Teachers and Role Models Falling Down on Disaster Recovery
When it comes to singling out sectors that are in the forefront of disaster recovery, finance is often quoted as an example. With so much depending on the ability to recover systems and data rapidly after any incident, major banks were among the first to implement hot failover data centres for instance – as well […]
Does the Concept of Agile Recovery Make Sense?
‘Agile’ is still a buzzword. That’s quite a feat in today’s high-speed business and technological environments, where concepts date so rapidly. The original ‘Manifesto for Agile Software Development’ appeared in 2001, some 14 years ago. Since then, the word and the concept it labels have been applied to different business areas, including marketing and supply […]
It is with Regret that the Demise of RAID 6 is Announced – for 2019 Precisely
Information technology has certain features that make it possible to calculate probable dates of demise. It’s all digital, with a finite number of bits and bytes, and calculable error rates. As disk storage capacities increase, technologies viable today may run out of steam tomorrow. They cannot scale forever. Unlike vinyl records in the music industry […]
Active/Active IT Configurations and How HA and DR Work Together
If the title of this post makes you go cross-eyed, don’t worry. All will become clear. Let’s explain. Active/active IT configurations consist of computer servers that are connected in a network and that share a common database. The ‘active/active’ part refers to the capability to handle server failure. First, if one server fails, it does […]
Disaster Recovery Forecast: Cloudy with Scattered Virtual Machines
First there was the dedicated, physical server. Then came virtualisation to help organisations mix and match over different servers on their sites. After that came cloud computing with more virtualisation (and multi-tenancy thrown in). However, organisations typically still did their virtualisation between machines in close physical proximity, even if they were using cloud services. Now […]
Disaster Recovery and the Pitfalls of ‘No Pain, No Gain’
How often have you heard the expression ‘no pain, no gain’? These four words sum up the idea that if you are to receive benefits, then you must suffer (or at least make an effort). Alternatively, you could take it to mean that if you don’t make an effort, you can’t expect benefits. An example […]