News, Analysis and Opinion for Disaster Recovery

May 26, 2020 26 May'20

2nd Watch launches cloud-based disaster recovery service

COVID-19 is accelerating interest in disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and 2nd Watch says it can facilitate the process and reduce cost using AWS.

March 30, 2020 30 Mar'20

Zerto 8 opens AWS Storage Gateway, supports Google Cloud

With the big three public clouds AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud covered, Zerto is shaping into a more complete multi-cloud platform for continuous data protection.

March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

Everbridge Critical Event Management tailored for COVID-19

The coronavirus requires a massive response. Emergency communications and crisis management specialist Everbridge seeks to provide critical information for employee protection.

February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

Zerto CEO: DR has become something real

DR is no longer just about compliance, as enterprises find maintaining infrastructure uptime is critical to their business. This means DR for containers and SaaS, as well.

February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

Disaster recovery automation tools gaining traction

As new disaster recovery automation tools emerge, vendors and industry analysts recognize a growing demand for simplifying what can be a tedious process.

January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

Survey: Many businesses neglecting disaster recovery testing

Even though DR testing is a low-cost way to ensure readiness, businesses don't do it enough. Roadblocks include limited time, stretched IT teams and basic human nature.

November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

Zerto plays big role in McKesson's disaster recovery plan

McKesson Corporation's disaster recovery plan is deeply detailed and relies on Zerto's technology across its many globally distributed business units.

November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

Datrium opens cloud DR service to all VMware users

Datrium's upcoming DRaaS Connect will extend its cloud DR with fast RTO to all users of VMware vSphere infrastructure on premises, not just its DVX customers.

October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

Recovering from ransomware soars to the top of DR concerns

Ransomware recovery may not have always been a featured topic in TechTarget's 20 years of coverage, but it's certainly made an impression in the last few.

October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

PayGo cloud migration to AWS includes SIOS for HA, DR

Utility payment company realized "astonishing" savings by migrating from a private data center to AWS but the move required more than just throwing the red switch.

September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

Experts: Disaster recovery plans may overlook major outages

Disaster recovery needs to provide protection from natural disasters such as hurricanes, fires and floods, as well as cyberattacks that concern many IT pros.

August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

New Everbridge CEO talks education, NC4 acquisition

Every company needs to be ready to respond in the event of a crisis. Everbridge's new CEO details why that's important and what a proper platform entails.

July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

Cohesity Runbook simplifies DR failover

Cohesity Runbook is billed as a simple way to orchestrate disaster recovery failover and create best practices, but it can be used to automate workflows beyond DR.

July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

HYCU Protégé offers multi-cloud disaster recovery, migration

HYCU is seeking to make the process of multi-cloud data protection and migration more seamless. While many organizations use multiple clouds, they can lead to complexity issues.

July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

TierPoint introduces cloud-based disaster recovery as a service

TierPoint's Cloud-to-Cloud Recovery with vCloud Availability disaster recovery-as-a-service offering is now generally available to protect data centers across multi-tenant clouds.

June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19

Actifio multi-cloud support extends DR to AWS, Azure

Actifio Multi-Cloud Mobility and Automation brings multi-cloud disaster recovery to Sky, along with flexible migration capabilities for companies that want to stay agile.

June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

Window and door manufacturer picks Zerto for DR replication

Weaning itself off of Veritas Backup Exec, AmesburyTruth tapped Zerto for DR replication, ready to fail over 80 critical servers into the Microsoft Azure cloud.

June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

Iland DRaaS goes under automatic control

The new Iland DRaaS product targets customers with limited DR resources or expertise. The goal of Iland Autopilot is to make deployment, DR testing and failover simple.

June 05, 2019 05 Jun'19

Latest update takes Arcserve RHA to the cloud

Arcserve enhances its RHA disaster recovery software, enabling cloud-to-cloud failback, as well as the ability to continuously replicate from on premises to a public cloud.

May 30, 2019 30 May'19

IT resilience requires simpler tools, survey says

A survey on the state of IT resilience concluded backup, DR and BC fall on a continuum of data availability, and many organizations want to merge them.

May 23, 2019 23 May'19

Zerto CEO: 'Zero downtime is new normal'

Zerto CEO says you should have zero tolerance for downtime, and the convergence of disaster recovery, backup, data migration and other processes need not complicate matters.

May 20, 2019 20 May'19

StorageCraft president talks of modernizing DR

StorageCraft President Douglas Brockett sees a future in which disaster recovery software is used to help customers flexibly migrate data to where it's most cost-efficient.

May 15, 2019 15 May'19

Datrium DVX storage adds ControlShift cloud DR option

The Datrium cloud DR SaaS app, formerly known as Project CloudShift, is now called ControlShift and GA, but the first version only supports Datrium on premises and Cloud DVX hosts.

April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

New factors driving disaster recovery adoption

Threats from cyberattacks and climate change have replaced natural disasters as the main drivers behind companies adopting disaster recovery and make no geographic zone safe.

April 22, 2019 22 Apr'19

Assurance business continuity software gauges emergency preparedness

Assurance Software's new analytics and dashboard feature allows companies to monitor the health and readiness of their business continuity programs and pinpoint areas of weakness.

March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

Everbridge Crisis Management unifies communication, response

Everbridge has launched an application that provides organizations the ability to manage a critical event throughout its lifecycle through a dynamic dashboard.

March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

Druva Phoenix serves up new DRaaS features

An upcoming wave of updates to Druva Phoenix and CloudRanger will boost the DRaaS offering's capabilities, and the vendor said it will extend Druva beyond data protection.

February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

New Arcserve appliances tightly integrate DR capabilities

The third generation of appliances from Arcserve combines backup workloads with disaster recovery with the ability to spin up copies directly on an appliance or to the cloud.

February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

WANdisco ships blockchain-driven LiveData for MultiCloud DR

WANdisco slips patented blockchain DConE technology into LiveData for MultiCloud, promising to deliver LAN-like speeds across clouds to improve disaster recovery.

January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

Assurance, ClearView merge business continuity services

U.S.-based Assurance Software's merger with U.K.-based ClearView extends the business continuity providers' international reach, helping customers who do business globally.

January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

AWS acquires CloudEndure disaster recovery, backup services

Amazon Web Services purchases startup CloudEndure to bolster application and data migration, backup, and disaster recovery services for enterprise customers.

January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

AsTech uses Flexential data center for backup and DRaaS

When remote automotive diagnostics provider AsTech grew too big for its on-premises data center, it turned to colocation with Flexential for backup and disaster recovery.

December 26, 2018 26 Dec'18

Acquisition boosts Rave mass notification capabilities

The SwiftReach acquisition not only enhances mass notification capabilities with a wider communication network, but nearly doubles Rave Mobile Safety's number of clients.

December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

Disaster recovery to cloud popular in 2018

As data continued to grow in 2018, more and more businesses turned to a cloud disaster recovery strategy to take some of the burden off their data centers.

December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

Google Cloud disaster recovery helped save data after Maria

In an area vulnerable to hurricanes, restaurant chain Grupo Colón Gerena turned to Scale Computing's HC3 Cloud Unity and Google Cloud DR to stay ahead of the storms.

November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

Druva CloudRanger launches automated disaster recovery

Druva automates its disaster recovery for AWS workloads through its recent addition of CloudRanger. Updates to the product also include compliance-specific features.

November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

Virtual machine replication simplifies healthcare firm's DR

Because disaster recovery planning and testing were too complicated, a health provider turned to Zerto virtual replication to speed up the process without increasing costs.

November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

Everbridge mass notification sparkles for Tiffany

Tiffany & Co. uses the freshly updated Everbridge Critical Event Management Platform in a number of ways. It recently had to put the mass notification capability to swift use.

November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

DH2i DxOdyssey adds a layer of protection to multi-cloud

The new DH2i security software tackles the difficulty of setting up a secure perimeter in hybrid and multi-cloud environments by creating one that is software-defined.

October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

Dell EMC Cyber Recovery isolates and protects data

Cyber Recovery software from Dell EMC forms a last line of defense against malware by putting critical data in a secure vault, isolated from where data attacks occur.

October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

Arcserve cloud platform eyes comprehensive business continuity

The Business Continuity Cloud brings together the spectrum of Arcserve's technologies. Through the web-based user interface, users can perform most jobs in a few clicks.

September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

Cloud migration to AWS keeps GSM afloat during Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey struck GS Marketing's office in 2017. Thanks to a migration to the AWS cloud, the company avoided going underwater, even if its data center was.

July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

Software developer uses Flexential data center for DR

Out of the cabinet and into the cloud, Virtual Resort Manager's disaster recovery journey started at colocation and ended up completely off premises in a cloud.

July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

Cloudian storage replaces tape at Vox Media

When tape just wasn't cutting it, Vox Media turned to Cloudian object storage to handle the massive influx of rich media its publications were producing.

July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

Gen 8 Unitrends appliances span SMB to enterprise

Unitrends adds 12 TB hard disk drives and more models to cover a greater range of customer and workload sizes in its Gen 8 Recovery Series integrated appliances.

June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

Iron Mountain data recovery adds ransomware protection

The isolated nature of Iron Mountain's latest Iron Cloud offering is important to its battle against ransomware. The Virtual Cleanroom provides an offline recovery environment.

May 17, 2018 17 May'18

Protection from ransomware requires layered backup, DR

A strategy for protection and successful recovery from ransomware includes everything from monitoring tools to offline storage. Organizations should use multiple methods.

April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform takes flight for DR, management

New vendor JetStream Software incorporated technology from flash caching developer FlashSoft and worked with VMware on its initial cloud data management releases.

March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

Tintri replication speeds agriculture firm's backup, restore

Tintri hybrid flash enables Life-Science Innovations to complete replication every night for all of its servers. The system can provide a server restoration in seconds.

February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

Zerto Virtual Replication reduces marketing firm's RPO

Maritz needed a short RPO and flexible cloud provider options for its recovery process. Zerto replication protects applications to and from clouds and between multiple clouds.

February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

Nakivo Backup & Replication software gets automated

Nakivo updates its software for quick and automated recovery. While the vendor has a focus on virtual data protection, it has expanded to include cloud support.

February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 dives deeper into multiple clouds

Zerto has added to its bidirectional Virtual Replication software with multi-cloud protection for data and applications stored in AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud.

January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct cuts downtime for cloud DR

Arcserve UDP delivers short RPO and RTO for backup and disaster recovery in the cloud. The upgraded platform targets the enterprise and medium-sized businesses.

January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

IT DR planning helps Frost Museum of Science weather Irma

The Frost Museum of Science in Miami braced for Hurricane Irma with a solidified DR planning, storage and data center infrastructure, and it suffered minimal damage from the storm.

November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

Tintri storage solves healthcare firm's primary and DR needs

Cross Country Healthcare standardized its production and data protection storage on Tintri and now it has 400 VMs working through the flash platform. Next up, a cloud setup.

November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

Quorum OnQ solves Amvac Chemical's recovery problem

Amvac Chemical found the right solution with Quorum OnQ's disaster recovery as a service, getting a one-click disaster recovery system with multiple levels of data protection.

September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

Peak 10 + ViaWest enhances cloud DR, expands footprint

Peak 10 purchased ViaWest for $1.675 billion. The combined company upgraded its Recovery Cloud and is looking to rebrand and add a new suite of services.

August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

Barracuda embraces Amazon S3 cloud for DR

Barracuda now offers customers the choice of storing data either in Amazon S3 or its own cloud as it builds out its disaster recovery services.

August 24, 2017 24 Aug'17

Zerto replication upgrade features faster AWS recovery

Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 increases disaster recovery capabilities in AWS and Microsoft Azure. The BCDR vendor also introduces a real-time analytics platform.

July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17

ATAdata launches into cloud disaster recovery market

ATAguard protects and recovers servers and applications using AWS. The product targets the enterprise and midmarket, with additional cloud platform support expected.

June 08, 2017 08 Jun'17

Quorum onQ appliance gives ransomware recovery a 'shot'

Using snapshots and server-level restores, the new Quorum recovery appliance is another layer of protection and helps organizations rebuild minutes following a ransomware attack.

May 30, 2017 30 May'17

Experts call IT resiliency 'the future,' as expectations rise

Customers expect IT resilience and the ability to bounce back after a disruption. Experts say good planning and the cloud can help organizations recover.

May 25, 2017 25 May'17

Zerto Virtual Replication adds Azure reverse replication

Zerto serves up smoother disaster recovery with its 'Balvenie' release. The software now has more granular analytics and reverse replication in the Azure cloud.

March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

ClearSky Data storage service adds automated backup, DR

ClearSky is expanding its focus beyond primary storage with the addition of automated backup and DR capabilities designed to help customers eliminate storage silos.

February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

Scale HC3 provides disaster recovery system for engineering firm

Scale Computing HC3 clusters provide primary storage and -- with Brocade switching -- data protection, in the form of disaster recovery across two sites.

January 30, 2017 30 Jan'17

Ransomware recovery cases show it's possible to come back from attack

Real estate, police and law organizations all had one thing in common: successful ransomware data recovery. These case studies detail how they were protected.

January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

Protection against ransomware becomes practical priority

Statistics show organizations without ransomware protection are taking a huge risk. Analysts explain why it's important to be proactive in the fight against this epidemic.

December 23, 2016 23 Dec'16

Top 2016 disaster recovery planning best practices entail tests, cloud

These top pieces of advice from the year in disaster recovery planning could help your organization get out in front of possible outages and the ransomware epidemic.

December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

A guide to a better cloud disaster recovery plan

Disaster recovery as a service has fast become an ideal way for enterprises to tap the cloud to solve their disaster recovery challenges.

December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

Storage pros confident their business disaster recovery plan will work

Disaster recovery is about more than the duplication of enterprise data in an emergency, it's about getting the applications, servers and storage up and running quickly as well.

November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

Case closed: Law firm selects iland DRaaS for faster, easier DR

Minutes count in legal work, and Graubard Miller needed a simpler platform for disaster recovery. The verdict: The law firm chose iland disaster recovery in the cloud.

November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

Scale HC3 hyper-convergence gives firm DR for Hurricane Matthew

A Florida hedge fund firm added a Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged node at a DR site and replicated data from a three-node HC3 cluster on site to prepare for Hurricane Matthew.

October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

Dell Services elevates Alabama city's DR plan with the cloud

After a massive tornado touched down across the state, the city of Opelika, Ala., looked to the cloud to get its IT infrastructure up and running in case of disaster.

September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

Upgrades for VMware virtual servers added by Axcient, Veritas, Zerto

Axcient, Veritas and Zerto upgrade their software for VMware configurations. The upgrades center on data recovery, workflow automation and data dedupe for virtual servers.

August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

Infrascale CEO: On-demand cloud failover fuels our growth

Infrascale backup converges a guaranteed 15-minute recovery of fully running systems in a customer's preferred cloud. CEO Ken Shaw explains the company's new focus on DRaaS.

June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

Actifio's Resiliency Director automates DR testing

The new version of Resiliency Director adds the ability to apply multiple resource pools and port groups to a single recovery plan to streamline DR planning and testing.

June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

Cloud provider Axcient converges data management with Fusion

Axcient has developed the Fusion orchestration software platform that allows customers to take one data copy and use it for multiple nonproduction workloads.

May 31, 2016 31 May'16

Sneak peek: Zerto DR application detailed by vendor's VP of product

Zerto's mobile disaster recovery app, one piece of the vendor's next release, allows customers to check on their business continuity environment from anywhere.

May 27, 2016 27 May'16

Zerto Virtual Manager to add failover, failback for Azure

Zerto's cloud-based Virtual Manager hypervisor replication tool copies applications and data to the public cloud and does failback for disaster recovery.

May 26, 2016 26 May'16

Zerto disaster recovery going mobile with app

BC/DR software vendor Zerto has increased mobility, with the unveiling of an application that lets users monitor their business continuity anywhere, without a VPN.

April 28, 2016 28 Apr'16

Health Network Labs doubles up for disaster recovery

Health Network Labs' disaster recovery relies on all-flash storage, VDI, and mirrored arrays and servers for active-active connection between data centers.

February 04, 2016 04 Feb'16

Druva Phoenix rises as disaster recovery service

Druva launches disaster recovery as a service for its Phoenix backup. The software pushes data images to AWS cloud so instances can be spun up when there is business interruption.

January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

HotLink DR Express expands with DRaaS managed services

HotLink introduces Managed DRaaS for its DR Express that gives SMBs backup and disaster recovery expertise and resources. The product is fully integrated with VMware vCenter.

December 21, 2015 21 Dec'15

DRaaS vendors grow in 2015, favored by SMBs

In 2015, the number of DRaaS vendors increased and products improved, but cloud disaster recovery is still having trouble finding favor in large organizations.

December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

Best practices in disaster recovery focus on DRaaS in 2015

The top disaster recovery best practices of 2015 include asking the right questions of DRaaS providers, and instituting proper DR planning and testing.

October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

Carbonite backup line adds appliances, bare-metal restore

Carbonite backup line introduces Server Advanced software that gives SMBs the ability to do bare-metal restore. A new line of hybrid appliances offers backup and cloud DR.

September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

Datos IO wants to provide DR for distributed databases

Startup Datos IO eyes 15-minute RPO, with point-in-time recovery of distributed databases used in cloud applications.

September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

Need a business disaster recovery plan? You're not alone

Many companies either don’t see the need for a business disaster recovery plan or haven’t allocated enough resources to create a good DR plan.

August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

Infrascale develops 15-minute disaster recovery appliance

Infrascale's Cloud Failover Appliance is designed for small businesses that need a disaster recovery plan and can't afford a second site.

July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

Cloud data protection subs for traditional backup at law firm

Gray Plant Mooty needed a better backup and disaster recovery plan. The law firm switched to cloud data protection from Acronis.

July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

Arcserve Cloud provides new DRaaS for SMBs, MSPs

Arcserve moves into crowded disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) market with Arcserve Cloud, an appliance connected to the vendor's cloud.

May 19, 2015 19 May'15

Zerto Virtual Replication adds support for Hyper-V and AWS

The latest Zerto Virtual Replication update adds some cloud disaster recovery support, but Microsoft Azure support remains a roadmap item.

May 11, 2015 11 May'15

Cloud providers ramp up their DR services

Cloud-based disaster recovery services are a hot trend among SMB customers who lack the money to build their own DR configurations.

April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

Crossroads Systems boosts StrongBox DR failover to tape

Crossroads StrongBox archiving appliance ingests writes to disk and copies data to up two tape libraries for disaster recovery.

February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

Cayan DR goes 'from zero to 60' with DataKeeper SANless mirror

Using DataKeeper software, online transaction processing firm Cayan sets up mirror sites for 'quasi active-active' servers that facilitate rapid failover.

January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

Sanovi plants a stake in the disaster recovery services market

Sanovi has customized its application-aware disaster continuity and recovery software for public, private or hybrid clouds.

November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

Data protection vendors plug into AWS disaster recovery capabilities

Vendors add backup, replication, data migration and high availability products and services for disaster recovery during Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference.

October 11, 2010 11 Oct'10

Criteria for choosing the right disaster recovery consultant

DR and BC consultants are helpful when devising or updating DR plans and strategies. Follow these steps to find the best DR/BC consultant for your environment.

August 16, 2010 16 Aug'10

Actifio launches disaster recovery appliances

Actifio emerges from stealth mode with appliances for managing data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity in VMware environments; the startup's challenge is to convince customers to change the way they manage data on virtual machines.

June 07, 2010 07 Jun'10

Key backup and disaster recovery strategies for flood disaster management

Due to widespread flooding across parts of the U.S., many companies have had to rethink their disaster recovery strategies to keep their data safe and secure.

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