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).

A recent report from analyst company Forrester suggests 86% of  IT directors surveyed already have or are considering a green IT plan. (more…)

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…)

 Businesses of all sizes, from multinational enterprises to small and midsize businesses, are using the messaging and collaboration features of Microsoft Exchange to run business functions that if lost, for even a short amount of time, can result in severe business disruption. (more…)

Virtualisation technologies make it much easier and less expensive to keep key applications available through failures, outages and even regional disasters. By carefully balancing downtime costs and availability options, organisations can extend the benefits of high availability (HA) to even more applications, locations and users. (more…)

An on demand video by Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products from our partners Marathon Technologies and Stephen Wynkoop Microsoft SQL  MVP covers: (more…)

A new white paper published by Stephen Wydkoop, Microsoft SQL server MVP, highlights the overall benefits of virtualising a SQL environment as well as the potential pitfalls of doing so. (more…)

Another webinar we’ve been asked about – so we’re including it on our site to make it easier to find.  Yes, you need to enter your email address to access it but it’s worth a look to learn more.  We’ll be adding it to our Marathon webinar page shortly but click here to see it now. (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…)