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Don't rely on industry averages for cost of downtime

On a weekly basis, I get at least one inquiry request from either a vendor or an end-user company seeking industry averages for the cost of downtime. Vendors like to quote these statistics to grab your attention and to create a sense of urgency to buy their products or services. BC/DR planners...

Tags: Risk Assessment, Demographics, Industry, Downtime, BC/DR, Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Cloud DR services are real

There is a lot of hype surrounding cloud and I'm usually not one to join the hype but in the case of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services (I'm trying to use the IT service continuity but it hasn't caught on yet), these service are available today and they address major...

Tags: Recovery, Information Technology, Service, Storage-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Deduplication market undergoes rapid changes

In May, I blogged about NetApp's announced acquisition of deduplication pionneer, Data Domain. The announcement triggered an unsolicted counter-offer from EMC, followed by another counter from NetApp. But after a month of offers, counter-offers and regulatory reviews, EMC ultimately outbid NetApp with an all cash offer of $2.1 billion. I believe...

Tags: NetApp Inc., De-duplication, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-07-13

How do we measure high availability?

Over the past 2 months, I've seen an increase in the number of end user inquiries regarding high availability and almost more importantly, how to measure high availability HA. HA means something different depending on whom you're talking with so it's worth a quick definition. I define HA as: ...

Tags: Availability, Information Technology, High Availability, Downtime, High Availability Discussion, Strategy, Management, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Swine flu? What it means for IT professionals

The US Center for Disease Control CDC has confirmed 64 cases of swine flu in the United States and as other countries including Canada (6), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (2), Israel (2), Spain (2), and now Germany have confirmed cases, the World Health Organization has raised the worldwide pandemic threat level...

Tags: Storage, Flu, Business Continuity, Workforce, CDC, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Remote Access, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Deduplication will exist everywhere

Most customers were just starting to get their arms around all the different deduplication approaches available in disk appliances and VTLs from vendors when backup software vendors and even non-storage related vendors began announcing deduplication capabilities. We all know the appliance and VTL vendors offering dedupe, including...

Tags: De-duplication, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Additional Resources

News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Privacy, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-07-02

News to know: AOL; Palm; SAP; Facebook; Oprah

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake Andrew Nusca: Would...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Palm Inc., Oprah Winfrey, SAP AG, Matthew Miller, Flu, Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Data Strategies That are Right for You

"Connect 2008: Store, Secure, Protect" Attend PC Connection's premier online event and get closer to achieving a streamlined data management solution. Participate in sessions throughout the day where valuable information to help you succeed will be shared. Store: Uncover ways to tackle...

Tags: Strategy, Apple iPod, PC Connection Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Data Management, Storage, Digital Music, Digital Media, Databases, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-11-06