GSS urges caution on cloud computing GSS is urging UK companies to review their data protection arrangements before jumping - even on a trial basis - into the world of cloud computing. Read article •Date: 10th October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Kroll Ontrack extends service for Oracle-based enterprises Unveils ‘first independent data recovery solution for Oracle databases’. Read article •Date: 10th October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Disaster recovery in a virtual world IBM stepped in recently to provide virtual disaster recovery for the Virtual Worlds Forum Show. Read article •Date: 9th October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Symantec launches new high availability and disaster recovery platform ‘Veritas Cluster Server One’. Read article •Date: 9th October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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MasterCard Worldwide wins 2008 Connect NonStop Availability Award MasterCard processing platform recognized for being 'always on'. Read article •Date: 7th October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Ten ways to spot a potential IT train wreck The essence of business resiliency is nipping future business continuity problems in the bud and to aid this Gartner has issued a checklist of ten warning signs of impending IT continuity issues. Read article •Date: 7th October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Data de-duplication becoming mainstream 62 percent of companies use data de-duplication according to a new survey. Read article •Date: 7th October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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CoSentry expands footprint in Kansas City CoSentry, one of the region's leading providers of business continuity and managed solutions, has announced that its footprint in Kansas City is expanding. The company is adding nearly 4,000 square feet of raised floor space in its Kansas City data center to meet the increasing need for services. The additional space will be available to clients from October 15th and will allow clients to build primary, redundant, mirrored or backup data center capabilities inside CoSentry's Kansas City Business Resiliency facility. www.cosentry.com •Date: 7th October 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Gartner says contrasting views on cloud computing are creating confusion The term ‘cloud computing’ is being loosely applied and defined differently, and this is creating a lot of confusion in the market. Read article •Date: 3rd October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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CA offers extended live trial of disaster recovery software to companies in hurricane-prone states Offered until October 15th, the trial can be used for the balance of the hurricane season, until December 1st. Read article •Date: 3rd October 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange launched Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange extends the company's backup and disaster recovery protection to Microsoft Exchange servers. Read article •Date: 1st October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Content Depots to become ‘major disruptors of existing storage systems business models’ According to IDC. Read article •Date: 1st October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Service management: return on investment from ITIL A white paper by Paul Whitlock. Read article •Date: 23rd Sept 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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BakBone delivers 30-second application data recovery with New NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector BakBone Software now offers a real-time data protection solution that enables users to recover Exchange, SQL Server and Windows file system data in as fast as 30 seconds with near-zero data loss. NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector provides granular recovery of individual mailboxes or mailbox items without performing additional brick-level backups, which reduces storage costs and vastly minimises the loss of business-critical application data. http://www.bakbone.com/product.aspx?id=2498 •Date: 23rd Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Survey looks at challenges facing US data centers Business continuity, managing virtualized systems and applications, power consumption and overall complexity are the key challenges. Read article •Date: 18th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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‘Livewire’ bridges gap between backup, restore and failover technologies New Double-Take offering ‘slashes recovery time by leveraging virtualization’. Read article •Date: 18th Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Consonus and Asigra launch ‘Virtual Business Continuity’ services Leverages active virtual infrastructure and agentless information recovery platform. Read article •Date: 18th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Telehouse to offer transatlantic Ethernet connectivity By utilizing the power of virtual LAN, 'Global Interlink' will provide client equipment with transparent Ethernet communication as though they were connected to the same Layer 2 switch. Read article •Date: 18th Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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NetEx Virtual HyperIP for VMware delivers up to 10x performance in data replication and file transfer over WAN NetEx has announced the launch of Virtual HyperIP bandwidth optimization solutions for VMware environments that deliver a threefold to tenfold increase in data replication performance. http://www.netex.com/products/hyperip.html •Date: 12h Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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EMC Replication Manager Software automates data protection for virtual environments EMC has announced that its EMC Replication Manager software now features new data protection functionality for VMware Infrastructure that provides customers with more effective information protection and business continuity of virtual environments. Replication Manager automates the management of EMC array based replicas, accelerating backups, enabling more complete reporting and saving time, staff and computing resources. By automating the management processes, replicas can be created in the context of the application, with parallel access to production data for backup acceleration, reporting, and testing - with little to no impact to production. Read press release •Date: 12h Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Top 10 network security threats to small and medium sized businesses New research identifies specific security threats which SMBs face. Read article •Date: 10th Sept 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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3Tera expands cloud computing network Provides high availability, redundancy and disaster recovery for users' applications. Read article •Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Patent granted for business continuity solution via disparate networks Invention allows for dynamic load balancing and automatic failover of packets over multiple parallel private and public networks for high levels of WAN fault tolerance and security. Read article •Date: 4th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New blade server is the first to actively reduce security threats IBM blade performs real-time analysis of network activity so malicious traffic can be diverted. Read article •Date: 4th Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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AmeriVault launches accelerated disaster recovery service for iSeries servers Allows remote access to a virtualized recovery environment following a disaster. Read article •Date: 29th August 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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ioSafe selects Fujitsu to deliver first disaster-protected internal hard drives Fujitsu has announced that ioSafe, a provider of disaster-proof hardware and disaster recovery services, is using the Fujitsu 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drives in its ioSafe 3.5 series – claimed to be the world's first disaster-protected internal 3.5-inch SATA HDD. Read press release. http://www.fujitsu.com/us/news/pr/fcpa_20080826-02.html •Date: 29th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Survey finds significant decline in executive involvement in disaster recovery planning Also finds that disaster recovery plans are being reevaluated as a result of virtualization. Read article •Date: 28th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Clustered storage vs. storage virtualization: is there a winner? Philip Crocker compares the two storage solutions. Read article •Date: 28th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Extensible threat management Extensible threat management is the next generation of unified threat management. This article provides an overview of XTM and explains its advantages over UTM.. Read article •Date: 28th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Draft version of BS 25777 published Comments requested on BSI’s ‘Code of Practice for Information and Communications Technology Continuity’. Read article •Date: 21st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IBM leading business continuity into the cloud IBM commits $300 million to building a cloud-based business continuity and recovery network. Read article •Date: 21st August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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National Gateway Security Survey 2008 shows interesting changes in threat landscape But focus is still on external threat, despite the greater danger of inside threat. Read article •Date: 21st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Yosemite Backup 8.7 Yosemite Technologies has announced that it has added full support for Microsoft Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems with the immediate release of Yosemite Backup 8.7. This latest version of Yosemite's popular server backup solution extends its ability to protect virtual environments to now include Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, in addition to existing support for VMware, delivering a simple and reliable solution to customers who use virtual machines. Also featured in Yosemite Backup 8.7 is updated bare-metal disaster recovery utilizing the latest version of Windows PE (WinPE 2.1) for Vista and Windows Server 2008. This will allow for recovery to dissimilar hardware and set the stage for further BMDR functionality in future versions of the product. www.yosemitetech.com •Date: 19th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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The case for CDP Simon Kelson explains why he believes that continual data protection is the optimum IT disaster recovery solution for most businesses. Read article •Date: 15th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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NODE4 introduce a new DR solution Data Centre specialist, Node4, has launched N4DRS, a new disaster recovery solution that uses Platespin Forge technology to protect multiple servers, either physical or virtual, across several sites. The servers are backed up onto the appliance N4DRS regularly so that in the event of a server outage or disaster the business will continue to run as normal on the appliance until the normal environment is restored. N4DRS can be centralised in Node4’s data centre where it is managed and monitored. http://www.node4.co.uk/ •Date: 15th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Gartner has identified various emerging technologies which will have a strong impact on business IT. IT continuity managers need to be aware of these and to consider their potential business continuity impacts. Read article •Date: 13th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Multiply the uses of your business continuity infrastructure
Many IT managers don’t realise that their business continuity infrastructure can be much more than a convenient means to get data offsite... Read article •Date: 13th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Many companies have a false sense of confidence in their backup solutions
According to a new survey. Read article •Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Double-Take launches Linux compatible version Well-known disaster recovery and high availability data replication product available on Linux for the first time. Read article •Date: 8th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Monitoring for effective data protection Barriers are not enough; data protection requires a systematic risk based approach. Read article •Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Researchers develop ‘next-generation antivirus system’
New cloud computing approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan. Read article •Date: 7th August 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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New SunGard service helps US companies achieve fast recovery of virtual IT environments
SunGard Availability Services introduces Virtual Server Replication Services. Read article •Date: 5th August 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IBM plans $360 million data center in North Carolina Amongst other services, will provide dual-site backup and recovery offerings. Read article •Date: 5th August 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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SunGard launches ‘Total Recovery’ service in the UK
New fully managed ship-to-site recovery service provides pre-configured servers. Read article •Date: 1st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Global cloud computing research test bed created A HP, Intel and Yahoo! collaboration. Read article •Date: 1st August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Protecting virtual infrastructures with data replication
What is the best way to protect virtual servers and keep them highly available? Read article •Date: 18th July 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New WiMAX business continuity service for UK market ‘Diverse Backup’ ends inherent risk of last mile local loop. Read article •Date: 18th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Organizations are moving e-mail continuity to the cloud says Cemaphore Cemaphore Systems has announced the availability of the Beta2 release of MailShadow for Google Apps (MailShadowG), allowing organizations to move some or potentially all of their e-mail continuity and disaster recovery into the cloud, with zero infrastructure. Read press release •Date: 18th July 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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IBM Council predicts five key information challenges
The IBM Data Governance Council has predicted five key information challenges that will affect enterprises during the next four years. Read article •Date: 11th July 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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'Back in 60 minutes' hosted disaster recovery service launched for UK SMEs
FalconStor Software has partnered with Atlanta Technology to deliver a new hosted disaster recovery service for small and medium-sized businesses. Read article •Date: 11th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IBM survey looks into corporate metadata management
Businesses need to better inventory their information to help reduce risk. Read article •Date: 9th July 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Server virtualization now firmly embedded in European organizations: IDC The largest growth area for virtualization use over the past year, particularly in small and medium businesses, is improving disaster recovery, backup, and enhancing availability. Read article •Date: 9th July 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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MessageLabs launches Email Continuity service
Software as a service provider offers on-demand, fully managed solution for continuous email availability and disaster recovery. Read article •Date: 2nd July 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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CERT and FIRST announce ISM Best Practices Contest 2008 winners Two papers detail the winning entries. Read article •Date: 2nd July 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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‘Risk & Resilience: The Application Availability Gamble’ New report finds that one in five organizations suffer failures resulting in tangible business damage at least quarterly. Read article •Date: 2nd July 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Microsoft launches latest virtualization technology
Following the launch of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft reached another milestone this week with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology. Read article •Date: 27th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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‘Six Ways to Improve the Availability and Performance of Your Business Services’
A new white paper from Mazu Networks. Read article •Date: 24th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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HP launches data deduplication solutions
HP claims that the new solutions will increase disk utilization by up to 50 times to deliver scalable solutions that reduce storage costs and protect business critical data. Read article •Date: 24th June 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New standard will help with information security risk management
ISO/IEC 27005:2008 ‘Information technology – Security techniques – Information security risk management’. Read article •Date: 20th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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FEMA to pilot Citizen Corps National Emergency Technology Guard (NET Guard) program NET Guard teams will be comprised of volunteers with information technology and communications expertise to assist States and localities in responding to and recovering from incidents that cause significant damage or destruction to IT and communications infrastructure. Read article •Date: 20th June 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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European Network and Information Security Agency warns about USB flash drive risks
Report highlights good practice in the management of USB Flash Drives. Read article •Date: 19th June 2008• Region:W.Europe/ UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Softbank Telecom and Bay Microsystems deploy multi-site disaster recovery solution for virtual machines Bay Microsystems, Inc. has announced that Softbank Telecom has deployed Bay Microsystems’ ABEx2020 Multi-Service Transport Gateway to deliver high-performance carrier Infiniband services as part of its wide area virtualization infrastructure and to demonstrate its automated multi-site disaster recovery solution. Read press release •Date: 19th June 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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HP launches ‘world’s first blade server for 24/7 mission critical computing’
High availability, fault-tolerant blade server. Read article •Date: 17th June 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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MAS updates IBTRM guidelines Aims to assist banks in establishing a sound and robust technology risk management framework. Read article •Date: 17th June 2008• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Continuity Software releases new RecoverGuard version Continuity Software has announced the availability of Version 3.0 of its RecoverGuard IT disaster recovery management software. Read article •Date: 17th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report
Contrary to popular wisdom a new survey finds that most data breaches are caused by external rather than internal sources. Read article •Date: 12th June 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Kroll Ontrack announces data recovery breakthrough on VMware virtualized environments Kroll Ontrack has announced that it has become the first company to have the ability to perform data recovery services on VMware systems. Read article •Date: 12th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Stratus ‘opens a new chapter in high availability’ New Avance software delivers low-cost high availability, virtualization and business continuity. Read article •Date: 12th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IBM announces next-generation storage virtualization software As part of its ‘Project Big Green’ offerings, IBM has announced new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications. Read press release. •Date: 12th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Storix provides backup and adaptable system recovery software for Solaris Storix, Inc., has announced the release of System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) v 6.3. This now supports Solaris, meaning that in addition to Linux and AIX, SBAdmin v6.3 users now have backup and full system recovery capabilities for their Solaris systems. ASR enables backups to be easily adapted to fit newer or virtual systems when identical hardware is not available. Read press release. •Date: 12th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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SteelEye introduces real-time data replication solution for Windows Server 2008
SteelEye Technology has announced ‘SteelEye DataKeeper for Windows’, a comprehensive data replication solution for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 that makes real-time data replication cost-effective and accessible to small to medium-sized businesses. SteelEye DataKeeper for Windows is a WAN-optimized data replication and disaster recovery solution that features real-time continuous data protection and extends Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering. Read press release. •Date: 10th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT Continuity
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Leveraging ITIL to improve business continuity and availability John Bennett explains the benefits which can be achieved for both business continuity and availability through the application of ITIL best practices. Read article •Date: 6th June 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT Continuity
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Scientists report new way to protect computer networks from Internet worms The method automatically detects within minutes when an Internet worm has infected a computer network Read article •Date: 6th June 2008• Region:US/ World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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New ISO standard for corporate governance of information technology Aims to help top management gets to grip with IT oversight. Read article •Date: 6th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Terremark launches the Enterprise Cloud Provides a managed platform for mission critical applications and infrastructure. Read article •Date: 6th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Updates made to ITIL certification On 23 May the ITIL Qualification Board made its final decision on the naming of the new ITIL V3 qualifications. Read article •Date: 4th June 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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NextPhase adds business continuity services to portfolio Hybrid wired/wireless connectivity solutions provide network diversity, redundancy, load balancing and failover capabilities. Read article •Date: 4th June 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Akamai publishes inaugural ‘State of the Internet’ report Quarterly report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages and broadband connectivity levels. Read article •Date: 4th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Smartphone risk to organisations highlighted Many companies ‘leaving the back door wide open’. Read article •Date: 4th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Ceedo launches an application virtualization solution for the enterprise Ceedo has announced Ceedo Enterprise, a complete virtualization product that allows IT administrators to easily create, deploy and remotely manage desktop workspace environments enabling a number of cost-effective scenarios including: application portability, remote management, business continuity, and disaster recovery. Read press release. •Date: 4th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Zmanda teams with NetApp to deliver highly optimized backup solution for MySQL
Zmanda, the open source leader in backup and recovery software, has announced that it is delivering a new level of data protection for MySQL databases with the integration of NetApp Snapshot technology with the Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL. Together, NetApp and ZRM enable MySQL customers to implement continuous data protection for mission critical MySQL databases. Read press release. •Date: 4th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Telecity opens new Powergate London data centre Offers enough distance from Docklands and the City to be used for disaster recovery purposes. Read article •Date: 3rd June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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OpSource enhances business continuity service with OpSource Multisite OpSource has announced the availability of OpSource Business Continuity with OpSource Multisite. As an integrated component of OpSource On-Demand, OpSource Business Continuity helps ensure that on-demand businesses remain up and running in the event of any interruption in service. OpSource Multisite specifically eliminates the danger of single location point of failure and ensures enterprise required application continuity. Read press release. •Date: 3rd June 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Information availability: why the board should take an interest If you have yet to implement IA, it is time to make a start. By Keith Tilley. Read article •Date: 30th May 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT Continuity
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The top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012 According to Gartner. Read article •Date: 30th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Insider threats top of the agenda Secure Computing Corporation has announced the results of an IT director survey that uncovers a rising concern about insider threats. Read article •Date: 30th May 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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EMC expands mission critical solutions portfolio EMC has announced that it has expanded its solution portfolio for mission critical applications with new solutions that simplify the implementation of business continuity, backup, recovery and information protection of Exchange Server and SQL Server running on the VMware platform. Read press release. •Date: 28th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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RELDATA offers disaster recovery solution for Fibre Channel SAN Solution replicates FC SAN data to a remote IP SAN without disrupting existing production environment. Read article •Date: 23rd May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Double-Take Virtual Recovery Assistant ends downtime associated with migration to virtual machines Double-Take Software has announced the availability of its new Virtual Recovery Assistant, an enhancement to Double-Take for Windows that simplifies the process of migrating to VMware ESX virtual machines by automating the provisioning of the virtual environment and reducing end-user downtime associated with traditional physical-to-virtual migration products. The new feature can also be used to automate the protection of workloads running on physical servers, moving them to virtual machines automatically in the event of a server outage or site-wide disaster. Read press release. •Date: 23rd May 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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NovaStor unveils NovaBACKUP 10 NovaStor has announced the availability of NovaBACKUP 10, the latest version of its flagship NovaBACKUP data protection and disaster recovery software for Windows-based PCs and Servers. NovaBACKUP 10 empowers users with the choice to create backups and store data locally or online, and includes a free one year online storage account. Read press release •Date: 22nd May 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Data Domain introduces new inline deduplication storage system Data Domain has announced the DD690, claimed to be the industry's highest performance inline deduplication storage system for backup and other nearline applications. Read article •Date: 16th May 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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EMC introduces holistic disaster restart solution for two-site mainframe environments Automates remote restart operations for host mainframe systems, applications and storage. Read article •Date: 15th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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VMware launches Site Recovery Manager Simplifies and automates disaster recovery. Read article •Date: 13th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Marathon launches the world’s first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization ‘everRun VM’ offers high availability and sophisticated disaster recovery to mid-market companies. Read article •Date: 9th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Six best practices companies should consider before they virtualize their servers Gartner issues advice. Read article •Date: 25th April 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Data storage, security and backup practices of US medium-sized businesses explored AMI research published. Read article •Date: 22nd April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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2008 Information Security Breaches Survey published Biannual government sponsored research into UK information security practices. Read article •Date: 22nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Next Generation Data Ltd to build £200 million data centre in Wales One of the largest data centres in Europe, with redundant power and communications links, is being built in Newport, Wales. Next Generation Data Ltd is investing almost £200 million to convert and upgrade a former semiconductor plant in Newport. The centre, to be called NGD Europe 1, has 400,000 square feet of space that can be divided into 15 separate facilities for individual clients. Geraint Jones, head of IBW North America, said "The new centre will be of special interest to our growing financial services sector, offering business continuity and providing smaller businesses with cost effective access to high quality, robust and secure data-centre services." www.ibwales.com •Date: 18th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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NIST seeks comments on information risk management publication ‘Managing Risk from Information Systems: An Organizational Perspective’: deadline for comments is April 30. Read article •Date: 16th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Data Centres Europe Awards presented Data Centres Europe held a gala awards ceremony on April 11th at the InterContinental Park Lane Hotel in central London. Read article •Date: 16th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Outsourcing code development – is it a risk worth taking? Many companies overlook mandating security when outsourcing software development: Quocirca report. Read article •Date: 11th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Many organizations putting all their eggs in one basket when it comes to email servers New study finds risk-taking is common in corporate data centers. Read article •Date: 11th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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PCI compliance and web application security: what you need to know for the upcoming policy changes Starting in June 2008, section 6.6 of the rules for PCI compliance will go from a ‘best practice’ to a mandatory requirement; what does this mean for your business? Read article •Date: 10th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity.
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Unified storage – more than just SAN/NAS There is only one way to produce an effective, affordable, user-friendly unified storage solution says Stefan Schaefer. Read article •Date: 10th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity.
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‘Self-service’ storage: has its moment arrived? What are the requirements for enabling a self-service storage environment in the data center? Read article •Date: 10th April 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity.
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Acronis Snap Deploy 3.0 for rapid deployment of PC configurations now shipping Acronis, Inc. has announced the general availability of Acronis Snap Deploy 3.0, which enables users to quickly and easily configure and deploy multiple computers simultaneously. Instead of configuring each individual machine and then installing the applications, customers use the software to quickly install a standard, identical image - including the operating system and all applications - on every machine.
For more information and a 15-day free trial visit http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ •Date: 10th April 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity.
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Virtualization cuts application downtime According to Vizioncore survey. Read article •Date: 8th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Double-Take Software launches ‘TimeData’ Double-Take Software has announced the launch of TimeData, an any point in time recovery solution that allows customers to recover lost or corrupted data at a granular level for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and other Microsoft Windows based applications. Coupled with Double-Take, the disaster recovery and high availability offering, TimeData extends customers' recovery capabilities to include operational recovery in addition to disaster recovery. Read press release •Date: 8th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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UK disaster recovery planning activities examined 72 percent of all UK businesses have a disaster recovery plan in place, up from 58 percent two years ago; but testing is still a weak area. Read article •Date: 4th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Virtualization will be the highest-impact trend in IT infrastructure and operations over the next few years: Gartner Special report examines how virtualization is set to rewrite the rules of IT management, deployment, planning and purchasing. Read article •Date: 4th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Data center automation to become increasingly significant over next two years: survey Business continuity a key driver behind automation uptake. Read article •Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The impact of the consumerization of IT on IT security management Alexei Lesnykh highlights new threats and solutions. Read article •Date: 1st April 2008• Region World •Type: Article •Topic: IT Continuity
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Information security policies ineffective without employee buy-in According to the early findings of the 2008 UK Information Security Breaches Survey. Read article •Date: 31st March 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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New ISO standard for IT disaster recovery published ‘ISO/IEC 24762:2008, Information technology – Security techniques – Guidelines for information and communications technology disaster recovery services.’ Read article •Date: 7th March 2008• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Virtualized managed fail-over disaster recovery environment available for Australian businesses Launched by Macquarie Telecom. Read article •Date: 7th March 2008• Region:Australia •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Cross-platform recovery assurance solution launched 21st Century Software’s DR/VFI delivers a single recovery-based repository with a consolidated business assurance dashboard for mainframe, UNIX and Linux. Read article •Date: 7th March 2008• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Economic downturn must not tempt companies to scale-down disaster preparedness SunGard Availability Services provides tips for staying on top of discovery recovery plans during budgetary belt-tightening. Read article
GSS urges caution on cloud computing