A demonstration of how SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition extends Windows Server Failover Clustering to provide high availability and disaster recovery options for your Hyper-V virtual servers.

SteelEye DataKeeper is a highly efficient replication engine that does real-time block level replication of Hyper-V virtual machines from one host server to another. SteelEye DataKeeper “Cluster Edition” integrates with Windows Server Failover Clustering to replace the shared physical disk resource with a DataKeeper replicated volume resource, which enables multi-site clustering and disaster recovery configurations.

Duration : 0:6:26

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Will Urban, Product Marketing Consultant, and the Dell EqualLogic team conduct a Disaster recovery demo at the Dell booth at VMworld Europe.

For demonstration purposes the two Dell stands on the exhibition floor represented London and Paris offices and the demo goes through the simple a step-by-step process of testing your disaster recovery strategy before you need it. I particularly like the way Will describes an ideal disaster recovery conversation with a CIO and how Site Recovery Manager (SRM) can help you to simply demonstrate that your disaster recovery and business continuity plan is sound, prior to any crisis and without disrupting normal service.

Duration : 0:6:28

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Hear from satistied customers on why virtualization is one of the hottest technologies on the market today

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Continuity Centers – Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Services
Built as the original data center for Grumman Data Services, our facility has been in production for over 25 years. Located in Woodbury, New York, Nassau County Long Island. Continuity Centers was established in September of 2000 as a workgroup recovery and disaster recovery data center. Located less than a 1/2 mile from the Long Island Expressway, Northern State Parkway and Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway at the Sunnyside Blvd exit. We are the only Long Island data center who offers workgroup recovery and has hosted countless disaster declarations since 2000, ensuring “Business as usual, when the unusual strikes”. Our managed services for co-location provide 24×7 monitoring and management of your mission critical systems.

Details:
Currently Tier 1 with Tier 2 development under way Parent company, GTel Networks, provides Managed Services for disaster recovery, managed colo and operational support as well as Managed Services for your production IT systems at your facility. 15,000 square feet of data center and 5,000+ square feet of both shared and dedicated workgroup recovery in a Class A building with an Au Bon Pain café.
Certified as: VMware Enterprise Partner, LeftHand Networks iSCSI SANs, Cisco Select Partner, DoubleTake replication software and more.
N+1 HVAC and UPS or Custom N+N UPS
Fully maintained UPS and diesel powered generator backup AS400 and IBM.
Mainframe co-production and disaster recovery services available.

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Basic conceps with disaster recovery. Recovery point objecive and recovery time objective.
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Emergencies happen within a business. That is something that is inevitable. You never know when an entire system is going to crash or another disaster may come about. You have to be prepared for these things. If you’re not, then everything will be chaotic. No one will know what to do. In other words, everyone will be running around asking each other, “What do we do now?” And no one is going to have an answer.

What is a disaster recovery plan?

A disaster recovery plan is that protocol in which your employees follow when a certain disaster comes about. You have to evaluate everything that could go wrong within your business and have a recovery plan for each one of those situations. Since not one situation is the same, there has to be a protocol for each. From there, your employees have to study it and know what to do immediately. This means they need to memorize. There are many disasters that do not allow time for someone to pull out a manual and read what needs to happen. They have to act immediately.

But why have a disaster recovery plan in place? You should have one in place because you need to conduct business in the best manner possible for your customers. Your customers expect seamless service no matter what, so you have to try to make things as convenient for them as possible. If you don’t, then you risk losing their business.

Your disaster recovery plan will include dealing with data loss during a natural disaster, dealing with a system meltdown, power surges, and so much more. It depends on what sort of business you are in as to what kind of plans you use. Just make sure that you cover all of your bases and that you also have a master plan so that you can take care of something that may not have a plan. You just never know what could happen.

Statistics

Statistics have shown that businesses with a disaster recovery plan are amongst those that recover better. Those who have experienced some sort of disaster that lasts for more than 10 days will never recover financially. 50% of those companies without a disaster recovery plan will spend so much time making up for lost cash that they will most likely be out of business in 5 years. That is not something you want to have to deal with. The cost of an outage that lasts only a few days is already bad enough. Contracts can be broken, credibility can be lost, and even future customers will never be acquired. These are extreme losses.

So take these statistics to heart so that you know why it is you need a disaster recovery plan. Not one more business needs to go out of business due to an outage, so you need to be on top of things. You need to realize that anything that prohibits you from carrying out your business practices can do irreparable damages. Your customers expect for you to be there for them whenever they need you. There is nothing more frustrating to them than trying to resolve an issue that you can’t resolve because of an outage. If their request is not fulfilled, then they may suddenly become your competitor’s newest customer.

This should be enough to convince you. It is much easier to come up with a disaster recovery plan than to have to deal with a crisis blind. Imagine your entire business being shut down due to something out of your control. Now imagine sitting there with a thousand questions flying at you about what to do.

A. Nutt
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/reasons-to-have-a-disaster-recovery-plan-in-place-691216.html

Current business system comprises tons of data, which serve the basis of its existence. Often unnoticed, but yet important, data’s significance is felt by most of the wise companies which force them to take backup of their data. So what are the reasons that instead of having the backup configured, they need the data recovery solutions as the cure? Well, the topmost reason is the incorrect backup selection. However, improper maintenance and faults in the scheme contribute to make other factors.

Data recovery will no more be a need if you plan safely, considering all the organizational needs. Basically, you need to opt between offsite and online backups. An Offsite backup means you are storing data on some storage media to an offsite vault, which is practically an unreliable and intrusive method. When the natural disaster strikes, the data stored as such takes off all your data. On the other hand, online backups prove comparatively worth in such type of incidents.

When the business is at halt due to data loss, immediate and complete data recovery is needed. But at the time of having backups, most of us think about the finance needed. No matter how many servers are involved or the personal computers are covered in the scheme, data worth, even in financial terms. So do care of what is important and is beneficial for business future.

If you are using an offsite backup plan, you have to pay as according to the amount of data. Pricing is based on the number of gigabytes on per month basis.

Backup failure can be mainly attributed to the user errors when he/she can’t recognize the demand of business, the effective backup plan and more. So which thing comes as the solution, when your strategy of data recovery has got failed? These are the data recovery solutions.

Data recovery remedies fall in two major categories:  data recovery software and data recovery service. As far as the logical cases like accidental formatting, user mistakes, operating system faults, virus attack etc. are concerned, data recovery software can scan and recover all what has got lost. Contrarily, data recovery service covers physical cases when some teeny and harsh incident has rendered the drive inoperable.

Both of them comply the data recovery needs in their respective fields. The corresponding scanning and manual treatment have let the companies to think of the alternatives, other than taking backups. But the success of data recovery matters with the correct choice. So come with the flying colors with the best of your searching abilities.

Stellar Information Systems Limited, being the market leader of  data recovery industry, offers you the most splendid data recovery products and services. Data recovery software for different operating systems and data recovery service for all types of storage media prove valuable in each data loss case.

Stellar’s data recovery service is blessed with Class 100 Clean Rooms, delivered by the experts of the industry. Data recovery software with the interactive interface and read-only conduct resolve data loss issues easily and safely.

shally spears
http://www.articlesbase.com/data-recovery-articles/data-recovery-as-the-backup-failure-cure-670485.html

The first part of SQL Server Disaster recovery planning, or DRP, is knowing what your options are to get a new SQL Server up and running as fast as possible after disaster strikes. In this twelve minute video, Brent explains your options, including log shipping, database mirroring and SAN snapshot replication.

You can view this video in higher quality or your favorite portable formats at:

http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/sql-server-backup-and-restore/disaster-recovery-basics-tutorial/

Duration : 0:12:14

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