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Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based...; Tags: Failover, Continuous Data Protection, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Best Practice, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management; Webcasts 2008-04-23
The New, Inseparable Link Between Business Continuity & Email Archiving: Email archives on tapes, local PST files, servers, and various storage devices have just recently become central to the regulatory, storage management, eDiscovery and data recovery needs facing most companies today. So, where does business continuity fit in to this mix? If an archive stores historical mail in...; Tags: Business Continuity, MessageOne, E-mail, It Services, Online Communications; Webcasts 2008-04-22
Financial Institution Chooses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Improve Business Continuity: Based in Zagreb, Raiffeisenbank Austria (RBA) strives to offer the widest range of financial products and services in Croatia. Challenged by recent expansion, the Bank's IT department wanted to reduce costs and better support the business with responsive, reliable IT services. It began by solving inefficiencies in its overcrowded data...; Tags: Data Center, Financial, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Business Continuity, RBA, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Management; Case studies 2008-04-11
Business Continuity: How quickly do you plan to bounce back?: Watch this IBM ForwardView webshow to find out how Business Continuity Planning can help minimize the impact that downtime can have on your business, your customers, and your bottom line. You'll see how to recognize which resources take priority and which people need immediate access to them. Start planning today....; Tags: Business Continuity, IBM Corp., It Services, Business Security, Business Operations; Resource centers 2008-01-14
Global Data Vaulting Delivers Disaster Recovery Services for as Little as 3 USD a Day With IBM Tivoli Software: The challenge was to help clients decrease the time and cost of recovering from service outages and disasters. As a solution a fully-managed secure backup service based on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager family software was deployed. This enabled delivery of enterprise-level business continuity services to small and medium-sized businesses for...; Tags: Software, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IBM Corp., Backups, It Services, Smb/Sme; Case studies 2008-01-01

Business Continuity: No Longer Out of Reach: Business continuity has historically been out of reach for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) because it was too costly and complicated. While large companies could afford expensive fibre channel storage area networks (FC SANs), the highly trained staff to manage them, duplicate data centers, channel extenders, and expensive replication software,...; Tags: Environment, EqualLogic, SAN, Business Continuity, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, WANs, It Services, Storage Management, Hardware, Networking; White papers 2007-12-01
Sma Supermercati Gains Enterprise-Wide Visibility With Highly Available, Web-Based System Architecture: Sma Supermercati wanted to create a secure, Web-based IT infrastructure with a high level of availability to align the company's IT foundation with new business needs in the competitive supermarket sector and centralize IT system management to improve availability and reduce costs. The challenge was to provide a flexible, scalable...; Tags: Web, System Architecture, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Business Continuity, Strategy, Management; Case studies 2007-12-01
GWU Improves Disaster Recovery With Business Continuity: Created by an Act of Congress in 1821, The George Washington University (GWU) supports over 70 research centers and institutes and offers comprehensive programs of undergraduate and graduate study as well as degree programs in medicine, law, engineering, education, business and international affairs. The company's challenge was phenomenal growth that...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., George Washington University, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, GWU, It Services; Case studies 2007-12-01
TechNet Webcast: Creating Business Continuity Solutions Using Windows Virtualization (Level 200): This webcast looks at how two fictional companies, Contoso and Fabrikam, used Windows Server virtualization and clustering to create business continuity solutions for their Microsoft SQL Server and infrastructure workloads. It shows how they utilized the new features in Windows Server virtualization, such as live backup, health monitoring, quick migration,...; Tags: Webcast, Clustering, Microsoft Corp., Business Continuity, Microsoft TechNet, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, It Services, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage; Webcasts 2007-11-05
Business Continuity - HP and VMware: Whether it's managing an unscheduled power black - out or dealing with the aftermath of a natural disaster, business continuity planning is critical to the ongoing success of the business - and at the core of any business continuity plan is the infrastructure. It's the technology foundation that helps one...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., VMware Inc., Business Continuity, It Services; White papers 2007-11-01
10 things you should cover in your Business Continuity plan: Business continuity is much more than just a fancy word for "backup" -- although some organizations treat it that way. A comprehensive business continuity plan (BCP) provides a roadmap for continuance and/or restoration of mission-critical functions during and after a disaster, such as a fire, flood, tornado or even a...; Tags: Business Continuity, Business Continuity Plan, It Services; Download resources 2007-09-17
Bracing for the Next Disaster: The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 made clear the importance of business continuity planning. Yet because of the expense and effort, many businesses have yet to examine their preparedness and response strategies. In this ZDNet Webcast, Rhoda Phillips, Research Manager at IDC, offers a step-by-step...; Tags: on-demand, ZDNet, Hurricane Katrina, analysis, 9/11 commission, Business Continuity, E-mail, Storage, Webcast, Business Continuity Planning; Webcasts 2007-08-28
IT failure in action: LAX: CNN and the LA Times both report failure of the international arrivals screening computers at Los Angeles International Airport failed. As a result, 20,000 arriving international passengers had to wait many hours while the system was repaired.According to CNN:A major switch in the system, which contains names of arriving passengers...; Tags: Information Technology, System, Failure, Business Continuity, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-08-12
365 Main details SF outage problems: 365 Main on Wednesday detailed what went wrong during the San Francisco power outage last week and detailed what it's doing to make sure its facilities stay running in the future.The power outage on July 24 knocked various sites--including CNET, Craiglist and others--offline and raised questions about business continuity planning.Here's...; Tags: IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Disaster Recovery, Datacenter, Business Continuity; Blog posts 2007-08-01
Desktop Application Virtualization and Application Streaming: Function and Security Benefits: Current security issues caused by an increasing number of threats, application vulnerabilities, and the growing complexity of many computing environments is making traditional approaches to system maintenance and support very difficult - or impossible - to manage. Even the best attempts to maintain up-to-date endpoint device environments - including operating...; Tags: Desktop, Virtualization, Logistics, Business Continuity, Supply Chain, It Services, Security, Business Operations; White papers 2007-08-01
Podcast: SF power outage, Apple earnings, mashups and more...: This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Apple's quarterly earnings (which were released just before we recorded the show--270,000 iPhones sold in the two-day launch before the end of the quarter) and the power outage in San Francisco that took out ZDNet, Craigslist, Technorati, Yelp and other...; Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, General, Enterprise 2.0, Disaster Recovery, Datacenter, Dan &, David Show, Apple, Business Continuity, Amazon, Microsoft; Blog posts 2007-07-25
SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweaking: When a power outage that affects a mere 30,000 to 50,000 customers knocks out some of the more popular sites on the Web you know disaster recovery plans have some holes. On Tuesday afternoon a host of sites such as Craigslist, Red Envelope, Yelp Technorati and ZDNet had trouble delivering...; Tags: Business Continuity, Datacenter, Disaster Recovery, General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Consolidating Data Protection and Business Continuity Operations With Symantec Software: Deregulation and the Internet revolution provided the opportunity for SBI Holdings to offer customers one-stop shopping for financial services over the Internet. However, the company had to take steps to streamline its data protection operations, both to save costs and protect its stakeholders' interests. Symantec software helped the company accomplish...; Tags: Software, Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Security, Data Management; Case studies 2007-07-13
CISA exam prep: Evaluate a business' continuity planning and ability to recover from disaster: An organization's ability to recover from natural or man-made disasters and return to normal operations is often an overlooked area of an IT audit. But the need to develop plans to deal with such disasters is critical, as is the need to test the plans to make sure they are...; Tags: Disaster, Business Continuity, Organization, It Services, Disaster Recovery, Data Management; Book chapters 2007-07-12
Business Continuity and Availability - XP24000 Disk Array: For financial services and other companies with grave requirements for business continuity, complexity of the data storage configuration can make meeting service-level and uptime objectives a nail-biter. Read this white paper to learn why HP's XP24000 Disk Array can offer peace of mind for any situation involving heterogeneity, long...; Tags: Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Continuity, Disk Array, It Services, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-06-01