Disaster Recovery Facilities-Operations

A disaster recovery (DR) plan can only be as effective as the operations and facilities that serve the plan. This topic section provides up-to-date news and how-to information f... More about Disaster Recovery Facilities-Operations

Recent Definitions

• disaster recovery

  - Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events. Signific...

• Microsoft Lync Server

  - Microsoft Lync Server is enterprise software that provides a platform for unified communications (UC). Lync Server provides an infrastructure to ...

• disaster recovery (DR) test

  - A disaster recovery (DR) test is the examination of each step in a disaster recovery program, as outlined in the business continuity/dis...

Highlights

• Estimating IT energy use before buying a generator for disaster prep

• Diesel vs. natural gas generator for data center disaster readiness

• Obtaining flood insurance for a data center in a flood zone

Disaster Recovery Networking

Communication is obviously vital to your business, so networking is a critical element in disaster recovery planning. This topic section offers up-to-date news and how-to inform... More about Disaster Recovery Networking

Recent Definitions

• disaster recovery

  - Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events. Signific...

• call tree

  - A call tree -- sometimes referred to a phone tree -- is a telecommunications chain for notifying specific individuals of an event.

• array-based replication

  - Array-based replication applies the functionality of data replication across one or more storage controllers, which eliminates the processing ...

Highlights

• WAN acceleration comparison on a budget

• Silver Peak Systems tweaks replication acceleration, bypassing network

• Comparing the costs of hot sites and cold sites

Disaster Recovery Planning-Management

The planning phase is crucial to the success of any disaster recovery (DR) initiative. This topic section provides administrators with up-to-date news and how-to information abo... More about Disaster Recovery Planning-Management

Recent Definitions

• disaster recovery

  - Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events. Signific...

• network disaster recovery plan

  - A network disaster recovery plan is a procedure designed to prepare an organization to respond to an interruption of network service...

• emergency management plan

  - An emergency management plan should include measures that provide for the safety of personnel and, if possible, property and facilities.

Highlights

• Evaluating BC/DR program performance

• Defining, reviewing and updating your organization's BC/DR policy

• Toigo: Focus DR strategy on smaller-scale disasters

Disaster Recovery Services-Outsourcing

Disaster recovery (DR) services can provide an organization with an effective option for addressing their DR needs. This topic section discusses the affordability and effectiven... More about Disaster Recovery Services-Outsourcing

Recent Definitions

• disaster recovery

  - Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events. Signific...

Highlights

• The importance of cloud recovery testing

• Toigo: Clouds and IT infrastructure management

• TwinStrata, Beam Communications and STORServer make DR announcements

Disaster Recovery Storage

Disaster recovery (DR) and data storage go hand-in-hand and a good DR plan must carefully consider how data is stored and protected. This topic section offers news and how-to in... More about Disaster Recovery Storage

Recent Definitions

• disaster recovery

  - Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events. Signific...

• data recovery

  - Data recovery is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or made inaccessible for some reason.

• array-based replication

  - Array-based replication applies the functionality of data replication across one or more storage controllers, which eliminates the processing ...

Highlights

• How is cloud replication performed?

• Using replication for remote site backup

• Using remote data replication, CDP for disaster recovery