Posts Tagged ‘disaster’

A big thank you to Dave Casey and UC Radio. I sat down last week and had a great conversation about data protection, disaster recovery and offsite data storage and the implications for unified communications with Dave. We covered the recent evolution of the technology available as well as key developments we expect to have [...]

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 brand that sits [...]

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 risk [...]

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 [...]

Global Data Vault is pleased to announce we have formed a new strategic alliance with The Global Continuity Advisors (TGCA), a premier provider of global business continuity, disaster recovery, and data protection consulting services.
This agreement will enable GDV to make available for its customers and resellers the entire suite

On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 6 due to the spread of the H1N1 virus.  The virus, also known as Swine Flu, has rapidly established itself and will continue to persist in the coming months as the virus continues to move through susceptible populations.
The [...]

Global Data Vault is pleased to announce the formation of a strategic alliance with Cloud Data, LTD (UK).
Global Data Vault and Cloud Data are service providers addressing business continuity and data protection needs for customers in the small-to-medium business (SMB) and small-to-medium enterprise (SME) space.
This agreement will leverage

Wouldn’t it be nice to know about the previous weather-related events that have taken place in your area?  This might spark another question of how susceptible the area where you and/or your business reside is to disasters such as earthquakes and intense storms.  With help from the Pacific Disaster Center, Global Data Vault created the Natural [...]

Harris Interactive surveyed 497 IT individuals who were either IT or business executives and the results showed similarities and differences in matters relating to disaster recovery.