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Disaster Planning

ALSO CALLED: Disaster Management, IT Disaster Planning, and Disaster Recovery Planning
DEFINITION: A disaster recovery plan (DRP) - sometimes referred to as a business continuity plan (BCP) or business process contingency plan (BPCP) - describes how an organization is to deal with potential disasters. Just as a disaster is an event that makes the continuation of normal functions impossible,  … 
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Working with collocation providers in a disaster
sponsored by PEER 1
WEBCAST: In this webcast, Disaster Recovery expert Leo A. Wrobel will discuss how to work with collocation providers in a disaster.
Posted: 29 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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DR tips and pitfalls to avoid
sponsored by PEER 1
PODCAST: In this podcast, Disaster Recovery expert Leo A. Wrobel discusses how to work with collocation providers in a disaster.
Posted: 29 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 29 Sep 2008
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HP StorageWorks All-in-One Systems
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: Manage, grow and protect your expanding data storage environment with HP's radically simple, affordable, and reliable network storage solutions for smaller IT environments.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Top Reasons to Look at CA Recovery Management to Address All Your Data Protection Needs Podcast
sponsored by CA
PODCAST: This podcast discusses how CA Recovery Management release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges.
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 25 Aug 2008
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Building a Collaborative Risk Management Strategy
sponsored by IBM
VIDEO: Check out this videocast and learn how collaborative risk management can help your company maintain an acceptable level of risk without compromising overall security.
Posted: 18 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 18 Aug 2008
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Video: Backup Express Novell Support Solves Data Protection Challenges for Toll Brothers.
sponsored by Syncsort
WEBCAST: An operating system migration might complicate backup and recovery if you are not cautious. This white paper offers guidelines to assess whether your business-critical data and applications are protected and available during a migration project.
Posted: 13 Aug 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Consolidate and Simplify Backup and Recovery for Your VMware Environment
sponsored by Data Domain
WEBCAST: In this webcast you will learn about this powerful solution, hear about specific deployments and the resulting benefits.
Posted: 04 Aug 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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When High Availability is Not Enough
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
PODCAST: Learn how disaster recovery complements high availability and what technologies are available to enhance high availability in your IT organization.
Posted: 29 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 29 Jul 2008
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Surviving Irrational Data Growth: Leveraging Simple Data Lifecycle Concepts to Take Back Control in IT
sponsored by SEPATON
WEBCAST: This on-demand eSeminar by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) will teach you how to eliminate data sprawl while improving data protection and disaster recovery abilities. Learn how to pinpoint areas where you can better manage and control data growth.
Posted: 28 Jul 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Utilizing Virtualization for your Disaster Recovery Strategy - What You Need to Know
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIDEOCAST: This Videocast provides an overview on the state of Disaster Recovery today. It highlights a new solution that simplifies implementation and management while being scalable with your business.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 10 Jul 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Attacking DR with Better Data Management
sponsored by EMC Partner Organization
VIDEOCAST: View this Videocast, featuring disaster recovery expert, Jon William Toigo, to learn how using better data management practices can result in improved disaster recovery. View this Videocast to find out more today.
Posted: 30 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Formulating a Disaster Recovery Plan
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
PODCAST: This podcast from VMware and HP showcases the simple steps to looking at disaster recovery and how to implement against the needs and wants within a current storage infrastructure.
Posted: 30 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2008
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Does Your Backup Stack Up?
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WEBCAST: Take "The Backup Exec Challenge" and find out! Take a moment to answer six questions about your current backup solution and get a chance to win a TomTom GO 720 GPS! Register now at http://www4.symantec.com/offer?a_id=64588
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Best Practices for Backup and Recovery
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WEBCAST: Check out this Symantec webcast discussing best practices for backup and recovery
Posted: 11 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Scaling up backup as virtual environments grow
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: View this webcast to learn about several different approaches to increasing backup capacity and performance as the virtualized infrastructure grows and discover best practices for making sure your backup can scale up as your virtual environments grow.
Posted: 05 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Podcast: Scaling up backup as virtual environments grow
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
PODCAST: Learn about several different approaches to increasing backup capacity and performance as your virtualized infrastructure grows and discover best practices for making sure your backup can scale up as your virtual environments grow.
Posted: 04 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 04 Jun 2008
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The Importance of DR
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
VIDEOCAST: In this expert videocast, Jon William Toigo, CEO and Managing Principal, Toigo Partners International discusses the criticalities of a disaster recovery plan.
Posted: 30 May 2008 | Premiered: 30 May 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Disk vs. Tape: The Backup Battle
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WEBCAST: As a data protection services manager and architect at a large investment bank, Brian Greenberg attempts to help clear up the misconceptions of each target, provide some hard cost analysis and draw from practical experience in this expert Webcast.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Enhancing Traditional Backup Systems with Disk
sponsored by Overland Storage
VIDEOCAST: In this Expert Videocast, W. Curtis Preston gives you the formula for correctly sizing your backup systems. The crux of his discussion is disk-based backup.
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Premiered: 02 Apr 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Disaster Recovery - It's All About the Data!
sponsored by Arrow Electronics, Inc.
WEBCAST: Attend this Expert Webcast to learn about best practices in the area of disaster recovery including definitions of key terms and an exploration of storage, infrastructure and data center architectures.
Posted: 31 Mar 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Podcast: Data Recovery to the Rescue
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
PODCAST: A California small business specializing in recovering data shares its customer “disk-asters,” and how the company protects its own network.
Posted: 22 Feb 2008 | Premiered: 09 May 2007
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Virtualization and backup: Automating the most-repeated and important manual tasks
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this webcast, IT consultant Andrew Kutz discusses the elements of virtualization backup that are most frequently overlooked and how to automate the most common virtualization backup tasks.
Posted: 07 Feb 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Virtualization and backup: Technology advances and lessons learned by early adopters
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this webcast, IT consultant Andrew Kutz traces the role of backup in virtual environments, starting with the early adopters and moving to today's top backup methodologies.
Posted: 07 Feb 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Options for backup in Microsoft virtualization platforms: Best of products and processes
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: This webcast will look at Windows-based features and options for performing backups, as well as the capabilities of other products such as Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager.
Posted: 15 Jan 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Seven Key Questions to Ask Before Moving to Disk-Based Backup
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
PODCAST: There are a number of choices available for disk-based backup. Listen to this Podcast and learn as experts discuss the major points to consider when moving from tape to disk so your move will be more successful.
Posted: 23 Oct 2006 | Premiered: 02 Sep 2008
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DISASTER PLANNING DEFINITION (continued): …  a disaster recovery plan consists of the precautions taken so that the effects of a disaster will be minimized and the organization will be able to either maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions. Typically, disaster recovery planning involves an analysis of business processes and continuity needs; it may also include a significant focus on disaster prevention.

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