Business continuity briefs: 27th June 2008

Business continuity briefs:
27th June 2008

'Business continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services press releases and other useful resources published in the last 24 hours.

IDC survey highlights growth in business continuity as a priority for IT managers in the Asia/Pacific region
In a recent survey of over 1100 IT decision makers in the Asia/Pacific region, IDC measured the importance of 10 key solution areas touted by IT services vendors globally. Network infrastructure solutions came up as being most important, with over 70 percent of respondents in markets such as Australia, China, and India indicating that solutions pertaining to the network were either important or very important. Business continuity and disaster recovery was a close second in importance among survey respondents. Click here to see a diagram illustrating the survey results.

3Tera delivers disaster recovery in the cloud
3Tera, Inc., has announced the immediate availability of its MySQL-R appliance, an addition to the AppLogic system catalog, that is designed to provide easy database replication for scaling and disaster recovery. MySQL-R is the first appliance in 3Tera's complete Disaster Recovery Suite to be available with the AppLogic grid operating system. Read press release.

Gartner says cloud computing will be as influential as e-business
Cloud computing heralds an evolution of business that is no less influential than e-business, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner maintains that the very confusion and contradiction that surrounds the term ‘cloud computing’ signifies its potential to change the status quo in the IT market. To explore the subject further Gartner has published a new report ‘Cloud Computing Confusion Leads to Opportunity’ which examines the realities and risks. The report is available here.

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•Date: 27th June 2008• Region: Various