For most organizations, a current and comprehensive disaster recovery plan is an undisputed priority—but it’s also a big challenge. If your organization is still relying on tape or your DR plan is getting a little dusty, no one would blame you. Disasters come in varying degrees—from simple human errors (the cleaning crew unplugged one of
Most administrators who consider an all-in-one data protection (DP) solution are looking for the fastest, most cost-effective path to securing enterprise data, as well as the simplest system to manage and support. That’s because piecing together a comprehensive solution from separate components is a complex, laborious process that requires research, testing, integration, deployment, perhaps working
If you’re like most IT experts, you’ll focus first on the technology. You’ll make sure you have the hardware and software to perform backups. You’ll build out the required storage, making sure you have floor space and power in a data center, and so on. Next, you’ll tier your systems: What data is most critical?
Remote or cloud-based storage solutions have been around for many years. The pendulum between local onsite storage (and control) and cloud-based storage services has swung several times over the course of storage technology development. Storage location and control has changed with the dominance of mainframes, client/servers, and PCs, and the changes in price and capabilities
The ability to integrate systems and share data across the enterprise is a common datacenter need. “Integration bus” is a common term that describes the technology used for middlewarebased integration. Integration bus needs can vary in complexity, data volume, and required performance. Red Hat offers multiple products that can help customers develop and deploy middleware
Business applications are no longer isolated to the back office. Today, these applications are at the forefront of the way businesses interact with customers, suppliers, and partners. As customer expectations change, these applications must change at a rapid pace. This puts enormous pressure on the software development team to keep up with demand. The development
The ability to integrate systems and share data across the enterprise is a common datacenter need. Shared data needs to be transported between endpoints, and in today’s connected world we assume the capability to reliably move data is ever-present. That is a compliment to messaging platforms like Red Hat® JBoss® A-MQ. Messaging gets data from
The technology foundation for both JBoss Enterprise Middleware from Red Hat and Oracle Fusion Middleware is the application platform. Red Hat and Oracle offer their application platforms, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Oracle WebLogic Server (respectively), as standalone technology. Application platforms are also the basis of other enterprise technologies such as enterprise service bus, business
Reputational risk and IT in the insurance industry: How security and business continuity can shape the reputation and value of your company is an IBM study that investigates how organizations around the world are managing their reputations in today’s digital era, where IT is an integral part of the organization and IT failures can result
The IBM Global Reputational Risk and IT Study is one of the largest studies ever conducted to examine the relationship between IT and reputational risk. The initial group of 427 respondents participated in a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of IBM. An additional 175 respondents participated in the study online at