For many years, a central component of Allan Hancock College’s disaster recovery planning was ensuring mission-critical data was backed up and readily available to be restored. But a shift in payroll ...

Although the cloud is well known for its potential use as a backup target, public clouds are increasingly being used as a disaster recovery platform. Although the cloud is well known for its potential ...

Cloud computing offers an attractive alternative to in-house disaster recovery systems. Here's what you need to know before you commit to a vendor and begin transferring data. Natural and man-made ...

Underestimate the complexity and cost of cloud computing backup and recovery and you risk missing data and lost customers. Here’s what to do. It’s late on a Friday. You get a call from your CIO that ...

The deal for the hyper-converged infrastructure startup looks to advance VMware’s hybrid cloud standing with a cost-optimized solution for backing up data in the cloud. Datrium competes directly with ...

Four VMware service provider partners -- VeriStor, FusionStorm, iLand and Hosting.com -- are gearing up to launch cloud based disaster recovery services based on vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 (SRM), ...

No business expects to experience a major loss of data, but because the unexpected happens, the safest thing is to plan for the worst and hope for the best. Even the most cautious and prepared ...

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

Most in IT understand the need for backup and recovery operations, but moving to the cloud has caused some confusion DR (disaster recovery) is one of those topics that is addressed each time ...

Really good disaster recovery (DR) is expensive and complex, with the most robust disaster recovery strategies usually the preserve of banks, government departments or critical industries. But the ...