Disaster Recovery

A report into the data backup and disaster recovery issues confronting IT professionals on both sides of the Atlantic has found a fairly similar set of concerns for those based both in the UK and the US. Respondents to an survey carried out by Double-Take Software cited several key areas in which they wanted to [...]

A new survey has found that whilst businesses realise that business continuity and disaster recovery planning could be improved by virtualisation, the average firm is not able to implement the necessary changes because of budgetary restrictions and a lack of internal expertise. In a survey of 681 IT professionals carried out by InformationWeek, 37 per [...]

Experts now believe that investment in data backup and disaster recovery from businesses around the world is set to increase in the coming years. This is in spite of evidence which suggests that IT budgets are going to be frozen or squeezed as businesses struggle to cope after the recession. Analysts at ABI Research have [...]

Disaster recovery planning became a secondary concern for many businesses last year as the pressures of the faltering world economy caused a squeeze on IT budgets. As a result many began to look to cost-effective alternatives, whilst others were force to freeze plans for improved strategies whilst a return to growth was sought. Disaster recovery [...]

The Storage Expo closed its doors on October 15th after another successful event at Olympia in London. In the run up to what was the self-proclaimed definitive event for data storage and information management, a study of the most important growth areas of storage technology was commissioned by the event’s organisers. Over 400 high-level IT [...]

A recent article for E-Commerce times data protection expert Peter Laudenslager explained some of the key concepts of cloud computing and compared cloud computing recovery with traditional on-site data backup solutions, highlighting some interesting points. When considering the best methods for backing up data, businesses must also plot the road to recovery that each method [...]

The creation and testing of a disaster recovery plan is one of the key elements of business continuity management. Traditionally business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning have always been separated between the business and the IT department. It has long been recognised that this ‘divide’ creates more problems than it solves, after all most [...]

Let’s assume for a moment that your business is a step ahead of many companies out there – you have already thought about and implemented a backup and recovery strategy. This may have included implementing a simple backup strategy, or may be more wide ranging by including other areas such as disaster recovery, workforce continuity, [...]

In 2007, Backup Technology were the first provider worldwide to combine BlueArc’s Titan network attached storage solution with Asigra’s agentless multi site enterprise backup platform. After completing a lengthy process of testing and due diligence the BlueArc solution has provided Backup Technology with the scalability to grow to protect over 950 terabytes of data whilst [...]

Yet another case of data loss has entered the public domain following a Freedom of Information request. The Ministry of Defence have admitted that computer disks lost at a British Royal Air Force base contained sensitive files on the private lives of senior officers. The extremely personal information had been given by servicemen for an [...]