Posts Tagged ‘backup’

Implementing an IT Disaster Recovery Plan That Works (Part 2)

August 17th, 2010 Bill Murphy

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A larger credit union client of mine said to me: “Bill, we have all this stuff and my staff if good. How do we pull all this software and hardware together into a comprehensive Disaster Recovery program?” Over the past two years, the credit union had acquired the following:

Fatpipe load balancers
VMware
Backup software (Issue: tapeless versus traditional? They [...]

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Backup and Corruption Protection: “I want to go tapeless”

May 15th, 2008 Bill Murphy

I constantly hear:
1) “I want to virtualize my environment.”
2) “I want to eliminate tapes and go tapeless.”
3) “I want buy a SAN.”
4) “I want to replicate between my headquarters (HQ) and DR facility.”
The key here is appropriately mixing technologies. By design, and based on the laws of physics, virtualization and SANs need speed and high performance. [...]

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