Two key components of a modern disaster recovery plan are backup and replication. Ben Weinberger of Lathrop & Gage describes how his firm, with sophisticated IT leadership and the right management of ...

Some might remember what disaster recovery (DR) used to look like for IT. Endless stacks of tapes made for a logistical nightmare, and if even one was missing an entire recovery effort could fall ...

In today's digital world, data is the lifeblood of businesses. Losing it can lead to significant financial losses, operational disruptions, and damage to a company's reputation. To safeguard against ...

Last time, I raised the issue that modern disaster recovery strategies require near real-time data replication to ensure that data is protected almost as soon as it is created. Furthermore, the ...

While the press concentrates on IP-based storage-area networks, it seems that every conversation with vendors or end users about IP storage eventually turns to a discussion of IP-based data ...

The Islandia, N.Y.-based software vendor on Wednesday unveiled BrightStor ARCServe Backup/WANSyncHA, a software bundle that includes WANSync high-availability and Assured Recovery disaster-recovery ...

When companies make duplicate copies of enterprise data for backup, disaster recovery or other business purposes, they are said to be replicating data. Such duplicate copies of data can reside locally ...

With Hurricane Irene bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard, IT solution providers are on high alert, ready to get their customers back up and running when disaster strikes. Some of the products they'll ...

Scott Opalewski is a seasoned senior business development manager with over three decades of experience bridging technology solutions and business needs across multiple industries, including ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

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 ...

Microsoft Exchange server downtime costs companies millions of dollars a year. Technically savvy IT organizations are therefore working to eliminate or lessen the impact of both planned and unplanned ...