A Quick Guide to IT Disaster Recovery Technology
Money alone can’t buy happiness, and technology by itself can’t buy disaster recovery – but they can both help significantly! IT disaster recovery management needs thought, planning and training of personnel; being aware of what technology has to offer is an important part of this. Check our handy ten-point list below to see if you’re […]
When You Just Know What the Next Disaster Will Be
From the title of this post, some people might immediately think of intuition: that vague and rather flaky resource used when that’s all you have. However, we’re actually thinking of something a little more structured in this context. In the coming age of Big Data and associated worldwide online resources, analytical techniques like those used […]
Why Server Virtualisation Is Not a Disaster Recovery Plan
It’s funny how some myths continue to be believed, even by hard-nosed business people. The notion that virtualisation will save a company’s data is such a myth. Although it can be valuable in optimising an organisation’s use of IT resources and reacting quickly to changing IT needs, virtual environments are not inherently safer than independent […]
Data Deduplication Ramifications for Disaster Recovery
Data deduplication or the elimination of repetition of data to save storage space and speed transmission over the network – sounds good, right? ‘Data deduping’ is currently in the spotlight as a technique to help organisations boost efficiency and save money, although it’s not new. PC utilities like WinZip have been compressing files for some […]
What Disaster Recovery Planners can Now Expect for Data Storage
Did you know that in six years’ time each individual on the planet will correspond to over 5,000 gigabytes of stored data? That’s the estimate from market research company IDC and digital storage enterprise EMC who see worldwide data holdings doubling about every two years to reach 40,000 exabytes (40 million billion gigabytes) by 2020. […]
The importance of Network Security in Disaster Recovery Planning
There is no question that technology today forms the core of business. In their role of facilitating transactions and storing sensitive data—the data of both the staff of the company and the stored data of the clients—the systems and networks of companies are increasingly under siege. This makes data both the most precious asset to […]