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You can prepare for tomorrow’s disaster today
This week, many of my colleagues are preparing for Winter Storm Juno. One of my compatriots actually warned his friends on Facebook that he was going to run around supermarket aisles telling folks “We’re all going to die!!” But seriously,… Read more
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A Replication Feature is not a Disaster Recovery Plan
A few years ago, I blogged that “Your Replication is not my Disaster Recovery” where I lamented that real BC/DR is much more about people/process than it is about technology. To be clear, I am not bashing replication technologies or… Read more
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New Math: Virtualization plus DPaaS = BC/DR!
Maybe that is overly-simplified, but not by much. Virtualization makes servers (and their associated storage) portable, while Data Protection Services provide alternate locations and expertise that many organizations of all sizes have been desperate for. In 2013, ESG published complete… Read more
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I watched a DataCenter get hit by a Hurricane … and recover
I don’t often re-post vendor marketing content – but since they let me be a small part of simulating a hurricane/flood of a datacenter … Symantec rented out a 6-story hurricane (100mph) simulator in South Carolina … and then flooded… Read more
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New BC/DR Infographic from ESG
Does Virtualization + Cloud = BC/DR? YES! In June 2013, ESG published its “Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments” report. In September, ESG published its “Data Protection-as-a-Service Trends” report. And for many people, when you virtualize your infrastructure (so that… Read more
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New ESG Research on BaaS, DRaaS and Tertiary
These days, you can’t have a discussion on modernizing your IT infrastructure without talking about “cloud” … but when it comes to Data Protection, there isn’t just one kind of Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS). In fact, most folks… Read more