VMware: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Monday, June 27th, 2011 at 3:21 am
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Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning
Sunday, June 26th, 2011 at 12:11 am
VMware and Disaster Recovery at Kane County, Illinois
Friday, January 7th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
David Siles, CTO of Kane County, Illinois, talks about how the county’s virtual infrastructure, standardized on VMware Infrastructure 3, enables unparalleled business continuity and disaster recovery benefits.
Learn more: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/continuity/
Duration : 0:2:41
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Northwest
Saturday, December 25th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Personal compilation of some press for IT-Lifeline, which is the largest and most comprehensive provider of business continuation and recovery solutions within the Northwest for the small to medium size business market and recognized as best in class by several key industry organizations.
Duration : 0:4:35
VMware and Disaster Recovery at Bowdoin College
Friday, December 17th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Bowdoin College is using VMware Infrastructure 3 for enhanced manageability and business continuity for their IT services.
Partnering with Loyola Marymount University in California, Bowdoin has architected an innovative disaster recovery process leveraging the power of virtualization, to allow Bowdoin and Loyola to maintain copies of their virtual infrastructure at each other’s datacenter, in the case of the emergency.
This allows the colleges to enjoy the security benefits of having a strong disaster recovery plan, without the extraordinary cost of maintaining a warm disaster recovery site.
Learn more: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/continuity/
Duration : 0:2:54
Tape Drive Vs Disaster Recovery Data Backup Solution
Monday, December 13th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
http://www.greatsys.com/bintro.asp
GCS: 847-763-0763
Are you looking for a fast and confidential recovery of your data? GCS can do it! Call us today at 847-763-0763 to find out more about our data recovery service. Prevent data loss with our great deals on data backup. Data backup allows lost data to be restored. This is a smart solution to manually backing up your own data. We can backup your data as often as every 15 minutes. Every important document should be protected, start by calling GCS for a quote. We have a state of the art data backup and disaster recovery and solution that bullet proofs your data. If you have important information on your computer, it is essential to back it up with a safe and reliable source.
Call us if you need help in:
* Hard drive recovery?
* Memory card recovery?
* Seagate recovery?
* Maxtor recovery?
* IBM/SUN/ DELL/ Hitachi/Palm Pilot/Apple/Linux recovery?
* Server recovery?
* Standard recovery?
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Tape Drive Vs Disaster Recovery Data Backup Solution
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A State of the Art Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution that bullet proofs your data. Highlights of the Service:
1. A complete solution that is designed to reduce any server down time with the use of a specialized
backup and virtual server appliance.
2. Allows near real-time backups-as frequent as every 15 minutes.
3. Offers offsite storage at an affordable cost.
4. Provides a low cost, speedy disaster recovery process.
5. Data is encrypted so it is not accessible to anyone, either on the NAS or at the remote storage facility
without the passkey.
6. Eliminates the cost and time of managing on-site tape backup. We monitor and manage the entire process.
7. All costs-frequent on site backups, on site virtual server, remote storage, disaster recovery in the event
of disaster and 24×7 management of the entire process are bundled at a price that is comparable to the
overall cost of buying and managing tape backup.
Business Continuity Planning for Small and Medium Size Businesses:
BCP is the blueprint for how businesses plan to survive everything from local equipment failure to global disaster. Data-oriented BCP, an indispensable component of business planning regardless of organization size, poses the following challenges. Smaller businesses generally lack the in-house IT resources to achieve these demanding planning, technical and process requirements. Therefore, many SMBs either neglect to implement any data-oriented business continuity plan or else approach data backup and recovery in a sporadic, rudimentary fashion that fails to conform to the best practices of BCP.
Tape Drive Vs Disaster Recovery Data Backup Solution
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A Complete Solution that addresses all of your Data backup and recovery Needs:
Near Real-Time Backups
On-site Virtual Server:
A Complete Image
Intuitive and Flexible Restoration
Secure Remote Storage
Secure, Bandwidth Throttling Transfer
24×7 Completely Managed Solution
Affordable Cost
highest-performance data backup medium (tape or disk), Base Image, Remote Storage and Base Remote Backup Image Creation, Incremental Forever Methodology, Synthetic Incrementals, Recovery Options, Virtualization (Physical to Virtual) Standby Server Functionality, Bare Metal Restore (Virtual to Physical), On-site and Off-site Solution with Multiple Restore Points
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http://www.greatsys.com/bintro.asp
GCS: 847-763-0763
Duration : 0:4:25
Understanding the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning In the Organization
Saturday, November 27th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
In developing a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning firstly we need to understand the different between the Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC). The different between Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity can be described with the following scenario.
In an incident where the fire sweeps the server room where all the servers reside, destroying everything in it including all the servers and the entire supporting infrastructure, the network routers, the LAN Switches, the network cabling and everything – nothing left. In the documentation of your business continuity and disaster recovery planning, you will take some Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity processes.
Disaster Recovery (DR) example:
To restore the data (thanks to your daily backup strategy) to alternate servers in an alternate site, you need to do the recovery to a basic operational level. This will allow the users to continue working immediately after the restoration completed and the system is available again. This is the DR part of your business continuity and disaster recovery planning processes.
Business Continuity (BC) Example:
In an effort to invoke the full Business Continuity plan for this fire disaster, you would do the following steps:
• Purchasing new server units including the supported equipments including Switches, Routers network, and other networking infrastructures
• Rebuilding the physical server rooms and other facilities such as network cabling, server racks with a new and much better design including the easy to reach fire extinguisher placement and other things to comply with the HSE.
• Long hard works of migrating the current data and users management to new system
We see now the different between the disaster recovery and business continuity which all should be managed within your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.
Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Planning
Every organization should manage the information system infrastructure and protect against any potential threats, and should also manage the disaster recovery and business continuity planning against any damage or loss in the event of a disaster. Threats to IT infrastructure are real and costs companies millions of dollars each year, therefore guidelines about disaster recovery planning must be developed to assist in the identification and prevention of potential risks which may impact the business.
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning provides a framework for the recovery of your IT infrastructure from any kinds of specific disaster both large and small in scale. A Disaster Recovery planning assists in providing a pre-defined and co-ordinate list of steps for the minimization of the overall effects of a disaster and recovery from a disaster. During or following a disaster, a Disaster Recovery planning aids in avoiding confusion to ensure a swift recovery to a stable level of business continuity operations.
Preventive Strategy
In your business continuity and disaster recovery planning should manage the Preventive Strategies which includes the methods that should be taken to avoid a potential disaster from happening.
Such measures are crucial to the mitigation of the risk and are usually implemented upon the identification of a potential risk. Examples of preventative strategies include:
• Daily backup and Data backup in a weekly or monthly basis should be taken stored off site.
• Properly and well managed firewalls will protect from potential hacking or any types of network security threats.
• Anti-virus software deployed to all the servers and computers to protect the virus outbreaks
• Two redundant Internet connections being terminated into two different exchanges to avoid loss of Internet connectivity.
Recovery
In your business continuity and disaster recovery planning, recovery strategies should include the steps t taken when a disaster occurs. The executions of the steps should be swift to avoid the prolonged timeframes in an acceptable level of operation. The following are examples of recovery strategies:
• Performing a regular data restore test from the tapes should be done to make sure that data restoration will work perfectly in case of disaster.
• Managing the alternate server room with acceptable standby backup servers in the event of the main server rooms facilities destroyed. Particularly the domain servers and or DNS server which are critical to the operation of the system
• Spare server in an alternative location for the restoration of the data in the event of the main file and print servers failing.
Being prepared for a disaster is much better before the disaster destroy everything.
Ki Grinsing has long years of working experiences in IT, graduated from a university with the addition of MCS and CCNA certifications. Read more related article Disaster recovery planning and risk security assessment
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Disaster Recovery and VMware at Collier County Schools
Monday, November 22nd, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Tom Petry of Collier County School District talks about the disaster recovery realities of running a 40k user school district IT infrastructure in Hurricane country.
VMware technology enables Collier to leverage failover sites to ensure robust business continuity even in the case of datacenter loss.
Learn more: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/continuity/
Duration : 0:2:45
ThinkingSafe – Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Sunday, November 21st, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Thinking Safe – Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Contingency Planning
By outlining the most common steps in contingency planning and disaster recovery, as well as identifying popular tools and solutions, hopefully Thinking Safe (www.thinkingsafe.com) will help make this process far less daunting.
Contingency Planning For The Small Enterprise. One of the first contingency planning tasks to be undertaken is to prepare a comprehensive list of the potentially serious incidents that could affect the normal operations of the business.
Business Continuity
It is vital that the organization takes the development and maintenance of the disaster recovery or business continuity plan seriously. Thinking Safe provides your company with a disaster recovery and business continuity plan which can be deployed rapidly and reliably should disaster ever strike. This is why companies have a disaster recovery/business continuity plan. Business continuity consultants advise on the key issues that have to be addressed and can help companies to develop effective business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
The creation of and maintenance of a sound business continuity and disaster recovery plan, is a complex undertaking, involving a series of steps. Prior to creation of the plan itself, it is essential to consider the potential impacts of disaster and to understand the underlying risks: these are the foundations upon which a sound business continuity plan or disaster recovery plan should be built. Thinking Safe is designed to consider all these issues and to catalog some of the most highly acclaimed products and services. The first step in a sensible business continuity process is to consider the potential impacts of each type of disaster or event. A sound disaster recovery / business continuity plan is essential to protect the well being of an organization. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity. While business continuity involves planning for keeping all aspects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptive events, disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technology systems that support business functions. Another driving force in the growth of the industry was increasing government regulations mandating business continuity and disaster recovery plans for organizations in various sectors of the economy. Disaster recovery planning is a subset of a larger process known as business continuity planning and should include planning for resumption of applications, data, hardware, communications such as networking and other IT infrastructure. A business continuity plan BCP includes planning for non-IT related aspects such as key personnel, facilities, crisis communication and reputation protection, and should refer to the disaster recovery plan DRP for IT related infrastructure recovery / continuity. Disaster recovery is a critical part of business continuity planning. Disaster Recovery DR and Business Continuity Planning BCP are massive areas which mean stress and worry to many organisations.
The contingency plan needs to be developed by a team representing all functional areas of the organization.
Recovery Plan
According to recent statistics, one quarter of UK businesses don’t have a disaster recovery plan which is dangerous for your business. Should something go wrong, a disaster recovery plan can ensure that your business will continue and survive. Traditional disaster recovery plans require many manual, complex steps to allocate recovery resources, recover data and validate that systems are ready for use. Traditional recovery plans are often difficult to test, difficult to keep up to date, and depend on exact execution of complex, manual processes. Easily test your disaster recovery plan to ensure the highest levels of reliability and availability of your entire IT infrastructure. The ability to respond to an interruption in services by implementing a disaster recovery plan to restore an organisation’s critical business functions. Previously established preparedness, response, and recovery plans with specific directions and tools can dramatically increase economic recovery and decrease the length of reconstruction recovery time. In those occasions consultants at Thinking Safe help to recover the data through IT consulting and recovery plans for issues caused by disaster. These IT consulting and recovery plans include backup strategies, offsite replication and hosted critical services.
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Disaster Recovery Overview.mp4
Saturday, November 13th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Ruth McCurdy shows how to start your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity process inexpensively, quickly, and with little hassle.
Duration : 0:1:0
