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Archives for February, 2010


Closing the Recovery Gap (from John Morency)

by Roberta J. Witty  |  February 22, 2010  |  1 Comment

John Morency here again. For many organizations, simply completing the recovery of a set of mission-critical applications and data over the course of a test exercise is sufficient for declaring success. The elapsed time consumed for recovery completion, if measured at all, is often a secondary consideration. However, this definition of success is often at [...]

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Pandemic Preparedness Planning: Is it Time to Stop?

by Roberta J. Witty  |  February 12, 2010  |  Comments Off

Many people are asking the question: Why did we make such a big deal around the H1N1 pandemic – nothing much has happened? And now, the WHO is going to convene a team to determine if they can downgrade its importance. I think we all agree that it is a good thing if the H1N1 [...]

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Recovery in the Cloud : How Soon? (from John Morency)

by Roberta J. Witty  |  February 8, 2010  |  4 Comments

The delivery of cloud services for IT operations backup, recovery and restart is a potentially significant market opportunity for a whole new generation of providers, in addition to the more established players such as HP, IBM and SunGard Availability Services. This is evidenced in the significant increase in the related client inquiry volume that we [...]

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