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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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