With storage capacities growing by leaps and bounds, the need for effective backup is even more important. We look at your options.
The University of Queensland has opened a new in-house-designed datacentre, using the university IT team's knowledge of supercomputer power and cooling requirements to deal with the trials of virtualisation.
Griffith University in Queensland has set up a virtualised, tiered storage architecture to cut the cost of deploying a disaster recovery system.
New rules on business continuity management for the finance sector came into effect this month, but one local expert says more than just finance companies will be affected.
Companies that outsource technology activities overseas are used to facing criticism from customers and politicians but now they face a much bigger challenge: the potential onset of bird flu
If you recently signed up with Microsoft's OneCare Live antivirus service -- and you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express -- there is a chance that your stored e-mails have been wiped out.
If you think two-thirds of your IT is mission-critical, you're either running an incredibly lean and efficient operation or you haven't got a clue how many applications you have and which ones you need to manage.
Storage is a presumptive business. After all, if employees can buy a new 8GB iPod for the kids for Christmas, why is it apparently so costly for the company to throw in a measly new hard drive or two?
If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
In the 21st century, if we don't like our political leaders, we endlessly whine about them on blogs. In the Czech Republic, historically a simpler solution was frequently used: throw the offending individuals out the window. Storage managers can learn something from this.
With storage capacities growing by leaps and bounds, the need for effective backup is even more important. We look at your options.
With storage capacities growing by leaps and bounds, the need for effective backup is even more important. We look at your options.
Business continuity is much more than just a fancy word for "backup" although some organisations treat it that way. A comprehensive business continuity plan provides a roadmap for continuance and/or restoration of mission-critical functions during and after a disaster. Here are 10 things a good BCP includes.
We discuss virtualisation and the storage strategies that can transform your disaster recovery plan.
Make sure your organisation has an emergency plan in place to deal with the impact of a major disaster.
With storage capacities growing by leaps and bounds, the need for effective backup is even more important. We look at your options.
Everyone needs backups, but how do you recover a server quickly? We look at some of the options available for snapshot backup and other disaster recovery techniques.
Microsoft has more to do on its new operating system, but this first beta suggests that Windows Vista could be up to par with Linux and Apple Mac OS X.
Small businesses new to networks and backups will appreciate Dantz Retrospect, but more experienced users should look elsewhere.
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper explains why the upcoming OS is so important to Microsoft and the rest of the tech industry.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
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