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• Practical advice about disaster recovery planning

  Disaster recovery plans and the usual mix of uninterrupted power supplies (UPSs), co-location services, data mirroring and hot-standby technologies theoretically make it possible to weather any storm. But are backup systems, replication rules and fast failover solutions enough?

• Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage

  Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today.

• Understanding hypervisor-based disaster recovery

  A common misconception in IT is that virtualization and enterprise-class disaster recovery just don't mix. Either you get the flexibility of the virtual data center or the robust capabilities and short recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) that come with great DR, but never both at the same time.

• Encryption as an enabler: the top 10 benefits

  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.

• STORserver enters cloud business

  STORserver, a maker of backup appliances, announced private and public cloud backup services.

• Cutting downtime, staff overhead with outsourced DR

  When it comes to disaster recovery — assuming they don't ignore DR altogether — Australian businesses have a tendency to overestimate just how quickly they could retrieve their data if an incident occurs.

• Google Drive suffers outage Monday morning

  It's been a tough Monday morning for some Google Drive users who have been dealing with a service outage.

• Sepaton releases upgrades to high-end storage appliance

  Sepaton today announced its latest update to its enterprise-class data backup appliance, which almost doubles performance and increases connectivity by 2X over its predecessor.

• ATechnology plans ahead with data centre migration

  Planning and testing by ATechnology’s IT manager Andrew Ruller ensured that when the Brisbane-based company decided to migrate 70 customers to a new data centre at Brisbane Airport, the migration was achieved over one weekend.

• False sense of security pervades DR approaches

  Australian businesses are aware of the importance of disaster recovery planning, but their reliance on manual approaches means that organisations risk falling short of target recovery times if an incident occurs, according to research released today.

• 7 reasons to move DR to the cloud

  It's well-known that disaster recovery is vital to sustaining a business. Organizations simply cannot function without their IT systems. That first wave of DR solutions dating back to the 1970s created a safety net for computer systems, but still involved days of downtime. Modern-day disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) are a world apart.

• East Coast storm brings blizzard of social tweets and posts

  When there's a blizzard approaching, people flock to grocery stores for bread and milk, test their generators...and nowadays take to Twitter and Facebook.

• In 2013, deduplication smartens up

  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.

• For midsize businesses, there is a new way to spell risk: BYOD

  Online and offline, in IT departments and across organizations, the bring your own device (BYOD) debate is raging.

• How to choose between scale-up vs. scale-out architectures for backup and recovery

  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.