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Failover: Invoking a secondary system to take over when the primary system fails. Up-to-date copies of all required data and applications are maintained on the secondary system in order to...; Full Failover Definition >>

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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
IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1: The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In...; Tags: Failover, Grid, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Storage Management, Mainframes, Utility Computing, It Services, Hardware, Storage, Servers; White papers 2008-04-01
Valero Uses Failover Clustering to Reduce System Recovery Time From Days to Minutes: Valero needed an IT infrastructure with the resiliency to support refinery and business operations in a disaster situation. To protect mission-critical applications and communications, Valero deployed Windows Server 2008 with failover clustering to 90 users in its IT Infrastructure team. It built a two-node failover cluster in Microsoft Exchange Server...; Tags: Recovery, Failover, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; Case studies 2008-02-01
TechNet Webcast: Failover Clustering and Quorum in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Storage (Level 300)1: This webcast covers the new cluster storage architecture and describes how the new quorum model works in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The presenter explores the new way that how shared storage is managed, how clustering is now totally Storage Area Network (SAN) friendly, how failover clusters arbitrate for disks to...; Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, Enterprise Storage, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Webcasts 2008-01-31
TechNet Webcast: Geographically Dispersed Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (Level 300)1: As Windows Server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large-scale, high-end, mission-critical parts of organizations, the requirements for disaster tolerance and business continuance become more and more important. The goal in this webcast is to cover how to build a complete high-availability solution with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise failover...; Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Webcasts 2008-01-28

Bridgestone Uses Failover Clustering to Cut Disaster-Recovery Time and Penalty Costs: Bridgestone Australia Ltd. is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of tires in Australia. Bridgestone relies on its e-mail system for order fulfillment and other business-critical activities. In the past, if e-mail servers were to have failed, manual recovery procedures may have required as much as an entire day....; Tags: Fulfillment, Failover, Disaster Recovery, Bridgestone Australia Ltd., E-mail, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2008-01-01
Quick Migration With Hyper-V: Most mid-sized to large businesses want to implement high availability within their virtual infrastructures. Quick migration makes this possible. Quick migration takes advantage of the failover clustering functionality and the Windows Server Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualization technology included in many 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008. Quick migration can provide a...; Tags: Failover, Server, Migration, Virtualization, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01
What's New in Failover Clusters: In Windows Server 2008, the improvements to failover clusters (formerly known as server clusters) are aimed at simplifying clusters, making them more secure, and enhancing cluster stability. Cluster setup and management are easier. Security and networking in clusters have been improved, as has the way a failover cluster communicates with...; Tags: Failover; White papers 2007-09-01
Report: new BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 on way with some new features: A reliable source in the past, Pinstack Member PacketRat seems to have the scoop on forthcoming versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. If he's right, we're first due for an incremental upgrade in November of this year.The big news, though... let's first see what he seems to...; Tags: RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server, Failover, RIM BlackBerry, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-08-30
Beyond Backup: The Disaster Recovery Continuum: Your disaster recovery plan must be closely aligned with the needs of your business. This means you need recovery strategies based on a spectrum of data protection methods that can satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss. This disaster recovery continuum combines a variety of...; Tags: Data Protection, Failover, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management; Webcasts 2007-08-13
HP Data Protector Software Cell Manager Failover Process (standby Cell Manager) White Paper: This paper provides information on how to configure and maintain an HP Data Protector 6.0 client in a Data Protector cell to act as a standby Cell Manager. Due to potential incompatibilities among hardware and/or backup software between multiple sites of a company, it would be quite difficult to perform...; Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Failover, Cell, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-08-01
Tunables for the Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Suite: Optimizing for Performance and Failover: There are several areas of performance - failover times, SCSI queue depth management, and so on - that can be optimized by judicious and careful use of certain user-tunable kernel-level variables described below. Because many of these variables are interdependent with other variables and are global in nature, please approach...; Tags: Sun StorEdge, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Failover, SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-06-01
BlackBerry CEO: here's why there won't be any more major outages: In an interview with eWeek, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie (thats him) says the BlackBerry blackout of last month has been "unambigiously solved" and whats more, wont hapen again.eWeeks Wayne Rash noted "that the improbable combination of events, which included the failure of a minor software upgrade...; Tags: News, Outages, Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-05-14
BlackBerry: database problem caused the crash: Colleague Marguerite Reardon reports that BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has finally issued a statement identifying the cause of the 14-hour service disruption earlier this week.In a statement, RIM has "determined that the incident was triggered by the introduction of a new, noncritical system routine that was designed to...; Tags: Outages, News; Blog posts 2007-04-20
Fastream IQ Reverse Proxy (exe): Secure your Web server with cache, load-balancing, bw limits, configurable NTLM/HTML/digest/basic authentication and 256-bit industry strength SSL/TLS encryption, bandwidth limiting and load balancing with failover protection as well as GZip acceleration and link translator, anti hot-linking and only the best architectural design and highest performance and security for the Windows...; Tags: Load Balancing, Failover, Ssl/Tls, Network Technology, Security, Networking; Software downloads 2007-04-14
Hosting WCF Services in Windows Activation Service: Windows Activation Service (WAS), introduced with Windows Vista, is the new process activation mechanism that ships with IIS 7.0. WAS builds on the existing IIS 6.0 process and hosting models, but is much more powerful because it provides support for other protocols besides HTTP, such as TCP and Named Pipes....; Tags: Failover, Jupitermedia Corp., Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Activation Service, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2007-03-01
Highly Available SIP Servlet Applications on Oracle Communications and Mobility Server - A Primer: This paper discusses how Oracle Communication and Mobility Server (OCMS) implement the standard techniques of redundancy, work distribution and failure detection in order to be a highly performant and robust platform for highly available SIP Servlet Applications. The paper also shows how the fundamental failure scenarios are handled in OCMS...; Tags: SIP, Oracle Corp., Failover, Mobility, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Productivity, Emerging Technologies; White papers 2007-01-01
Fast-Start Failover Best Practices: Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2: Fast-Start Failover is an Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2 feature that automatically, quickly, and reliably fails over to a designated, synchronized standby database in the event of loss of the production database, without requiring manual intervention to execute the failover. In addition, following a fast-start failover, the original production...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Failover, Fast-Start Failover, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-01-01
Oracle Application Server 10g Fast Connection Failover Configuration Guide: Fast Connection Failover (FCF) is a clear demonstration of the high degree of integration between OracleAS middle tiers and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases. FCF is a 10g RAC client provided by the JDBC Implicit Connection Cache (ICC) that uses Oracle Notification Server (ONS) as the communication vehicle for...; Tags: Oracle Application Server, Oracle Corp., Failover, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Fast Connection Failover, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-10-01
Automating DB2 HADR Failover on Linux Using Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms: This paper will guide reader through the implementation of an automated IBM DB2 Universal DataBase (DB2 UDB) failover solution. The solution will be based on a combination of the High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) feature in DB2 UDB V8.2 and IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (IBM Tivoli SAM). The...; Tags: Linux, Failover, IBM DB2 Universal Database, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Automation, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-08-01