Mobile beats laptop in business continuity

Pyxis Mobile has announced the results of a survey it conducted of its Customer Advisory Board on business continuity practices and perceptions, reports Wireless Workforce.

The study showed an overwhelming preference for mobile devices over laptop computers for business continuity planning, and highlighted numerous levels of dependence among senior IT professionals for mobility in their business continuity plans.

More than 80% of respondents indicated that mobile devices are a better or equally good business continuity option than laptop computers.

Level 3 Communications has been selected as the exclusive network provider for Wall Street West, to provide back-up systems to New York City's financial institutions, reports StreetInsider.

Level 3 has been selected to construct a diverse fibre optic network from New York City to Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The network will be designed to meet specific requirements for business continuity and disaster recovery applications, to protect critical financial information in the event of an outage in the New York City area.

Egenera has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent number for its innovation in N+1 disaster recovery, reports Market Wire.

Egenera's disaster recovery technology simplifies and accelerates moving entire clusters of servers, including their storage and networking connections, to a remote site.

Leveraging Egenera's processing area network architecture, clusters are reinstated within minutes at the new site, without hardware configuration. A single back-up site can adopt the configuration of any number of primary sites on demand.