High Availability
Vision Solutions iTERA Availability 6.1 Delivers Improved Business Continuity For IBM i
January 22, 2013 10:23 am | News | CommentsiTERA Availability 6.1 provides businesses with the ability to virtually eliminate both planned and unplanned downtime by maintaining a secondary system that is kept up to date in real time. The updated version of iTERA Availability delivers enterprise-level audit technology and simplified installation for both small and mid-size markets.
UC&C Network Performance & Optimization Solution
January 8, 2013 9:45 am | News | CommentsIpanema Technologies, the leading provider of Application Performance Guarantee solutions for business efficiency, today launched a powerful partnership with Polycom, Inc. This partnership will enable companies to have full visibility and control of their business critical applications over their networks.
Facebook Glitch Keeps Some Users From Site
December 11, 2012 11:00 am | News | CommentsThe social networking site with over 1 billion users worldwide says on Monday it made a change to its domain name system setup. The change resulted in some users temporarily not being able to reach the site. The problem was detected and the site is now fully back.
Enterprise DDoS Mitigation Technology
December 10, 2012 1:38 pm | News | CommentsPravail APS protects enterprises that rely on Internet availability, securing business continuity and availability by automatically neutralizing application-layer DDoS attacks before they impact critical services. Arbor's Peakflow SP Threat Management System provides up to 40Gbps mitigation capacity.
Flooded Data Center Takes Down Websites
October 30, 2012 2:00 pm | by PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsFlooded data centers in downtown Manhattan brought down Gawker, Huffington Post and many popular New York-based blogs Tuesday while phone and cable companies were scrambling to assess damage and restore service in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Fiber-Optic Outage Cripples Alaska Airlines, Thousands Delayed
October 9, 2012 9:34 am | by DOUG ESSER, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe problems started shortly before 8 a.m. Monday when computers the airline uses to check in passengers went down, forcing employees to board travelers manually — in some instances sticking handwritten flight numbers to computer monitors. The problem was caused by a combination of two cut cables in Sprint's fiber-optic network.
RagingWire Announces Issuance Of US Patent For 100% Available Facility Power
October 5, 2012 10:38 am | News | CommentsThis highly available approach has two redundant paths (2N) from the utility power to the server rack and a collection of interconnected bus network topologies that provide dynamic access to a pool of generators, uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), and batteries.
GoDaddy Web Outage Takes Out Small-Business Sites
September 11, 2012 11:03 am | by PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsThousands and possibly millions of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com went down for several hours on Monday, causing trouble for the mainly small businesses that rely on the service. A Twitter feed that claimed to be affiliated with the "Anonymous" hacker group said it was behind the outage, but that couldn't be confirmed.
StratITsphere, ScaleMatrix Announce Data Center Partnership to Provide Greater Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity To Clients
April 30, 2012 12:07 pm | News | CommentsColocation customers of two data centers in Texas and California will enjoy greater protection from disasters thanks to a new alliance announced today.
Think About Never Failing, Not How To Recover
April 24, 2012 12:56 pm | by Dennis Wenk, Symantec | Blogs | CommentsThe cost of recovery outstrips the cost of prevention by two to three times — recovery is becoming obsolete. In the new world of big data, private clouds, and mobile computing we need to think about never failing, not how to recover. Our views on recovery must be replaced with the notion of continuous service and resilient operations.
2011-2012 Continuity Insights & KPMG LLP Global Business Continuity Management Program Benchmarking Study
April 10, 2012 12:51 pm | by Luke Simpson, Editor | White PapersThe complex environment in which businesses operate today creates the need for sophisticated business continuity management (BCM) programs that address a wide range of threats, including natural disasters, technology issues and manmade incidents. It is also important that these programs stay in sync with the strategic goals of the organization. The 2011-2012 Continuity Insights & KPMG LLP Global Business Continuity Management Program Benchmarking Study is a comprehensive look at the current state of BCM programs and the drivers for further program development.
Lights Out Football: Candlestick Park In The Dark
December 20, 2011 4:57 am | News | CommentsPlayers and officials wait for power to be restored at Candlestick Park during the biggest game for the 49ers since 2003.
Power Outages Delay Steelers-49ers Prime Time Matchup
December 20, 2011 4:44 am | by ANTONIO GONZALEZ, AP Sports Writer | News | CommentsTwo power outages delayed the Niners' 20-3 Monday night win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, first just before kickoff and again early in the second quarter after the stadium moved to a backup power source.
Newspaper Achieves 50 Percent Cost Savings Through Server Virtualization & Offsite Data Center
November 29, 2011 5:26 am | News | CommentsThe IT transformation included the migration from 50 outmoded physical servers housed onsite to an outsourced network of four physical and 60 virtual servers in a secure Venyu facility.
Cyber Monday Online Sales Up 18 Percent
November 29, 2011 5:14 am | by MAE ANDERSON, AP Retail Writer | News | CommentsTraffic has been up substantially since the Monday before Thanksgiving as retailers promoted online deals earlier than ever.
Facebook's Data Center & Contingency Plans
November 22, 2011 7:50 am | News | CommentsFacebook imagined a variety of potential hazards, from central Oregon wildfires to volcanoes in the Cascades.
Modern Worksite Recovery Solution
November 22, 2011 6:35 am | News | CommentsWorksite recovery at Data Foundry’s Texas 1 facility can be rapidly deployed and offers integrated security features, workstations, wireless access, and media and conference rooms.
Cloud Management Dashboard (Beta)
November 22, 2011 5:27 am | News | CommentsCloudFloor users can manage trade-offs between cloud cost, performance, availability and regulatory compliance.
Single Interface For Managing Virtualization & Availability
November 15, 2011 5:24 am | News | CommentsNeverfail 6.6 introduces the Virtual Availability Director and SRMXtender for VMware, adds site level disaster recovery, simplifies business application availability and provides systems management integration.
Japanese Company Reveals Flaws In Business Continuity Plans, Focuses On Supply Chain
October 18, 2011 10:58 am | by Luke Simpson, Editor | News | Comments"Due to the significant scale of the disaster, the assumptions that we used to establish our BCPs failed to include ancillary factors that might prevent stable production."
BlackBerry Maker Apologizes For Outages, Offers Free Apps
October 18, 2011 9:00 am | by ROB GILLIES, Associated Press | News | CommentsTrying to make amends for massive outages last week, Research In Motion on Monday promised BlackBerry users free premium apps and a month of technical support.
AT&T Disaster Recovery Exercise Simulates Network Disaster In D.C.
October 18, 2011 7:47 am | News | CommentsThe exercises simulate the loss of a network office due to disaster and are designed to test, refine and strengthen AT&T's business continuity and disaster recovery services in order to minimize network downtime.
Officials: London 2012 Safe From Cyber Attacks
October 11, 2011 6:39 am | by STEVE DOUGLAS, AP Sports Writer | News | Comments"The key steps we've taken to protect these systems are really to make sure we have an independent Olympic-dedicated network which gives us an insulation from the rest of the world."
Disaster Recovery & Data Protection
October 3, 2011 10:03 am | News | CommentsAcronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 helps protect data and systems by addressing disaster recovery and data protection needs across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
IBM Unveils New Hybrid Cloud Solution For The Enterprise
August 25, 2011 8:30 am | News | CommentsNew offering will connect, manage and secure software-as-a-service and on-premise applications.
