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It's time to give your data the protection it deserves. This blog explores the challenges that organizations face in distributed, multi-platform environments, and provides insight into how to safe guard data through backup, business continuity and disaster recovery. Daily posts about industry news, and trends also provided.

by Dan Blacharski

Dan Blacharski is a long-time industry observer, author and entrepreneur. He is married to the well-known Thai writer Charoenkwan Prakthong, and they live in South Bend, Indiana with their Boston Terrier, Pladook.

Companies facing more pressure in disaster recovery

Posted Jun 30, 2009 - 06:14 pm

According to a recent survey, companies are facing greater pressures in the area of disaster recovery. The prospect of the high cost of downtime is putting pressure on disaster recovery staff to deliver, but at the same time, the survey shows that disaster recovery budgets will stay flat after 2009. What's that mean?
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The ROI of virtualization

Posted Jun 29, 2009 - 06:27 pm

Virtualization is really a simple and elegant concept, and the driving force behind it is the cost savings. But does it really save money? Sure. Does it save as much as everybody claims it will? Probably not, but then again, nothing ever does.
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Monitoring performance in virtualized environments

Posted Jun 27, 2009 - 05:34 pm

A recent InformationWeek piece highlighted the real elephant in the virtualization room, and that is the question of performance.
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Print-to-mail and disaster recovery

Posted Jun 26, 2009 - 06:00 pm

Does your disaster preparedness plan include procedures to ensure the continued production and distribution of printed documents, such as invoices and other vital business material?
How much can your vendor increase your storage utilization?

Posted Jun 25, 2009 - 05:08 pm

Everybody's looking to save a buck these days, and that fact hasn't been lost on storage vendors, who have been anxious to promote their own reclamation systems, virtualization programs, and other techniques designed to extend the life of storage devices.
US standard for disaster preparedness

Posted Jun 24, 2009 - 05:32 pm

In my discussions lately about the British standard for business continuity (BS 25999), one might wonder whether the US has an equivalent generic standard, and the answer is, "sort of."
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PCI DSS and storage of credit card data

Posted Jun 23, 2009 - 05:06 pm

The PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard is all-encompassing, setting a standard for security and protective measures for merchants who store credit card information. Created by the credit card industry, the standard sets forth a set of core standards. From a security perspective, the standards are basic best practices.
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Getting executive buy-in for disaster preparedness

Posted Jun 22, 2009 - 08:44 pm

The biggest obstacle to putting a good disaster recovery plan in place is inadequate funding. My current survey (see the bottom of this entry) asks how the recession has affected your disaster recovery plans, but it may not just be the recession that's causing the problem.
Has the recession affected your archive and disaster recovery plans?

Posted Jun 20, 2009 - 05:40 pm

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage tracker says that the storage software market is down for the first time in five years. the market was worth $2.8 billion, according to the study, which is 5.2 percent less than the year-ago quarter.
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Giving your disaster preparedness exercise a cool name

Posted Jun 18, 2009 - 05:25 pm

It's not often that I recommend that any company, anywhere emulate the Federal government at any time, but let's give credit where it's due. The Department of Homeland Security conducted its Continuity of Operations plans yesterday.

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