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Social media strategy playing a role in IT disaster recovery planning
Social media has helped save lives in wide-scale disasters, prompting organizations to build a social media strategy into their IT DR plans, but experts say IT should first understand what social media is and how it works. Article | 13 Dec 2010
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Flood prompts on-the-fly data center disaster recovery plan for jet company
Flight Options had to move fast after finding its data center under water; the jet-leasing firm put in a new storage system in days and soon built a new disaster recovery site closer to headquarters. Article | 08 Dec 2010
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Disaster recovery testing best practices: Test thoroughly and often
DR testing is something everyone talks about, but it's useless if you don't actually do it. Follow these DR testing best practices to ensure you're always prepared for a disaster. Article | 06 Dec 2010
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MDOT forges virtual machine disaster recovery plan
Mississippi Department of Transportation altered its data protection strategy after implementing virtual servers, adding bare metal restore and disk backup to tape. Article | 29 Nov 2010
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Silver Peak launches virtual WAN optimization appliance for data center
Silver Peak upgrades its WAN acceleration software, adds virtual appliance for data center and Microsoft Hyper-V support, boosts data deduplication performance. Article | 17 Nov 2010
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InMage adds data reduction to CDP-based replication app
InMage improves the way its Scout replication application for disaster recovery reduces data without deduplication; also simplifies replication and backup for SMBs. Article | 16 Nov 2010
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CA upgrades ARCserve Replication, High Availability
CA released ARCserve Replication and High Availability 15.2 with multi-streaming replication, a custom-application wizard, support for updated Microsoft and customer applications, and Web 2.0 integration. Article | 10 Nov 2010
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Marathon expands everRun fault tolerant software for high availability
Marathon Technologies expands its fault tolerant software lineup with everRun MX to provide high availability for applications running on Windows by synchronizing disk systems. Article | 06 Oct 2010
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Tandberg adds SMB backup with data deduplication software, removable disk
Tape vendor Tandberg expands its disk portfolio with data deduplication systems featuring 2.5-inch removable drives. Article | 01 Sep 2010
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JetBlue switches to EMC Avamar, does remote-office backups over WAN
While migrating to larger data centers, JetBlue centralized its backup process by using EMC Avamar deduplication instead of tape at remote sites; now the airline doesn't have to fly IT people to regional offices to collect tapes. Article | 03 Aug 2010