANmelody software is serving as the foundation of a replication and disaster recovery (DR) plan at Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) that was orchestrated by DataCore partner Entisys. The IT environment at ACMC was fundamentally based upon products from Dell and EMC as well as virtual machines from VMware. ACMC is comprised of multiple sites and as a county hospital the organization is under a number of budget constraints. Entisys presented the Citrix XenServer and DataCore SANmelody DR solution based upon XenServer, which provides great savings to the medical center.

NetApp and LeaseWeb to Launch Storage Virtualization Platform

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EDT

Hosting provider LeaseWeb has decided to use a FAS 3040HA mid-range platform by NetApp so that it will be able to offer its customers a complete storage-on-demand (SOD) solution. The platform will allow LeaseWeb to offer managed back-up and disaster recovery services.

Disaster Recovery: Re-Thinking Your Strategy

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

For many years secondary sites have been a part of the enterprise computing equation. Recent natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina opened the eyes of many IT administrators to the devastation that can compromise primary and backup IT facilities. The widespread confusion that followed Hurricane Katrina brought into sharp focus the need for comprehensive business continuity plans that incorporated secondary data center sites located far enough away so as to be untouched by the disaster affecting the primary data site. However, many IT organizations believe the costs involved in establishing secondary data centers are out of reach for all but the largest organizations.

Mellanox InfiniBand Adapters Provide Storage Virtualization Connectivity to Galactic Computing's VSTOR

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EDT

Mellanox Technologies and Galactic Computing announced that Mellanox's 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters provide the low-latency, high-performance storage interconnect for Galactic Computing's line of VSTOR storage systems and gateways, providing an adaptive and responsive infrastructure for business continuity and disaster recovery applications such as remote mirroring and replication. VSTOR supports Fibre Channel, iSCSI, InfiniBand, SAS and NAS connections to servers allowing total flexibility in access. Mellanox InfiniBand adapters serve as the ideal choice for workloads that require high performance, efficiency and scalability.

InMage Systems and Marathon Technologies Partner to Provide Virtualization Disaster Recovery

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:15:00 EDT

InMage Systems announced a partnership with Marathon Technologies. Marathon will offer InMage's flagship DR-Scout solution to its customer base. Marathon representatives will be fully trained in sales, service and support for DR-Scout. The combination of DR-Scout with Marathon's everRun line of products results in the highest levels of availability and protection for applications, data and networks in physical and virtual server environments, and across geographically dispersed or remote locations.

SOFTBANK TELECOM and Bay Microsystems Deploy New Disaster Recovery Solution for Virtualization

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Bay Microsystems announced that SOFTBANK TELECOM has deployed Bay Microsystems ABEx2020 Multi-Service Transport Gateway to deliver high- performance carrier Infiniband services as part of its Wide Area Virtualization infrastructure and to demonstrate its automated multi-site disaster recovery solution.

PlateSpin Forge Provides Virtualization Disaster Recovery

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:15:00 EDT

PlateSpin ULC, a Novell company, announced new packaging options for PlateSpin Forge that make the innovative disaster recovery hardware appliance even more cost-effective for small and medium-sized enterprises that need to protect ten or more server workloads. PlateSpin Forge is a purpose-built consolidated recovery solution that includes pre-packaged and preconfigured hardware, software and VMware virtualization technology to accelerate deployment, simplify configuration and reduce total cost of ownership.

Double-Take Software Seminar Addresses Importance of Application Protection and Virtualization

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:30:00 EDT

Double-Take Software will host the next stop of its Latin America-area disaster recovery seminar on June 11, 2008, in Santiago, Chile. The educational series focuses on the importance of protecting business critical data and applications, and ensuring the highest levels of recoverability for organizations by implementing Double-Take Software solutions and services.

SoftBank Telecom Deploys DataCore Virtualization

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:15:00 EDT

DataCore announced today that SoftBank Telecom has deployed DataCore SANmelody as the storage virtualization platform to build, verify and test its disaster recovery process over a wide-area virtual infrastructure. For the deployment and verification test, SoftBank Telecom established a connection between its data centers in Tokyo and Osaka (approximately 500 kilometers apart) via Infiniband, and configured wide-area virtual systems through the virtualization of servers, storage, and I/O.

Dell and VMware Simplify Disaster Recovery with Integrated Virtualization Solution

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT

In keeping with Dell's mission to simplify IT, Dell announced the seamless integration of Dell EqualLogic storage arrays with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), which automates disaster recovery (DR) management in virtual infrastructures. As one of VMware's largest resellers and Global Technology Alliance Partners, Dell and its network of Enterprise- Architecture-certified channel partners can now deliver a complete end-to-end DR automation and management solution. The combined Dell EqualLogic/VMware solution integrates PS Series Auto-Replication directly into SRM using PS Series SRM Storage Adapter software developed by Dell.

NetApp Provides Virtualization Disaster Recovery for Hillsborough County Library Services

Tue, 27 May 2008 16:00:00 EDT

NetApp announced that the Hillsborough County Library Services (HCLS), located in Tampa, Florida, has solidified its disaster recovery capabilities and streamlined its overall storage environment thanks to its recent installation of the NetApp S500 storage solution.

VMware Popping More Virtualization Software

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:15:00 EDT

This week you'll be able to order that disaster recovery pack that VMware has been promising since last September, Site Recovery Manager, but it'll take them another month to deliver it. It's supposed to let you set up, test and automate disaster recovery in a way that's not available with traditional methods, it says, painting a ghastly picture of how exposed companies are because it's otherwise so hard and downtime prolonged.

SMB Technology Network Selects Acronis as Preferred Virtualization Disaster Recovery Provider

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:45:00 EDT

Acronis announced that the Small and Medium Business Technology Network has selected Acronis as a preferred provider of disaster recovery software for its national membership. Through this partnership, SMB Technology Network members will have direct access to the Acronis SMB Connect partners program and all of the program's extra benefits. The group, with more than 500 members across the country that serve more than 4,300 SMBs, is made up of small IT consulting firms that focus on clients with fewer than 500 employees.

Alternative Technology Adds Marathon Technologies Fault-Tolerant Virtualization

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Alternative Technology announced an agreement to distribute Marathon Technologies everRun fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual server environments. Marathon's everRun software is for IT professionals at midsize companies and enterprises who want to prevent outages and data loss in their physical and virtual infrastructures. everRun provides fault-tolerant, high availability for Citrix XenServer and Windows Server 2003 to deliver uninterrupted availability, data protection, and rapid recovery through a 'one-click' operation.

NetApp Strengthens Disaster Recovery With Support for VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtualization

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:30:00 EDT

NetApp announced support for VMware Site Recovery Manager, a product from VMware for disaster recovery management and automation. This support provides customers with a disaster recovery solution built with VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware Infrastructure, and NetApp FAS storage systems. In addition, both companies will also offer an improved customer experience with the Virtualization Escalation Team (VET), a new joint customer support group.

LeftHand Networks Boosts Disaster Recovery Capabilities in Virtualization Environments

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:00 EDT

LeftHand Networks announced its support for VMware Site Recovery Manager. VMware Site Recovery Manager is a pioneering product for disaster recovery management and automation. Part of VMware's suite of management and automation products for the data center, VMware Site Recovery Manager simplifies business continuity planning and testing, and reduces the risk and complexity associated with implementing disaster recovery. LeftHand Networks' certified Storage Replication Adapter allows customers to deploy a complete disaster recovery (DR) solution that automates DR for systems and storage across virtualized environments.

An Information-Centric Approach to Information Security

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:15:00 EDT

Successful businesses execute simultaneously on three fronts: sustained revenue growth, continuous cost control, and comprehensive risk management. Driven by a significant rise in public awareness of information security breaches, the discipline of risk management is under increased pressure to protect the information assets of the business better.

Backup for Continuance of Operations

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:30:00 EST

Every person who has ever been responsible for backing up data has had to ask themselves the same basic questions. They need to know what data has to be backed up, how frequently it changes, where to store the backups, and how quickly the data will have to be restored in case of disaster. The answers to these questions in a large way determine the media used to back up the data and the ultimate storage location for the backup. It seems that every day we read about a hurricane, fire, flood, or other disaster. Couple the natural disasters with the need for 24x7 availability and increasing government regulation and it's easy to understand why the disaster recovery plans of an organization are coming under scrutiny. For years the general pattern was to back up data to tape and store those tapes onsite in a vault or offsite in a secure location. But several recent developments have started people looking at other alternatives.

Best Practices for an Iron-Clad Backup and Recovery Plan

Tue, 03 May 2005 10:00:00 EDT

Today's security threats have become increasingly sophisticated and often combine several types of technology to maximize their impact on organizations. Even though businesses can't always prevent hardware damage from disasters like fires and hurricanes, they can protect data and information from disaster, manmade or natural.

Storage Giant EMC Acquires Backup and Recovery Vendor Dantz

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

EMC is entering the SMB software market, acquiring Dantz Development Corporation in a $50M deal that brings it a well-regarded product platform, Retrospect, and what EMC software group EVP Dave DeWalt calls 'wide-reaching and deep channels to market.' The synergies between EMC and Dantz, DeWalt says, abound.