What’s important to your SMB clients? This Brief looks at four key benefits that a?backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution based on hybrid?cloud will deliver to your SMB clients.

The core technology behind Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) has evolved for decades. More recently, DRaaS has linked to the cloud, and finally hit its stride. Today it can provide unprecedented availability options to companies who don’t have secondary data centers dedicated to business continuity. Before now, only IT teams with additional IT budget, staff and geographic locations could effectively hedge against downtime, and disasters. But today’s DRaaS means that businesses of all sizes have the peace of mind that comes with knowing a replica of their data and systems is hosted at a remote site that they can fail over to—without bearing any of the infrastructure costs or maintenance responsibilities. All infrastructure and maintenance is the responsibility of the DRaaS provider. And the technology ensures that a replica is not only available, but always current and immediately available. This attractive value proposition led Gartner to predict that global DRaaS revenue will rea

Data transfer bottlenecks and unpredictability on the Wide Area Network (WAN) can hurt application performance. In addition, the time required to migrate large volumes of data to and from data centers can be a serious concern to business continuity.

An Economist Intelligence Unit research program commissioned by IBM.

How security and business continuity can shape the reputation and value of your company.

How security and business continuity can shape the reputation and value of your company.

How security and business continuity can shape the reputation and value of your company.

Cybersecurity issues are no longer limited to the IT department; instead, they threaten every aspect of the organization and pose a significant threat to ongoing business continuity and reputation.

For many years, organizations thought about business continuity in much the same way they thought about business insurance — yes, it was important, but rarely was it top of mind. But that’s all changed. Many organizations have, unfortunately, discovered that even a scant few minutes of service downtime can have deleterious effects on their business operations, resulting in lost revenue, diminished customer confidence and heightened compliance risk. For those and other reasons, IT executives have raised the bar on business continuity preparedness for their organizations in all ways. New technologies, business processes and partnerships, combined with a raised level of importance for testing and a full appreciation of what virtualization can and can’t do for business continuity, are essential to new thinking around avoiding the impact of an unplanned service interruption. Download this informative Whitepaper to learn more about how Veritas Netbackup 8.1.2 can help.

Storage infrastructure performance monitoring and management is the key to business continuity and availability solutions. To ensure application performance, storage managers must manage the performance of the array and the SAN based on the array. HP Storage Essentials software delivers a solution for these scenarios. This solution brief addresses how current performance management challenges can be resolved with HP Storage Essentials software.

This report examines the issues that are driving organizations to replace older archive and backup-and restore systems with business continuity and always-available solutions that can scale to handle extreme data growth while leveraging a cloud-based pricing model. The report also looks at the role of Storiant and its long-term storage services solution in the strategically important long-term storage market.

Expanding analytic capabilities are critical to digitizing the business, optimizing costs, accelerating innovation, and surviving digital disruption Historically, manufacturers were almost solely focused on reducing costs by applying automation and analytics to engineering, R&D, manufacturing operations, and quality organizations. Even though the strategies used within these areas are still needed, they are not sufficient to ensure business survival and continuity in the age of Industry 4.0 and the IoT. Today, it is paramount that smart manufacturers broaden their scope because disruptive innovations in data acquisition, storage, and analytics technology have enabled an entirely new degree of automation and virtualization, promising a complete 360-degree high-fidelity virtual data-driven integrated views of all operations—from suppliers and supply chains, through equipment, processes, and manufacturing practices, to final product testing and customer satisfaction. Download this paper

Before Bad Things Happen – Be Prepared Providing a great user experience is always the goal, and the best way to achieve that is by having a well-thought-out digital business continuity strategy. You can’t always know what type of disruption you’ll face next, but you can be sure that there will be one. It may come in the form of a broken connection but, even more likely, the availability of the application or host. DNS active failover ensures real-time failover to healthy endpoints, allowing you to extend your business continuity solution to the user edge.

Before Bad Things Happen – Be Prepared Providing a great user experience is always the goal, and the best way to achieve that is by having a well-thought-out digital business continuity strategy. You can’t always know what type of disruption you’ll face next, but you can be sure that there will be one. It may come in the form of a broken connection but, even more likely, the availability of the application or host. DNS active failover ensures real-time failover to healthy endpoints, allowing you to extend your business continuity solution to the user edge.

This case study reveals how HP Converged Infrastructure is an essential part of robust business continuity planning and disaster recovery capabilities.

Meeting growing storage needs and improving data resilience, without adding complexity to the IT environment.

This technology profile examines how IT decision makers’ expectations and approaches are evolving to address increasing demands for higher levels of IT availability from their organizations and clients.

The RSA business continuity white paper, BCM Regulatory Soup, will help you address: Which sources to comply with and why, how to handle conflicts between the sources, how to prioritize your efforts.

See for yourself how easy it is to implement RSA Archer Business Continuity Management & Operations right out of the box. Try it free for 30 days, then take advantage of the special purchase offer through 7/31/13.

This business continuity white paper will help you address which sources to comply with and why, how to handle conflicts between the sources, how to prioritize your efforts.

RSA, the security division of EMC, was positioned by Gartner in the Leader’s quadrant of the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Business Continuity Management Platforms based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Few companies can afford operational disruption, yet IT budgets remain flat and can’t encompass the growing need for additional resiliency measures to protect critical-business applications. The recovery-as-a-service offering from VMware, VMware vCloud® Air™ Disaster Recovery, helps you fulfill the need to implement or supplement your organization’s continuity plans while addressing budget, time, and resources constraints. It provides simplified replication and recovery based on the VMware vSphere® platform. For a successful setup of your disaster recovery service, keep in mind the following tips when getting started.

This IDC Technology Spotlight examines trends regarding cloud backup and data protection and how NetApp's SnapProtect backup management software and AltaVault cloud-integrated storage can play a role in simplifying the effort.

This IDC Infographic examines trends regarding cloud backup and data protection and how organizations can benefit from NetApp's SnapProtect backup management software and AltaVault cloud-integrated storage.

Most businesses have experienced an IT or technology outage in the past five years. Outages and disruptions result in business and IT challenges. Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans ensure a company's ability to continue business uninterrupted and survive unforeseen disruptions. By adopting network diversity, IT pros expect to experience a variety of business and IT benefits, including protection against unexpected disruptions. Check out this easy-to-absorb infographic, based on Forrester survey data, to learn how your peers view the importance and structure of BCDR strategies.