disaster recovery

Sioux Falls, S.D., is tops for data centers

Beth Bacheldor — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:33:49 +0000

Is the Midwest the data center industry’s new frontier?

Intense solar storm electrifies the air

Beth Bacheldor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:53:50 +0000

Sorry boss, a solar storm has wiped out our data center here on earth.

How to improve disaster recovery preparedness

IDGNS staff — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:22:41 +0000

10 best practices for updating and improving your current disaster recovery exercise program.

Disaster recovery on a budget

CIO Executive Council — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:54:09 +0000

CIOs are always looking for disaster recovery options that don’t break the bank. Members from the CIO Executive Council share their tactics. Add your opinion and advice.

AFCOM offers up disaster recovery best practices

Beth Bacheldor — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:00:28 +0000

Read this, especially if you one of the more-than-we-thought who don’t have a DR plan.

9/11: Are Lessons Learned Still Being Applied?

Beth Bacheldor — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:36:37 +0000

Disaster - is your IT continuity and contingency plan ready for another 9/11?

Major data centers prove their mettle with Irene

Beth Bacheldor — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:25:54 +0000

Irene vs. IT: IT wins!

Google ready to keep your data safe, even from attack by aliens

KevinFogarty — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:10:36 +0000

Unusual scenario stories help Google Enterprise security chief keep disaster drills interesting, turn up new potential problems and maybe sell security of the cloud to nervous users.

Hurricane Irene is on her way. Is your data center ready?

Beth Bacheldor — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:54:58 +0000

What's your Irene plan? Hear how one IT group saved its data center by moving it into a water tower.

Lessons learned from a recent Amazon outage

IDGNS staff — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:56:47 +0000

Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to a total data center outage. Amazon had its only European data center located there.

Having a bad day? At least you don't have to hold your head on with one hand

KevinFogarty — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:37:57 +0000

"He was always accident prone," according to the mother of a British man who held his own head in place with one hand as colleagues lowered him to the ground for emergency treatment.

If disaster strikes will critical enterprise apps be ready?

IDGNS staff — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:59:29 +0000

You certainly have a disaster recovery plan for your company's IT systems and applications, right? But are you testing it to be sure it will work as planned in an emergency? If not, trouble could be lurking.

Playstation store is back, but won't say what it learned from the Big Hack

KevinFogarty — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Sony's Playstation Store is back online and attracting hordes of traffic from Playstation users frustrated at weeks without updates. Crowding the site doesn't mean they trust Sony, though.

Technology to help you survive the end of the world

KevinFogarty — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:44:20 +0000

From the better safe than sorry files: sources of survival tools designed for many environments, but a sad lack of those purpose-built to repel infernal hordes.

Microsoft cloud failure hurts its credibility and prospects for Office365

KevinFogarty — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:19:26 +0000

Microsoft waited two days to discuss the reason for BPOS outages; users complained it seemed less like an enterprise provider than a company "that can't support its own software."