Giving your disaster preparedness exercise a cool name
It's not often that I recommend that any company, anywhere emulate the Federal government at any time, but let's give credit where it's due. The Department of Homeland Security conducted its Continuity...
View ArticleHas the recession affected your archive and disaster recovery plans?
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage tracker says that the storage software market is down for the first time in five years. the market was worth $2.8 billion, according to the study, which is 5.2 percent...
View ArticleGetting executive buy-in for disaster preparedness
The biggest obstacle to putting a good disaster recovery plan in place is inadequate funding. My current survey (see the bottom of this entry) asks how the recession has affected your disaster recovery...
View ArticlePCI DSS and storage of credit card data
The PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard is all-encompassing, setting a standard for security and protective measures for merchants who store credit card information. Created by the...
View ArticleUS standard for disaster preparedness
In my discussions lately about the British standard for business continuity (BS 25999), one might wonder whether the US has an equivalent generic standard, and the answer is, "sort of."read more
View ArticleHow much can your vendor increase your storage utilization?
Everybody's looking to save a buck these days, and that fact hasn't been lost on storage vendors, who have been anxious to promote their own reclamation systems, virtualization programs, and other...
View ArticlePrint-to-mail and disaster recovery
Does your disaster preparedness plan include procedures to ensure the continued production and distribution of printed documents, such as invoices and other vital business material?read more
View ArticleMonitoring performance in virtualized environments
A recent InformationWeek piece highlighted the real elephant in the virtualization room, and that is the question of performance.read more
View ArticleThe ROI of virtualization
Virtualization is really a simple and elegant concept, and the driving force behind it is the cost savings. But does it really save money? Sure. Does it save as much as everybody claims it will?...
View ArticleCompanies facing more pressure in disaster recovery
According to a recent survey, companies are facing greater pressures in the area of disaster recovery. The prospect of the high cost of downtime is putting pressure on disaster recovery staff to...
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