Disaster recovery storage

Disaster recovery (DR) and data storage go hand-in-hand and a good DR plan must carefully consider how data is stored and protected. This topic section offers news and how-to information about data storage for disaster recovery. Learn about replication, DR testing tools, virtualization, tape backup, disk backup, global file systems, clustering and archiving.

August 11, 2021 11 Aug'21
SIOS Protection Suite update enhances HA for cloud and SAP

Improvements to the SIOS Protection Suite include planned failovers of SAP S/4HANA with zero downtime, GCP support and integration with third-party tools via CLI.
July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21
IBM FlashSystem adds storage as a service, attack protection

IBM introduces new consumption-based Storage as a Service for FlashSystem based on performance, capacity and contract term; and adds Safeguarded Copy to guard against cyberattacks.
July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21
HPE fills in GreenLake with Zerto acquisition

HPE will buy Zerto for $374 million and use its continuous data protection capabilities to bring disaster recovery, backup and data migration offerings to the GreenLake portfolio.
June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21
Zerto keeps Texas bank from being left in the cold

During Winter Storm Uri, Woodforest National Bank enacted its DR plan and used Zerto to bring its servers back online shortly after its primary data center went completely dark.

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Add tape backup in 2020 to boost a data protection strategy

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