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What's the Difference Between a Watt and a Volt-Amp?

Usually seen when sizing uninterruptable power supplies the Volt-Amp is often confused with Watts. They are not the same.

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The FAN Vision

With recent studies suggesting that file data growth and file management have become top IT priorities, organizations are starting to look closely at their approach to storing and accessing data.

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How Managed Virtualization (including HA) conflicts with System Management

This posting discusses how virtualization can confuse and confound conventional systems management - both automated and manual, and gives some thoughts on how to deal with it.

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Virtualization as High Availability or High-Availability as Virtualization?

Many pundits and other folks like VMware's CEO Diane Greene have touted virtualization as being the "cure" to disaster recovery, many for the past several years. Disaster recovery can be pretty reasonably viewed as being high-availability over distance, so it makes some sense to see how DR, HA and virtualization fit together. What's hype here, and what's real? Let's look and see what we find out.

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Reports on Recent Rackspace Outages

Rackspace has historically been one of the most reliable hosting providers in the market, even providing a 100% uptime guarantee. Unfortunately there has been a recent outage at the Dallas/Fort Worth data centre; that has highlighted the need for all organisations to review their outsourcing arrangements.

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Seven Deadly Sins of Backup

The large and complex part of good business governance that is data protection often relies on policies generated by technical staff with little or no understanding of the business they are attempting to protect. This results in the data protection staff focusing unduly on ensuring data protection results on a day-to-day basis rather than ensuring that data protection fits with the business policies.

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Continuous Data Protection - Buzz Vs Benefit

There is some uncertainty in the market over what defines CDP. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) defines CDP as “a methodology that continuously captures or tracks data modifications and stores changes independent of the primary data, enabling recovery from any point in the past. CDP systems may be block, file or application-based and can provide fine granularity of restorable objects to infinitely variable recovery points”.

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Choosing the right back-up strategy

Dealing with a disaster situation is one of those activities that you hope you never have to go through.

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Businesses neglect storage and management of crucial company data

As the digital age dawns and businesses across the globe cope with ever increasing amounts of critical data, the issue of efficient and integrated data archiving remains worryingly low on the agenda in boardrooms on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet with increasing corporate legislation and threats such as terrorism, it may be time for businesses to consider their options.

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