CIO.com - Disaster Recovery

Can You Trust Data-Recovery Service Providers?

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Data-recovery service providers are supposed to be saving important data for you when something goes wrong -- a drive crashes or storage device is dropped, and no backup is available. But do you trust them with the important data you let them recover or could they actually be a source for a data breach?

Cloud and Disaster Recovery: Load-Balanced Data Centers Are Not a Perfect Solution

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced data centers instead of hot-cold data centers. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their datacenters to take care of disaster needs. If one datacenter suffered from a disaster, the other datacenter would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity.

CommVault to Combine Backup, Archive Functions

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

CommVault plans to announce an upgrade to its flagship Simpana software in the next several weeks that will allow backed-up data to be archived while still leaving end users will an easy way to retrieve that data.

NetApp, Iron Mountain Team Up on Medical Archive Service

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

NetApp is teaming up with Iron Mountain to offer its StorageGRID object storage software with two Iron Mountain medical data archiving services: the Digital Record Center for Medical Images and its vendor-neutral archive offering.

PC Makers Should 'Brace' for Drive Shortages

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

With operations disrupted at more than a dozen hard disk drive (HDD) factories due to flooding in Thailand, PC manufacturers should prepare for significant supply shortages, market research firm IDC said.

Virtual Machine Cloud Replication and Restoration to Boom

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Over the next two years, about 30% of midsize businesses will be using a recovery in the cloud service aimed at replicating and restoring virtual machine instances, according to Gartner.

BC/DR Spending Not a Top Budget Priority

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Forrester Research finds organizations understand the importance of spending on business continuity and disaster recovery, but put it off

Where There Are Clouds, There's Lightning (and Other Cloud Disaster Tips)

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but apparently a single bolt of lightning can take out two cloud provider data centers at once. At least that's what initial reports cited as the cause of concurrent outages at the Dublin data centers that serve as Microsoft's and Amazon's major cloud computing hubs for Europe. These reports serve as a good reminder of why it's a good idea to consider disaster recovery and business continuity when contracting with a cloud computing provider.

The Cloud Solves Those Lingering Supply Chain Problems

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

When consumes ship FedEx packages they get a reliable, impressive IT experience as part of that $10 service. Yet many of the world's biggest corporations still only dream of having FedEx-like technology to support their global supply chain operations, but cloud-based services promise to change that.

Target.Com's Second Site Crash Could Become E-Comm Nightmare

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

For the second time in six weeks, Target's Web site crashed Tuesday, and that is scary news for any major retailer heading into the holiday shopping season.

RIM's Free Apps, Tech Support Get Measure of Support

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Companies less interested in compensation than making sure RIM keeps the network up and running

RIM Says BlackBerry Email Delays Continue Worldwide

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

BlackBerry email service delays continued globally on Wednesday, with BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging and Web browsing still down in many regions after three days.

RIM Global Outage Caused By Core Switch Failure; Fix Under Way

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

BlackBerry service delays experienced by users around the world on Tuesday were caused by a core switch failure within the RIM infrastructure, the company said late Tuesday.

JetBlue Supports IPhone -- As Long As it's the Employee's Device

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Over the past several years, JetBlue has transformed itself from a traditional IT infrastructure with multiple data centers run by its employees to an almost completely outsourced model with virtual everything, from desktops to servers.

Twitter Suffers 1-Hour Outage

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT

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