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Learning from the fall of Distribute.IT
On 13 June, Australian web host Distribute.IT revealed that it had been the victim of a malicious hacking attack, one which had irrevocably annihilated the data of 4800-odd websites hosted by the company. Andrew Collins looks at what online storage customers and storage administrators can each learn from the incident.
Disaster recovery planning for the IT professional
In business, as in life, we regularly learn that the unexpected is a reality. For IT leaders, the cyclone season serves as a reminder to review disaster recovery processes, policies and procedures to prepare their critical technology infrastructure in the face of a natural or human-induced disaster.
A day in the life of a virtual data recovery expert
A day in the life of a virtual data recovery expert outlines the recovery of data when three days of client data is lost.
Innovating for business agility
Voice&Data interviews Paul Young, CIO of the Ausenco Group, and finds being a CIO is not so much about the technology but about innovation and the people.

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

BitCloud business continuity and disaster recovery solutions updated
BitCloud has updated its range of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that can be used to provide complete IT system redundancy and failover.
Kroll Ontrack partners with Covertec data recovery insurance program
Covertec has teamed with Kroll Ontrack to offer Australian businesses data recovery following accidental damage or electronic breakdown of their IT equipment.
Acronis and Kaseya upgraded backup and recovery solution
Acronis and Kaseya have announced that the Acronis Backup & Recovery solution will be integrated into the Kaseya IT Framework as part of Kaseya Backup 4.0.
Constellation.2 1 TB hard drive
Constellation.2 is claimed to be the first 2.5” enterprise-class hard drive to reach a 1 TB capacity. Designed for server storage applications, it provides 6 Gbps performance, good data integrity and low power consumption.
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.
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.
Mailbox recovery
Ontrack PowerControls 4.2 software offers full support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. This upgraded version also supports Microsoft Outlook 2007.

Diasaster recovery relief offered to Queensland businesses
According to reports, thousands of small and medium businesses will have lost their servers and IT infrastructure as well as potentially their data. StorageCraft is appealing to service providers, ISPs and server hosting companies to donate space for those customers who have been affected by the flooding to help businesses bring their critical systems online.
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.

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

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