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Disaster Recovery Facilities Operations

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  UBCV deploys web-based communications system

  In the event of an emergency, UBCV officials will be able to use DLAN's web-based communications system to monitor, assign and track equipment and assets, and better manage the crisis.

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  HotLink unveils Amazon Web Services BC/DR solution to protect VMware

  HotLink DR Express offers a plug-in BC/DR solution that leverages Amazon Web Services to protect VMware vSphere virtual machines.

• November 20, 2012 20 Nov'12

  Disaster recovery plans prove valuable in dealing with Hurricane Sandy

  Companies with forward-looking DR plans showed they could survive power outages, such as those caused by Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast.

• September 18, 2012 18 Sep'12

  Alaskan firm relies on alternative data centers in the 'lower 48'

  Alaskan-based Afognak Native Corp.'s DR plan includes an alternative data center, failover sites in other states to protect against natural threats.

• March 15, 2012 15 Mar'12

  SunGard provides workforce continuity site for clients affected by Boston power outage

  Boston-based companies stay up and running at SunGard Workforce Continuity Center following a transformer fire that left part of the city without power.

• February 24, 2012 24 Feb'12

  Pet supplies firm taps Axxana Phoenix for disaster backup, recovery

  Axxana Phoenix System RP offers data protection for animal health products distributor

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Symantec launches high availability software for virtual, physical servers

  Symantec adds Virtual Business Services (VBS) to its high availability software to coordinate recovery of physical, virtual servers across departments.

• September 26, 2011 26 Sep'11

  Law firm bolsters remote data protection DR with iSCSI, solid state and VDI

  After a Milwaukee-based law firm added iSCSI SAN arrays for remote data protection, they reported a significant improvement in DR speed

• July 18, 2011 18 Jul'11

  Using BCP standards pays off for many organizations

  Learn how many companies use business continuity planning (BCP) standards to facilitate better BC plans.

• March 29, 2011 29 Mar'11

  Management buy-in and disaster recovery standards still major challenges

  At DRJ's Spring World 2011 conference, attendees cite disaster recovery standards and management buy-in as the toughest challenges facing disaster recovery specialists today.