Disaster Planning Reports

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to data protection and recovery, many businesses are not as safe as they believe. The first thing that comes to mind when considering a disaster recovery plan, by the average consumer and corporate technology professionals alike, is a backup of critical files. This white paper will answer important questions on backups and recovery.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

EGUIDE: Backing and managing data efficiently is becoming one of the most important tasks a backup/storage administrator deals with. IT professionals have been seeking and searching for better ways to manage and refresh their testing and development strategies. Download this guide to learn more.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to successfully recovering from a serious incident the Australians were the least confident. Just 22% of Australian businesses felt that they would be able to recover quickly in the event of downtime, compared to a global average of 50%.

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: For the second year, Symantec’s SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey revealed that SMBs are not taking disaster preparedness for their computer and networking systems as seriously as they should. Read this survey and analysis to learn more.

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript from  how to manage the data with different data reduction technologies.  It also outlines examples of how to improve disaster recovery plans using centralised remote replication and how you can design a business continuity strategy that is not only highly efficient, but also future proof using HP StoreOnce.

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 | Published: 11 Jan 2011

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com, gain insight into how to monitor data center power growth and curb power demand. Learn key techniques for preventing a power crisis, including consolidating servers and optimizing data center design. And discover data center management tools that can help lower energy usage.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com explores best practices for maximizing virtualization ROI with Hyper-V. Gain insight into protecting your infrastructure and virtualization investments with Hyper-V disaster recovery best practices.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Citrix provides a robust set of virtualization technologies to help improve the resilience and usefulness of an organization's information infrastructure, ensuring that not just critical resources remain available but that they are always accessible to all users in any location with any device. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

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: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

EBOOK: Download this e-book, brought to you by SearchCompliance.com, for insights, tips and suggestions for developing an optimal business continuity plan. Read on to learn details of FEMA’s PS-Prep, how to make the case for business continuity, what standard to use, how to measure continuity risk, and much more!

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2010

CASE STUDY: Office and remote laptop users at Capita were unable to securely backup their critical data. A secure and scalable backup solution featuring low impact on system performance was crucial to fulfilling their backup needs. Find out why Capita selected Druva inSync for their backup solutions.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) have a reputation of being somewhat lax when it comes to information protection. Symantec’s last SMB survey, for example, showed a high percentage of SMBs had failed to enact even the most basic protections- Which is why this year’s SMB Information Protection Survey is so surprising. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

IT BRIEFING: Many organizations inadvertently place critical information at risk because deploying physical SANs at each of their remote locations can be cost prohibitive. This does not have to be the case. HP has an approach that can affordably provide high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for each of your remote sites.

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010

VIDEO: This video discusses the benefits of desktop virtualization for a number of reasons including its ability to allow employees to access their desktop from anywhere and to ease virtual IT support.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Premiered: 17 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: The data center is rapidly evolving. As a result, most data protection and disaster recovery (DR) plans were developed for an IT environment that bears little resemblance to today's dynamic, highly distributed and increasingly virtualized data centers. Download this guide to learn 4 tips on how to better serve your storage needs.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Built on the solid foundation of VMware virtualization, VMware® Site Recovery Manager enables the design of a powerful yet simple disaster recovery solution. Continue reading to learn how VMware® Site Recovery Manager can easily resolve typical disaster recovery challenges in an extremely cost-effective manner while providing complete flexibility.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WEBCAST: In this new Quest on-demand webcast, get a peek at the Active Directory Recycle Bin in action. Then, find out how a powerful third-party solution simplifies the entire recovery process to not only quickly and easily restore deleted objects, but to roll back attributes too.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Premiered: Sep 28, 2010

CASE STUDY: Gateway’s back-office IT operations help keep things running smoothly for the company’s customers and employees. As information became more abundant, the time came for them to shift to a virtualized environment. Read this case study to learn how.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn about how Mathew Swerdloff, Director of Technology for the Hendrick Hudson school district, used EVault SaaS data protection from i365, a Seagate Company, to effectively backup his important data.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this solution brief to learn how the Dell EqualLogic PS Series' bundled Auto-Snapshot Manager and Auto-Replication features are used to effectively integrate with VMware for scalable online data protection of the complete virtual infrastructure. This paper also discusses protection and simplification for the virtual environment.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 13 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: No one could have prepared the country for the wrath that Hurricane Katrina unleashed on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Why were businesses not more prepared to recover quickly and continue operating in the face of this disaster? Read this whitepaper to find out how a comprehensive disaster recovery plan could have helped.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Replay 4 completely eliminates backup windows by taking continuous snapshots of your Windows application servers, with just a 1-2% performance hit.  Recover from any server outage in 15 minutes or less and use 80% less storage space for your backups.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Premiered: 19 Aug 2010

EBOOK: The first chapter clarified that disaster recovery is not the same as high availability. It isnow time to consider disaster recovery in its own right and discover what is meant by thatterm. In order to cover the topic properly, let’s consider what is meant by disaster.

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 | Published: 26 Jul 2010

VIDEO: Watch this brief video for an informative explanation of how Oracle Active Data Guard makes better use of the standby database to complement the functionality of the production database and significantly increase software and hardware return on investment.

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2010

CASE STUDY: Financial institutions worldwide depend upon the credibility and security of Credit Market Analysis (CMA’s) products and services daily. CMA’s approach to market analysis creates large volumes of highly sensitive data that require secure management and storage. CMA has been running a Dell Compellent enterprise storage solution for over two years.

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 | Published: 29 Jun 2010