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Florida and you're liable to get hit anywhere in Florida with a hurricane, then your DR sites needs to be outside of Florida. If this is... More...
Nov 25, 2008
at a remote site. That said, make sure that UPS is an ingredient at both primary IT sites and at recovery sites, whether hot, warm or cold.

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Nov 11, 2008
Exchange and SQL databases and a document management system between the London sites. "This April we had a flood in the area of our head... More...
Nov 3, 2008
and what data to backup?
>>How far apart should production and alternate recovery sites be?
>>Should I back up the operating system files?
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Oct 28, 2008
minimizing the data transmission while maximizing the synchronization between sites. Then focus on how to trigger failover while... More...
Oct 15, 2008
seriously over the past few years. Not long ago, DR meant shipping tapes out to remote sites, loading them and then sending them on a plane.

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Oct 15, 2008
server clusters can communicate with one another, even if they run in multiple sites or have firewalls between them. Applications... More...
Oct 8, 2008
today's technology, and with a little preplanning, as soon as you can locate a wireless hot spot that is still working, you should be able to... More...
Oct 6, 2008
and stored in secure data facilities.

Also, the traditional options of third-party hot sites, cold sites and outsourced data center... More...

Oct 6, 2008
For many companies, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) planning are rushed reactions to a disaster. Proactive DR and BC support can be... More...
Sep 22, 2008
seriously over the past few years. Not long ago, DR meant shipping tapes out to remote sites, loading them and then sending them on a plane.

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Sep 22, 2008
plan, having alternate sites for IT operations is critical. DR site options include hot sites, warm sites, cold sites and mobile sites. Each has... More...
Sep 19, 2008
hardware and tools will have to adjust to any differences between the primary and hot sites. Planning and practice is especially... More...
Sep 4, 2008
Snow said users don't notice whether they're working from the primary or secondary sites.

Like Chaffe, Snow said he had some problems with... More...

Sep 4, 2008
more an issue of just a cost comparison for similar levels of capabilities between sites. You should keep in mind your requirements... More...
Aug 27, 2008
minimizing the data transmission while maximizing the synchronization between sites. Then focus on how to trigger failover while... More...
Aug 27, 2008
one of the biggest issues of DR: the need for exactly the same equipment on both sites. It allows all system elements, including... More...
Aug 26, 2008
homogeneous environments with similar resources on both production and recovery sites. "With storage virtualization you can more... More...
Aug 21, 2008
critical applications that control the electrical grid, the failover process to hot standby servers at the secondary data center... More...
Aug 21, 2008
pretty much unabated. This is also the most expensive of the DR options.

Instead of hot sites, some companies rely on cold sites, which are... More...

Aug 20, 2008
video footage from the Apollo space missions and replicating that data between two sites for disaster recovery. ASU ran into two... More...
Jun 5, 2008
were designed to cover and should be maintained accordingly.

Organizations with a hot-site subscription with a vendor must be... More...

Jun 5, 2008
Journal. It is available at http://www.drj.com/GAP/.

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Remote recovery sites: How far is far enough?
About the author: Rick Cook... More...

Jun 5, 2008
What is the industry norm for the distance between production and alternate or DR sites? Are there legal requirements? What are other... More...
Jun 5, 2008
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