Virtualisation Needs More Than Just a Physical Security Approach
As you bring virtualisation into your IT infrastructure, you may have noticed a few security-related aspects that weren’t present in a purely physical ‘one-app-one-server’ environment.
Disaster Recovery – Sometimes the Devil Really is in the Details
Disaster recovery planners are often recommended to take a holistic view of their IT organisation. They should work to deal with potential outcomes, rather than possible causes. That certainly helps businesses to greater overall DR effectiveness and cost-efficiency. However, there’s no denying that a number of practical details must also be respected. Otherwise, the best-aligned […]
Beyond Data Back-Up Requirements to E-Discovery Compliance
Your data backups are there to help you recover information, applications and files if required, hopefully both effectively and efficiently. But they and any archiving you do may also be there for external parties to use as a result of e-discovery. That’s the retrieval of electronically stored information (ESI) for use in legal proceedings involving […]
Living Dangerously with Virtual Machine Mismanagement
Virtualization is a business continuity answer to the vulnerabilities and foibles of physical servers. By spreading applications virtually and horizontally across vertical stacks of computing power, service can be ensured even if one stack goes down and the same application elsewhere picks up the slack. In principle, that’s fine – as long as IT administrators […]
Disaster Recovery Services and Multi-Tenancy in the Cloud
Historically, vendor solutions for disaster recovery have been created for on-site use for individual enterprises. The client company concerned was the sole owner of the user data involved, and disaster recovery could be implemented without having to worry about anybody else. The cloud computing model changes that situation. It’s possible to use cloud services to […]
Disaster Recovery as a Service and the New ‘Not Invented Here’ Syndrome
The ‘not invented here’ syndrome was something that forward-looking corporations set out to beat about 20 years ago. If a different product or service could be more cost-effectively bought in rather than being designed and manufactured in-house, then it was bought in. The challenge was to overcome misplaced pride and internal turf wars, where being […]