Disaster recovery

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Feature (6)
  • Managing risk with hosted disaster recovery
    From near-continuous remote recovery to data retention for business compliance and insurance issues, hosted disaster recovery managed services are proving to be a smart choice for CEOs and CIOs looking for ways to mitigate business risks.
  • Turbulent times call for managed backup and disaster recovery
    When things tighten up, inefficiencies become a focus and managed services can minimise business costs. By selectively outsourcing IT services such as backup and disaster recovery, organisations can find significant gains in their business output and performance.
  • Disaster recovery infrastructure needs to be used
    Many organisations consider disaster recovery operations to be of use only in a disaster. But that doesn't have to be the case.
  • Maximise data recovery success
    Every hard drive is going to fail at some point. What the user does next is what hinders data recovery.
  • Avoiding data loss disasters
    Losing data at any time is a disaster, but recent research has shown that user errors are the leading cause of data loss
  • Planning for recovery
    There are some salient points to be made about disaster recovery and business continuity and the utmost importance of both. Stephen Withers outlines some positive and negative examples of organisations' efforts in these areas
Product (12)
  • Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external hard drive storage
    The FreeAgent GoFlex external hard drive storage solution includes plug-and-play portable and desktop drives. Interchangeable cables and desktop adapters allow each drive to adapt to the interface or device being used and the hard disk drives are designed to provide interoperability between operating systems in order to work with both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X computers.
  • Data recovery
    Kroll Ontrack has released a technology to recover data from NetApp storage systems. Offering support for both hardware and software failures, Ontrack Data Recovery offers NetApp users a viable option to address data loss for the Data ONTAP platform.
  • Disaster recovery services
    An integrated deduplication and backup and recovery solution has been released by Acronis. Called the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, it is the next generation of the True Image systems. It offers data deduplication, which can cut storage requirements by up to 90% by eliminating backup copies of redundant data.
  • Disaster recovery platform
    Veritas Cluster Server One is a high availability (HA) disaster recovery (DR) platform for data centres.
  • Virtual disaster recovery
    Site Recovery Manager, a product for disaster recovery management and automation, is available from VMware. It uses virtualisation to simplify business continuity planning and testing and reduces the risk and complexity associated with executing disaster recovery.
  • Virtual disaster recovery
    Site Recovery Manager, a product for disaster recovery management and automation, is available from VMware. It uses virtualisation to simplify business continuity planning and testing and reduces the risk and complexity associated with executing disaster recovery.
  • Data protection and recovery
    RecoverPoint 3.0 provides users with the ability to recover data with minimal business disruption in the event of a disaster, corruption or other outage.
  • Disaster recovery tools
    Moonwalk has introduced new disaster recovery features for its Moonwalk 6.0 software suite. The suite now delivers automated disaster recovery for migrated files in the event of a critical loss on primary storage, building on its core capability for proactively managing the migration, copying and movement of data throughout the enterprise.
  • Disaster recovery tools
    Moonwalk has introduced new disaster recovery features for its Moonwalk 6.0 software suite. The suite now delivers automated disaster recovery for migrated files in the event of a critical loss on primary storage, building on its core capability for proactively managing the migration, copying and movement of data throughout the enterprise.
  • Content creation storage
    LaCie has launched its 5 TB S2S 5-disk RAID, designed for digital content creation applications. With its eSATA 3 Gbps interface and direct eSATA-to-SATA connection, a single unit can reach burst transfer rates of over 200 MBps. Up to four units can be connected on the included eSATA PCI-X/Express Card to achieve a 20 TB system with a burst speed of over 600 MBps.
  • Mailbox recovery
    Ontrack PowerControls 4.2 software offers full support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. This upgraded version also supports Microsoft Outlook 2007.
  • Disaster recovery storage
    DataCore has announced a new class of remote site disaster recovery (DR) and storage pool mirroring solutions. These DR solutions are designed to protect terabyte size storage pools serving multiple application servers (eg, Windows, Netware, VMware, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Unix, etc) over LAN, SAN or WAN networks.
News (4)
  • MEOW adds bite to disaster recovery
    With the bushfire season approaching again, Australia's defences against future bushfire threats received a significant boost with Telstra's launch of the $200,000 Mobile Exchange on Wheels (MEOW), the first of its kind in the country.
  • Financial firms lack continuity plans
    Research from Mitel has found that financial services firms in London are poorly prepared for uncommon hazards.
  • Top tips for laptop protection in transit
    Ontrack Data Recovery has released important tips for airline travellers with laptop computers.
  • Ensuring successful disaster recovery
    The recent plethora of natural disasters, terrorists attacks, and disease outbreaks have left many companies questioning the state of their disaster recovery plans.
Case Study (7)
  • Southern Rural Water outsources disaster recovery
    With the threat of a natural disaster impacting its operations, Southern Rural Water (SRW) looked to a fully managed disaster recovery service to minimise risk to its business, and protect the organisation’s ability to operate in the face of several disasters.
  • Melbourne’s City of Whittlesea outsources its disaster recovery
    The City of Whittlesea, a local government area in Melbourne’s outer north, has outsourced its disaster recovery (DR) systems to Global Storage after finding the cost and time required to archive its data onto tape were becoming unacceptable to the organisation.
  • Google Earth helps ANU deploy disaster recovery
    The Australian National University (ANU) has deployed a disaster recovery system based on a 1 Gbps free space optics (FSO) link, which it first tested at the IPv6 Summit in 2007 with the help of Google Earth. The FSO-based system replaces the university’s previous 100 Mbps microwave radio-based strategy.
  • Data replication helps Orchard bloom
    Orchard, a property funds management company, has invested in a data replication system to help keep the company’s data safe in the event of a disaster.
  • Australian Catholic University centralises storage
    Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a public university founded in 1991 as the result of the amalgamation of several Catholic colleges of higher education. It has six campuses across four states and territories, including almost 14,000 students and more than 3000 staff.
  • Mrs Crocket's disaster defence
    Mrs Crocket's is an Australian owned and operated fresh chilled foods manufacturing and distribution company that produces pre-packaged fresh salads and vegetable mashes
  • Data recovery rescues company from going under
    Partners in Quality Training is a business which assists the unemployed with essential skills for gaining employment. Wayne Chilcott and his partner Deanne had been in business for just under 12 months when, without warning, their hard drive crashed
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