• From what to watt, Emerson aims at total information awareness

  Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as datacentres, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

• 5 tips for surviving a cloud outage

  "Everything fails, all the time," so says Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels.

• Large enterprises handing off data center builds

  Demand for data center space is on the rise. IT pros responsible for facility planning are juggling physical requirements for secure, power-abundant space with operational considerations, including the need to improve disaster recovery, deploy new applications and services, and handle increasingly large data volumes.

• Business continuity emerges as latest IPv6 killer app

  DENVER - IPv6 appears to have found a new killer app: business continuity.

• Facebook, Twitter are life lines as tornadoes wallop Texas

  As tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, hurling tractor-trailer trucks in the air and shredding houses, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.

• 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.

• Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Yields ROI

  The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery.

• DR a growing concern for A/NZ CIOs: Symantec

  CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly getting involved in the disaster recovery planning of their organisations, according to a new survey from Symantec.

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  Swine Flu Prompts Aussie CIOs to Revisit Business Continuity Plans

  Australian health authorities may have given the all clear for two local suspected cases of the swine flu virus -- which has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 20 in the United States -- but concern over the spread of the potentially fatal disease has local CIOs revisiting their business continuity plans (BCP).

Whitepapers about disaster recovery

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  Delivering Tomorrow's Backup and Recovery Infrastructure

  The data protection market has changed considerably over the past decade. During this time, the market witnessed a fundamental shift away from relying solely on tape for backup and recovery to using disk-based backup solutions to address challenges including backup performance, reliability, and recovery time objectives. This paper highlights that firms evaluating next-generation data protection solutions must expect a greater degree of integration between the technology components in today's data protection path.

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  EMC 15-Minute Guide to Smarter Backup Transform your future

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  IDC Forecast: Worldwide Purpose - Built Backup Appliance 2011 – 2015, Forecast Update: Explosive Growth in 2011

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  IDC Whitepaper: Generating Proven Business Value with EMC Next-Generation Backup and Recovery