Category: Disaster Recovery (Page 2)
Disaster recovery questions raised after Facebook downtime
Social networking site Facebook was put out of action for over two and a half hours last Thursday and the fact that this had repercussions for its 500 million users and thousands of other sites which rely on its tools, has caused some people to question the disaster recovery and continuity policies which are operated by one of the world’s largest websites. As well as becoming inaccessible via direct means, …
Downtime costing UK businesses billions, report finds
Each year businesses and organisations are losing billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of hours, because of IT downtime, whether due to internal errors or external disasters. CA Technologies has compiled a report which puts the annual cost at £2 billion and claims that firms would be better able to counteract the impacts of any downtime, if they had proper business continuity management contingencies in place. Revenue lost through …
SMEs seek to improve business continuity and disaster recovery
A study carried out by analyst firm Forrester, has concluded that many small and medium sized businesses are going to be focusing on improving their disaster recovery and business continuity plans within the next year. Business continuity planning has to take into account a large number of scenarios, from power cuts and flooding, to natural disasters and security breaches, according to Forrester’s Stephanie Balaouras. Balaouras explained that the decision makers …
Survey shows UK and US IT administrators face similar challenges
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 see improvement when managing data and recovering from a systems failure or other catastrophic event. …
Experts predict cloud implementation for disaster recovery 2010
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 and data security expert Pierre Dorion has made predictions as to where the industry is …
Virtualisation is top of agenda for 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 professionals were contacted and quizzed as to their predictions and preferences for the future of …
Cloud computing aids disaster recovery
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 embodies. Workload recovery after a disaster and the backup itself, if established in-house, are expensive …
The Risks of Failing to Perform Disaster Recovery Tests
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 businesses could not continue to operate successfully if their IT services were unavailable for a …
Backup is Nothing Without Disaster Recovery Testing
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, business resumption and contingency planning. During a recent study by Gartner (The Broken State of …
BlueArc and Asigra Enhance their Strategic Partnership to Increase Online Backup and Disaster Recovery Speeds
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 providing linea performance so that all customers receive the fastest backup and recovery speeds in …
