Recovery as a Service
Recovery as a Service (RaaS) is the process of storing and protecting data while providing standby computing capacity on demand to facilitate rapid recovery.
What is Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR)?
What Is Cloud Disaster Recovery? Often shortened to Cloud DR, disaster recovery is a plan put into place in case a disaster hits. Cloud DR refers to the component in your disaster recovery plan that involves the use of a cloud backup environment. The Cloud Component...
WAN Acceleration for all Cloud Disaster Recovery Customers
Global Data Vault is adding “WAN Acceleration” for our customers with physical servers – we already provide this for virtual environments and the results have been terrific – in some cases data is now moving 50 times faster. So now we’re adding it for all of our Cloud...
West Coast Companies Prepare Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions
Los Angeles is aiming to prepare for the next big earthquake, yet some companies may already be prepared. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti outlined a proposed preparedness plan that would give the city a layer of resiliency when the “Big One” hits, according to NBC, but not...
Restore Point Console
Global Data Vault’s Cloud Disaster Recovery Restore Point Console Our web based portal shows your data protection status with drill downs to the available restore points. The restore point console runs on any browser and is tablet/mobile compatible. What's Shown Here:...
Data Protection Dashboard Provides Easy to Use Status Window
Global Data Vault Web Portal At Global Data Vault, we ensure the quality of your recovery environment through constant monitoring. Nothing is more important to your business operations than your data and the systems that support it. Not only do we monitor your...
RPO and RTO Monitoring
A critical step in creating a disaster recovery solution is determining your RPO (restore point objective) and your RTO (restore time objective). In essence, these are the point in time that you need your data recovered to, and how fast you need to achieve that...
Mobile disaster recovery trucks – are they a good idea?
Service trucks have never been as en vogue as they are today. Nearly everyone is familiar with the mobile trade shows and health care stations, and more recently become adept at Twitter stalking the locations of the ubiquitous food trucks doting the urban landscape....
The Benefits of Cloud Disaster Recovery
In our earlier post, Cloud Disaster Recovery – Why the hype?, we took gave a basic definition of cloud disaster recovery and took a look at how Cloud DR compared with traditional disaster recovery solutions. In this second installment, we discuss the benefits of...
Cloud Disaster Recovery – Why the hype?
Cloud Storage Services There’s a lot of buzz around cloud services. Everything from accounting to telecommunications to everyday computing with virtual desktops, it’s all moving to the cloud. It’s not the wave of the future - it’s what’s happening now. Companies are...
What went wrong in the days before Super Storm Sandy?
“Not only were many firms unsure about whether their galoshes were waterproof,” Bart Chilton, the regulator at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said, “they hadn’t even tried them on.” Chilton’s sharp-tongued critique is in response to the apparent lack of...
Data Center Exposure and Recovery in New York City
Hurricane Sandy provided a fascinating opportunity to study the both the level of disaster planning and the resilience of New York City data centers. This article will examine a) what actually happened, b) what was the risk, and c) what are the lessons learned. What...
Data Protection Audit – Systems, Devices and IT Operations
Your data protection audit lays out the plan that enables you to sleep at night knowing that data loss couldn’t destroy your business or be a costly and burdensome event. In the previous installment of our three part data protection audit series, we looked at the...
Data Protection Audit Planning
In part one of “How to plan and execute a data protection audit,” we discussed the importance of user participation in the design process of your data audit plan. In this installment, we go into more detail about the questions you need to ask about your business...
Hurricane Impact Assessment: Isaac in New Orleans
Now that Hurricane Isaac is in our rear-view mirror, it’s time to assess the disaster damage. We monitored and shared the New Orleans power outages on Global Data Vault blog day-by-day, but we censored the wrath pointed at local energy provider Entergy to return the...
Loss of power during Hurricane Isaac
As Hurricane Isaac continues its slow march inland, the city of New Orleans is largely without power this afternoon. This image shows the widespread power outages in the city. It’s seems eerie that today is the seventh anniversary, if you should call it that, of...
How to build a disaster recovery site – part 3
Whether you are outsourcing your Disaster Recovery program or keeping it in house, the steps required to implement it are critical. In this series, we’ve drafted an outline of how to build a remote Disaster Recovery site for your IT. In our previous articles, Choosing...
Building a Disaster Recovery Site – part 2
What does it take to build a remote Disaster Recovery site for your IT? (Part 2 of 3) Whether you are outsourcing your Disaster Recovery program or keeping it in house, the steps required to implement it are critical. In this series, we’ve drafted an outline of how to...
Choosing Disaster Recovery Site Location
Disaster Recovery is one thing you hope you never need, but if you do, you’ll be very happy if you have right plan in place. Whether you are outsourcing your Disaster Recovery solution or keeping it in house, the steps required to implement it are somewhat complex,...
Data Backup and Disaster Recovery: A Comparison
What’s the difference between Data Backup and Disaster Recovery and how do I know which I need? What it is Data backup is a method in which your computer and network files are replicated in such a way that you can reinstall them in the event of a data loss. Data...
Predicting Natural Disasters – Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Tsunamis are arguably one of the most devastating and difficult to predict natural disasters. Evidence of this is the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which is considered among the deadliest in human history, credited with more than 230,000 people killed in 14 countries...
