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• Disaster recovery replication FAQ

  W. Curtis Preston, the leading independent expert on the topic of backup and recovery technology and practice, discusses replication in the DR space in this FAQ. His answers are also available below as an MP3 download.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery services FAQ

  Dick Benton, senior consultant with Glasshouse Technologies answers frequently asked questions about outsourcing disaster recovery.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery testing FAQ

  Pierre Dorion, data center practice director at Long View Systems Inc., discusses the importance of testing in a disaster recovery (DR) plan and best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of a test.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery FAQ

  Disaster recovery (DR) impacts all aspects of IT, including storage, networking, data center management and data security. In this tutorial, Pierre Dorion, DR expert and senior business continuity consultant, answers the most common DR questions ...  Continue Reading

• WAN acceleration and optimization FAQ

  Wide area network (WAN) acceleration and optimization can produce numerous benefits by reducing the traffic you're transmitting to remote locations. Check out this FAQ guide to learn about the significance of WAN optimization in the disaster ...  Continue Reading

• Failover and failback operations FAQ

  Failover and failback operations can be crucial to the success of a disaster recovery (DR) plan. So how confident are you in your organization's failover processes? Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, discusses the significance of ...  Continue Reading

• Failover and failback in server virtualization environments FAQ

  Failover and failback operations can be crucial to the success of a disaster recovery (DR) plan. Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, discusses the significance of failover and failback operations in the server virtualization ...  Continue Reading

• Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Disaster Recovery Track (New York 2008)

  Disaster recovery isn't just about being able to resume business as quickly as possible after a catastrophic incident. It's also about avoiding the situations that could jeopardize your company's reputation and good standing -- like the loss of ...  Continue Reading

• Why use server virtualization for disaster recovery (DR)?

  Server virtualizationhas some interesting implications for DR and I think it has driven a lot of organizations to consider it more seriously over the past few years. Not long ago, DR meant shipping tapes out to remote sites, loading them and then ...  Continue Reading

• It sounds like you're talking about fully investing in server virtualization and disaster recovery (

  For organizations that are looking to virtualization for DR, moving fully to virtualization for both your primary and recovery site is certainly going to be more of a challenge because there's going to have to be a lot more roll out at the primary ...  Continue Reading

• What are the different approaches and the difference between virtualization on both the production a

  For organizations looking to server virtualization because of disaster recovery (DR), there are a couple of things to think about. You're definitely coming from a physical environment if you're just thinking about server virtualization for the ...  Continue Reading

• What are the major solutions on the market that facilitate disaster recovery (DR) in a server virtua

  There's lots of-third party stuff out there. VMware Inc. has its Site Recovery Manager that's a management framework work detecting failures and bringing up a DR environment on top of VMware that is a powerful framework for automating, managing and ...  Continue Reading

• Email continuity can be costly

  As organizations increasingly rely on email to conduct business, continuity becomes critical. In this piece, Alan Radding discusses examples of the negative effects a lack of email continuity can present and how products that truly deliver high ...  Continue Reading

• Are single-vendor, integrated solutions that provide security and site-to-site and site-to-user func

  Sure, I think you see solutions like this from Riverbed Technology Inc., as well as other vendors today. The question is really about security and site-to-site and site-to-user functionality. These solutions are all highly secure today and have ...  Continue Reading

• Are there any best practices for cutting the bandwidth costs of a wide area network (WAN)?

  WAN, wide area file services (WAFS) and application optimization can all play a significant role in reducing your WAN bandwidth and utilization. They can reduce your latency, increase your performance and give you a ton of benefits in your WAN ...  Continue Reading

• What are the benefits of wide area network (WAN) acceleration/optimization?

  The list gets pretty long, because there are obviously numerous benefits to be had if you can reduce traffic you're transmitting to remote locations. On one hand, it allows you to consolidate resources in one central data center or in larger data ...  Continue Reading

• As organizations centralize their systems, what can you do to increase the performance of a wide are

  Since all of the vendors in this space, including Riverbed Technology Inc., F5 Networks Inc., Blue Coat Systems Inc., Packeteer, Cisco Systems Inc., among others, have hundreds -- if not thousands -- of customers each, many companies have found that...  Continue Reading

• What is wide area network (WAN) optimization and how is it accomplished?

  In the Taneja Group, we consider the area of WAN optimization as just one technology within a larger umbrella of services, which we call wide area data services. Within wide area data services there are actually several technologies.  Continue Reading

• Are failover operations worthwhile to systems that may not be critical to day-to-day business?

  If I were undertaking a project today to evaluate what systems to protect in my enterprise, I would start with a loose consideration of the following; the relative cost of outages for systems in my enterprise, the cost of protecting those systems, ...  Continue Reading

• Are there any best practices for selecting a recovery site and how crucial is this step to the overa

  There are lots of facilities out there today. I think more and more of them are gaining on an even playing field with each other and are delivering very similar services. They are becoming commoditized in a similar fashion and it is becoming more an...  Continue Reading

• If a disruption is caused by a local event, how crucial is the location of the backup facility?

  In my view there are two aspects users should consider here: Is your disaster center isolated from a local disaster that may impact your primary location and is your remote center readily accessible in the event of an extended outage?  Continue Reading

• Who are the major players in the failover/failback operations space?

  All of the major vendors have solutions and various mechanisms even exist at the post-operating system level and from backup vendors. I would go to your major solution provider partners and talk to them about their recommended approaches.  Continue Reading

• Can you discuss the importance of failover and failback for disaster recovery?

  Failover and failback are the secret sauce in executing a disaster recovery (DR) plan. Assuming that your DR infrastructure is set up appropriately, then failover and failback will in fact be the most disruptive element to your DR execution.  Continue Reading

• Can you define failover and failback?

  Failover is the process of shifting I/O and its processes from a primary location to a secondary disaster recovery (DR) location. This typically involves using a vendor's tool or a third-party tool of some type that can temporarily halt I/O, and ...  Continue Reading

• How long can a system run as a failover operation if the failback process is delayed?

  This is really a matter of the operations, availability and the performance level of the disaster recovery (DR) center and the ability of your staff to support ongoing operations of a remote facility. None of those aspects should be overlooked.  Continue Reading

• The impact of server virtualization on disaster recovery

  Implementing disaster recovery (DR) solutions is one of the most difficult tasks for IT departments. So, it's not surprising that only the most mission-critical applications are protected via remote replication to a DR site. This article discusses ...  Continue Reading

• How to utilize global business continuity standards

  IT governance is an increasingly important part of the management process. Good governance assumes some level of compliance with established procedures, controls or standards. This article discusses how governance applies in the disaster recovery ...  Continue Reading

• Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Disaster Recovery Track (Chicago 2008)

  Disaster recovery isn't just about being able to resume business as quickly as possible after a catastrophic incident. It's also about avoiding the situations that could jeopardize your company's reputation and good standing -- like the loss of ...  Continue Reading

• What are the benefits of online backup or backup as a service?

  The major benefits are giving people a way to offload the complexities associated with backups especially the nature of managing backup solutions from an application perspective, managing tapes, trying to contend with offsite vaulting of tapes.  Continue Reading

• Test your disaster recovery knowledge

  Are you on top when it comes to disaster recovery? Take our final exam and evaluate your knowledge of disaster recovery options.  Continue Reading

• SearchStorage.com Expert Videocast: Building a DR plan

  This videocast with GlassHouse's Bill Peldzus covers the intricacies of a DR plan. Bill looks at replication, RTO vs. RPO and how to test your plan.  Continue Reading

• Thank you for Downloading "Disaster Recovery in Detail"

  Every storage manager out there will tell you disaster recovery (DR) is tough to plan and test, and pull off when a real disaster cripples operations. That's the good news. The bad news is that, in many ways, it's going to get tougher.  Continue Reading

• Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Disaster Recovery Track (San Francisco 2007)

  Traditional data protection has finally started to shift towards a recovery-centric paradigm. Storage is now at the cusp of an entirely new discipline: Recovery Management. This track explores how users can coordinate a range of data protection ...  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery testing techniques

  A disaster recovery (DR) plan is worthless unless you test it. Jon William Toigo explains how to know which DR testing technique will work best in your organization. He also discusses how to prepare for a DR test and how to perform testing analysis.  Continue Reading

• SearchStorage.com Videocast: How disaster recovery fits into your business continuity plan

  How does disaster recovery fits in to a business continuity plan? Disaster recovery expert Bill Peldzus offers best practices for creating a disaster recovery strategy.  Continue Reading

• Introducing Disaster Recovery Fundamentals -- an ezine from Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com

  In our premier issue, Disaster Recovery Fundamentals -- you'll get a concise guide to disaster recovery (DR) essentials.  Continue Reading

• Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Disaster Recovery Track (NYC 2007)

  Traditional data protection has finally started to shift towards a recovery-centric paradigm. Storage is now at the cusp of an entirely new discipline: Recovery Management. This track explores how users can coordinate a range of data protection ...  Continue Reading

• Big pay for storage jobs, page 4

  Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery FAQ audiocast

  Don't have time to dig into the disaster recovery FAQ text now? Download the audiocast in MP3 format and listen in the car, at the gym -- wherever you want. You can download the entire presentation or the individual questions that you are most ...  Continue Reading

• What is the most important aspect of data protection when it comes to DR?

  You could answer that with one word really, and I would have to say "testing." Just "testing." Whatever you do when you're protecting data, whether it's a backup, whether it's replication, whatever it is, make sure that you test what you put in ...  Continue Reading

• Remote data replication gets affordable and more robust, pg 2

  In 2005, Hurricane Katrina underscored the vulnerability of local data and the importance of sending data offsite. Remote data replication duplicates data between remote servers or storage platforms across a wide area network (WAN). Remote ...  Continue Reading

• DR Checklist: 10 Reasons Why Your DR Plan May Fail

  The disaster recovery (DR) vision is a scenario in which all disasters are withstood; using a well-crafted plan, operations are transferred to a remote facility to get the organization back online within recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery ...  Continue Reading

• Fast Guide: Disaster recovery

  The first steps in DR planning are always the hardest to take, but it doesn't have to be that way. From DR planning and design to strategies and cost, our Fast Guide: Disaster recovery will help you to get your shop where it needs to be. This Fast ...  Continue Reading

• Advanced Backup School: Lesson 5

  Our Advanced Backup School features six concise, informative, vendor-neutral webcasts that aim to give the advanced, higher level architect the tools needed to build out the most efficient backup system.  Continue Reading

• Advanced Backup School: Lesson 4

  Our Advanced Backup School features six concise, informative, vendor-neutral webcasts that aim to give the advanced, higher level architect the tools needed to build out the most efficient backup system.  Continue Reading