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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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ExaGrid: Simply State-of-the-Art D2D
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Disk-based backup took the market by storm several years ago with a compelling proposition: replace tape with high-speed disk to speed up and simplify backup.
Posted: 15 Aug 2008 | Published: 15 Aug 2008
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The IBM Business Resilience Webcast Series
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This webcast series explains the full range of risks that can face your business on a daily basis and specifically three different types of risks business, event and data driven.
Posted: 13 Aug 2008 | Published: 12 Aug 2008
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Planning for the Unforeseen: Insuring Communications for All Contingencies
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Considering disaster preparedness, this paper explores a range of unforseen situations, highlight lessons learned, and defines communications strategies that can prepare us for meeting the needs of unforeseen events.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Thinning Out the Hay: Proactive Information Governance and the Impact on eDiscovery
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: An enterprise wide information governance strategy is critical to effective discovery preparedness. This article outlines the new federal rules for discovery and the first steps to achieve enterprise content control.
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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IT Briefing: Scaling up Backup as Virtual Environments Grow
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: 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: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Sun Microsystems' Solutions for Virtualization across the Enterprise
sponsored by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
WHITE PAPER: Sun's customer-driven approach for how companies implement a virtual environment will enable customers to choose the right virtualization tool for the job yet still maintain cohesive management of a heterogeneous environment.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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IT Briefing: Options for Backup on VMware: Best of Products and Processes
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this IT Briefing as we discuss the need for backups in VMware and learn about the difference between backups in a virtual environment and physical system backups.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Streamline Your Storage Usage: 4 Straightforward Ways to True NAS Management
sponsored by Northern Parklife
WHITE PAPER: This White Paper will show how a NAS-based SRM solution can enable administrators to consolidate their NAS "holdings" with advanced quota management, automation in the form of "actionable reporting".
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 20 Mar 2008
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Efficient Data Protection for Microsoft Applications with Symantec Backup Exec™
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Symantec Backup Exe 12 for Windows Servers is the gold standard in Windows data protection, providing cost-effective, high performance, disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Overview: Backup & Recovery Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Download this whitepaper to find out the top reasons to upgrade to a more effective backup system and how to get continuous data protection and complete system recovery.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Ensuring Working Business Communications During and After a Business Disruption Event
sponsored by AT&T Corp
WHITE PAPER: Many firms fail to consider how lines of communication will stay open in the event of a Business Disruption Event. Make sure your company's mobile infrastructure is able to handle the increased demands while also maintaining security.
Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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How to Choose a Fire Suppression System for Your Server Room, Data Center or NOC
sponsored by Peripheral Manufacturing. Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Fire suppression system solutions for most size rooms and enclosures has shown many firms the benefits of utilizing newer technology when protecting valuable assets.
Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Security Beyond Corporate Boundaries
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: Ensuring your data security goes beyond the implementation of firewalls and spyware. This white paper discusses key information on virtualization deployment, and offers tips to better manage your disaster recovery enviroment.
Posted: 05 May 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Cool Vendors in Data Protection
sponsored by Diligent Technologies Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This research details five disk-based data protection solutions from emerging data protection vendors.
Posted: 01 May 2008 | Published: 20 Mar 2008
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Effective Disaster Recovery Planning
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses the increased performance needs of a disaster recovery plan, and the common barriers to achieving success. It also addresses the performance gains that can be achieved by using an F5 WANJet application acceleration solution.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2007
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Effective Disaster Recovery Planning Using F5 Application Acceleration and EMC SRDF
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses the performance needs of a disaster recovery plan, and the common barriers to achieving success. It also addresses the performance gains that can be achieved by using the F5 WANJet application acceleration solution.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2007
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New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. Read this white paper for information on such a plan.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 28 Apr 2008
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Disaster Recovery Guide: Universal Secure Remote Access
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Access to corporate applications and data is vital to help keep your business running as usual, yet, a wide range of concerns can quickly disrupt business processes. This white paper explains the pitfalls and solutions.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 28 Apr 2008
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Exagrid Systems: Disk-based Backup with Data De-duplication
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This report presents the results of ESG Lab's hands-on testing of the ExaGrid backup to disk solution with a focus on ease of deployment, performance, disk capacity optimization, WAN-efficient remote replication and scalability.
Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Improving Communications in Emergency Situations: Mobile Business Continuity Planning Solutions That Help Mitigate Risks and Improve Responsiveness to Emergency Situations
sponsored by BlackBerry
WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses the ways in which organizations can ensure preparedness by deploying wireless software solutions based on the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution and BlackBerry applications from Wallace Wireless.
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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11 Things to Know about Active Directory Recovery
sponsored by Quest Software
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses what to consider when creating and testing your Active Directory recovery plan. It provides administrators with important insights into the finer points of Active Directory recovery and discusses restoration of data using native tools
Posted: 31 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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Storage eZine: Disaster Recovery in Detail
sponsored by Disaster Recovery eZine - January 2008
WHITE PAPER: Whether you know it or not, your DR planning is only going to get tougher. So how do you combat this problem and keep your plans up to date? This eZine from Storage magazine contains a number of articles that can help ensure that your DR plan i...
Posted: 20 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007
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Planning for the Unexpected Disaster
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: A disaster recovery plan covers the hardware and software required to run critical business applications, the data that your company must maintain, and the steps necessary to maintain workforce continuity from remote locations.
Posted: 11 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Introduction to Backup and Recovery in a Virtual Iron Environment
sponsored by Virtual Iron Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses backup and recovery of virtual servers (VSs) utilizing technology from Virtual Iron. It will also outline Virtual Iron's server virtualization technology and the methods that can be employed for data backup and recovery.
Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2007
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Implementing Highly Available Data Protection with Veritas NetBackup
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the components of a data protection system based on NetBackup and outlines a number of different configurations and solutions aimed at both reducing the risk of failure within a particular site and recovering from the loss of the site.
Posted: 07 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 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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