• 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.

• 'Black swan' predictions for 2013 include solar storm

  If you are making a list of tech predictions for next year, as this story does, it may be a good idea to put the solar maximum on this list. The next one is expected in 2013, says NASA.

• Hurricane Sandy leaves wounded servers in its wake

  Data recovery experts have been kept busy in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which left a slew of data centers underwater, damaging equipment and threatening a significant loss of business-critical data.

• New York, New Jersey financial sector well prepared for Hurricane Sandy

  Lessons from 9/11 have helped ensure the financial services sector in New York and New Jersey is prepared for disasters, and even shorted the time to recover when regional events happen.

• Seven strategies for keeping disaster recovery ON TARGET

  It was a normal Monday batch process at a well-respected global bank - until, that is, a critical back-office system failed. At first, IT administrators took it in stride. This wasn't the only time they'd had to recover lost data. But soon it became clear something more ominous was occurring: the bank's multi-terabyte database had become corrupted.

• Nimble's all-in-one storage combines primary and backup in one box

  Start-up Nimble Storage came out of the development stage this week with its first product -- an array that combines solid state drives (SSD) with high-capacity, cost and performance serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, acts as primary and backup storage and replicates offsite for disaster recovery.

Whitepapers about disaster recovery

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  Business Continuity Planning IT Survival Guide

  Whether your business is a one-man operation or it employs a thousand people, the starting point is the same: identify the processes critical to your success. To do this, you should first define what critical means in your business. Find out more on how organisations can begin the process of developing an effective business continuity plan designed to minimise the impact of disasters and reduce risk.

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  The Data Storage Imperative: Backup, Recovery and Archiving in Australia & New Zealand

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  Forrester Research - Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Barriers

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  Disaster Recovery Strategy Guide