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ALSO CALLED: IT Disaster Recovery, Network Disaster Recovery, Recovery Disaster, Data Processing Recovery, Recovery Procedures, Disaster-recovery, Business Recovery, Transaction Processing Recovery, Computer Disaster Recovery, Business Processing Recovery, and Processing and Business Recovery
DEFINITION: The recovery time objective (RTO) is the maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network, or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs. The RTO is a function of the extent to which the interruption disrupts normal operations and the amount of revenue lost per unit time as a result of the disaster. These factors in turn depend on the affected equipment and application(s).
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Disaster recovery planning fundamentals: DR testing basics
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
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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
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Top 10 Ways to Optimize Remote Office Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
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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
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Mastering Disaster Recovery for Mid-Sized Organizations
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
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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
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Zenith ARCA: Advanced Recovery and Continuity Appliance
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
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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
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Getting Virtualization Right: Five Virtualization Rules Every Organization Must Know
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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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
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Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Syncsort
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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
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Next Generation Backup for Remote Offices
sponsored by Double-Take Software UK
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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
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A Practical Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning: The Basics to Getting Started
sponsored by Double-Take Software UK
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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
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Real-Time Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V
sponsored by Double-Take Software UK
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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
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Wireless in Business Continuity Planning
sponsored by AT&T Corp
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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
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Long Term Data Retention – 5 Key Considerations
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
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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
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Getting Personal with Business Continuity: Five Critical Success Factors in Overcoming Workforce Disruptions
sponsored by IBM
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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
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PlateSpin Forge®: Plug In and Protect Server Workload
sponsored by Novell Inc.
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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
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Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
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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
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Re-architecting Disaster Recovery Solutions Leveraging WAN Optimization Technology
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
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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
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Centralized Data Backup: Proven Strategy for WAN based backup
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
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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
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Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Backup and Deduplication Storage
sponsored by Data Domain
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Unreliable backups and recovery times that are too long have long plagued IT organisations. This paper takes a look at the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009
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Disaster Recovery: Eliminating Tape and Trucks
sponsored by Data Domain
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Disaster recovery and remote office replication are top-of-mind issues for IT professionals, with frequent natural disasters underscoring the fallibility of tape-based backup strategies. This paper highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009
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Six Secrets to 24x7 Exchange Availability
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
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The following six secrets to 24x7, disaster-tolerant Exchange will show you how to implement an Exchange environment with zero lost data and continuous application availability—with no IT intervention—in the event of a disaster.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009
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Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Quick Recovery and Advanced Data Protection with Dell Equallogic Auto-Snapshot Manager
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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Auto-Snapshot Manager extends the intelligence of Dell EqualLogic SAN and enables Administrators to create and manage Smart Copy snapshots, clones, or replicas for point-in-time copies of Exchange Storage Groups that can be instantly restored.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009
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Take Control of SharePoint Proliferation with Unified Recovery, Retention, and eDiscovery
sponsored by Mimosa Systems UK
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This white paper explores how an archiving solution supports the management and protection of SharePoint content across an enterprise by providing: Back-Up & Recovery, Storage Optimisation, Retention Management, eDiscovery, and Seamless End User Access.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009
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Next-Generation Disaster Recovery and Availability Technologies for IBM Power Systems
sponsored by Vision Solutions
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This white paper reviews the technology spectrum available for IBM i and AIX environments, including the latest, next-generation solutions, with a goal of preparing IT professionals to evaluate and adopt those most effective and appropriate for their organization.
Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009
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How To Ensure "Always-on" Blackberry High Availability & Disaster Recovery with Marathon's everRun®
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
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This paper will discuss why common practices for protecting the Blackberry environment are not the most effective, and how Marathon's everRun® software works as the better solution for achieving high availability for both physical and virtual environments.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009
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Optimizing Citrix XenApp High Availability - A New Approach
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
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Many businesses today are delivering applications to users as an on-demand service. This reduces the cost of application management and can improve application and data security. This white paper explores what availability really means, and how availability correlates to RTO and RPO baselines.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009
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Say Yes to Virtualization: Server Virtualization Helps Businesses Achieve Considerable Reductions in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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Virtualized servers are yielding dramatic cost savings through consolidation of physical resources, reductions in power and cooling requirements, and slashed operational expenses. It’s delivering a magnitude of benefits that many businesses find virtually amazing. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the benefits of server virtualization.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009
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