Contingency Planning

WHITE PAPER: A disaster recovery plan represents an organization's detailed roadmap of where to go, what to do and when to do it in the event of a disaster. Understanding what does the business need, and is it capable of addressing this need with regard to both capabilities and cost is essential in the overall planning stages.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dealing with disasters at remote offices, where you likely have little or no technical staff, can be challenging—and, if you're not careful, expensive. Here are our top 10 tips for optimizing branch office DR while achieving overall improvements in cost efficiency.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: A comprehensive disaster recovery implementation is critical to ensuring computing resources maintain operations in the event of a server failure or data loss. Mastering disaster recovery in mid-sized organizations requires the careful identification and implementation of end-to-end backup along with recovery tools and services.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Freeland Community School District in Freeland, MI. used Zenith ARCA (Advanced Recovery & Continuity Appliance) to reduce management overheads, reduce RPO from 2 hours to 15 minutes.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: HP has a long and proud tradition of partnering with technology leaders to help ensure success in both good economies and bad. This paper provides practical advice and insight into the rules these leaders followed to realize the full potential of virtualization.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Relying on tape backup for branch-office data protection is costly and risky. This white paper examines some of the strategies and technologies available for backing up remote or branch offices.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper is intended to help simplify the process of starting a disaster recovery plan so as not to be so overwhelming. Through some basic steps, businesses can better protect themselves against data loss while working toward a more complete business continuity plan.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: To provide disaster recovery for virtual machines running on a Hyper-V host, look to Double-Take for Hyper-V from Double-Take Software to protect your workloads with real-time replication and automated failover for virtualized workloads. Read this white paper for more details.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Increasingly WAN-centric enterprises make mobile equipment and services more important for business continuity. To determine the role wireless should play in an organization's business continuity plan, IT should consider a mix of factors including type of business, physical locations and applications. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Keeping data secure in a mobile environment is not just a daunting challenge, but a critical requirement. Complying with increasingly stringent regulations in data security and privacy adds additional complexity for companies with mobile users. Read this technology brief to learn about Intel® Anti-Theft Technology.

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations are realizing their priorities are not about new technology –instead, they are focusing on how to use the technology they have to survive and thrive in the downturn. How can you make the most of your information technology investments in this new environment?

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: For many enterprises, the backup and recovery process has not kept pace with the sheer growth of data or the increased requirements for higher data protection. As a result, many storage organizations are redesigning their existing backup architecture.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Recent technological developments in disk backup have had a positive impact on short term data retention requirements. But these improvements do not replace the need to execute and deliver on a long term data retention strategy. This tool provides 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses the critical factors you need to address when dealing with workforce disruption, including threats like pandemics.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In the event of downtime, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. PlateSpin Forge® ships with everything you need to begin protecting your servers straight out-of-the-box.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Did you know it’s possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this whitepaper from Riverbed on cost-savings through WAN optimization, you’ll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical component of IT and risk mitigation strategies, and compounded in difficulty by ever growing data volumes, distributed computing, and new technologies.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IDC Workbook discusses consolidation at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualisation. This paper also discusses how deduplication can help improve consolidation of resources and reduce storage footprint, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce disk I/Os in high-throughput deduplication storage systems. These techniques are general methods to improve throughput performance of deduplication storage systems.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: We are beginning to see the next generation of backup and recovery solutions appear. New data protection solutions led by Data Domain’s deduplication architecture are quickly gaining market momentum improving data and application availability while increasing the probability for a business to survive most types of outages.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data protection is fast becoming the most critical part of IT strategies today. Read this paper to learn how your organization can address data protection issues using Data Domain enterprise protection storage systems.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009