EDITORIAL
IT Recovery News no. 4 looks at ten steps which will help you minimise the risks in the development and deployment of a successful disaster recovery plan. The key to success? Test, test, and test again, to ensure that when disaster comes (and of course, we hope it won't) your recovery plan slips smoothly into action. As the hypervisor market moves to maturity we compare the three market-leading solutions, Xen, Hyper-V and ESX, and identify the differentiators. Finally we take a look at Geocluster, a recently introduced solution from Double Take optimising long-distance replication for WAN-based clusters.
 
 

PRA / PCA

Ten Key Steps for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning

There's no Highway Code and no driver's license which will guarantee successful deployment of a business continuity plan – but applying rigorous project management techniques is essential. More...

 

Virtualisation

Xen, Hyper-V or ESX – how do they compare?

There are good reasons – particularly the price – for enterprise customers are starting looking closely at Hyper-V. And Citrix, with its Xen-based suite, offers an end-to-end solution which is exceptionally price competitive. More...

 

News

Expand and Riverbed Virtualise Acceleration

Virtual WAN from Expand Networks is a WAN optimisation solution running on VMware's ESX hypervisor and an off-the-shelf Intel x86 server. This allows WAN traffic acceleration and WAFS server consolidation in a virtual environment. More...

 
 
BREAKING NEWS
Connect to our Webinar ! Webinar Subject: Implementing a DR Plan for 2009 -How to Save Storage and Networking Costs
Date: 10 December 2008
Time: 6pm Central European Time (Paris/Brussels/Frankfurt/Stockholm)
Duration:60 minutes
Speakers: Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering, Double-Take Software; and Jeff Aaron, Vice President of Marketing, Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
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