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This has been a bit of a quiet week in terms of blog entries on the DCIG website but I did not want to leave everyone hanging on the Friday before going into the Memorial Day weekend. So for this week's recap blog I opted to reflect on a conversation that I had with Hosting.com's Backup Operations Manager a few weeks ago. In that conversation, he provided some interesting perspectives in terms of how Hosting.com is using R1Soft in its environment. (read more)

In this day and age, what organization doesn't want a turnkey disaster recovery and business continuity plan? In fact, a recent 2010 InformationWeek survey published in the February 1, 2010, issue of InformationWeek revealed that 36% of organizations have implemented and regularly test disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans versus only 28% the year before. (read more)

In the two years since DCIG started offering blogging as an outsourced analyst service, it has learned a lot about blogging. For instance, DCIG has learned that readers like having a portal that provides content and information on many different topics in which they are interested. In addition, it has learned that once readers find a site they like, they come back frequently. (read more)

Continuous data protection has long been a staple for R1Soft on the Linux platform. With 90,000 to 95,000 servers protected by R1Soft's continuous data protection (CDP) product for Linux, one can only wonder how their recent release of CDP for the Windows platform will prevail. It was my pleasure to speak with David Wartell, VP and Founder of R1Soft about this new offering, what it entails, and how it will affect future Windows backups. (read more)

One of the privileges I get in being contracted to do blogging is that I get to speak to customers to which others rarely get access. One set of customers that I frequently speak with are managed service providers (MSPs) and discuss with them what technologies that they are having success with in their data centers. So this is why I can say with a high degree of certainty that continuous data protection (CDP) is taking over within their data centers and is shaping up to have a high impact as enterprise organizations look to move their applications and application data into the cloud. (read more)

Taking snapshots of applications is fast becoming a prerequisite for backup and recovery as well as a means for testing how well application fixes, patches and upgrades will work. But as more organizations adopt Linux as their preferred operating system to host their applications, they are also finding that the native Snapshot utility found in Linux's Logical Volume Manager (LVM) does not provide them with all of the functionality they need. (read more)

I started this blog entry last week while I was in attendance at Compellent's C-Drive. However it was only last night as I was flying to Boston to attend EMC World that I had the opportunity to wrap it up. The specific items on my mind that I wanted to highlight in this blog were two emerging technology trends that came into sharper focus while I was in attendance at C-Drive. (read more)

Software fixes, patches and upgrades on production systems are a persistent, nagging challenge in today's production environments. Vendors frequently promise that by simply installing the latest revision of their code, many current issues that an application is experiencing will be resolved. The risk that organizations run is that if the latest set of code does not work as promised, it can actually make the situation worse. (read more)