Captive, Cold, Hind, Hot, Warm, Which Kind Of Site Is Best?

Determining the best form of alternative processing for your data center, should it become incapacitated, is a difficult task and, it is never completed. The conditions that influenced yesterday’s alternative processing decision have changed! Is that change sufficient to cause the alternative processing question to be reevaluated? YES! The first and most important aspect of… Continue reading Captive, Cold, Hind, Hot, Warm, Which Kind Of Site Is Best?

Continuous Availability Services

Business Continuity is the underlying objective of all Contingency Plans; however, the requirements for Business Continuity vary by application within an organization, as well as from company to company. Solutions employing electronic technology range from immediate synchronized recovery of “most critical” applications to recovery of “less critical” applications in days or weeks. In all cases,… Continue reading Continuous Availability Services

Disaster Recovery Coverage: Is It Just Another Necessary Insurance Policy?

The concept of disaster recovery, clearly a topic coming to the forefront of critical issues for enlightened management, is nonetheless a fairly recent phenomenon. As a result, its place in assuring a company’s continued health is often misunderstood. A good example of this misunderstanding is the frequent comparison of hot-sites to insurance policies. While a… Continue reading Disaster Recovery Coverage: Is It Just Another Necessary Insurance Policy?

Evaluating Hot-Sites and Contracts

The evaluation of hot-site backup processing locations, processing and contract terms and conditions is perhaps one of the most crucial aspects of completing a Disaster Recovery plan. Hot-site evaluation and selection often suffers the lowest priority of any of the contingency planning efforts. Many individuals, groups or teams have spent countless hours identifying the crucial… Continue reading Evaluating Hot-Sites and Contracts

Protecting Your Corporate Computer Assets

Many data processing professionals and corporate executive officers face difficult business decisions that will affect the cost of providing information processing disaster contingency plans in the future. The time has come for managers to take a proactive approach toward managing one of their company’s biggest assets — computerized corporate data. Twelve disaster contingency processing options… Continue reading Protecting Your Corporate Computer Assets

What To Look For In A Media Protection Facility

As more businesses realize the importance of contingency planning and off-site data storage, the question of how to find a proper media protection facility must be answered. The facility chosen should have a comprehensive program which offers more than simply storage. The following is a listing of features which you should look for in choosing… Continue reading What To Look For In A Media Protection Facility

Record Storage:Is It Vital to Your Firm’s Success?

Whether it’s lease agreements stashed in file cabinets or mailing lists on a computer file, your company’s records are the heart and soul of your business. A study by the University of Minnesota concluded that 93% of businesses that lost their data center for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year. Of… Continue reading Record Storage:Is It Vital to Your Firm’s Success?

Solving Storage Management Issues

Solving Storage Management Issues for Today’s Open, Networked  Computing Environment: Security Standards Top the List The 90’s data explosion and open systems revolution have spread mission critical data across the enterprise in a heterogeneous, networked computer environment. As businesses increasingly rely on information as a competitive advantage, the storage demand for non-mainframe, secure, network-based systems… Continue reading Solving Storage Management Issues

Marquette Medical Systems

Marquette Medical Systems Relies on Storage Management System To Protect Its Customers Through Lengthy Product Lifecycle While storage management is critical for any business, when people’s lives depend on a company’s software and information resources, there simply can be no margin for backup or restore errors or delays. In short, if an information system needs… Continue reading Marquette Medical Systems