It's time to update your disaster recovery strategy for 2016

If your business has ever been affected by an event such as the current flood crisis and recent closing of the Forth Road Bridge, you likely wouldn’t argue that it’s crucial to have an effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy in place.

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Don’t let storage confuse you, keep it simple!

For those of you lucky enough to attend VMworld in San Francisco this year, it would have been hard to miss the abundance of storage vendors offering their solutions. From what I could see, there were in the region of 26, I don’t quite understand why it’s not called “VM-Storage-World”. Thoughts from X-IO's Gavin McLaughlin.

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CTERA unveils Server Data Protection for enterprise CloudOps

CTERA Networks has introduced a fully automated and secure in-cloud and cloud-to-cloud data protection solution that allows enterprises to protect any number of servers across any cloud infrastructure.CTERA Cloud Server Data Protection is designed for enterprise Cloud Operations (CloudOps) teams that have been forced to rethink data protection strategies as they migrate workloads natively within and across clouds in a new era of cloud services and IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) delivery.

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Transforming enterprise computing

Powerful new databases, data grids, caching platforms, and Big Data processing engines have emerged, facilitating fast in-memory data management and accessibility, says Diablo Technologies.

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Videos

Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.
Dr. J Metz, Chair SNIA Board of Directors and Scott Shadley, Chair SNIA Communications Steering Committee, discuss the association’s plans for the coming year, which include work on SDXI, computational storage, DNA data storage, SNIA Swordfish™, SNIA Emerald™ and sustainability. They also provide some fascinating insight into how they see the industry developing over time.
Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the activities of the organisation as it works on many initiatives to promote environmental best practice across the data centre and wider IT sectors, optimistic that the scale of the challenge is not beyond the reach of a combination of technology and business innovation.
Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.

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