Exchange Disaster Recovery with SANRAD V-Switch Planning Guide by Efrat Aharoni-Levi
Introduction Designing a disaster recovery system requires planning and consideration of the available options that will best fit your company’s needs, SLA and budget. This guide will help you design an Exchange Disaster Recovery plan in conjunction with SANRAD Replication. ... The most influential factors affecting design consideration are: • Budget limitations • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements (the time until the data is back online) • Recovery Point Objective (RPO) requirements (the amount of data that can be lost) • Network bandwidth between the local site and remote...

Data Loss and Preventative Measures to Avoid It by Brian Cain
Data Loss can be devastating. It could instantly take a small or medium size business from “Open for Business” to “Out of Business” in an instant. On a personal level, it can wipe away weeks, months and even years of critical data where there is no means of accessing or recreating the valuable... Hearing stories on a daily basis of data loss, I thought it to be only fair to share some of our preparations of how we (as a Data Recovery Lab) survived as a business, and had basically no loss of business continuity.

Lessons From Katrina - Does Your Business Have an Adequate Disaster Recovery Plan? by Mike Makler
The Hurricane Katrina Disaster has lessons for all business owners. Now is a Good time to look over your Disaster recovery plan and see if it would survive a Hurricane Katrina Type Disaster. You may be surprised how easy and cheap it is to have a Disaster Recovery Plan that will protect your... If you run your business off a computer or even a server then an offsite back-up of key customer and vendor data is a minimal requirement for a good Disaster Recovery Plan. ... Keeping Data in an Off Site Local location is still a good idea so you can have fast access to your data and recover from...

The Seven Golden Rules Of Data Backups by Keith Edmunds
Backups of company data are carried out for two main reasons. The first is to cater for those times when a document is inadvertently deleted or damaged and you wish to recover the original document; the second is as part of a disaster recovery plan in case something catastrophic happens to your... Test the recovery procedure periodically Without warning, give the backup recovery manual to a member of staff and see how long it takes them to recover data. ... Backing up your company data once a week means that the most you should ever have to re-input is one week's worth Backing up your...

Creating a Complete Data Protection and Restoration Strategy by Jason Perry
Creating a Complete Data Protection and Restoration Strategy Backing up your data is the best way to prevent losing it. This method comes into play when you’ve suffered a system failure or hardware corruption. Your IT folks simply—or not so simply, depending on the method you used for... There are other steps you can take, in concert with data backup, to help protect your data. ... No matter what you do, data backup is the most essential part of a data protection plan. ... Use power surge protectors everywhere to prevent power surges from causing hard-drive failure and potentially...

Microsoft SQL 2000 Disaster Recovery with SANRAD V-Switch - Planning Guide by Efrat Aharoni-Levi
Introduction Designing a disaster recovery system requires planning and consideration of the available options that will best fit your company’s needs, SLA and budget. With SANRAD DR Solution there is no need to use Log shipping (which requires extra recovery steps) or Microsoft SQL’s built in... The most influential factors affecting design consideration are: • Budget limitations • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements (the time until the data is back online) • Recovery Point Objective (RPO) requirements (the amount of data that can be lost) • Network bandwidth between the...

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - A Business Not a Technology Issue by Robert Mahood
Hackers, hurricanes, fires, flooding, power outages, denial of service attacks, application failures, employee error, sabotage and now terrorism are helping companies to focus on the necessity of a business continuity plan. Through the late 1990s as companies prepared for Y2K, many IT... However, losing your business functions, processes and systems as well as your company, customer and financial data can be devastating. ... This is also the time to determine resource requirements and acceptable recovery time frames.

OST File Recovery and PST File Recovery by Nehaa Gupta
Email communication has expanded itself from professionals to normal home users. As a child enters into teenage, he becomes familiar with the power and usefulness of email communication and uses emails to correspond within his circle of friends and relatives. ... Nucleus Data Recovery: The Solution Provider Nucleus Data Recovery is the premier provider of data recovery software and data recovery services. ... Knowledge, Experience and Expertise have made Nucleus Data recovery stand amongst the best and professional data recovery software provider – thus providing relief to its valuable...

Disaster Recovery by Prabir Sen
In today's world, businesses are beginning to demand more from their information systems. At the same time, the outer limit of technology is being stretched to its limit to meet this demand. This in turn puts a greater responsibility on the service Organisation, with the kind of daunting... For quite some years, professionals in Information and Technology took disaster recovery to be the simple data recovery process of data files in case of a computer or disk failure. ... Data recovery services bridge the gap between enterprises having mission critical applications and the experience...

Disaster Recovery Services: Questions to Ask of a Service Provider by C Seagrave
With increasing dependence on systems availability, the recovery of your core servers, applications and network are fundamental in the event of a disaster. In fact, as organisations rely more and more on ‘anytime, anywhere’ connectivity, ‘systems availability’ has become synonymous with... Business continuity plans and disaster recovery services ensure continuity and viability.” ( Disaster Recovery Plans and Systems are Essential , September 2001) This article discusses your considerations when selecting a service provider to deliver disaster recovery services – a partner on whom the very...