Ideas in IT come in waves, and recently I've been hearing about a great capability: On-demand live replicas of production virtual machines. Want to test your DR environment? Spin up a live sandbox in the cloud or at a service provider using VMware ESX. And if there's a real disaster, you can always run there for real! VM-Enabled DR Disaster recovery (DR to us IT folks) is … [Read more...] about Live DR Replicas On-Demand
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Justifying Email Archiving
Now that my TechTarget Virtual Seminar on email archiving is finished, I wanted to share the questions and answers from the session here. You will eventually be able to catch a recorded version of the presentation on TechTarget's searchexchange.com site, and I'll post when it's out. Interestingly, most questions revolved around justifying the purchase of email archiving … [Read more...] about Justifying Email Archiving
Toot toot: Cut the Costs of Disaster Recovery
Swing on over to InfoStor for an enlightening article on cutting the costs of disaster recovery by the most excellent Michelle Hope. I'm proud to be part of this article - it's packed with common-sense advice. Not to sound too much like Mr. Toigo, but I've been telling people this for a long time: Rather than looking to technology to solve your replication issues, consider … [Read more...] about Toot toot: Cut the Costs of Disaster Recovery