8 ingredients of an effective disaster recovery plan
Network World
JULY 5, 2016
That’s why it is critical for all businesses to have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster
Network World
APRIL 23, 2021
OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in place or who purchased the off-site backup and disaster-recovery services offered by OVHcloud have been able to resume operations. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.
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Disaster recovery: How is your business set up to survive an outage?
Network World
MARCH 13, 2017
Dark disaster recovery vs. active architecture. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Asynchronous vs synchronous. Active/active vs. active/passive. No setup is objectively better or worse than another.
Disaster recovery in a DevOps world
Network World
MAY 24, 2016
One thing is for certain: Embracing DevOps also pays off from a disaster recovery standpoint, because the tools and procedures that you use to move applications from development to testing to production and back to development again can also be applied to failing over and recovering from disasters and service interruptions.
How network automation can speed deployments and improve security
Network World
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
“Every school or college had their own IT, and in most cases they were completely under-resourced – a one-person shop having to do phones, apps, email, desktop, servers, storage, disaster recovery, all of that,” said Brian Pietrewicz, deputy CIO at University of New Mexico.
Ransomware recovery: Plan for it now
Network World
JULY 8, 2021
If your computing environment is subject to a large ransomware attack, you will most certainly be enacting your disaster recovery (DR) plan. There are many articles such as this one that describe what ransomware does, but it’s important to emphasize that the goal of ransomware is rarely to infect just one system.
What is DRaaS and how it can save your business from disaster
Network World
APRIL 14, 2022
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides data replication, hosting, and recovery services from the cloud in the event of a disaster, power outage, ransomware attack, or other business interruption. In the event of a disaster, the business will failover to the DRaaS provider’s data center in a different region.
In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don't Neglect Home Site Restoration.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2013
In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data.
Dell expands data-protection product line
Network World
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Active data protection is often treated as something of an afterthought, especially compared to disaster recovery. According to Dell’s recent Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) research, organizations are experiencing higher levels of disasters than in previous years, many of them man-made.
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2018 state of resilience: The pressure is on
Network World
JANUARY 12, 2018
As we swerve onto the runway in 2018, IT leaders are finding themselves under increased pressure to ensure security, high availability and disaster recovery for the applications and systems under their care. To read this article in full, please click here
4 top disaster recovery packages compared
Network World
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Whether the disaster is a flood, a power outage or human error, IT departments have the critical role of getting business systems working again. And that requires reliable disaster-recovery software. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story)
What's in the fine print of your disaster recovery vendor agreement?
Network World
APRIL 21, 2017
Sign on the bottom line Image by Thinkstock Disaster-recovery solutions require several complex, moving parts coordinated between your production site and the recovery site. Service-level agreements are ultimately the most accurate way to determine where responsibility is held for disaster-recovery process and execution.
The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 12, 2013
The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 12th, 2013.
VMworld: My Cybersecurity-Centric Impressions
Network World
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
VMware describes three primary uses for NSX: Disaster recovery, security, and network operations automation. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here It is worth noting that around 60% to 70% of NSX deployment is skewed toward security use cases.
Why Your Healthcare Organization Should Consider HPE GreenLake for EHR
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2022
As a leading provider of the EHR, Epic Systems (Epic) supports a growing number of hospital systems and integrated health networks striving for innovative delivery of mission-critical systems. Business resiliency, including greater access to consumption-based infrastructure, disaster recovery, and business continuity services.
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7 Software Defined Networking Considerations » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 26, 2013
7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. 7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” 2) The size of an organization’s network. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 26th, 2013.
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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 16, 2025
This article delves deeper into the challenges faced by the oil and gas industry, highlighting practical strategies to safeguard critical infrastructure through cybersecurity, data analytics, and regulatory compliance. Regularly updating and patching systems, including antivirus software, firewalls, and SCADA networks, can mitigate this risk.
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Top DRaaS companies to watch
Network World
MAY 10, 2017
Forrester Research recently released its report naming Sungard AS, Bluelock, IBM and iland as the top disaster recovery-as-a-service companies. With enterprises expecting their network up at all times, backup and recovery are key to keeping things running smoothly with no downtime.
Respond to ransomware in three steps: secure, assess, recover
Network World
APRIL 25, 2017
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Also, you have followed all best practices to ensure maximum data availability, so it’s likely your backups and disaster recovery sites were impacted as well.
"Cloud Musings" Joins Dell Content Provider Network
Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Cloud Musings, a GovCloud Network Property, is proud and honored to announce that we will now be serving over 3 Million Dell Community online daily viewers. Our industry-focused solution implementation coverage will include things like big data analytics, disaster recovery, digital publishing and social media. Jackson 2012 ).'
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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 23, 2013
One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Remember, some components of using the Wide Area Network (WAN) as a delivery mechanism may be resource intensive. Leveraging Cloud and Virtualization for Disaster Recovery.
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5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 28, 2013
7 Software Defined Networking Considerations – Moving to software defined networking is not a matter of “when” but “how,” and there are seven main factors IT administrators should consider when determining whether SDN is right for their network, says Patrick Hubbard of SolarWinds. Networking.
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Ransomware Exponentially Increasing as IoT Provides Physical Targeting Opportunities
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
This article increases awareness for organizations seeking to enhance their digital risk posture against the increasing threat of ransomware (a type of malware) deployed by threat actors to prevent or limit users from accessing their system until a ransom is paid. Crystal Lister.
The Increasing Demand for Telecoms During a Pandemic
Spearline Testing
JANUARY 7, 2021
” In a recent article featured on UCToday, journalist Moshe Beauford sat down for an interview with Mike to discuss some of the research that went into the whitepaper and the key takeaways of the report. Today most, if not all, social interactions happen over mobile networks and the Internet.
One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 28, 2022
This article aims to provide you with a practical framework to improve your enterprise data protection. On the secondary storage front, you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity. But where do you start? That is the question.
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241 Why DRaaS is a better defense against ransomware
Network World
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Dean Nicolls, vice president of marketing at Infrascale , shares some tangible ways disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) can pay big dividends and quickly restore systems in the wake of a ransomware attack. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
New HIPAA guidance addresses ransomware
Network World
JULY 20, 2016
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
CloudVelocity Announces $13M Funding, New Tools for AWS.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 16, 2013
“We automate five sets of critical processes and extend authentication and other network services into the cloud, making the cloud a seamless extension of the data center. “Until today, cloud migration and cloud-enabled disaster recovery have not been viable for the vast majority of enterprise data center apps,” said Chawla.
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Google Spends $1.6 Billion in 3 Months on its Data Centers
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 19, 2013
Google says the majority of its capital investments are for IT infrastructure, including data enters, servers, and networking equipment. Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Disaster Recovery. Comments (required). DataCenterKnowledge. White Papers.
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Customer Wins for Internap and Peak 10 » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 19, 2013
Internap Network Services (INAP) announced that Hiring Process Management (HPM) solutions provider TalentWise is leveraging Internap’s managed hosting and route-optimized IP connectivity services for the high-performance delivery of its cloud-based hiring solution, TalentWise Hire. Networking. Featured Cloud Articles.
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CloudFlare Shifts to Quanta for New Servers - Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 22, 2013
Content delivery and security specialist CloudFlare has been growing rapidly as it builds out a global network of data centers. The updates feature Intel SSD drives and SandyBridge Xeon 2630L processors, adjustments to caching, and a shift in network cards. In the end, we settled on the network cards from a company called Solarflare.
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208 PDNS Offers “Anchor” Cloud Services to Agile Cloud Consortium
Cloud Musings
MAY 14, 2014
Private Digital Network Services (PDNS) and partners will provide its national, Private Digital Network (PDN) core and a suite of highly sought after services to the Interoperability Clearinghouse Agile Cloud effort. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L. Jackson 2012 ).'
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New Numbers: Who Has the Most Web Servers? » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 15, 2013
A look inside the network operating center for Akamai Technologies, which operates more than 127,000 servers around the globe. Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Disaster Recovery. New Numbers: Who Has the Most Web Servers? Photo: Akamai). White Papers.
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199 Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 15, 2013
So the number of companies that really understand the network topology, the data center construction, the server requirements to build this public cloud infrastructure is very, very small.” Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Disaster Recovery.
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276 Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 25th » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2013
Deconstructing SoftLayer’s Three-Tiered Network – At the InnerLayer blog, they’re talking networking. “SoftLayer’s hosting platform features an innovative, three-tier network architecture: Every server in a SoftLayer data center is physically connected to public, private and out-of-band management networks.
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DreamWorks "Turbo" Accelerated By HP » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 19, 2013
DreamWorks animators use HP Z800 and Z820 workstations with Intel Xeon E5 processors, a HP FlexNetwork architecture, and HP networking to simplify collaboration among artists. Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. 75 million render hours. Comments (required). Government.
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'Catastrophic' Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks » Data.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 16, 2013
Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Disaster Recovery. Comments (required). DataCenterKnowledge. White Papers. Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers. Cloud Computing. Government. Supercomputing / HPC. Managed Hosting. Colocation. Industry Perspectives.
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Video: A Cloud Conversation with Interxion » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 10, 2013
Interxion, known for its rich network of interconnects, recently announced it is housing the London Internet Exchange’s IT hosting infrastructure out of its London data center. Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Disaster Recovery. Video runs 4:14.
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Calient Gets $27 Million To Take SDN At Light Speed » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 26, 2013
Networking. To move into a hybrid packet-optical circuit switch network, optical circuit switches (or photonic switches) can be aided by SDN scripts to redirect data flows from one network to another. RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. Networking.
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Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 24, 2013
During a media event this week Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, set the stage for Intel’s approach to re-architect the data center and journey through periods of transformation that are changing from network-centric to human-centric models. Networking.
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221 CNBC Features CoreSite Trading Hub » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 12, 2013
An article over at CNBC looks at the growing importance of the Washington, D.C. Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Disaster Recovery. Low Latency. CNBC Features CoreSite Trading Hub. CNBC Features CoreSite Trading Hub. By: Rich Miller July 12th, 2013.
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194 A closer look at data center high availability and service delivery
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 23, 2013
Asking potential data center and colocation service providers’ questions uncovers important information about the facility, network access, operations, performance history and the quality of service delivery. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation.
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201 Digital Realty Acquires Amsterdam Site » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 23, 2013
“Amsterdam is ideally located at the heart of the demand we are seeing for today’s networked data centre requirements across Europe,” said Bernard Geoghegan, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa of Digital Realty. Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. White Papers.
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202 Stream Data Centers Building in Minnesota Market » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 15, 2013
And, each will provide disaster recovery office space, redundant private telco rooms and 10,000 square feet of raised floor in a Private Data Hall. Networking. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Comments (required). DataCenterKnowledge. White Papers. Infrastructure.
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