A simple definition of high availability and disaster recovery:

Don’t confuse high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), or expect a DR solution to meet your availabililty needs.  Put simply, high availability is about PREVENTING downtime and disasters, while disaster recovery is RECOVERING FROM PROBLEMS once they occur.  Disaster recovery solutions are designed to help you recover from true disasters (floods, fires), not minor problems (network card failure, storage corruption).

…. courtesy of Bill Allen from Allen Multimedia Productions.  Learn about how our server high availability solution can reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions and about the benefits of our offsite data backup solution.  (Both topics are in the same video.)

everRun 2G provides fault tolerant high availability for physical or virtual environments.   Our partners, Marathon Technologies, (developers of the everRun group of products) have produced a full one hour demonstration showing how to protect critical applications using a software based solution loaded on non proprietary hardware. (more…)

According to the DTI, 70% of businesses that suffer a major data loss are out of business within 18 months.  So here’s some other scary ‘did you know’ stats: (more…)

According to the Environmental Audit Committee, the Government’s use of IT systems is one of the main reasons given for the failure to meet its own targets for reducing carbon emissions.   Electricity use is increasing, largely due to the number of Government computers, printers, laptops et al. (more…)

White Papers and Deployment Blue Print Explain How to Protect All Aspects of XenApp Environment with Fewer Resources and at Lower Cost. (more…)

On July 30th, 24/7 Uptime’s high availability partner, Marathon Technologies, hosted a joint webinar with Microsoft – “Top 10 reasons to Upgrade to Windows 2008 now”.  It was very well attended and several questions were posed to the speakers David Hanna, Infrastructure Architect at Microsoft, and Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products at Marathon.  In fact too many questions to handle during the one hour allocated webinar slot.  So – here are a selection of the Q&As.  Oh – and if you want to see the full webinar click here ….    Windows 2008 Webinar (more…)

Was watching Aleksandr doing his stuff again last night when it struck me – I think he needs some everRun high availability software from his fans at 24/7 Uptime.  Then he won’t need to beat up his computer – or Sergei.  Simples!

Take a look at his latest bloopers here – love the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ and helium balloon parts …..

I’m learning more about the CRC legislation that comes into effect next year and it’s sounding like a rather expensive undertaking for business so far.  From what I can gather, and in very simple terms, organisations within the scope of this legislation will initially need to buy allowances (emission credits) from the Government at a cost of £12/tonne of CO2 produced.  (more…)

..  no it’s not actually a joke – more to the point what do these household names – plus others such as Singapore Government, several NHS trusts, the MOD, Dungannon Meats and Hovis  all have in common? (more…)