Disaster Planning White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Business continuity is not just a good business practice - it can mean success or failure if data and applications on a production server are lost. Read this white paper which examines Double-Take Software and their innovative approach to business continuity - one that goes beyond just recovery.

Posted: 28 May 2010 | Published: 27 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Over the last 30 years, companies have significantly changed their approach to ensuring that their businesses can continue to run in the event of a catastrophe. Read this white paper to learn how business continuity and disaster recovery solutions can help you to develop a more robust enterprise.

Posted: 27 May 2010 | Published: 26 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Understanding which hardware and software components support which business systems is extremely difficult. For many years, the clipboard and spreadsheet appear to have been the tools of choice, with the result that many decisions were made based on outdated and inaccurate information. Read this paper to find out more.

Posted: 25 May 2010 | Published: 25 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: There are ten key actions that your company and CIO can take as this hurricane season approaches to help your business achieve communications continuity and business continuity to protect against the unpredictability and devastation that is a hurricane. Read this white paper to learn more!

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a detailed look at Oracle GoldenGate 11g -- a log-based, real-time data replication and change data capture (CDC) software platform that offers real-time data integration and continuous availability solutions for mission-critical systems.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Published: 02 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization technology is here to stay. When choosing a server virtualization application, it's important to understand the many facets various solutions have, and the limitations inherant in them. This paper explains the benefits of InMage's software-based solution.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges of maintaining "business as usual" during major disasters and disruptions to distill the requirements of an ideal solution for disaster recovery and business and workforce continuity through virtualization.

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 | Published: 07 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the different ways for installing the Data Protector package and shows the pros and cons of each method. You can choose the method which fits your requirements. At the end of this white paper, a troubleshooting chapter lists error messages and necessary steps for fixing these problems.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

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

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) is the disciplined planning needed to prepare for a natural or man-made emergency that affects service availability. This data sheet presents an effective solution for COOP from HP.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 06 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT systems are vulnerable to a variety of disruptions. This paper will focus on common processes and procedures that should be part of any effective enterprise backup/restore system.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document provides an overview of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server components and is intended to help administrators prepare for the design and delivery of disaster recovery procedures for the BlackBerry environment.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 18 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is as an introduction to data deduplication, answering the what, how, and where of this storage technique. Data deduplication is a method of reducing the amount of duplicate copies of data on your system. It makes a whole lot of sense - instead of storing multiple copies of an item, stores the data once.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: Is deduplication right for you? With all the industry excitement about data deduplication, this is a question you need to ask. This paper reviews the specific benefits of deduplication and how you can evaluate your organization's data in terms of deduplication's potential advantages.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper describes the best practices for managing tape media throughout its lifecycle to minimize data loss. Best practices include the implementation of proper processes, user training and tape handling.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: VMware Infrastructure transforms disaster recovery by providing you fast, reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery. Why suffer from the slow, expensive and unreliable problems associated with traditional disaster recovery solution?

Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll learn how to determine risks, calculate impact, evaluate your current structure's response and test overall resiliency.

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future; it changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one that is cost effective, rapid and reliable.

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 18 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the impacts of a disaster can result in loss of or lack of access to data, applications, and work facilities. This paper explains five key steps to consider when implementing a program for your company.

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 25 Sep 2008

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

WHITE PAPER: Since your backup is a copy of your most valuable digital assets, backup security is a critical consideration. This white paper details important considerations for ensuring security of backup data.

Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 08 Jul 2008

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper takes a look at the different components of an effective security plan, and provides a perspective on how enterprises that are serious about their information security budgets should rethink their security plan.

Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 02 Jun 2008