Moving from backup to availability
01 August, 2016 by Don Williams, Vice President, ANZ, VeeamCIOs must free their organisations from complex backup strategies in order for storage and virtualisation systems to protect against failures and cyber attacks.
Storage upgrade brings a sense of connectedness
16 February, 2016Wollongong's Nan Tien Temple needed an IT upgrade to help establish its tertiary education facility and stay connected with the Buddhist order's worldwide network.
Ensuring continuity in the age of 'always-on'
12 November, 2014 by Charles Clarke*If you want your business to recover quickly following a data disaster, it's not enough to simply have backups - you need a complete disaster recovery plan that is regularly tested and audited.
The US consulate database crash - lessons to be learned
25 August, 2014 by Jan-Jaap Jager, VP and GM of Emerging Markets, AcronisThe US consulate database crash last month affected 200,000+ visa-seekers worldwide. The database was backed up, but the system wasn't. What can be done to prevent such a failure happening again?
Jeanswest finds a comfortable fit with Nimble
30 June, 2014Following a sudden disk failure, Jeanswest's planned storage area network refresh had to be brought forward by eight months. The solution was implemented in one day.
Improving DR and performance with two new storage arrays
11 March, 2014Marketing services firm M&C Saatchi Australia has bolstered its storage performance disaster recovery with a new storage system.
Crushing gluttonous disaster-recovery traffic with WAN optimisation
19 February, 2013 by Andrew CollinsGunnersen, a manufacturer and distributor of wood-based building products, has solved its problems with gluttonous disaster-recovery (DR) data on its network by implementing a virtual WAN optimisation solution.
RSA Archer Business Continuity Management and Operations
25 January, 2013RSA has introduced two additions to the Archer product suite. Archer Business Continuity Management and Operations is designed to address business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management, and is engineered to align with BS25999, NIMS and ISO 22301.
IT services company Oxygen IT implements StorageCraft disaster recovery solutions
02 April, 2012After the earthquake that devastated Christchurch in February 2011, IT services company Oxygen IT saved numerous businesses from disaster by recovering their servers and retrieving their data quickly.
Outback council introduces multivendor disaster recovery program
21 February, 2012Wentworth Shire Council has deployed a more resilient IT disaster recovery program in anticipation of catastrophic natural disasters.
Quest Software NetVault FastRecover 4.5 data recovery
13 February, 2012NetVault FastRecover 4.5 enables fast recovery of critical Oracle data through virtual on-demand recovery technology. In addition to Oracle, it also provides backup and virtual on-demand recovery for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows file-system data.
Learning from the fall of Distribute.IT
05 August, 2011 by Andrew CollinsOn 13 June, Australian web host Distribute.IT revealed that it had been the victim of a malicious hacking attack, one which had irrevocably annihilated the data of 4800-odd websites hosted by the company. Andrew Collins looks at what online storage customers and storage administrators can each learn from the incident.
Kroll Ontrack partners with Covertec data recovery insurance program
29 July, 2011 byCovertec has teamed with Kroll Ontrack to offer Australian businesses data recovery following accidental damage or electronic breakdown of their IT equipment.
Acronis and Kaseya upgraded backup and recovery solution
20 July, 2011 byAcronis and Kaseya have announced that the Acronis Backup & Recovery solution will be integrated into the Kaseya IT Framework as part of Kaseya Backup 4.0.
BitCloud business continuity and disaster recovery solutions updated
19 July, 2011 byBitCloud has updated its range of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that can be used to provide complete IT system redundancy and failover.