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Data Center Down - The Crash Blog Series: Oracle Open World
In a departure from our regular technical content, we will be featuring a new guest blog series on Connect. Please help us in welcoming Crash - the star of the Data Center Down! video.I went to Oracle...
View ArticleVCS is cool or what!
Are you sitting down? I hope so, because this top-secret Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 knowledge bomb I’m about to drop will knock your spectacles off.Some engineers gathered in the hallway the other day...
View ArticleAchieving Cost-effective Disaster Recovery
There was a time when, for many organizations, implementing a disaster recovery infrastructure meant deploying millions of dollars worth of server, storage and network hardware at an alternate data...
View ArticleSORT mobile is now available on the App Store!
SORT functionality is now available as a mobile application on the Apple App Store!The SORT mobile app supports five key features from the SORT website:SPVU Calculator (includes Server Tier...
View ArticleVegas, Vitamins and Veritas Cluster Server
As you may recall, I was pretty salty about being denied access to Symantec’s Worldwide Technical Symposium and Partner Tech Engage Conference last October.Well, I might have overreacted a teeny bit.I...
View ArticleNew Release: New Windows Server 2012 platform support release for Veritas...
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Today, we are taking our relationship with Microsoft to the next level. Symantec is announcing the new Windows Server 2012 platform support release for Veritas Storage...
View ArticleBeware of the Application Blind Spot!
As we've mentioned many times on these blog pages, organizations are virtualizing more of their applications for good reason. Virtualization means lower costs for power and cooling, with greater...
View ArticleBusiness continuity for virtualized applications
I speak with a lot of our customers, and a frequent topic of conversation is around virtualization. Just a few years ago, most I spoke with didn't have more than 20 to 30% of their applications...
View ArticleIT Justice League, assemble! Part 1 of 2
Greetings, earthlings. I’ve been enjoying some much-needed R&R off the grid for the first time since beginning our U.S. tour last October.A thrilling trip to Las Vegas in December left my circuits...
View ArticleDeliver on Your Service Level Agreements at Vision
Vision Las Vegas is just around the corner, April 15-18. This year the Information Availability, Intelligence and Data Protection track focuses on business continuity, storage and solid state drives,...
View ArticleDon't monkey around with disaster recovery testing
A colleague tipped me to this blog post at the Netflix Tech Blog that I found both amusing and interesting. Some months back, I was talking about disaster recovery testing with a customer, and he used...
View ArticleIT Justice League, assemble! Part 2 of 2
Last time on Data Center Down, Crash detailed the meeting of several IT “Super Friends” at the 3rd Annual Red Hat Partner Conference, held in January.Let’s first take a moment to tip our own hats to...
View ArticleNew Release: Symantec Operations Readiness Tool 3.9
With continued focus on improving the total customer experience, we’ve added the following features and enhancements to Symantec Operations Readiness Tool (SORT) with the 3.9 release:Added a landing...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery Orchestrator, Azure and Microsoft: Protect All Your Apps
As organizations move to virtualization and the cloud, we have to adapt to increasing mixed environments: Hyper-V, Vmware, physical applications, customer applications, multiple storage vendors, cloud...
View Article*NEW RELEASE* Symantec Data Insight 4.0
OverviewThe explosion of unstructured dark data shows no sign of slowing. Gartner estimates that by 2018, 25% of organizations will manage all their unstructured data using information governance and...
View ArticleWelcome to the Disaster Recovery Advisor Forum!
Welcome to the Disaster Recovery Advisor Forum!Whatever your business, you have to stay up and running—and prepared for any outage. Disaster Recovery Advisor helps you be proactive, testing your...
View ArticleGoogle+ Hangout: The New Era of Business Continuity
We live in a time when disruption to critical IT systems can have devastating effects on the day-to-day operation of business. Whether these service interruptions come in the form of security threats,...
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Veritas Cluster Server ranked "Best-in-Class"
DCIG (Data Center Infrastructure Group Inc.) released their High Availability and Clustering Software Buyer's Guide that weights, scores and ranks over 60 features on 13 different software solutions...
View ArticleSave the Date: Google+ Hangout – Why Host-Based SSDs are Critical for SLAs in...
Service level agreements (SLAs) must be met whether you’re keeping mission-critical data centers running or serving up frosty beverages. Disasters, configuration errors, poor performance, thirsty...
View ArticleNEW RELEASE: Announcing Symantec Disaster Recovery Advisor 6.2
Symantec is pleased to announce the new 6.2 release for Symantec™ Disaster Recovery Advisor, powered by Veritas.Disaster Recovery Advisor (DRA) 6.2 automatically detects and reports on risks in high...
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