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When disaster strikes a data center, ultimately it doesn't matter what caused the problem. What does matter is how quickly and reliably the problem can be resolved to minimize business damage. Prevention efforts, including standard backup policies and redundant systems, continue to be important, but they're not enough. To effectively minimize risk, CEOs and their IT leaders must turn their business-continuity efforts toward reliable recovery from the unforeseen. Some companies are pioneering new approaches to smart IT disaster recovery. Working with these companies, Accenture's Edward Minyard has identified seven critical points common to the new strategies. Minyard is a certified continuity manager with real-world experience that includes 18 months in New Orleans, beginning immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as a key member of the Emergency Operations Center.
10 Key Differences Between Desktop and Server Virtualization Deployments
With IT managers keeping tight control over technology budgets as the economy struggles to recover, enterprises are taking a close look at virtualized desktop implementations, or VDIs known a few years ago as thin clients. Server virtualization has been well-chronicled as a way to consolidate IT resources to create pools of storage and computing power and use it all to better advantage. Both types of virtualization have excellent efficiency attributes, are cost- and power-efficient when used correctly, and are centrally controlled. But that's where the similarities end. Nonetheless, many people in the market still view server virtualization and desktop virtualization as having a similar architecture. In this slide show, we define the differences between the two types of virtualizations. Our information source is Leostream, a developer of virtual hosted desktop software, which provides the connection-broker apparatus required for enterprises to achieve useful large-scale desktop virtualization implementations.
Stakeholders Talk Future of SSDs at VLAB Roundtable
The argument about hard disk drives versus solid-state drives has been going on for a long time and will continue for years to come. There are those who are convinced that SSDs will indeed outnumber hard drives in the IT business at some point in our lifetimes. Data storage experts consider the question at a Stanford roundtable.
FAA Flight-Plan System Crashes Again, Delays Hundreds of U.S. Flights
A software configuration problem in one of the routers within the FAA's telecommunications infrastructure system in Salt Lake City shut down its flight-plan and traffic-flow system Nov. 19 for about 4 hours all over the United States, the FAA says. The routing problem also shut down the system's second node in Hampton, Ga.
Citrix Counters VMware with Desktop Virtualization Upgrades
Citrix's new options include a Dazzle offering for Windows and Macintosh computers and updated versions of Citrix Receiver for Windows and Mac plus the popular iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile devices.
Symantec's Top Nine Storage Trends for 2010
Every year around this time people realize the old year is nearly in the history books and start thinking about the upcoming new 12 months. This invariably leads to all sorts of & predictions& about what's going to happen in any given area of interest. Symantec was out of the chute early this year with its ideas on what trends it expects to see in 2010. We compiled this list based on information provided to eWEEK by Symantec's Sean Derrington, director of storage and availability management, and Mathew Lodge, senior director of product marketing.
ATT Launches New On-Demand Cloud Storage Service
The new cloud subscription-based service gives businesses on-demand access to computing resources via a new online portal called Synaptic Compute as a Service. Online time windows can be purchased through credit card payment, and services can be used immediately.
Desktops, Laptops Now Get EMC Avamar Deduplication Backup
EMC Avamar is now providing, via the latest version of its Avamar deduplication and NetWorker backup software, enterprise-quality data backup for desktop and laptop computers. The client runs scheduled backups that include deduplication, so that only new documents and changes to existing files and data are sent to storage.
ParaScale Unveils Open Private Cloud Storage Platform
A new software version from cloud computing startup ParaScale transforms commodity Linux servers into scalable storage tiers for enterprises and service providers. ParaScale Cloud Storage Software R2.0 also can integrate applications directly with storage nodes.
How to Implement a Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Plan
In this era of downsizing, small and midsize businesses are rethinking their disaster recovery and business continuity plans. While some SMBs have implemented their backup plans from the start, most have relied on backup and disaster recovery as an afterthought, implementing strategies only when needed. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Thomas Nieto explains how SMBs can best develop and execute their disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
Facebook Case Sets Up Google Latitude as Tempting Legal Tool
The exoneration of a Brooklyn teenager with the help of a timely Facebook status update has sparked interest in social networking tools as evidence for law enforcement officials and litigators. This could heighten interest in Google Latitude Location History, an opt-in feature that lets users store where they've been. Yet the fact that Google is now storing location history has privacy advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation concerned about what sort of protection Google will offer Latitude users in the case of legal compliance.
Platform Computing Launches New Cloud Builder
What sets Platform ISF apart from standard virtualized systems is that it creates a shared computing infrastructure from both physical and virtual heterogeneous resources. The software supports broad application environments, says Platform Computing Vice President of Products Jingwen Wang.
Carbonite, Seagate Hook Up for Coordinated Local, Online File Backup
Customers who purchase Seagate FreeAgent Desk or Go model external hard drives will receive an option to back up their desktop or laptop system plus the attached external hard drive through Carbonite's service for an annual fee of $59.95.
Google Storage Price Cut Shows Cloud is Competitive, Maturing
Google slashed the costs of hosted storage for its Picasa and Gmail applications, offering 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage for $5 per year, or twice as much for one quarter of the previous price. Will users begin entrusting more e-mail and photos to Google server farms? It's hard to say, but certainly cutting storage costs for its Picasa photo-sharing and Gmail applications is a sign the cloud computing market is maturing. Was the cost cut a competitive gesture? Google's cut came one days after Cisco Nov. 9 launched its Cisco WebEx Mail hosted e-mail app for $3.50 per user per month with 5 GB of storage.
Spectra Logic Unveils Flagship T-Finity Tape System
T-Finity has multiple redundant robots and can scale to more than 45 petabytes in a single library and to more than 180 petabytes in a single, unified complex, CTO Mollie Rector told eWEEK.
LiveOffice Opens Archiving to Most Online E-Mail Services
LiveOffice is using its SAAS-based CloudMerge platform to integrate a number of e-mail services with its archiving. Archiving systems can be deployed for either cloud or on-site e-mail systems and can be done in short order, CEO Nick Mehta said.
How to Choose the Right Deduplication Technology
A well-chosen, thoughtfully deployed deduplication solution can deliver an impressive ROI for organizations of all sizes. Choosing the right deduplication approach can make a big difference in results. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Janae Lee explains four basic rules about deduplication technology that will help organizations choose the deduplication approach that is best for them.
IBM Adds Data Recovery, Space Reclamation to XIV Storage
The addition of asynchronous mirroring opens up new remote disaster recovery capabilities and allows IBM to play in that market, analyst David Hill tells eWEEK. IBM said there is no additional charge for these new functions for current XIV users.
Cisco-EMC-VMware Alliance Already Moving into New Sectors
NEWS ANALYSIS: Only days after creating the VCE and its legal business entity, the shared-equity Acadia startup, to scope out solution packages and market the new vBlock cloud systems, the market-leading companies appear to be moving into other trendy and fertile IT farmlands: namely, virtual desktops, hosted applications and new storage options.
Survey Reports Most Data Centers Not Ready for Cyber-attack
Industry association AFCOM finds that 40 percent of all data centers are still using at least one mainframe, and that about one-third of all data center managers with mainframes who plan hardware upgrades in 2010 will replace them with rack servers.