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Outsourcing Disaster Recovery

The traditional mindset around disaster recovery has been that it is too expensive for anyone other than the large enterprise.  DR meant a second data center with 2x the number of servers and infrastructure and 2x the management complexity (every change had to be replicated at two locations). We’ve all talked about this here before. [...] Read More

Dog Days Again…

It’s the dog days of summer again and here at Egenera we continue to help our customers best manage whatever comes their way. Do you have a sound DR strategy for your data center to deal with brownouts (for example)?  It’s worth looking at again. Last year the top of the Empire State Bldg had [...] Read More

N+1 DR: The 72 hour rule is now 15 minutes (for multiple datacenters)

A flu pandemic…it’s almost beyond comprehension in this day and age. But it’s a very real concern. The CDC has made recommendations in response to outbreaks of a feared flu pandemic. For a category 5 pandemic, the CDC recommends closing schools for 1-3 months. Think about that for a minute…imagine the impact something like this [...] Read More

DR should never be “typical” — so why are so many companies getting it wrong?

Disaster recovery strategies are not new. In fact, many CIOs and IT Managers have DR mandates by executive management. The ever growing possibility of severe weather, power failures, terrorist attacks, pandemics, or even a fire or HVAC leaks in the datacenter are all driving this focus. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) initiatives are fairly large efforts [...] Read More