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• Disaster recovery planning and network services

  While ensuring access to critical business data often drives disaster recovery (DR) planning, including network services in your DR plan can ensure business continuity. In this FAQ, Carrie Higbie, global director for data center solutions at the ...  Continue Reading

• The role of tape in disaster recovery

  Despite the growth of remote backup over the network, tape is still a key element in disaster recovery (DR) plans. Pierre Dorion, data center practice director at Long View Systems Inc., answers common tape backup questions as they relate to DR.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery fundamentals FAQ

  DR impacts all aspects of IT, including storage, networking, data center management and data security. Pierre Dorion, data center practice director at Long View Systems Inc., answers the most common DR questions that IT professionals are asking.  Continue Reading

• 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