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- Case Study: A Leading BPO Organization (Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity) Deploys NetMagic to Take Them to the Next Level in Seamless Delivery
- The client, headquartered in Mumbai, is a Business Process Outsourcing Organization, catering to the Data Processing and Content Management needs of global enterprises. They are the pioneer in providing outsourced services to the global Market Research industry from their offshore center in Mumbai, India. The client felt that in order...
- Tags: BPO, Mumbai, Disaster Recovery Planning, Business Continuity, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Disaster Recovery, Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Data Management, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
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- Lakeview Technology Case Study: Pharmavite
- Pharmavite LLC is one of the world's leading manufacturers of vitamins, minerals, herbs and other nutritional supplements. Since suffering severe damage to its facilities in the devastating 1994 Northridge (California) earthquake, Pharmavite has instituted an intensive, ongoing program of disaster recovery planning and testing. It required a proven, superior performance...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- Implementing Disaster Recovery Plans for Complex IT Configurations
- In this webcast, the product manager at CA XOSoft will provide a technical overview of the company's disaster recovery and high availability solutions. The webcast will bring the listener up to speed on features such as the remote installation wizard for deploying or upgrading on any number of servers, automated...
- Tags: Information Technology, Disaster Recovery Planning, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Disaster Recovery, Digital Media, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
- This webcast explains about the tools and methods that are available to help protect the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments. The webcast discusses content recovery and offer proactive strategies for disaster recovery planning. It also provides recommendations for achieving and maintaining high availability with the SharePoint Server 2007 farm.
- Tags: Webcast, Disaster Recovery Planning, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Disaster Recovery, Digital Media, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- Getting Started: Disaster Recovery Planning - Without Destroying Your Budget
- Large and small disasters happen all the time. Events ranging from purely local disasters such as local flooding caused by a fire down the block, to a city-wide flu epidemic, or a region-wide blizzard, all have the potential to put companies out of business. In their disaster planning work with...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers
- Nestle USA: Creativity as a Key to Disaster Recovery Planning
- Creativity is not always the basis for planning the recovery of business operations in many companies. At Nestle it was the origin. Like many companies Nestle had to find alternatives for recovering their headquarters business operations. The traditional options were using one of the work area recovery vendors of which...
- Tags: Nestle, Disaster Recovery Planning, Creativity, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers
- After Fire, Disaster Recovery Plan Keeps Nufarm in 'Business as Usual'
- When a fire broke out at Nufarm's premises, it hit at the heart of the company: its laboratory and IT centre. A manufacturer of agricultural chemicals, the company distributes its products through 2,500 outlets around Australia and is dependent on the computer system for day-to-day operations - it needed to...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, IBM Corp., Nufarm, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Case studies
- Auditing Your Disaster Recovery Plan: A Closer Look at High Tech Crime Will This Be Your Most Likely Disaster in the 21st Century?
- Everything is high-tech these days including the minds of the world's criminal element. If they find an opportunity, they won't think twice before breaking into a person's corporate computers and possibly causing the person the biggest 'Front page news' disaster that the person could ever imagine. It has already happened...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Auditing, Disaster, Person, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers
- Forsythe Technology Case Study: A Global Materials Manufacturer
- A global materials manufacturer was concerned about whether its data center disaster recovery plan would truly be effective in the event of an actual crisis. Like many large organizations, the manufacturer had developed a plan several years earlier and tested it repeatedly over the years. However, it recognized that the...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Forsythe Technology Inc., Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- Case Study: Disaster Recovery Planning
- In the second half of 2005, DSA resources successfully completed a project within a large Pharmaceutical Manufacturer and Supplier, providing the client with business continuity and contingency plans that would enable them to continue their business operations in the event of a significant business disruption. Since the terrorist attacks of...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Data Systems Analysts Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Business Security, It Services, Data Centers, Corporate Insurance, Data Management, Business Operations, Storage, Hardware
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- Effective Outsourcing: The Role of Consultants in Disaster Recovery Planning
- The idea of emergency preparedness is not new (Be prepared! has long been the Boy Scout motto); what is new are the legal, financial, and regulatory ramifications for not establishing a disaster recovery/business resumption program. Today, these ramifications can seriously threaten the survivability of any organization. Experienced professionals can provide...
- Tags: Ramification, Disaster Recovery Planning, Organization, Disaster Recovery, Outsourcing, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers
- Disaster Recovery Planning for the Developer, Part 2
- In 2005, Hurricane Katrina bought home the reality of disaster recovery, or more precisely, what happens when one doesn't prepare. This paper takes disaster recovery planning to the next level - it discusses the Business Continuity Plan. The first step in designing the Disaster Recovery Plan is to put together...
- Tags: Developer, Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management
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- Disaster Recovery Planning for the Developer
- If the reader is a developer, he or she probably hasn't spent much time thinking about their personal disaster recovery plan. They probably heard or read about large corporations planning for disasters, but didn't think that such plans applied to them. In today's world of major hurricanes, terrorism, brownouts, hackers,...
- Tags: Developer, Disaster Recovery Planning, Jupitermedia Corp., Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- Disaster Recovery Planning for the Developer, Part 3
- The earlier part in this series discussed the creation and planning of a BCP, Business Continuity Plan, and a DCP, Disaster Recovery Plan, for the business. This third part walks through the steps it takes to create a DRP for the fictitious business, "Don's Web Design". The first step in...
- Tags: Developer, Disaster Recovery Planning, Business, Jupitermedia Corp., Office, Web Design, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers
- Building a Successful Disaster Recovery Plan
- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB) provides multidisciplinary planning, design, engineering, and consulting for some of the nation's most complex infrastructure and development initiatives. VHB had been considering moving to a disk-based backup solution for their headquarters location when a hurricane swept through its field office in Richmond, Virginia, flooding the...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Case studies
- Saskatoon Minimizes Overhead and Implements Disaster Recovery Plan Using Unicenter and BrightStor Enterprise Backup
- To serve ongoing business requirements as well as new initiatives, the City of Saskatoon chose to migrate all critical business systems to a Microsoft Windows NT environment. The long-term project plan called for a platform to manage a metropolitan area network that connected 18 civic buildings. The city began searching...
- Tags: CA Unicenter, BrightStor Enterprise Backup, Disaster Recovery Planning, Computer Associates International Inc., CA BrightStor, Saskatoon, Backups, It Management, Storage Management, Disaster Recovery, It service Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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- Cisco - Disaster Recovery Planning: Do Not Forget the WAN!
- The range of eventualities to be considered in planning for business continuity has grown even wider in recent months. Coupled with the growing use of Internet-based business applications, disaster recovery planning must give considerable attention to the wide-area network (WAN) environment, as well as to traditional topics such as redundant...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Disaster Recovery, Network Technology, Networking, Data Management
- White papers
- Disaster Recovery Planning Process (Part 1)
- This is the first of a three-part series that describes the planning process related to disaster recovery. Based on the various considerations addressed during the planning phase, the process itself and related methodology can be equally as beneficial as the final written plan. ost businesses depend heavily on technology...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- Disaster Recovery Planning Process (Part 2)
- This is the second of a three-part series that describes specific methods for organizing and writing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. The first part of this series described the process for developing a thorough disaster recovery plan.A well-organized disaster recovery plan will directly affect the recovery capabilities of the organization....
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- Disaster Recovery Planning Process (Part 3)
- This is the third part of a series that describe specific methods for organizing and writing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. The first part of this series described the process for developing a thorough disaster recovery plan. The second article described specific methods for organizing and writing a comprehensive disaster...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers