Tag: Disaster Recovery

Storage vendors have long talked about “affordable disaster recovery” and “reduced total cost of ownership,” but customers have had a great deal of trouble making those promises a reality. Is an affordable EMC DR solution a myth or reality?

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In the datacenter, the tape library is the ultimate lifeline to combat data loss and data corruption. Tape’s reliability with today’s LTO5 media and off-line status is essential, since tape isn’t as vulnerable to lightning-fast overwrites and corruption.

IBM’s recently announced expansion of the TS3500 Tape Library improves the capability of the IBM Total Storage Tape Library, allowing companies to improve their EMC, IBM, and NetApp environment’s backups and reliability.

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A disruption of your business processes could leave your entire business exposed. Today's companies face escalating customer demands and expectations—there is no room for downtime.

The goal of thorough disaster protection planning is to protect the applications that run your business and minimize unplanned downtime. However, one important consideration is that all planning for any type of a disaster-tolerant solution is always subject to balancing the solution versus the downtime versus the cost.

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A disaster recovery site build is a huge undertaking, with multiple points of financial risk that can undermine the project. This write-up discusses ways that you can reduce cost (December Specials Listed Here) and mitigate risk in your disaster recovery project.

Repurpose Equipment
Saving valuable datacenter space in your production location could fund 100% of your DR project. Consider moving, upgrading and repurposing development, testing or aging production equipment from your primary site to DR. This way you can bring in newer technology to the primary location and transition aging IT assets to the DR location. By doing so you not only reduce the IT capital expense of your DR project; you also free up data center floor space in your production location and provide an opportunity to refresh equipment at your primary location.

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EMC SnapView is a pretty cool product.

Instead of backing up and recovering data from tape, EMC CLARiiON customers can use SnapView to make a quick disk-based copy for testing or backup.

So if EMC SnapView is so great, why is it that more people don't use it protect more mission critical data?

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1. Buying used EMC CLARiiON storage can typically save you an additional $10,000 to $25,000 per tray of disk.

What could you do with that kind of money in your pocket? New VMWare tools? Maybe upgrade your backup solution? Maybe a justification to setup a raise or bonus structure for your team?

2. Not all used EMC CLARiiON storage equipment is old.

No one buys EMC 9GB drives anymore! You can purchase quality, current used EMC CLARiiON hardware - such as used EMC 450GB fiber channel drives and used EMC 1TB SATA drives. Trade-in options are also available.

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Are the explosive costs in your disaster recovery contract causing you to rethink your disaster recovery solution? Over the last several years there has been a rush to find a way to bail out of these disaster recovery contracts and take back in-house control of the DR process.

Besides costs and lack of control, minimal disaster recovery testing time and the “first come first serve” policy are also are motivating factors to drop your disaster recovery all together. One of the biggest reasons driving this exodus – is that disaster recovery managers are finally realizing that DR can be in-sourced for a much lower cost then they first thought.

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