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Articles for the keywords: Disaster Recovery
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07 Sep 2012
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How Data Deduplication Technology Can Enhance Disaster Recovery [27550]
InformationWeek September 7, 2012
"A study done by the research firm Vanson Bourne shows that 80 percent of the Indian organizations have experienced data loss or downtime in the last 12 months. Historically, businesses have been using tape-based backup solutions and storing them physically in offsite locations. However, according to Gartner, 50 percent of all tape backups fail to restore.
Recently, a large number of computers in the Maharashtra secretariat got damaged in a fire. The governments failure to have a proper disaster recovery (DR) plan drew widespread mockery and criticism. But ironically, this issue is not limited to just government offices in India..."
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06 Sep 2012
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The Cloud - Business Continuity at Affordable Pricing? [27548]
IT Director September 6, 2012
"Many organisations look to the cloud to provide some level of contingency against their own systems going down, be it off-site data backup, failover servers for business applications, or the use of high-availability servers and software. The level of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) a given organisation chooses to put in place will vary according to its own risk appetite and budget.
The degree to which cloud services are suitable for providing a safety blanket will vary from one case to another. So which one is right for your organisation?..."
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03 Sep 2012
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Hurricane Katrina and the Lessons Learned from Mississippi's Recovery [27551]
Emergency Management August 29, 2012
"It's been seven years since Hurricane Katrina after which Mississippi then-Gov. Haley Barbour created the states Disaster Recovery Division and placed Jon Mabry as its chief operations officer. In that position Mabry administers more than $5 billion in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding earmarked by Congress for recovery projects after Katrina.
Catastrophic disaster recovery planning and execution is a rare event that many professional emergency managers will never experience. Mabry agreed to participate in an interview with Emergency Management magazine to share the state's challenges, successes and what he would do differently in the future..."
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29 Aug 2012
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Supercomputers Help New Orleans Prepare for Hurricane Isaac [27507]
NetworkWorld August 29, 2012
"In the eight years since Katrina struck New Orleans, advances in computer power and storm surge modeling is giving the city detailed data about Hurricane Isaac's impact.
Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery lessons still popping up
Computer models have already mapped, on a continuing basis as weather data changes, how the storm surge will invade coastal regions and neighborhoods..."
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26 Aug 2012
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Top Ten Articles for last few Issues [27429]
Vol 174 Issue 1, 2 and 3; Vol 173 Issues 1, 2, 3 and 4; Vol 172 Issue 4
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. For last week, the top 10 articles were:
- 12 Tasks That Killer Employees Always Finish Before Noon
- IT Checklist: What Every CIO Should Teach New Employees
- What Your Interns Can Teach You
- Financial Institutions are Losing Clients as a Result Of a Single Fraud Attack
- Fewer Outsourcing Contracts Being Inked, Says Research Firm
- Top Mobility Challenges Facing C-Level Executives
- IBM Claiming Spintronics Memory Breakthrough
- The Best Tech Investment I Never Made: Four CIOs' Tales
- The Hacking of @mat
- 10 Things I've Learned From Working In IT
The longer version of this article has list of top ten articles for the last 8 weeks.
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