The 2011 Brisbane floods were a wakeup call for Thiess: The engineering services firm's legacy storage system required a complete shutdown to migrate data, which had to be done within 24 hours in order to minimise any interruption to its business.
There's a dirty little secret in the disaster recovery
industry, according to Dave Simpson, who tracks the storage market for the 451
Research Group. Usually, customers require less recovery than industry vendors
make them believe, he says. But vendors charge customers based on how much data
they back up, when in reality it's rare for an organization to require a
complete recovery of all its backed up data.
If deployed correctly, encryption does not need to be a headache. Instead, encryption can be an enabler to achieve the flexibility, compliance and data privacy that is required in today's business environments.
Deduplication, a fresh idea only a few years ago, has become a commodity, with organizations of all sizes deploying deduplication as just another feature in their data protection and backup solutions. This is progress. More data centers can eliminate the redundant data in their backup and storage systems to save money and increase efficiency. However, the job is not done. With deduplication in place, IT leaders can move on to adopting intelligent capabilities to ensure data is properly stored and protected. In 2013 data center managers will push for global deduplication that provides flexibility, scalability, performance and high availability of data.
Online and offline, in IT departments and across organizations, the bring your own device (BYOD) debate is raging.
There is a lot of discussion in the storage industry in regard to "scale-up" versus "scale-out" architectures for backup and recovery operations. More and more organizations are reducing or eliminating the use of tape by deploying disk-based appliances that use deduplication. But the architectural approach used by the appliance vendor can make a significant difference to the performance, scalability and total cost of the selected solution.
Melbourne-based furniture manufacturer Schiavello is in the planning stages for a second data centre as it looks to improve disaster recovery capability.
According to some estimates, 2011 has become the year of billion-dollar natural disasters. With floods, storms and fires now a top-of-mind business risk concern, IBM has announced six tips that individuals, businesses and government agencies can use to help prepare their IT environments for natural disasters and a wide range of other threats.
Businesses are struggling to backup their data quickly due to outdated infrastructure and slow systems, a storage industry leader has claimed.
While I'm by no means trying to take attention away from the horrific environmental and economic disaster that the now largest oil spill in U.S. history has caused, I can't help but see some lessons that I and other IT professionals can learn from it.
DLT, SuperDLT, LTO, 3480, 3490e, 3590, 3570, TK50, 4mm-DDS, 8mm, AIT, QIC, and 9-track, these are a few of my favorite things. Not exactly how the old song goes, but rest assured that what you have on your old data tapes – regardless of the format – has more staying power and value than your old audio cassettes.
F-Secure will soon launch its ‘Digital Vault’ concept in Australia, a repository for digital assets that is designed to act as a storage hub for individual digital devices.
Data recovery services provider, Kroll Ontrack, has opened a new data recovery cleanroom facility in Queensland. The company established its original cleanroom on the West End site in 2005, but increased demand for data recovery services has allowed Kroll Ontrack to expand and add to existing services, including the data recovery techniques from storage media such as hard drives and solid state devices.
IBM is carrying out major renovation work on its Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) offering to encourage more enterprises and SMEs to move their back up and recovery systems onto the cloud.
I’m still in the audience at the DEMOFall conference, and still taking in demonstrations of new products and services. One of the cooler ideas this morning is Symform, a small-business remote-backup service. Technically, it’s utterly unlike services such as Mozy and Carbonite: Those services store everything in massive server farms, but Symform is farm-free–it uses peer-to-peer technology to store backups on the PCs of other Symform users. If you wanna back up 10GB of data, for instance, you agree to devote 10GB of disk space to other folks’ backups–and to leave your computer on 80 percent of the time.