Disaster recovery has traditionally been seen as an expensive insurance policy, reserved for large corporations. However new cloud-enabled technologies offer rapid recovery without the expense of IT infrastructure.

Join Dell for a complimentary webcast hosted by Troy Winskowicz of Dell and featuring guest Stephanie Balaouras of Forrester Research and learn how you can benefit from cloud-based services. You’ll walk away with an understanding of:

- The benefits of cloud technologies for disaster recovery
- What to look for in a cloud-based recovery service
- Strategies to employ a cloud-enabled disaster recovery service in your organization
- Pitfalls to avoid when designing your virtual infrastructure and selecting a vendor

• Disaster Recovery Journal, Dec. 03, 2009

Disk vendors, particularly those sporting data deduplication functionality on specialty stovepipe arrays, continue to market that "tape is dead." But anyone who attended the Supercomputer '09 Conference (SC09) in Portland, Ore., might just reach a very different conclusion.

• Jon Toigo, searchdisasterrecovery.com, Nov 30, 2009

This article takes a look EMC’s upgraded version of AVAMAR. AVAMAR 5 has new capabilities and features, which places it above its predecessor.

• Beth Pariseau (Senior News Writer), searchdatabackup.com, Nov 17, 2009

Simon Johnson, disaster recovery practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies (UK) discusses the importance of a disaster recovery (DR) strategy and asks how much downtime can you really afford and what level of protection can you get away with?

Applications and the information they hold are increasingly the lifeblood of many organisations. In my experience, many businesses which have encountered major loss of data are never able to reopen; some attempt to but do not succeed and only a handful survive. This just goes to show the long-term importance of a business aligned DR strategy today.

• Team Glasshouse, Nov 23, 2009

The management of storage devices is often tedious and time consuming. And as the fragile economy continues to impact everyone this year, we are all going to be required to do more with less. Storage virtualization promises to ease the headaches of increasingly complex storage systems and, ideally, will allow us to still effectively and efficiently do our jobs as IT pros with fewer resources.

This presentation highlights how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to an actual concept storage managers are using to minimize the amount of machines needed to manage, centralize data and change the economics of storage. Marc Staimer will also look at how storage virtualization makes heterogeneous storage compatible, eases data migration and enables consolidation.

• Bitpipe.com, Publisher: searchstorage.com, Nov 10, 2009

Is your company ready for the cloud? The debate over whether cloud computing will catch on is moot. What's important now is understanding the variety of permutations it can take and how cloud services can help your particular organization meet its business goals.

• James Damoulakis (CTO Glasshouse Technologies), E-commerce Times, Oct 7, 2009

While virtualization is being addressed at all levels of the SAN, the most powerful application of this technology today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.

Through centralized management, virtualization helps reduce costs. The same number of storage administrators can manage more storage while company assets, such as disk space, are better utilized.

IT professionals benefit from the flexibility and capacity savings through support for virtual disk mirrors, Virtually Capacity-Free Snapshot, and Virtually Instantaneous Snapclone. These tools deliver optimized capacity and greater flexibility to storage administrators.

• Bitpipe.com, Publisher: HP, Sept 01, 2009

Team Glasshouse, a global provider of data centre consulting services, discusses the importance of RTOs and RPOs for businesses today.

• Team Glasshouse, Aug 26, 2009

David Leyland, UK OSS Business Manager at Glasshouse Technologies, talks about the benefits of off-site services.

• David Leyland, Aug 07, 2009

Companies facing IT budgetary pressures should not overlook testing their disaster recovery plans, especially those with virtualised environments, warned Glasshouse Technologies.

• Tom Jowitt, Techworld, Mar 09, 2009