Always On: Highly Available Data Part 3: How Can You Recover Servers in the Cloud?
To recap…
How long can your business survive without your data? How long can your business survive if your people can’t access your business via the internet? Read More »
Always On Part II: How long can your business survive without your data?
I’m finally getting back to this train of thought. To recap… Read More »
How Long Do I Keep This Stuff Around?
One of the most frustrating issues for IT staff (an issue that continues to drive sales of storage [disk or tape]), is how long data has to be kept around. Anyone who has ever moved has been faced with closets, attics and basements full of stuff that they have paid to be moved or stored, that they have not looked at or used in years! No one is making us keep this stuff, and yet we do. We also do not have to keep most of those backups and emails either. The only reason we do is for the same reason that we keep the stuff around the house – no one wants to throw it out. Read More »
Earthquakes? Vacations? Always On: Highly Available Data
How long can your business survive without your data? What data, you ask? We’ll get back to that in a minute.
How long can your business survive if your people can’t access the internet? How long can you go without cable or satellite TV at home, especially in football season or <insert your sport here>?
How long can you go without a mobile phone signal, where you can’t text, call or browse with your BB/Android/iPhone? Read More »
Portable Datacenter – Cloud Datacenter?
What if you want to use the cloud for a DR site? What are the security issues? Some quick thoughts: Read More »
How to Get a Grip on Storage Growth (and Reduce Costs)
Too much data! According to a couple of recent surveys administered by IBM and other research organizations, up to 80% of data stored on hard drives is “unstructured.” Simply put; this means messy, unorganized, redundant and duplicated files. But you still have to back it up – over and over and over again. Read More »
