Category Archives: Disaster Recovery

VMware disaster recovery

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Ray

I did an article awhile ago for TechTarget on Virtual (machine) Disaster Recovery and discussed what was then the latest version of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) v1.0 and some of it’s capabilities. Well its been a couple of years … Continue reading →

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SNIA CDMI plugfest for cloud storage and cloud data services

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Ray

Was invited to the SNIA tech center to witness the CDMI (Cloud Data Managament Initiative) plugfest that was going on down in Colorado Springs. It was somewhat subdued. I always imagine racks of servers, with people crawling all over them … Continue reading →

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Correlated risk

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Ray

What’s the chance that an earthquake  at sea could knock out primary power and generate a tsunami which would also knock out backup generators for nuclear power plant emergency cooling equipment (1 in 40 yrs), an overextended speculative market segment … Continue reading →

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Deskchecking BC/DR plans

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Ray

Quite a lot of twitter traffic/tweetchat this Wednesday on DR/BC all documented on #sanchat sponsored by Compellent. In that discussion I mentioned a presentation I did a couple of years ago for StorageDecisions/Chicago on Successful Disaster Recovery Testing where I discussed … Continue reading →

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Problems solved, introduced and left unsolved by cloud storage

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Ray

When I first heard about cloud storage I wondered just what exactly it was trying to solve. There are many storage problems within the IT shop nowadays days, cloud storage can solve a few of them but introduces more and … Continue reading →

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