Disaster recovery facilities and operations
While ransomware and other cyber attacks target an organization's data, fires, natural disasters and other large-scale crises can negatively affect facilities and operations. Find out which disaster recovery measures to take to ensure that your business can get back on its feet when a disaster strikes.
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Tip
16 May 2025
High availability and resiliency are vital to a DR strategy
Together, high availability and resiliency can prepare an organization for potential disruptions. Find out how these metrics work in disaster recovery. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Apr 2025
Use a business impact analysis questionnaire to get critical data
The quality of the business impact analysis questionnaire will determine how well prepared your organization is for a disaster. Get started with some tips and sample questions. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jul 2018
Gen 8 Unitrends appliances span SMB to enterprise
Unitrends adds 12 TB hard disk drives and more models to cover a greater range of customer and workload sizes in its Gen 8 Recovery Series integrated appliances. Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2018
Zerto Virtual Replication reduces marketing firm's RPO
Maritz needed a short RPO and flexible cloud provider options for its recovery process. Zerto replication protects applications to and from clouds and between multiple clouds. Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2018
Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 dives deeper into multiple clouds
Zerto has added to its bidirectional Virtual Replication software with multi-cloud protection for data and applications stored in AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2018
Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct cuts downtime for cloud DR
Arcserve UDP delivers short RPO and RTO for backup and disaster recovery in the cloud. The upgraded platform targets the enterprise and medium-sized businesses. Continue Reading
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Tip
10 Apr 2015
Speed Hyper-V replication process by seeding replica VM
Hyper-V replication lets IT create secondary, offline virtual machines that can be used to recover operations following an outage of the primary VM. Continue Reading
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Answer
30 Mar 2015
How do you choose between file- and block-level replication?
Block- and file-level replication each offer important benefits, but for different applications. Learn the use cases of each in this Expert Answer. Continue Reading
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Answer
19 Dec 2014
What are the top five ways to train personnel in disaster response?
What are the five best ways to ensure personnel are trained in disaster response and ready to respond to a disaster event? Continue Reading
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Answer
24 Oct 2014
What are some common VMware High Availability configuration errors?
What are the most common mistakes people make when configuring VMware High Availability? Continue Reading
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Podcast
22 Jun 2011
What you need to know about automatic failover and disaster recovery automation
Learn about the benefits of automatic failover for disaster recovery, an option for companies that need zero downtime. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 May 2011
High availability guidelines and VMware HA best practices
Elias Khnaser discusses VMware High Availability best practices in this chapter excerpt. After you read the excerpt, download the full backup and high availability chapter. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Aug 2008
Can you define failover and failback?
Failover is the process of shifting I/O and its processes from a primary location to a secondary disaster recovery (DR) location. This typically involves using a vendor's tool or a third-party tool of some type that can temporarily halt I/O, and restart it from a remote location. Continue Reading