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Time to Get Serious About Business Continuity

AnthonyEnglish Visits (2592)

I wonder how many businesses have a serious Disaster Recovery plan. I have been thinking about this as I have recently been invited to do a test Disaster Recovery run using Vision Solutions' software, DoubleTake RecoverNow for AIX . I'll post some blogs about how it looks. I'm keen to find DR solutions that are simple and comprehensive. Sadly, many existing plans are neither. For plenty of companies, the DR plan consists of little more than a blind hope that nothing's gonna go wrong. What does your DR plan look like? How many DR plans have... [More]

Tags: vision_solutions business_continuity dr_plan richard_dolewski disaster_recovery velocity_technology_solut...

Data Protection: Down to the Last Byte

AnthonyEnglish Visits (2295)

Disaster Recovery has come a long way since the days when companies did a backup and aimed for a "best effort" recovery. In fact, the term "disaster recovery" has evolved. No longer do we narrow "disasters" down to a hole in the ground or a fire in the data centre. "Disaster recovery" became "business recovery" since, after all, what you want is not merely to get your computer systems up and running again: you want a business up and running. How quickly? I've been working recently somewhere... [More]

Tags: rpo rto backup recovery_point_objective business_continuity disaster_recovery recovery_time_objective replication

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Time to Get Serious About Business Continuity

Data Protection: Down to the Last Byte