From Reactive to Ready: Why Resilience is more than Backup
Everyone knows you need to protect your data. It’s become a truism of our times. But, the thing is, there’s no intrinsic value in data alone. Unless you can index, search, or analyze it, it’s just passive information. This is why the apps, services, and other components you use to interrogate and act on your data are so important.
Does your business continuity plan stand a chance against mayhem
Many organizations believe that they have a solid and ready to execute business continuity plan in case of a disaster. However, according to a 2010 Forrester survey*, “many organizations have lulled themselves into a false sense of security” when it comes to how they value their preparedness. The survey also revealed that proper plans of planning, testing, and maintenanc
New Release: Symantec ApplicationHA 6.0 for Windows
As IT organizations continue to rapidly deploy virtualization, ensuring availability of applications in their virtual environments is critical. Since its initial launch last year, Symantec ApplicationHA helped numerous customers quickly and automatically recover from a wide range of application and infrastructure failures inside virtual machines.Does the idea of virtualizing your data center make you cringe?
For some organizations, the idea of virtualizing their mission critical applications is perceived to be more riskier and its advantages are not yet compelling to make the switch. In fact, according to Symantec's latest Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey, 40% of CEOs and 42% of CFOs are reluctant to make the leap to virtualization. Some of the cited reservations are
To RAC or Not to RAC? Veritas Cluster File System Responds "No RAC Needed"
Check out To RAC or Not to RAC? Veritas Cluster File System Responds "No RAC Needed," the latest blog installment on failover solutions by DCIG lead analyst Jerome Wendt. Find out how the facts illustrate that Veritas CFS HA provides performance that is comparable to Oracle RAC without RAC's added cost and complexity. Jerome Wendt is the President and Lead Analyst of DCIG Inc., an independent storage analyst and consulting firm. Since founding the company in 2006, Mr. Wendt has published extensively in data storage publications and journals covering all facets of storage.Is Fast Failover Minus High Costs, Complexity and Uncertainty Attainable? See What Jerome Wendt Says…
Check out Veritas CFS Proves that Fast Failover Minus High Costs, Complexity and Uncertainty is Attainable, the latest blog on failover by DCIG lead analyst Jerome Wendt as he looks at alternatives to classic high-availability solutions.
Why Did You Buy (Or Not) Symantec Storage and Availability Products: Tell Us and Enter to Win an iPad!
The Storage and Availability Management Group (SAMG) at Symantec wants to hear from you! Were you a part of the decision making team to purchase one or more SAMG products, such as Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas CommandCentral or Symantec FileStore? Or, where you a part of the decision making team to vote against purchasing a SAMG product?
Creating Oracle HA on a Budget
Creating highly available Oracle databases with immediate failover is expensive, though sometimes justifiable. However, organizations whose SLA includes near-minute failover can consider a Veritas Clustered File System (CFS) solution. CFS is an option within Storage Foundation (SF); SF users need a simple license key to turn it on.Reducing the cost of high availability with larger clusters
Hello from the Storage Foundation/High Availability Technical Product Management team, and welcome to the new Symantec Connect! In this first VCS blog entry under the new format, we'll take a look at reducing the cost of HA by building larger, more "intelligent" clusters.
