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Recovery after the first 24 hours
Insight Make sure your organization has a plan in place to deal with the impact of a major disaster.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery
Planning for distributed disaster recovery
Techguide Dealing with backups at branch offices, where there may not be a technical staff, is a challenge for disaster recovery planning. Mike Talon breaks down the options.
Focus areas after the first 24 hours
Techguide Make sure your organization has a plan in place to deal with the impact of a major disaster. Here are some suggestions to include in your emergency plan.
File Server Capacity Tool helps scale file server sizing
Techguide Rick Vanover reminds Windows administrators that Microsoft's new File Server Capacity Tool isn't a storage silver bullet.
Tags: Storage software, Microsoft Windows, File servers, Server platforms, File Server, Microsoft Corp., Common Internet File System, Server platforms, Storage software, File servers
Report: Problems stymie US cyberspy protection
News Technical and privacy issues are plaguing the U.S. government's work on the overarching system to protect federal computer networks from cyberspies, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Federal Government, Server platforms, File servers, Hacking, Mobile platforms/communications, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, U.S. Department Of Justice, Attack, Pentagon
Windows Home Server update delayed
News Compatibility issues with Windows 7 have delayed the planned Power Pack 3 update until later this year.
Tags: App servers, E-mail servers, Web servers, File servers, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows 7, software company, File servers, Server
As server sales tank, IBM still leads pack
News Worldwide server revenue falls 14 percent year over year in the fourth quarter, IDC says, while full-year revenue for 2008 dips 3.3 percent.
Tags: Servers, App servers, File servers, E-mail servers, Web servers, IBM Corp., International Data Corp., Sales, File servers, Server
HP upgrading Home Server lineup, Apple may follow suit
News MediaSmart servers get multi-platform support in January. Will Apple announce similar product at Macworld Expo?
Tags: Web servers, File servers, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Home Server, Backup, backup software, Apple Macintosh, File servers, Server
Stop buying storage
Techguide The current economic downturn means storage managers no longer have the luxury of cutting management corners. However, this presents an opportunity to improve the storage cost profile.
Tags: Data centers, Data Management, Databases, Organization, Storage Management, Storage Allocation, Data Deduplication, Storage, Phil Goodwin, De-duplication
SAN and NAS defined
Insight An explanation of the differences between SAN and NAS, and their varying purposes.
Disaster recovery challenges for the healthcare industry: File servers
Techguide Because of its critical nature, data on healthcare industry file servers requires special disaster recovery planning. Find out some of the key issues for preventing data loss and ensuring uptime in the healthcare environment.
Tags: Hardware, Servers, Storage, Data backup, disaster recovery, File servers
Attack on SCO sites at an end
News The SCO Group's Web site and file servers are back online, after being hit by a denial-of-service attack that cut off access for almost two days.
Disaster recovery options for legal firm file servers
Techguide Mike Talon takes a look at disaster recovery options for file servers in legal firms.
Apple updates Rendezvous for Windows, Linux
News The developer preview allows coders to include the network-configuration technology in their own software.
Quantum spinoff releases storage system
News Snap Appliance, a maker of lower-end storage systems, releases its first product since being spun off from the tape drive specialist.
