Topic: disaster recovery
Google Cloud adds new backup features to Backup and Disaster Recovery service
Google Cloud is improving its Backup and Disaster Recovery service with three new preview features for simplifying backup management and policies. First, backup vault provides immutable and indelible backups, meaning they are both prevented from having modifications made to them and cannot be deleted. This protects backups from being tampered with or being unintentionally deleted. … continue reading
CrowdStrike outages underscore importance of incident planning
If you’re working in the IT organization of a company that uses CrowdStrike to protect its Windows computers, you likely spent your whole Friday (and possibly the weekend) trying to revert back a bad update that led to those machines crashing. Earlier that morning, CrowdStrike had pushed an update to Windows machines that caused a … continue reading
Report: Over 90% of companies have a disaster recovery plan
Disaster recovery preparedness is a continuing concern for companies, because according to the 2023 Disaster Recovery Practices Survey from Forrester and Disaster Recovery Journal, 17% of respondents have had a significant disaster, outage, or business disruption. Fortunately, over 90% of companies surveyed have some sort of disaster recovery (DR) plan in place. 69% of those … continue reading
AWS disaster recovery strategies
Disasters are unavoidable and can cause irreparable damage to enterprises’ technical infrastructures. For organizations, this damage can turn out to be more monetary and reputational as they can lose data and clients. Thus, organizations usually have backup servers and recovery data centers as the first-response strategy. However, building resilience in this way is both costly … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: VMware Cross-Cloud services in AWS Marketplace; AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery; Microsoft and JetStream partnership
VMware has announced that Carbon Black Cloud and Tanzu are now available on the AWS Marketplace. According to VMware, this will provide customers with benefits like accelerating applications modernization, migrating workloads to the cloud, adopting a cloud operating model, and securely connecting a distributed workforce to cloud-based resources. “Whether a customer has transitioned their business … continue reading
Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3 now available
Veeam has announced the latest release of the Veeam Availability Orchestrator. Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3 adds full recovery orchestration support for NetApp ONTAP snapshots. With this addition, organizations are able to ensure the continuity of their IT services at any scale from Veeam-powered backups and array-based replication. It also offers capabilities such as automatic testing, … continue reading
Ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server in the cloud
Failure is an option in IT, including in public clouds — despite their resilient, carrier-class infrastructures. And many of the failures that regularly cause downtime are excluded from the cloud service providers’ money-back service level agreement guarantees. For this reason, the customer, specifically the IT operations staff, is responsible for ensuring uptime for all SQL Server … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud acquires Chronicle, Expedient announces advanced DRaaS solution, and Juvare launches collaborative incident management solution
Google Cloud has announced that it is acquiring Chronicle, a security company also created by Alphabet. Google Cloud believes that this partnership will enable it to provide a comprehensive security portfolio that will benefit its customers. Chronicle offers several solutions that will be beneficial to Google Cloud, such as VirusTotal malware intelligence and Backstory investigation … continue reading
Micro Focus launches new solutions for virtual and hybrid environments
Software and IT company Micro Focus announced the launch of Data Protector Express and Data Protector Premium today. Both are new forms of its enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery solution targeted at virtualized and hybrid cloud environments respectively. Data Protector Express features socket-based pricing, the company says, tailored towards virtual environments. The company highlighted the … continue reading
