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When Disaster Strikes, What’s Most Important?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by George Crump

Other than the obvious people issues, when a disaster strikes what’s most important for the data center? Given the time to think about it, most IT managers will answer the question correctly. The most important thing is to restore access…

Achieving Application Aware Availability

Posted on February 28, 2011 by George Crump

In a recent article, Storage Switzerland discussed methods for protecting an application from a storage system failure. Storage hardware, along with server hardware, is increasing in its reliability. The growing culprit of application downtime is the application itself either through…

What’s Missing From Your Disaster Recovery Plan?

Posted on January 31, 2011 by George Crump

Part I – Protecting Applications From Storage System Failures When most IT professionals think of a disaster recovery plan, they think big, really big, like an earthquake, fire, flood, etc., where the data center is totally inaccessible. To protect against…