Seagate Sofware is the latest storage vendor to put its weight behind the 'Prove it' initiative designed to increase awareness of disaster recovery among business executives. Its aim is to educate businesses of all sizes about how to set up the...
However, many companies are still stuck with the notion of "disaster recovery" - how to get back on line rapidly when the proverbial does hit the fan. Quocirca research director Clive Longbottom explains the key to how business continuity and...
Schlumberger, newly bereft of its IT services wing Sema, looks like it could be shedding more of its tech divisions - with disaster recovery number one for the chop. Schlumberger's disaster recovery business is a hangover from its acquisition of...
Firms have been warned there is a "significant geographical concentration" of critical business functions and back-up sites in and around London that could be affected by a major incident and the FSA also expressed concern at the "high degree of...
An example of the first kind of virtualisation is partitioning a PC disk into smaller virtual drives, while an example of the second is combining a number of separate disks to make them appear as one physical disk (as in a storage network).
Once deployed, a virtual infrastructure needs to be as robust and flexible as possible, so the ability to replicate, migrate, back up, monitor and improve is crucial. In particular the V2V capability brought in by the Invirtus agreement is...