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 two Focus Partners who took ...

  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 the phrase "chaos monkey" to ...

Check out the recording of our super session at Vision. Jeff Hausman discusses the importance of business continuity and how to keep your business up and running. (Storage and Clustering, Storage & Clustering Community Blog, ApplicationHA, ...

I have been working with a large media company over the past twelve months. I have been assisting in showing which parts of their business Symantec can help them better deliver their Service levels.  The organization in question has a very large estate ...

  SUNY’s Upstate Medical University is both a medical center and education institution. With a goal to improve its community through education, patient care, and research, the medical center’s 8,900 employees rely on an electronic medical record ...

  With nearly 12 million customers paying their bills each month, having 24x7 availability of its billing systems is paramount for Hubei Unicom. To ensure these systems are highly available, Hubei Unicom turned to a number of storage solutions from ...

  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, and meeting service level agreements. ...

  Windows 8 has been released... OK, so I'm not actually that excited about Windows 8 (I'm a Mac user and I like my screen sharp and finger print free).  But as usual it was accompanied by a new version of Microsoft's server OS - 2012 ...

As in my series of blogs around Storage Optimization there is a commonality about the recognition of the "data explosion" conundrum, and how this is a placing an extra burden on an already stretched IT storage team. I've covered off ...

As in my first blog 'Thin Provisioning - How Symantec Can Help' we recognise the "data explosion" as fact rather than fable and as before is set to continue for the foreseeable future.  Projected growth rates are inexact however ...