Tornado Season Hits With A Vengeance – The 2008 tornado season has been unusually active during the early months of the year. The Storm Prediction Center recorded 491 confirmed tornadoes in the United States through March 25, almost two-and-a-half times as many as the 10-year average. One of the most severe outbreaks occurred March 14-15… Continue reading Around The World

There seems to be a lot of activity centered around Business Continuity regulations, guidance and standards these days. The combination of a British Standards Institute (BSI) standard and a US requirement to create a private sector preparedness standard (Title IX of the US Private Sector Preparedness Act) arriving within a short span of each other… Continue reading DRII: A Regulatory Snapshot

More than 1,300 attendees joined expert speakers and exhibitors for a total of 1,800 people at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla., for the Disaster Recovery Journal Spring World 2008 March 30-April 2. Pictures from this year’s Spring World 2008 can be found by clicking here . “We are pleased to have another incredible… Continue reading Incredible Attendance At Spring World 2008

The most recent disasters all have one common factor. It does not matter if the nature of the disaster is man-made or natural, accidental or intentional, local or global. This common factor is the need for qualified healthcare once the victims are identified and removed from the scene of whatever tragedy has befallen them.In the… Continue reading Prepared or Preparedness

There is no question that companies must have disaster recovery plans in place. It is, however, equally important to think in terms of disaster prevention, which is where remote monitoring plays a key role. Remote monitoring of critical assets by the telecommunications industry has, for example, been practiced for many years allowing them to achieve… Continue reading Disaster Prevention Through Remote Monitoring

Disaster recovery (DR) plans are becoming a key part of a company’s overall IT planning process to ensure continuous availability of the company’s critical infrastructure at all times. In a commissioned February 2007 study of 504 technology decision makers and influencers of organizations’ business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, titled “The Impact of the WAN… Continue reading Increasing WAN Performance to Speed Up Disaster Recovery

An ominous cloud of smoke continues to billow as the sprinklers rain water throughout the facility. The production manager’s mechanical and electrical equipment is rapidly deteriorating, and within hours, the previously pristine equipment normally used to manufacture precision circuit boards will have a thin coating of flash rust with further damage forthcoming.  While this was… Continue reading Preserving Your Options

The data center industry is awash in environmentally conscious initiatives that are already having a tangible impact on improving energy efficiency and better utilizing existing space. These green initiatives are not only occurring at the industry level; in some cases they are matched by government mandates focused on reducing harmful emissions. One such federal mandate… Continue reading How Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Mandate Impacts Data Center Generators

Enterprise records management has always been a party to risk mitigation, but its stature is now gaining prominence across enterprises.  New laws, regulations, and court rulings present significant risks to enterprises in terms of compliance, market performance, and their strategic goals. Combined with the increasing challenge of managing electronic records and content, it’s the perfect… Continue reading Buy One, Get One Free

At a time when backing up data electronically is increasingly viewed as a superior solution to sending tapes to offsite backup locations via truck, properly implemented data deduplication has the potential to transform IT and provide significant savings in terms of data protection, resource requirements, network optimization and data security. The timing is right for… Continue reading The Advantages of Data Deduplication for Data Protection