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A Disaster Recovery Plan covers the data, hardware and software critical for a business to restart operations in the event of a natural or human-caused disaster. It should also include plans for coping with the unexpected or sudden loss of key personnel.

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High Availability: Is it Sufficient for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?
By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Jun 07, 2007
For mission-critical IT, service outages and data loss pose serious consequences.  This white paper examines how availability management, disaster recovery and business continuity support one another and offers insight to find success at all of them.
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IT Users Discuss New Ways to Protect Enterprise Data
By : Data Domain Published Date: Sep 10, 2006
This paper chronicles the implementations of three enterprises that represent a diverse set of industries (Financial, Legal and Technology). The IT managers responsible for protecting company data had the foresight to recognize the growing gap between their business continuity requirements and the ability of tape-based backup systems to meet those requirements.
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Data Domain
Monitoring Physical Data Center Threats
By : APC-MGE Published Date: May 01, 2006
While well-understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is often ignored. This paper describes this class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime.
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Oracle Recovery Manager Design Best Practices with Data Domain
By : Data Domain Published Date: Jan 09, 2008
Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) is a built-in tool that allows the Database Administrator (DBA) to easily backup and recover the data in an Oracle database. RMAN handles the coordination required to ensure that transaction integrity is preserved and sufficient information is maintained to recover the database to any appropriate point.
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Data Domain
Panic Slowly: Integrated Disaster Response and Built-In Business Continuity
By : IBM Published Date: Sep 01, 2006
Unexpected disasters threaten organizations across the globe daily. Surprisingly, many businesses are not prepared for such disasters. They lack business continuity plans which can provide both proactive and reactive strategies to minimize the impact of unforeseen setbacks.
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IBM
7 Virtues of Virtualization: Avoiding Deadly Mistakes that Doom Business-Critical Service Management
By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Nov 21, 2007
Disaster recovery and business continuity top the list of server virtualization drivers.  And, the stakes are even higher when you virtualize business-critical IT services.  Explore the role that proper project planning and management play in keeping these initiatives on track.
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Stratus Technologies
Symantec NetBackup Design Best Practices with Data Domain
By : Data Domain Published Date: Jan 07, 2008
This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution.
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Data Domain
The ROI Case for WAN Vaulting - Extending Disk-to-Disk to Offsite Disaster Recovery
By : Data Domain Published Date: Mar 14, 2007
Systems and storage expert Barb Goldworm describes the benefits of deduplication and disk-to-disk (D2D) backup for disaster recovery (DR) and how these techniques are extended to deliver cost-effective offsite data protection. You’ll learn the benefits of deduplication and D2D backup, how D2D can be extended to deliver cost-effective offsite data protection and DR, and how to build a business case for WAN vaulting.
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Data Domain
The Workplace Recovery: The Human Side of Business Continuity
By : IBM Published Date: Aug 21, 2008
Natural and manmade disasters have costly, far-reaching impacts on businesses. And organizations of all types are making business continuity plans that protect their data, networks, core business applications and facilities. But it’s important to build resiliency into your business operations as well your human capital. This Web seminar on Workplace Recovery will take you through the risks related to human capital resiliency and provide a framework for addressing them.
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IBM
VMware Data Backup and Recovery Design Best Practices with Data Domain
By : Data Domain Published Date: Jun 11, 2008
When using Data Domain storage with well-understood best practices for backup and taking snapshots in VMware, a deployment can simplify management of consistent images. Once stored, the images are ready to restore, locally or, with optimized deduplicated replication, at a remote DR site. This paper describes best practices for managing these synergistic technologies together.
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Data Domain
All Data Is Not Equal
By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Jul 19, 2007
Application vulnerabilities and risks must be weighed to identify resources, performance requirements and service level objectives to ensure business continuity. Using real-world case studies, this white paper examines Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) best practices for disaster preparedness.
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Stratus Technologies
Combining Deduplication and VMware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness
By : NetApp Exchange Virtualization Published Date: Jul 10, 2008
The shift from physical servers to consolidated, virtualized server infrastructures has had undeniable IT benefits. However, the rapid move to VMware has caused traditional approaches to disaster recovery (DR) to become outmoded and added a layer of complexity to DR implementation.
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NetApp Exchange Virtualization
Disaster Recovery Webseminar
By : Riverbed Published Date: Jan 19, 2007
How long can your Enterprise afford to be without your data? With an accelerated disaster recovery program, you never have to answer this question. Download this webseminar and learn how advancements in wide-area data services (WDS) can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. And hear featured customer case studies demonstrating how enterprises are putting these solutions into practice today. With lost data being a competitive liability, there is no room for downtime in today’s business world.
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Riverbed
Downtime: Myths and Truths Webcast
By : HP Published Date: Feb 13, 2008
Join Forrester Research and HP in this webinar which explores common myths about IT disasters and analyzes different strategies to protect a company's information assets based on risk and cost. Stephanie Balaouras of Forrester analyzes 5 common myths around IT disasters e.g. disasters and loss of a data centers are rare.
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Disaster Recovery Planning Webcast
By : HP Published Date: Dec 12, 2007
Join this informative web event to hear from experts at Forrester Research and HP discuss the top ten challenges for effective disaster recovery planning, how to quantify the cost of downtime as well as tips on selecting and implementing disaster recovery solutions.
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HP
Pre-Test DR & Business Continuity Plans
By : Shunra Published Date: Mar 18, 2007
Effective IT disaster recovery and business continuity planning is essential for every business. All businesses depend on their IT services for moment-to-moment operations. It is vital to ensure that those services are not disrupted due to any disaster. Pre-test your plans in a simulated network.
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Shunra
GlobalSCAPE Provides a Competitive Edge for Williams Lea
By : GlobalSCAPE Published Date: Jan 04, 2008
Williams Lea is a leading global provider of customized corporate information solutions. The company needed to reliably, easily and securely transfer sensitive files and implement a system to share files and ensure a business continuity/disaster recovery plan.  Today, Williams Lea uses the GlobalSCAPE’s Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) solution to provide secure protocol support and encryption to protect data in transit and at rest.
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GlobalSCAPE
How Smart Phones and Handheld Devices Enable Continuity of Operations and Emergency Response
By : Palm, Inc. Published Date: Jan 11, 2007
Smartphones and other handheld devices support government continuity of operations (COOP) by enabling its central tenets: decentralization and redundancy. Read this white paper to learn all benefits of using smart phones when an emergency strikes.

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Palm, Inc.
HP's Disaster Proof Solutions: Ensuring Application Availability
By : HP Published Date: Jun 14, 2007
When HP decided to create a full-blown test environment for disaster recovery, involving two data centers, five mission-critical applications, and 70 pounds of C4 explosive, they called in ESG Labs to witness the results. Find out how five homogenous server systems were brought back online in as little as 14 seconds--with no data loss.
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HP
HP XP 'Bulletproof Software' for High Availability - ESG Lab Validation Report
By : HP Published Date: Jul 06, 2007
If you still think of disaster recovery only in terms of data redundancy you're only getting half the story. True "bulletproof" disaster recovery requires both data stability and application availability for business continuance. Read why one independent lab gave HP XP disaster recovery software systems glowing marks for its ability to reliably deliver both requirements.
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High Availability for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Using Array-Based Replication
By : HP MSExchange Published Date: Jan 30, 2008
This solution provides the information needed to select the replication, mirroring, and/or high availability method(s) suitable for your environment; and the best practices for optimal configuration of the SQL database, HP ProLiant blade servers, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)storage, and software. Both array-based replication with HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA and host-based copying with SQL Server database mirroring are discussed, along with strategies for synchronous and asynchronous replication of SQL databases between primary and remote HP EVA disk arrays.

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HP MSExchange
HyperOffice's State-of-the-Art Hosting Facility
By : HyperOffice Published Date: Jan 09, 2008
A detailed description of our facilities and security systems, underlining how you can trust HyperOffice with your mission critical data & systems. From state-of-the-art equipment and infrastructure, to controlled environment and around the clock guards, to multiple backup systems, there is no contingency we are not prepared for.
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HyperOffice
How to Plan, Configure, and Maintain a HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication Solution
By : HP Published Date: May 01, 2008
To stay competitive in today's business climate, organizations must find ways to meet their business needs while controlling IT costs. IT departments face flat budgets and, at the same time, find that their organizations have become increasingly dependent on uninterrupted access to business-critical data. In today's world, prudent IT administrators prepare to recover from two types of disasters as part of a complete Business Continuity and Availability (BC and A) plan.
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IT Challenges in the Business Continuity Market
By : XOsoft Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
This white paper address the challenges that IT professionals face when implementing a geographically distributed data configuration and the features that a comprehensive replication solution must provide to answer these challenges.
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XOsoft
Introducing Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers
By : Symantec Published Date: Nov 01, 2006
The latest release of Backup Exec allows you to eliminate backup windows and recover individual Exchange messages, folders, and mailboxes - without mailbox backups. Learn more about how Symantec Backup Exec™ 11d for Windows® Servers provides continuous, cost-effective, and high-performance disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery for Windows server data.
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