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…
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…
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…
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…
Traditional data backup happens once every so often – once an hour, once a day, once a week, for example, depending on the recovery requirements associated with the data. It’s typically the recovery point objective or RPO that determines the frequency of the backup. If you cannot afford to lose more than the last 30…
Ensuring employee safety by rapidly disseminating the right information, and keeping communication lines open in a time of crisis are both priorities for businesses. Traditional solutions for this have relied on the manual ‘call tree’ or ‘phone tree’. Key employees are contacted first to inform them of whatever situation or crisis has arisen, with remaining…