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• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  HP Helion adds new cloud DR capabilities

  HP Helion adds DRaaS support for Oracle RAC and Red Hat clusters, facilitating database replication.

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Acronis buys nScaled to step into DRaaS

  Backup vendor Acronis expands its data protection portfolio by acquiring disaster as a recovery service vendor nScaled.

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Budd Van Lines moves to SwiftStack storage, bundles DR and backup

  Budd Van Lines is running three SwiftStack nodes with 40 TB of storage each, and plans to outfit remaining offices this year.

• 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 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Zerto adds Hyper-V replication, eyes 'cross-hypervisor' support

  Zerto now supports VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V replication, and prepares to enter beta testing for VMware-to- Hyper-V replication.

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• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  HotLink DR Express gains automation, management features

  HotLink makes it easier to set up and manage virtual machine protection for its DR Express hybrid cloud plug-in that uses vCenter and Amazon Web Services.

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  RackWare expands software into cloud disaster recovery

  RackWare turns its cloud application migration software into an automated DR tool by adding failback, failover and building on migration.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  N.C. city adopts hybrid cloud disaster recovery for non-critical apps

  With no money for DR of non-urgent apps, Asheville, North Carolina set up hybrid cloud disaster recovery with Amazon AWS and CloudVelox software.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Unitrends launches DR service with PHD Virtual technology

  Unitrends combines its on-premises backup and off-site replication with DR testing acquired from PHD Virtual for disaster recovery as a service.

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Zerto beefs up Virtual Replication suite with off-site backup

  Zerto off-site backup is a key new feature to its Virtual Replication suite, but the vendor emphasizes its backup built specifically for the DR process.

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  University links Actifio, NaviSite for cloud DR project

  Bryant University relies on the Actifio-NaviSite partnership for cloud backup, and will turn that into cloud DR as well.

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  HotLink improves VMware DR tool using AWS

  HotLink DR Express protects virtual machines in VMware by using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a target in the cloud.

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  Companies have high expectations for their disaster recovery test plan

  Disaster recovery is a standard fixture in most data centers; our most recent survey finds 77% of respondent organizations have a DR plan in place.

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Forrester: Flexible service, cheaper costs help grow DRaaS market

  According to a recent Forrester Research report, DRaaS is growing in popularity among organizations.

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Axcient adds virtual appliance for cloud DR

  Cloud DR provider Axcient adds virtual appliance to store data locally and move it off to the cloud.

• September 13, 2013 13 Sep'13

  Nonprofit turns to Zetta.net to replace tape backup

  When nonprofit Cook Inlet Tribal Council sought to replace their offsite tape backup, the organization turned to Zetta.net's DataProtect SaaS.

• 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.

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  FalconStor moves to facilitate data mobility for DR

  FalconStor enhances data mobility platform with the goal of giving customers better control over disaster recovery automation.

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Missouri counties tap Juniper Systems for disaster management

  Counties in Missouri turn to ruggedized Juniper Systems Mesa Notepads for damage assessment following tornadoes in the region.

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Nasuni adds cloud mirror for multi-site disaster recovery

  Cloud storage controller vendor Nasuni incorporates a cloud mirror option that lets customers keep updated data on two clouds for disaster recovery.

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Credit union moves from SAN replication to Zerto's hypervisor-based failover

  HAPO credit union switched from SAN replication to Zerto's hypervisor-based replication to increase granularity and decrease failover times.

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  New Silver Peak CEO sees WAN replication as 'exciting area'

  Silver Peak founder and new CEO David Hughes said improving WAN replication for storage is a key focus for the WAN optimization vendor.

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  TwinStrata bumps up CloudArray DR capabilities

  A new version of the TwinStrata CloudArray gateway can recover data and applications off the cloud for DR without having to rebuild servers.

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  Zerto offers support for remote offices, updates for cloud providers

  The latest version of Zerto's hypervisor-based replication product offers support for remote offices and updates for cloud providers.

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Cloud NAS bails out design firm after hurricane

  New York design firm DS+R found its cloud NAS setup wasn't ready for primetime as primary storage, but it came in handy when disaster struck.

• December 19, 2012 19 Dec'12

  CDP, quarterly DR test keeps engineering firm ready for any disaster

  Engineering firm Strand Associates' DR test and plan is designed for major power outages, but they also come in handy when solving smaller problems.

• 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.

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  TwinStrata, Beam Communications and STORServer make DR announcements

  TwinStrata Inc., Beam Communications Pty Ltd. and STORServer Inc. all made disaster recovery announcements this week.

• October 22, 2012 22 Oct'12

  Logistics firm switches to hypervisor-based replication

  Transfreight changed its data replication product to improve flexibility, going from array-based EMC RecoverPoint to Zerto's hypervisor-based replication.

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Silver Peak Systems tweaks replication acceleration, bypassing network

  Silver Peak Systems' Velocity lets storage and backup admins connect replication optimization software to storage filers, bypassing IP network.

• 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.

• June 28, 2012 28 Jun'12

  Alabama plant enlists DR cloud as tornado insurance

  The devastation of the 2011 Alabama tornado prompted a manufacturing plant to turn to a DR cloud with an on-site appliance replicating critical data.

• May 15, 2012 15 May'12

  Financial firm replicates way to lower recovery time objective

  Financial services firm overhauls data protection to meet recover time objectives and recovery point objectives.

• April 11, 2012 11 Apr'12

  SunGard Availability Services announces new cloud features

  SunGard Availability Services adds managed workflow feature to its Enterprise Cloud Services offering.

• March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12

  EVault announces 'guaranteed' cloud recovery in less than four hours

  EVault Inc., said its cloud DR service will offer a 'guaranteed' cloud recovery option that promises to restore customer data within four hours.

• September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11

  Mozy seeds its cloud backup service with Data Shuttle device

  Mozy looks to improve the time it takes to get started with its MozyPro cloud backup service with a seeding device called the Data Shuttle.

• 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.

• June 23, 2011 23 Jun'11

  The cloud and virtualization haven't made IT disaster recovery plans obsolete

  Don’t let virtualization and the cloud push DR planning and tape out of your IT plans, consultant Jon Toigo says during a Storage Decisions keynote.

• April 26, 2011 26 Apr'11

  Paradise deploys Actifio virtualized management product

  This week’s disaster recovery news in brief: Paradise deploys Actifio virtualized management product; NextEx HyperIP improves DR for Decision Lens; and more.

• 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.

• March 24, 2011 24 Mar'11

  Irvine Consulting Services expands cloud computing service and other disaster recovery news

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: Irvine Consulting Services expands cloud computing service; Nirvanix offers customers in Japan option to move their data and other news.

• March 23, 2011 23 Mar'11

  Survey says cloud DR is viable, but security concerns linger

  Nearly half of IT admins believe cloud disaster recovery (DR) services are a viable option, while others cite security concerns, according to a survey of IT professionals.

• March 03, 2011 03 Mar'11

  Healthcare network's DR plan enables data center move without downtime

  Virtua’s plan for migrating data between data centers without downtime included a storage array upgrade and accelerated virtual machine implementation.

• February 09, 2011 09 Feb'11

  FalconStor automates disaster recovery testing, failover

  FalconStor has upgraded its RecoverTrac disaster recovery tool to automate the failover process for disaster recovery testing and failback for quick recovery.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Tandberg Data adds eight-node RDX removable disk library

  Tandberg Data launches QuikStor eight-node library that can be configured as iSCSI removable disk targets, a tape autoloader or a tape library for off-site disaster recovery.

• December 20, 2010 20 Dec'10

  Hot IT disaster recovery trends for 2011

  Here's a look at our predictions for the hottest disaster recovery trends for the year ahead: cloud disaster recovery, data center outsourcing, and more.

• November 17, 2010 17 Nov'10

  Silver Peak launches virtual WAN optimization appliance for data center

  Silver Peak upgrades its WAN acceleration software, adds virtual appliance for data center and Microsoft Hyper-V support, boosts data deduplication performance.

• October 28, 2010 28 Oct'10

  InMage announces new backup and disaster recovery software for SMBs

  InMage announced new backup and disaster recovery software; TwinStrata announces VMware High Availability support; QuorumLabs announces new customers; and other DR news.

• 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.

• September 09, 2010 09 Sep'10

  Disaster recovery/business continuity planning top spending priority, according to Forrester

  Disaster recovery and business continuity is top spending priority for small business this year and second among enterprises, according to recent Forrester Research survey.

• 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.

• August 12, 2010 12 Aug'10

  i365 adds new features to its EVault Remote Disaster Recovery Service

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: i365 adds new features to its disaster recovery service and Palisade Systems introduces new data loss prevention service.

• July 06, 2010 06 Jul'10

  High availability provides disaster recovery for day-to-day emergencies

  Businesses in at-risk geographic locations turn to products and services such as QuorumLabs onQ appliances and Double-Take HA replication software to recover from server outages.

• 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.

• June 02, 2010 02 Jun'10

  SteelEye updates its DataKeeper data replication software and other disaster recovery news

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: SteelEye updates DataKeeper data replication software; WTS partners with CoreLink to provide data center management services and more.

• May 20, 2010 20 May'10

  Vision Solutions to acquire Double-Take Software and other disaster recovery news

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: Vision Solutions to acquire Double-Take Software; Colocation America offers energy efficient power sources for data centers and more

• May 11, 2010 11 May'10

  AT&T now conducting disaster recovery simulation in Detroit: Disaster recovery news briefs

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: AT&T now conducting DR simulation in Detroit; Recovery Point now certified as a Tier III facility by Uptime Institute and more.

• May 07, 2010 07 May'10

  Trading firm turns to HDS, InMage for disaster recovery replication

  With an outage of its mission critical server possibly costing thousands of dollars a minute, Interbank FX went with a long-distance DR setup using InMage Scout to replicate data.

• May 04, 2010 04 May'10

  STORServer offers disaster recovery consultation services: Disaster recovery news briefs

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: STORServer offers disaster recovery consultation services; Strategic Resources chooses DR/BC service from BlueBridge Networks and more.

• April 21, 2010 21 Apr'10

  IT disaster recovery planning and earthquake emergency response: Lessons learned from Haiti

  Recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile moves earthquake emergency response to the forefront of IT disaster recovery planning in many geographic regions, and remind organizations of the unique challenges a disaster of this type poses.

• April 02, 2010 02 Apr'10

  Balancing core competencies and cost with colocation data centers for disaster recovery

  An automotive repair manual and software publisher found a colocation at a SunGard data center for load balancing and disaster recovery the right mix of managed service and do-it-yourself.

• March 25, 2010 25 Mar'10

  Carnegie Mellon University launches Disaster Management Initiative

  Carnegie Mellon University announced the launch of its Disaster Management Initiative , which works to bring together groups to collaborate on DR management solutions.

• March 23, 2010 23 Mar'10

  Disaster recovery news briefs: SunGard Availability introduces new product for BC planning

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: SunGard introduces new product to help with BC planning; Unitrends launches new cloud-based disaster recovery service and more.

• March 19, 2010 19 Mar'10

  SteelEye DataKeeper data replication tool receives certification for Windows Server 2008 R2

  SteelEye announced that its DataKeeper product has been certified for Windows Server 2008 R2

• March 11, 2010 11 Mar'10

  Disaster recovery and business continuity market predicted to reach $39 billion by 2015

  A recently released study predicts that the disaster recovery/business continuity market will grow past $39 billion by 2015.

• February 25, 2010 25 Feb'10

  The H1N1 pandemic and IT disaster recovery planning: Lessons learned

  Although the H1N1 virus hasn't hit the United States as hard as expected, there were many lessons learned for disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) planners.

• February 19, 2010 19 Feb'10

  Disaster recovery news briefs: SunGard expands collocation and data centers

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: SunGard expands collocation and data centers; Virsto Software introduces new storage virtualization software and more.

• February 12, 2010 12 Feb'10

  The importance of WAN optimization technology in disaster recovery programs

  Listen to this podcast to find out the benefits of WAN optimization, how WAN optimization can help with DR and the future of WAN optimization in DR.

• January 27, 2010 27 Jan'10

  Disaster recovery news briefs: Neverfail launches Continuous Availability Director for disaster reco

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: Neverfail launches Continuous Availability Director for disaster recovery; Datacastle launches business resiliency product and more.

• January 13, 2010 13 Jan'10

  Disaster recovery news briefs: DataCore Software adds Advanced Site Recovery to SANmelody

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: DataCore Software adds ASR to SANmelody; NetEx adds support for Microsoft Hyper-V to its HyperIP acceleration software and more.

• January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10

  Disaster recovery budgets: Five ways to cut costs

  Although IT budgets are tight, that's no excuse to let DR and BC slip under the radar. Here are five ways to reduce your DR costs without having to get rid of DR.

• January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10

  IT disaster recovery strategies: DR planning trends for 2010

  Learn about the predicted DR trends for 2010, including outsourcing, server virtualization, desktop virtualization, unified communication and standards compliance.

• November 30, 2009 30 Nov'09

  Tape backup continues to be an important aspect in data backup and disaster recovery plans

  Although disk vendors constantly pitch that tape is dead, tape backup continually proves to be an important aspect in data backup plans.

• November 30, 2009 30 Nov'09

  BCI 2009 World Conference recap: Cloud recovery technology expected to evolve into a key DR strategy

  The BCI World Conference addressed recent issues and technologies regarding BC and DR, including the expected rise in cloud recovery in DR strategies.

• November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09

  Disaster recovery news briefs: IBM announces expanded business continuity services for Tracker Netwo

  This week's disaster recovery news in brief: IBM announces BC services for Tracker Networks; Microsoft Windows Live ID gets ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certification and more.

• October 19, 2009 19 Oct'09

  Disaster recovery and business continuity planning strategies for natural disasters

  Disasters aren't just limited to human errors or hardware and software failures. Companies must also plan for natural disasters that may also affect their business.

• October 19, 2009 19 Oct'09

  Disaster recovery site options: Hot, warm and cold sites

  Learn about the pros and cons of three disaster recovery site options: hot, warm and cold sites.

• October 19, 2009 19 Oct'09

  Easy ways for SMBs to improve their disaster recovery and pandemic plans

  It's important not to fall behind on DR and pandemic planning, or your company may be at risk for unnecessary disasters.

• October 19, 2009 19 Oct'09

  Riverbed updates RiOS; Steelhead WAFS device now supports Citrix and disaster recovery

  The WAFS vendor is floating a raft of updates to its RiOS operating system, including support for replication and application traffic in the same device, and new security features.

• October 12, 2009 12 Oct'09

  Data deduplication makes disaster recovery and data replication easier

  Data deduplication reduces the amount of backed up data, making disaster recovery and replication easier for data storage managers.

• October 05, 2009 05 Oct'09

  VMware upgrades Site Recovery Manager for disaster recovery

  VMware gives Site Recovery Manager 4 support for NFS and the ability to recover from multiple production sites into a shared recovery site but automated failback is still missing.

• September 28, 2009 28 Sep'09

  The pros and cons of host-based data replication software

  Learn about the pros and cons of host-based data replication software for DR.

• September 25, 2009 25 Sep'09

  AppAssure and InMage's continuous data protection apps include replication for disaster recovery

  CDP has yet to take the market by storm, but new products are gaining momentum by combining the feature with application protection and replication for disaster recovery.

• September 18, 2009 18 Sep'09

  Texas schools form disaster recovery consortium and collaborate with SAN replication

  Two school districts in North Texas have begun cross-replicating to cut costs while shoring up disaster recovery, and say more districts are signing on for protection in case of hurricanes or other problems.

• September 08, 2009 08 Sep'09

  Companies struggle to make time for disaster recovery tests

  Despite the possible dire consequences of failed disaster recovery programs, many organizations still consider DR testing nice-to-have but not a top priority.

• September 01, 2009 01 Sep'09

  VMware Site Recovery Manager to add support for NFS, multi-site failover

  VMware demonstrates vCenter Site Recovery Manager 1.5 at VMWorld and says it will be available by end of year; NFS support could give customers more flexibility but automatic failback won't make the release.

• August 31, 2009 31 Aug'09

  Evaluating remote access in disaster recovery plans before a disaster strikes

  Learn about the importance of evaluating and setting up remote access services before a disaster strikes.

• August 10, 2009 10 Aug'09

  Outsourcing disaster recovery services for SMBs: DR for the masses

  For some SMBs, outsourcing their disaster recovery services is a better option than on-site recovery.

• July 31, 2009 31 Jul'09

  Disaster recovery news briefs: Verizon expands disaster recovery services

  We've compiled the latest disaster recovery/business continuity news briefs: Verizon expands DR services; The BCI expands number of credential exam centers; Cisco Systems announces new data center disaster recovery capabilities; and more.

• July 29, 2009 29 Jul'09

  IBM lets ProtecTier data deduplication appliances replicate data for disaster recovery

  IBM ProtecTier data deduplication customers can now replicate deduplicated data across the WAN to remote sites for disaster recovery – a feature commonly found in other deduplication devices.

• July 27, 2009 27 Jul'09

  Disaster recovery methods for virtual servers

  Companies protect their virtual servers from disasters with several different methods such as traditional backup and recovery, synchronous or asynchronous replication, or CDP.

• July 06, 2009 06 Jul'09

  Disaster recovery strategies for virtual machines

  As more companies turn to virtual machines for their backup, it's important and, and also easy, to equip them with a disaster recovery plan.

• July 02, 2009 02 Jul'09

  Users go for Simply Continuous cloud disaster recovery service

  A new service that combines Data Domain data deduplication appliances with VMware virtual servers for cloud disaster recovery is turning some heads in the data storage market.

• June 29, 2009 29 Jun'09

  Outsourcing disaster recovery services vs. in-house disaster recovery

  Whether or not to outsource your disaster recovery (DR) or create a DR site in-house can be a tough decision. Learn about the pros and cons of outsourcing disaster recovery.

• June 26, 2009 26 Jun'09

  SunGard survey says virtualization has a role in disaster recovery

  We've compiled the latest disaster recovery news: SunGard survey says virtualization has a role in disaster recovery; EMC provides business continuity for VMware environments; ProStor Systems announces InfiniVault 2.0; and more.

• June 25, 2009 25 Jun'09

  New Orleans law firm prepares for hurricane season with detailed disaster recovery plan

  After getting closed down by Katrina, Deutsch Kerrigan & Stiles put in a disaster recovery plan that got it through Gustav last year and is prepared for another hurricane season.

• June 22, 2009 22 Jun'09

  Recovery time objective and recovery point objective in disaster recovery planning

  Learn about the difference between recovery time objective and recovery point objective in DR planning.

• June 22, 2009 22 Jun'09

  Testing IT disaster recovery plans

  Don't overlook the importance of how applications depend on each other for data when testing your DR plans.

• June 11, 2009 11 Jun'09

  Array-based data replication: The pros and cons

  Learn about the pros and cons of array-based data replication for disaster recovery.

• May 18, 2009 18 May'09

  Sepaton's DeltaRemote integrates remote replication with data deduplication on virtual tape librarie

  With its new DeltaRemote software, Sepaton Inc. is adding the ability to replicate deduplicated data to its virtual tape libraries to facilitate disaster recovery, particularly in large enterprises.