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.
DR of the Living Dead
With the one-two punch of an earthquake in the Mid-Atlantic US followed closely by a hurricane potentially hitting the same region, Disaster Recovery is probably a popular discussion right now in the Washington DC area. Of course Business Continuity professionals write contingency plans for all types of disasters, not just ones caused by nature. Don’t you want to ask God, or MDoes 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.
