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.)

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…)

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…)

According to Patni and Data Centre Management, the credit crunch and recession have put value for money at the top of the business agenda, particularly in the area of IT.  Implementing virtualisation is right up there in the cost saving arena. (more…)

24/7 Uptime’s server high availability partner, Marathon Technologies, presented a live webinar on 24 June.  Some questions and answers arose during the live broadcast that concentrated on protecting a SQL environment using Marathon’s everRun fault tolerant high availability software and these are detailed below.  Contact us on info@247uptime.co.uk if you would like to view the full webinar and/or be included on our mailing list so we can tell you about the next one. (more…)

We keep being asked about this so thought it sensible to post the entire press release here so it’s easy to find!

Microsoft and Marathon Technologies Expand Relationship to Provide Fault Tolerant Computing to More Businesses

In January 2009, Microsoft and Marathon Technologies signed a development and marketing agreement that focused on high availability solutions with Windows Server. (more…)

It’s incredibly frustrating when email doesn’t work – yet all you need to do is stamp down the corridor and shout at/sob to/implore (delete as applicable) the IT department – but how much more frustrating is it when you’re out and about and using your BlackBerry? (more…)