The Next Level of Disaster Recovery
According to a recent Harris Interactive survey of both business and IT executives, tolerance for IT system downtime is rapidly declining – and is now down to five hours or less. Across industries – from manufacturers running extended supply chains and tracking real-time inventory levels, to healthcare enterprises validating patient records, to financial services firms executing trades based on real-time, split-second pricing fluctuations – recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) are shrinking. By JOHN LINDEMAN
Procrustus and the Art of Data Protection
If Procrustus were back in action today, perhaps he’d be in the data protection business, offering shelter for corporate data with a one-size-fits-all solution that he so characteristically embraced. His solution would initially appear to be just what the customer needs, but during the implementation, its shortcomings and sacrifices would become apparent. By ERIC LOMASCOLO
Think Like A Coward
An important question facing organizations today is how to protect their business from various predictable disasters that can strike at any time? Secondly, who are the best persons to protect your business? What sort of qualification and mindset does one need to work in a DR and BC department? Where and how can you find or identify such persons? By THEJENDRA B.S
Drives Will Fail: What’s Your Back-up Plan?
Drive failure is inevitable, and its causes are many. A few are extreme. I have recovered data from computers that have been dropped, run over, burned, drowned, and shot. But those are the exception. The everyday causes of drive failure are more mundane, breakdowns in the inner workings of the drives themselves, brought on by the very complexity that makes them so powerful. By MIKE COBB
Is Tape Dead?
Just recently, tape backup has received a lot of press in the technology community; much of it has not been so flattering. There have been stories of glitches, tapes, and data vanishing at some of the largest financial institutions, customer data that has been littered across the headlines, as well as other horror stories that have filled the walls of data centers. By CHRIS TAYLOR
