Business continuity: new risks, new imperatives and a new approach
An IBM white paper exploring how the need for continuous availability is affecting business continuity.
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Case study: How high availability can support business continuity
How HA and BC can be complimentary solutions without great expense and complexity.
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Continuous data protection – hype versus reality
Are true CDP products a solution to a problem that businesses cannot afford to solve?
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Competing in the age of the continuous enterprise…
Large financial institutions are well aware of the cost of downtime – but it’s time other sectors took the issue more seriously…
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Data centre development: what makes a perfect raised floor?
Barry Elliott , C.Eng., provides a technical overview of this important aspect of data centre design.
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Fault tolerance in a virtual world
How common use cases raise your ‘criticality quotient’.
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Five nines: chasing the dream?
Is 99.999 percent availability ever a practical or financially viable possibility? Andrew Hiles explores the question.
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Ensuring a smooth transition : guidelines for successfully migrating data centers
Without proper planning migrations can have catastrophic results.
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How to safely virtualize your IT environment
Virtualization presents risks as well as benefits; Nick Turnbull, provides a list of items that businesses need to consider before virtualizing their environments.
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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.
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Migrating a data centre…
This Global Switch paper looks at the issues involved in ensuring business continuity when migrating a data centre and provides a useful checklist.
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Moving towards an interactive approach
Keith Tilley discusses the evolution of the disaster recovery and business continuity industry.
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Proactive strategies to position and protect your organisation
What does it really mean to be resilient? By Spencer Anderson, IBM
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Reliability is not availability
Don’t ignore the issue of planned downtime when making IT continuity plans, says Alan Arnold.
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Resilient data centre selection and design
The threat of interruption or unplanned downtime can be greatly reduced through the careful choice of location and good design.
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Server virtualization: do’s and don’ts for mission critical manufacturing systems
A white paper which looks at the advantages and risks of using server virtualization in a manufacturing environment.
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The always-on network: strategies for achieving high availability of IT systems
Randy MacCleary details the four elements of a high availability physical support plan - power, heat removal, monitoring and service management.
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The changing face of business continuity
David Honour overviews the new generation technologies that will influence business continuity planning in the future.
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The clustered revolution: a paradigm shift in the storage industry
Sujal Patel plots the evolution to clustered storage.
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The future of high availability
High availability solutions have evolved significantly over the past couple of years but what will tomorrow’s HA solutions look like?
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The rise and rise of IT continuity
Information systems remain the number one mission critical priority for most businesses. David Honour explains why this is so and looks at the key priorities in this area.
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Top ten tips for a successful RAID implementation
Using RAID technology? Alex Young provides some help.
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Using air sampling smoke detection to protect mission critical facilities from fire
The biggest risk to continuous operation within a computer room after a fire is the smoke damage to electrical equipment, not the flames.
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Using reserve systems for business continuation
Explores strategies for guaranteeing systems availability.
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Utilising high availability techniques
Phil Reakes explains why high availability fits better into a business continuity management strategy than DR does.
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Virtualization and business continuity
Paul Thomalla looks at some of the business continuity considerations when implementing a virtualized computing environment.
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Will your computing facilities survive a heatwave?
This article provides a simple checklist of actions which can reduce the risk of heat-induced downtime.
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