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The Taiwan Earthquake: A Case Study in Network Disaster Recovery

On December 26, 2006, an earthquake off the coast of Taiwan severely disrupted communications across East Asia. The quake of 7.1 magnitude on the Richter scale severed eight major undersea cables, flat-lining communications for hundreds of millions of people. With undersea cables severely damaged by the 2006 Taiwan earthquake, the...

Tags: Network Disaster Recovery, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Cable, Network Technology, Network Administration, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

Case studies 2007-03-01

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Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' data

I lost my contacts for a few days. Give me ONE HUNRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!Says with pinky raised to mouth.RE: Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' dataI don't feel sorry for anyone who owns a Sidekick and lost their data. It is moronic to purchase a device that...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Macrium Reflect Free Edition 4.2 build 2082 (Windows)

Macrium Reflect Free Edition. An award winning disk imaging solution for free. A complete disaster recovery solution for your home and office. Protect your personal documents, photos, music and e-mails. Upgrade your hard disk or try new operating systems in the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an...

Tags: Disk, Imaging, Microsoft Windows, Macrium Software, Disaster Recovery, Document Management, Backups, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-10-04

Outsourcing picks up for smaller enterprises

The outsourcing market has traditionally been perceived as something only the larger enterprises entertain. Research from Computer Economics suggests that as the large enterprise business has become tougher, the outsourcing companies are getting better at reaching the smaller and mid-sized market. The reports...

Tags: Application Development, Information Technology, Outsource, Service Provider, IT Organization, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Software Development, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Enhance Application-Level Protection and Enterprise Security - Part Three

Organizations increasingly expect their infrastructure to deliver as a whole. This requires focus beyond infrastructure - necessitating tight integration to applications, middleware, and database environments. By bringing together core network, server, applications and storage components, EMC and Brocade offer simplified integrated solutions and additional economic efficiency within the data center....

Tags: Enterprise Security, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-09-16

Omaha college teams with IBM for data center degree program

The Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska, is using funding from a U.S. Department of Labor grant to build out an enterprise data center chuck full of IBM equipment. Those systems, which are Power Systems running AIX, IBM i and Linux, will be used as the foundation for the college's...

Tags: Team, Data Center, IBM Corp., Metropolitan Community College, Data Center Internship, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-02

ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.4 (Windows)

StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop Edition creates an automatic online backup of your entire system including the operating system, applications, personal settings and data. Complete disaster recovery of your PC or laptop in minutes. ShadowProtect provides a simple view to restore or update files and folders to your existing backup images. Automatically...

Tags: Online Backup, Microsoft Windows, StorageCraft, ShadowProtect Desktop Edition, StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop Edition, ShadowProtect, Backups

Software downloads 2009-08-30

Conversation with Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing Customer

I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Joel Chaplin, CIO at Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing customer, and thought you'd like to read a bit about that conversation. By the way, I posted Liquid Computing and the dynamic datacenter back in March 2009. Please introduce...

Tags: Virtuoso, LiquidIQ, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-05

HP Adaptive Infrastructure Solution Security: For HP BladeSystem Matrix

The HP BladeSystem Matrix Matrix solution is an in the box, cloud infrastructure that brings the economics, scalability, and response times of the cloud to diverse applications across data center. The BladeSystem Matrix combines capacity planning, disaster recovery, and automated provisioning with a self-service portal into one command center. This...

Tags: Security, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Infrastructure Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Portals, Hardware, Data Management, Internet

White papers 2009-08-01

Rethinking virtualization: Why enterprises need a sustainable virtualization strategy over hodge-podge approaches

Rethinking virtualization: Why enterprises need a sustainable virtualization strategy over hodge-podge approachesRedHat's Xen is good enough for usSorry I didn't learn much from this other than how cool HP is and their business partners. But I'll share what we know. We're a large transportation company in north America.We've got...

Tags: LANs, Outsourcing, Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, physical server, Rethinking virtualization, virtualization strategy, server, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

NovaBackup Pro 10.3 (Windows)

New NovaBACKUP 10, NovaStor's award winning software, now incorporates standard backup, online backup, and disk-imaging disaster recovery technology. With 2GB free online backup for 1 year, NovaBACKUP makes it easy to follow best-practice data protection procedures. Easy setup and step-by-step wizards make this the perfect tool for you and your...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, NovaBACKUP Pro, Backups

Software downloads 2009-07-14

Wyse releases virtual desktop accelerator

Wyse has launched a virtual desktop accelerator and hopes that will open the door to greater acceptance of the concept of a hosted virtual desktop environment. One of the key inhibitors in the past have been overall performance due to transmission latency and loss of data that required retransmission. Wyse,...

Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Virtual Desktop, Wyse Technology Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-13

AISBackup 2.7 build 348 (Windows)

Windows PC and Server backup and restore of selected files, folders, disks or complete systems to external, network and local disk drives, FTP, CD, DVD and e-mail. Backs up changes since the previous backup, test backup option and schedule backup. Disaster recovery backup and restore of Windows possible. CD &...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Aquarius I.S. Consultancy, Backups

Software downloads 2009-07-12

Ariel Builds Strong, New Municipal Storage Network on HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System

Ariel is home to more than 20,000 residents - and to 10,000 students at Ariel University Center of Samaria, the largest college in Israel. Ariel wanted to provide highly available, easily-managed shared storage for critical municipal applications. Ariel used HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems and Microsoft Windows Storage Server to...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, HP StorageWorks, Storage System, Ariel, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-07-01

Universiti Malaysia Perlis Processes 10,000 Student and Staff Transactions in 30 Minutes

Universiti Malaysia Perlis is located at the northernmost part of the Malaysian peninsula. The 20-campus institution offers diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate programs in a wide range of engineering disciplines. Up to 6,000 students attend campuses in northern Malaysia and in Kuala Lumpur. It needed to optimize network, server, and storage...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Disaster Recovery, Application Servers, Storage, Enterprise Software, Databases, Data Management, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2009-07-01

Dell bolsters virtualization, data center portfolio

Dell on Wednesday said it has revamped its enterprise portfolio with data center and virtualization services, new configurations and a new PowerEdge server and EqualLogic storage array. The lineup, designed for high performance computing and virtualized data centers, includes the following: Pre-configured infrastructure that...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, EqualLogic, Small-to-medium-sized Business Configuration, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-17

HP Insight Orchestration Template for HP BladeSystem Matrix - SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Enterprise Configuration

HP BladeSystem Matrix is a fully integrated cloud infrastructure in a box that helps one accelerate business service delivery without chaos, and take costs out today and keep them out in the future. The HP BladeSystem Matrix is the world's first adaptive infrastructure that is simple to buy. It unites...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft SQL Server, HP BladeSystem Matrix, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Server Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization

White papers 2009-06-01

HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array and Mainframe White Paper: Direct Attached Vs. Switched Vs. Cascaded FICON

With the speed of FICON channels, and the availability of FICON ports on both the Mainframe and XP, one may think that simply direct attaching the XP to the Mainframe CHPIDs is the best thing to do. However, using a FICON Storage Network, with its switches and directors, provides several...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Disk Array, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-06-01

The Sullivan Group a Marathon Technologies Customer

I've spoken with the good folks of Marathon Technologies on several ocassions see Marathon Technologies launches everRun VM and Marathon Technologies and Microsoft dance together. This time, I had the opportunity to speak with  Erika Simpson, Network Administrator, and Rob Jones, IT Director, a user of Marathon's everRun VM, from...

Tags: Software, Marathon Technologies, Sullivan Group, SamWare, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-05