Linux News: Disaster Recovery

Tuesday - October 7, 2008

Apple's Time Machine is great for incremental on-site backups, but what happens if there's a theft, fire, or flood? Mac owners facing such a disaster can wave goodbye to the Time Capsule and prepare to start from scratch -- unless there's a remote backup solution in play, of course. Earlier this year, Mozy, a branch of EMC that provides online backup, launched its first backup service for Apple aficionados, MozyHome for Mac. While it's great for saving the family photo album, it wasn't exactly set up to handle the heavy payloads associated with a burgeoning Mac-based business. [More...]

Again! Tech That Doesn't Work Won't Let Us Work

Sunday - October 5, 2008

Yes, I am an angry guy. I yell at other drivers. I roll my eyes when I have to stand in line for more than two minutes. I complain about Wall Street's greedy executives, out-of-touch politicians, and our local newscast idiots, with their pancake makeup, chiseled cheekbones, and chirpy laughter. Stuff that doesn't work -- especially business technology -- is at the top of the list of things that make me angry. [More...]

Cloud Storage, Part 1: The Business Data Warehouse

Wednesday - October 1, 2008

For most businesses, data security is a mission-critical undertaking, and a summer of weather calamities drove home that point. "As the recent hurricanes reminded us, off-premise backup solutions can make the difference between being out of business for good and being on hiatus for a few months," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group. [More...]

HP Expands App Bodyguard Service

Tuesday - August 5, 2008

HP announced Monday a new round of open source utilities for data center operators. The expanded portfolio increases support for HP Serviceguard for Linux, HP's clustering and disaster tolerance products, to include Novell Suse and Red Hat Xen virtual machines. HP also introduced its HP Strategy Workshop and Migration Assessment Services. These offerings help to deploy and support OpenLDAP, an open source directory. [More...]

New Virtualization Tool Plows Field for Big Server Farms

Monday - August 4, 2008

Enterprise virtualization provider 3Leaf Systems announced Monday the release of its V-8000 Virtual I/O Server version 2.0. This software release, part of the 3Leaf Virtual Compute Environment, is designed for disaster recovery, streamlined management and enhanced availability for large x86 server deployments. [More...]

MozyHome Opens the Door for Online Mac Backups

Thursday - May 1, 2008

While Apple's Time Machine and Time Capsule present a made-for-Mac backup solution designed and built by the company itself, it lacks one critical feature -- offsite backups. If a home is robbed, flooded or, worse yet, burned, some of a computer's most precious data can be lost with it. While the family budget is important enough, the real gold is family photos and movies that can never be recreated. [More...]

Cyber-Attacks and Cyber-Disasters: Are You Prepared?

Friday - April 25, 2008

Have you seen the recent television commercial that shows the Pentagon and says, "This building gets attacked 3 million times a day." The sad news is that it's true. Cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks have now become a reality. Ever consider how your business would be impacted if the Internet went away for an hour, a day or an even a longer period of time? [More...]

Don't Panic: Accounting for Human Nature in IT Disaster Response

Friday - April 18, 2008

Ever heard that story about the mother who lifted the car off of her son? I thought it was an urban legend until I looked it up. But apparently it's true: In 1982, Angela Cavallo saw her son being crushed by a 1964 Impala. Seeing that happen brought Angela to a state of panic so severe that she temporarily gained superhuman strength -- enough strength necessary to lift the car off her son. [More...]

Answering Smartphone Users' Calls for Backup

Tuesday - March 18, 2008

As our reliance on smartphones continues to grow, so does the fear of losing all the information they contain -- and for good reason. Fierce competition among handset manufacturers and carriers has resulted in a chaotic, seemingly impenetrable jungle of incompatible makes and models with backup and recovery functionality that often proves complicated to use. [More...]

Keeping Tabs on Employees When Disaster Strikes

Friday - January 4, 2008

Change may no longer be the only constant; danger is proving omnipresent and therefore a constant variable in enterprise IT planning. "In today's world where a shooter can walk in the front door of a church and open fire, there is really no place that is safe," Henry Dewing, analyst at Forrester Research told TechNewsWorld. [More...]

Seanodes Targets Wasted Space With New Virtualized Storage Tool

Tuesday - November 27, 2007

French company Seanodes has introduced software architecture that it says allows companies to leverage unused processing power in its storage infrastructure to create a virtual storage pool. The introduction of this application, the firm claims, has in effect created a new category in the storage space that it is calling "Shared Internal Storage." [More...]

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