With the increasing trend of organisations thinking of or currently migrating critical production workloads to the cloud whether it’s a hybrid or public provider model it is still important to look at your data protection, there are the obvious advantages and benefits over the private cloud model and these have been documented numerous times and… Continue reading »

Cutting the overhead of DR-readiness with disaster-recovery-as-a-service When it comes to disaster recovery — assuming they don’t ignore DR altogether — Australian businesses have a tendency to overestimate just how quickly they could retrieve their data if an incident occurs. Often this is can be chalked up to an over-reliance on manual or non-automated systems,… Continue reading »

There was a time when businesses and their CIOs looked at backup and IT disaster recovery as one and the same.  Have we seen this thinking re-emerge?  During our discussions with clients from differing industries, some used to think that backup by itself formed the IT disaster recovery strategy of the company.  Fortunately many CIO’s have been… Continue reading »

Australian businesses are aware of the importance of disaster recovery planning, but their reliance on manual approaches means that organisations risk falling short of target recovery times if an incident occurs, according to research released today. A US study conducted by IDG Research Services, a sister company of IDG Communications, the publisher of Techworld Australia,… Continue reading »

Educational seminar presented by Global Storage, FalconStor and SNIA ANZ We are excited to announce Global Storage will be attending ‘The SNIA Roadshow’ in Melbourne for 2012. We would love to invite you to attend and hear our CEO David Duncan talk about the latest in Disaster Recovery and Backup for 2012/13. Please come and… Continue reading »