When you think about your disaster recovery plan, does your tape backup system come to mind? Does the mere mention of disaster recovery make you a bit nervous? If so, you’re not alone. Many businesses risk grave losses due to failures and disasters yet continue to depend on their tape backups to help them recover
In a survey conducted in 2005 by the Ad Council, most businesses agreed that emergency preparedness is important, yet only 39% said their company had a plan in place. In companies with distributed branch offices, data protection strategies may not have kept up with the reality that branch or remote offices now contain customer databases,
Downtime and data loss pose intolerable risks to every business today. From IT departments to the Board Room, managers recognise the importance of business uptime and data protection to maintain continued success, productivity and profi tability. Business and IT managers need a data protection strategy that keeps the organisation’s business doing business. For IT departments,
Until recently, IBM iSystem high availability solutions were reserved mostly for large enterprises. Now that high availability is dramatically easier to use and less expensive to own and manage, the landscape has changed. Thousands of small and mid-sized companies can now afford the “luxury” of real-time, offsite data protection, as well as rapid and complete