When it comes to disaster recovery planning, storage capacity is an important consideration. Enterprises must determine if they need to augment their tradition storage technology or migrate to cloud-based storage. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Disaster Recovery
“But Mom, All the Cool Kids Are Virtual”
Why does being virtual really matter in application delivery within the cloud and across the WAN? Well, as this article on PCQuest.com points out, it’s faster and more cost effective. Or, as the author so succinctly puts it, “Another fairly common, though expensive, solution is to place pairs of special dedicated (hardware) appliances along the transport path to boost or improve throughput.” Continue reading
90% Bandwidth Reductions That Meet and Beat RTO and RPO Goals
This solution brief, jointly published by Dell and Certeon, discusses the approaches and benefits of a multi-vendor approach when seeking to accelerate business continuity through virtualization. Continue reading
Analyst’s Take – Accelerated WAN-based Backup and Disaster Recovery
The Problem
Deni Connor, Principal Analyst at Storage Strategies NOW (www.ssg-now.com) has just published a Snapshot Report on accelerated WAN-based backup and disaster recovery. In the report, Deni points out that successfully executing backup and disaster recovery across a WAN can be a daunting exercise, fraught with obstacles and problems including:
- Latency
- Low Bandwidth
- Network Contention
- Out of Order Packets
- Packet loss
All of these potential issues can affect an organizations ability to meet recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) when performing WAN-based backup and disaster recovery.
