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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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