IT failure remains the top cause of disruption to business continuity, according to an annual survey of UK business managers. Almost three-quarters (70 per cent) of the 440 managers questioned by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) for its...
Disaster tolerance is often made out to be expensive and only for the biggest companies who would lose millions in revenues if a technical failure was to occur. We advise that any solution must be capable of being moved seamlessly into the next two...
Areas such as full security, full fail-over, disaster tolerance and application currency are seldom completely dealt with. A fully-maintained data centre providing full disaster tolerance, back-up and restore, along with flexible platforms for...
There's a huge concentration on cost savings and that is the driver behind consolidation, but it is important to think about the business continuity consequences - make sure you can guarantee uptime with some clustering or mirroring.
Novell finally will roll-out its clustering services for NetWare 5 this week, after more than two years of struggling with delivery deadlines. Clustering services are most frequently used for servers that host Web content, application and data...
Dell is phasing out Intel Itanium-based servers, a move by one of the chipmaker's closest allies that reflects Dell's emphasis on low-cost servers and the processor's failure to spread into the mainstream.