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How many articles or blog posts have you read that talked about the “lessons we learned” from 9/11, the Japanese earthquake/tsunami, the Joplin tornado, Hurricane Katrina, or <insert disastrous event here>? I see them all the time, and after reading a very interesting article in the Winter issue of the Disaster Recovery Journal (you may …

Lately, the question on everyone’s mind has been: is it possible to replace your aging backup strategy with array-based snapshot and replication technology? The inevitable follow-up to that question: why is this so hard to swallow by so many of us, and why do we have a hard time accepting it? It all boils down to …

Considering how much I talk about backup, it’s remarkable how much I hate the topic. So here I go again. Along the lines of my traditional backup philosophy, if you hate something, do as little of it as possible… Let’s pretend that you don’t have the funds for Plan A: Namely, that being two arrays …

The idea of corporate responsibility to bettering society continues to pick up steam. We hear about how businesses should proactively address their manufacturing and business practices to encourage ethical treatment of employees, we hear about ‘green’ companies who only use suppliers who use resource-sustainable manufacturing processes, etc. How many of you think about disaster recovery as a social responsibility? I maintain it may be one of the most important responsibilities organizations have.

Initially, our customer had a huge challenge backing up his virtual environment. He had to treat his VMs as physical machines. Due to the long backup window of “backup to tape,” the customer was only able to a get a full backup on the weekend. As we all know, backup to tape is the cheapest; …