Splitting Heirs to Mid-range Backup Leadership
March 13, 2013A difficulty in analyzing the mid-market or the mid-range in any area of information technology is that the mid-range often doesn’t work as one uniform category. This year, for example, we decided to subdivide the mid-range storage landscape into two. … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged Acronis, ARCServe, Avamar, Backup and Recovery, CA Technologies, Cloud Backup, CommVault, Continuous Data Protection, Data Protector, Data Recovery, Data Reduction, Deduplication, disaster-recovery, emc, falconstor, hp, ibm, Integrated Backup, Netapp, NetBackup, NetWorker, NSB, rpo, rto, Simpana, Symantec, Syncsort, Tivoli Storage Manager, TSM | 1 Comment
Struggling with DR testing? Get the technology out of the room
November 26, 2012Full-scale testing — completely shutting down your primary site and failing over to a recovery site — is impractical for most organizations, and it’s actually the least effective form of testing, based on a recent survey: The challenges with simulation, parallel … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged bcp, business-continuity, disaster-recovery, dr, drp | 1 Comment
Why DRPs Fail – The Answer May Surprise You
June 20, 2012By Frank Trovato, a Research Analyst specializing in mainframe technology and mission critical systems for Info-Tech Research Group Traditional challenges include lack of testing and inadequate technology or facilities. However, a much more common issue is simply not recognizing when … Continue reading
Posted in Advisory, Infrastructure, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged backup, disaster-recovery, dr, drp, Incident Management, service-management, Severity, Severity Definitions, Severity Levels | Comments Off
High Availability Depends on More Than Technology
May 17, 2012By Frank Trovato, a Research Analyst specializing in mainframe technology and mission critical systems for Info-Tech Research Group Downtime is more likely to be caused by human error or process issues, yet organizations often focus primarily on technology redundancy. An … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged disaster-recovery, dr, drp, Incident Management, Mainframe, Mission Critical, service-management, System z, zEnterprise, zSeries | Comments Off
Spell out IT’s Disaster Recovery Capability
August 4, 2010Can your IT department articulate its ability to withstand and recover from a disaster? Knowing IT’s existing ability to withstand and recover from disaster provides a baseline from which all future disaster recovery (DR) enhancements and/or downgrades can be made. … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, What's New in Research | Tagged disaster-recovery, disaster-recovery-planning, drp, recovery-point, recovery-time, rpo, rto | Comments Off
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