Ain't no such thing as turnkey disaster recovery
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As one user found out, crisis may shake management up and send them scurrying to identify disaster recovery solutions that work out of the box, but there's no guarantee by the vendor that they can instantly recover the data with their product.
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(Source: Double Take)  Although SQL Server offers options for database protection and recovery, none of them is intended to provide a complete disaster recovery solution. Make sure youve take the time to develop a high availability and disaster recovery plan to cover unforeseen catastrophes that might threaten your database in the future. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to protect and recover business critical data and applications.
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MUMBAI: For survivors who lost relatives and property in the tsunami, there may not even be the compensation of an insurance claim to ease their suffering.
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A storage vendor lesson Comment There is really nothing much to backing up data - or there shouldn't be. The trouble is there is so much of it to back up these days and, with 24/7 working, no longer an opportunity just to shut down until the job is finished.â¦
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Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. read more
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Discovers virtualisation just as everyone else is trying to forget it
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(Source: Double Take)  LIVE WEBCASTThis webinar will review how to deliver an optimized recoverability solution. Two companies offering these solutions are Riverbed Technologies and Double-Take Software. Together, they simplify and optimize the transfer of data over the WAN for comprehensive data protection with proven return on investment (ROI). These revolutionary technologies have been tested and proven in numerous customer implementations for out-of-the-box compatibility.
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At the risk of repeating ourselves, it is worth bearing in mind that this recovery has been different from other recoveries. While much of the attention paid to the economy has focused on the sluggish jobs
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As strange as it may sound, in some cases, it may be possible to avoid database recovery entirely. You might even question the wisdom of building enormous monolithic databases. There are a growing number of examples of application environments that employ an architecture consisting of multiple smaller databases with a common parallel query layer, making protection as well as scalability easier.
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I wasn't surprised when people used sms, blogs, cameraphones and wikis to organize relief efforts during the first hours after the tsunami of 2005.
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Businesses don&#39;t have to dump Windows to test drive free or low-price applications whose use may improve the bottom line. Sometimes the big software vendors act like their customers are locked into the proprietary products they sell.
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Overture for update error don't impress Chinese customers whose systems were downed.
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Tape by in large has proven to be enormously reliable, when handled properly. There are hundreds of ways backups and recoveries can fail, and it only takes one misstep to foul it up.
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IT contractor neither as bad off, nor as cheap, as it might seem.
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US researchers are turning to peer-to-peer technology to help in the wake of natural disasters.
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When you have hundreds or thousands of disk drives spinning continuously, some number of failures are unavoidable. Understanding the risks, reviewing service commitments, and being prepared for the inevitable is a must.
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It&#39;s a market that could use a shake-up. Backup and recovery still can be too expensive and complex for many small and midsize companies that rely on Windows, but the software is vital to their businesses.