Rethinking your disaster recovery strategy

Recent natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina opened the eyes of many IT administrators to the devastation that can compromise primary and backup IT facilities, says Sys-con.

The widespread confusion that followed Hurricane Katrina brought into sharp focus the need for comprehensive business continuity plans that incorporated secondary data centre sites located far enough away so as to be untouched by the disaster affecting the primary data site.

Many IT organisations believe the costs involved in establishing secondary data centres are out of reach for all but the largest organisations. However, new cost-effective options are available to help many enterprises achieve business continuity in the chaos and devastation that natural and man-made disasters leave in their wake.

Vision Solutions, a disaster recovery solutions provider in IBM Power Systems markets, has released Orion Solutions 6.0, reports FOX Business.

Built to provide flexibility, performance and ease of use required by customers with enterprise-class environments, Orion Solutions 6.0 replicates business applications in real-time and maintains a remote role-swap-ready recovery system.

"Orion Solutions 6.0 adds tremendous enhancements to overall performance and flexibility," says Vision Solutions chief technology officer and executive vice-president Alan Arnold. "This release represents our most significant improvement to date regarding operations, monitoring functions, and the high availability management interface. These technology breakthroughs provide meaningful, real-world benefits."

Top universities from the Times-QS World University Rankings have deployed VMware virtualisation solutions to reduce capital and operating costs, increase application and system uptime, decrease power consumption and improve disaster preparedness, states Businesswire.

Harvard, which is number one on the list of 100, and Cambridge, which is tied for the second spot, head the list of prestigious schools that have deployed VMware solutions.

Other renowned universities from the Times-QS list that are VMware customers include Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Purdue, the University of Maryland, the University of Auckland, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Los Angeles and San Diego.