Verizon runs DR drill

Verizon will begin a week-long disaster recovery exercise that encompasses all of Verizon Telecom, the new unit for wireline and business operations, and Verizon Wireless operations as well, reports Light Reading.

The event begins with a simulated disaster involving a mid-air collision that sends a commercial airliner crashing into a major Verizon facility at its Ashburn, Virginia, corporate campus, and also causes damage to a Leesburg, Virginia, local phone company central office.

It continues with simulated chlorine leak from a tanker truck that compromises a major data centre at Ashburn as well, and requires Verizon's hazardous materials team to respond.

EMC has unveiled a version of its Data Domain data de-duplication appliance, the DD880, which now supports more than seven petabytes of backup storage across multiple devices through a global name space, states Computerworld.

The company also introduced encryption software for the appliance, as well as Data Domain Replicator software, which offers several disaster recovery and business continuity tools, including a 'one-to-many' data replication topology.

EMC says it doubled the number of controllers to two and boosted the shelf space for disc drives on the DD880 so it now has double the physical capacity of its predecessor, with up to 280TB of storage.

Barracuda Networks has unveiled a backup appliance that stores data on premises and also copies data to an off-site backup service, writes Network Computing.

The Barracuda Backup Server 990 has 24TB of storage. Agents included with the appliance back up Windows 2003/2008 servers and Windows 7 clients, and provide a full data-restoration capability.

The company says the agents perform block-level dedupe data at the source before sending data to the appliance. The appliance connects to a cloud-based backup service to transfer the data off site for an additional level of protection.