Posts under ‘Disaster Recovery’

North Texas experienced a rare event this week. An earthquake. Strange for these parts but it was

We at Global Data Vault are sticklers for disaster planning. And we think you should be too. So we’re sharing this fascinating and valuable white paper by Everbridge, “Message Mapping and the Six Stages of Crisis” that we think is essential for every CEO  to read before putting together his/her company’s disaster recovery plan. Think [...]

Take deep breaths. I can see you shaking after listening to the forecast of events which may in fact, threaten our very human existence. The world is ending this afternoon. And if by some miracle we make it through that rapturous event, we’re surely going to be gobbled up during the Zombie Apocalypse. This is [...]

The devastation in Japan of this week has been beyond comprehension for most Americans. The events of the earthquake, followed by the tsunami and now the nuclear meltdown have conjured images of disaster and loss that are difficult for us to wrap our head around. As a company that insures business continuity, we can’t help [...]

School is back in session and no one is happier than our football loving crew on a Saturday afternoon watching some good ol’ helmet knocking showdowns. Stories of our days on campus wouldn’t be complete without the admission of a few recurring nightmares of Dr. Johnson’s Economics exams that still haunt us. Everyone has one [...]

It holds our kids’ pictures on the wall. Tape delay allows us to see the Olympics at a decent hour. Tape rescues a torn hem on your pants before you walk into that really important meeting where you have to be taken seriously. But tape can get expensive. And we’re not talking about the Scotch [...]

16 Million users are unable to get to their bank accounts online. Chase is telling us they are doing scheduled maintenance – that’s clearly not true. Speculation is that scheduled maintenance went horribly wrong leading to database corruption and tape restores were required. See Jacob Jegher’s insightful blog post. If you rely on tape, you [...]

As we build more complex systems like the Deep Water Horizon Rig, the potential for things to go catastrophically wrong increases – dramatically. As industries and products mature they do become more stable, examples are cars and atomic power. But oil exploration and information technology are, every day, pushing into new territory. These sectors have [...]

Here’s a great story and recovery case study from GDV longtime customer Trista Perot’s blog.

Celebrating spring, our new data center and new office space, GDV hosted its first Annual Crawfish Boil. Here are a few photos from the event.