Disaster Recovery On the Go

Symantec is partnering with Kingston Technology to offer a quick and simple method of disaster recovery for SMBs. Kingston Technology preloaded its DT400 flash drives with Symantec Recovery Disk (a component of Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery), a tool that auto-detects hardware and loads the appropriate drivers to reboot the system. This allows IT administrators to restore both individual files and folders, as well as Windows desktop, laptop or server should they experience a hardware crash or failure.

So what does this mean? For IT administrators or tech support at small and mid-sized businesses, this is great news. It allows them to have disaster recovery in their pocket or on-the-go. Should they experience a hardware crash or system failure, they can be back up and running in minutes. Also ideal for IT admins who need to quickly restore an employee's laptop after it blue screens.

When combined with Backup Exec System Recovery, users will reap even more benefits. To get more information, check out the Kingston press release: http://www.kingston.com/press/2008/flash/08b.asp.

Katie Beck

Aug. 13, 2008