1. Plan to Recover Files Before They're Lost

Everyone loses data sooner or later, but preparation can serve as inexpensive insurance. By Chris Smith Have you ever noticed how some of the most interesting stuff winds up in your junk email folder?   Emails come in fr

2. Isn't There Always Room for Another Promising Backup Solution?

The importance of preserving data combined with the inconvenience inherent in most backup solutions leaves room for new contenders. By Chris Smith I've chronicled my frustrations with backup software, but there's a new kid on th

3. Rethinking Data Protection

Can your storage provider guarantee that your data won't be lost? By Dr. Andrew Winkler Lose data, lose your job. Since 93 percent of data-intensive businesses that lose their data go out of business, it's not surprising that data l

4. Virtualization Can Be Part of an Affordable Disaster Recovery Solution

Touted for reducing energy consumption and making efficient use of servers and floor space, virtualization can also be the foundation for a smart DR plan. By Chris Smith I don't know whether it's because of improved communicatio

5. Logical or Hardware Replication: Which Is Right for You?

Replication is available in two generic flavors, hardware-level and logical. Yum. But which should you choose? It all depends. Or you can have it all. By Bill Hammond Replication is a familiar thread in the modern information technology

6. Moving from High Availability to Enterprise-wide Operational Resiliency

Having the right technologies in place after a disaster can save your data, but is that enough to save your business? By Chris Smith If you think that meeting compliance standards has been difficult and that once you get there your chances

7. Understanding Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in HA/DR Solutions

What level of disaster recovery and high availability capabilities do you need? Understanding RPO and RTO can help you to find the answer that best balances costs, risks, and profitability. By Craig A. Johnson For a few decades now, all

8. Finding the Right Backup Solution Could Mean Avoiding the Issue Altogether

New online storage backup services now offer tools to create and edit documents and spreadsheets. By Chris Smith I don't know what it is about me and backup applications, but it's sort of like me and cheerleaders. There is just

9. Bug Busters RSF Utility Morphs into an HA Product

With the latest release of Remote Software Facility 8.2, users can now do a role swap with the newly enhanced and affordable high availability solution. By Chris Smith How many system administrators have thought that your company really

10. Having a Backup System Used to Be a Luxury, but Today It May Not Be Enough

With weather and other threats coming at us from all directions, larger midrange clients appear to be moving toward three-node disaster recovery topologies. By Chris Smith Living in a time of war, weather changes, and presidential primaries

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12. Three Ways to Improve Your Disaster Recovery Plan

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16. System Protection: The Key to Virtualization

Certainly, you've thought about going from physical to virtual. But have you thought about going from virtual to physical? Virtualization is here to stay, and for good reason. Today's IT organizations face a multitude of challenges tha

17. 8 Steps to a Better Disaster Recovery Plan

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20. Information Availability Solutions Earn High Marks for Financial Services

Unlocking unused potential from downtime increases productivity, IT service levels, and customer satisfaction.   An information availability solution provides a cost-effective way to guarantee IT service levels for financial insti

21. Transforming Data in an HA Environment

New and updated software products help to ensure that data is always available where, when, and how users need it.   Data is the lifeblood of business. Whether you are shipping products, taking orders, managing production, or proce

22. Product Review: Vision replicate1

Vision replicate1 simplifies the real-time or scheduled sharing of data, including in complex, heterogeneous IT environments.     Over the years, many, if not most, organizations have become saddled with at least a few in

23. Transforming Data in an HA Environment

New and updated software products help to ensure that data is always available where, when, and how users need it.   Data is the lifeblood of business. Whether you are shipping products, taking orders, managing production, or proce

24. Round-the-Clock Business Information System Management

New and updated software alternatives make 24x7 system availability and management an affordable option for a much wider range of organizations.   Fortune 500 companies that measure revenues in the billions, some with three digits

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26. Beyond Disaster Recovery: High Availability's Other Hats

HA can be an invaluable asset for application testing, load balancing, consolidations, and more.

27. Increasing Your System Availability: From Basic Data Recovery to Business Continuance

Near-zero downtime and data loss objectives, while attainable, require commitment. Knowing what you stand to lose can help you dial in a strategy that best suits your objectives.

28. Documenting the High Availability Environment

Just having an HA solution isn't enough. To truly recover from a disaster quickly, you need to generate proper documentation.

29. New i5 Box? Need to Migrate? No Problem.

Use high availability to minimize migration downtime and ensure integrity.

30. Easier, More Affordable System i High Availability Solution Implementations

Continuing innovations lead the way.

31. Application Design in a High Availability Environment

The degree to which you can depend on a computer application is determined, in part, by its availability. Design your programs to maximize it.

32. The State of Availability: New Business Demands

High availability technologies have evolved over time, but the past few years have witnessed an even bigger revolution in the drivers of availability investment.

33. Delivering High Availability

Technology alone is insufficient to ensure highly available information systems. Protecting availability also requires effective analysis, planning, education, and implementation.

34. High Availability Roundup

Is your company ready for high availability data protection? Here are some things to consider before shopping for a solution.

35. High Availability: A Business Case

What's right for your company depends on your needs.

36. Enterprise Storage Management Software Celebrates 10 Years at IBM

From humble beginnings, Tivoli Storage Manager grew into the essential weapon in IT's battle to tame the enterprise storage behemoth.

37. Backup and Recovery Roundup

Better sleep and regular paychecks depend on a sound, tested backup and recovery strategy.

38. Falling Dominos: Planning a Recovery Strategy

Learn how to look for clues and recover the pieces.

39. Falling Dominos: Planning a Backup Strategy

Safeguard your Domino servers.

40. Focus on High Availability and Clustering

If there’s one topic that has caught fire over the last couple of years more than any other, it’s the need for your systems to have high availability. In this Internet-connected world, the need for systems that are available 24 hours a day,

41. Single-system High Availability

Improve single-system availability and reduce data loss exposure.

42. From Bad to Worse!

Paying attention to detail and always being prepared should be the highest priorities in your shop.

43. Are You Really Protected from Disaster?

Availability practices often don't match the necessity of technology. Are you insured against downtime?

44. Expecting the Unexpecting

Planning for recoverability: "The dog ate my invoices" won't cut it anymore.

45. Backups, Mayberry R.F.D., and Clustering

Are you losing business while your system is backing up?

46. IBM's Backup and Recovery: Metamorphosis!

IBM’s Backup and Recovery weighs in as one of the heftiest publications in the AS/400 library. The number of topics and varying complexity of the tasks it covers make it ripe for becoming an online document, allowing you to pluck just the inform

47. Backup and Recovery Software

Developing a backup and recovery software strategy for the AS/400 is not always an off-the-shelf endeavor. Where do you go when the basic OS/400 tools no longer meet all of your requirements? Should you build custom software or look to the growing ma

48. Disaster Recovery Planning

Where Do I Start? by Craig Foote Disaster Recovery Planning. Just the sound of it can make a company president cringe, and make the MIS manager want to cry. Naturally, everyone goes along thinking a disaster will not happen to them - which is the