• NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 February, 2012 09:29

  Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category , with reviews and comparisons of the best cloudstorage services.

• Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

  By Lucas Mearian | 26 January, 2012 06:31

  Cloud storage service Mozy on Wednesday announced public beta availability of Mozy Stash , a new feature that provides customers with a method of accessing files across multiple computers and mobile devices.

• How to improve disaster recovery preparedness

  By Rachel Dines | 19 January, 2012 09:22

  If you woke up tomorrow and ran a marathon, how would you fare? It's highly doubtful that you would successfully run the 26.2 miles without months of training, drills, and exercises.

• Aussie firms lack disaster plans for IT

  By AAP | 18 January, 2012 10:04

  Many Australian businesses have no plan for how they will start work again following a disaster, says flexible workspace provider Regus.

• Six reasons small businesses need virtualization

  By Paul Mah | 12 January, 2012 03:24

  Server virtualization has been around for more than 10 years and while issues such as storage and I/O bottlenecks can still rear their head, the multi-faceted advantages offered by virtualization are real and attainable even if you run a small business—and since your competitors may not have discovered the benefits of the technology yet you may gain a significant competitive advantage.

• Business continuity planning - more than just disaster recovery

  By Allan Davies | 12 February, 2011 08:00

  As a nation, we have certainly faced our fair share of disasters lately; flooding in Queensland and Victoria, cyclones in Queensland and massive bush fires in Western Australia — just months after devastating earthquakes in Christchurch. Our hearts certainly goes out to all of the people affected by these disasters but I personally feel the pain of all the IT professionals who are, or will be, working tirelessly to bring IT systems back on-line in order to maintain some form of business continuity in these affected areas.

• Dealing with disaster

  By Tim Mendham | 06 September, 2010 10:08

  Earthquakes? Volcanoes? Pandemics? Tsunamis? Are these the stuff of business continuity? Gartner has issued several papers covering major disasters such as the Iceland volcano eruption and its impact on business travel, admitting that “few, if any, businesses plan for a volcanic ash disruption scenario”, which is probably the understatement of the year.

• Your workplace in 2020: Gartner's predictions

  By Thomas Wailgum | 05 August, 2010 02:23

  How will people work 10 years from now? Gartner thinks it has a pretty good idea, predicting 10 major changes that will occur during the next 10 years.

• Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Yields ROI

  By Kim S. Nash | 17 June, 2010 05:53

  The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery.

• Best Practices For IT Availability

  By Stephanie Balaouras | 17 December, 2009 04:40

  Forrester often gets inquiries such as, "What requirements should we keep in mind while developing our disaster recovery plans and documents?" and, "Which strategies work best for managing our disaster recovery program once it's in place?"

Whitepapers about disaster recovery

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  EMC Data Domain Archiver - A Detailed Review

  Many enterprises have been able to minimise tape for operational recovery by adopting deduplication storage systems. Howeverm customers with long-term retention requirements have continued to rely on tape-baed solutions due to perceived advantages in total cost of ownership, energy consumption, data portability and fault isolation. Read on.

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  HP Case Study: Streamlining archiving and data protection at Bon-Ton

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  What's New in HP Data Protector V6.2