“Best Practices” is a popular expression of the intent to manage business continuity prudently.  Best Practices are seen as a way to sidestep both the quantification of operational-risks, as well as, the objective evaluation of the cost-benefit for any proposed mitigation actions.  There are several reasons why Best Practices “Are not.” best for Business Continuity purposes.

• It is unreasonable to assume that a best practice could optimally answer the business continuity questions for multiple organizations.  Organizations differ widely in terms of their maturity level, their technologies deployed, and their vulnerabilities. 
• Given the wide assortment of published ‘best practices’, which of the best practices really are the ‘best’ for any particular circumstance? 
• No organization could hope to implement all of the thousands of best practices to get it perfectly-right, and there is...

It's clear from both talking to our customers and reading the analysts reports that cloud is here to stay. Most customers I speak with are looking at some form of cloud services in their organizations. This tends to vary from something as simple as an application being delivered through the cloud, a good example of this was recently at Symantec our HR system is now a cloud SAS service. More cutting edge applications are looking at full service provisioning from the point of IT request to the delivery of a fully functioning application/service all run through a self service engine.

This is the vision of many organizations to make the delivery of new systems seamless and self service. Cloud comes with many challenges from the Security aspects to the radical shift of IT organization needed to enable cloud services. At Symantec we have many solutions to ease this pain and make the consumption of Cloud services a safe affordable reality. Something that separates Symantec from...

Last week, Symantec and Microsoft announced a joint effort to deliver Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). This hybrid approach will involve using Symantec Storage Foundation HA for Windows on the customer premises to provide data replication and failover management to Microsoft's Azure cloud services. This is a pretty big deal.

While our largest customers have the luxury of multiple data centers spread across a large area, most companies don't. With multiple data centers, a company can provision additional capacity in each one to host another data center's critical applications in the event of a site failure. But in the absence of additional real estate, a company's options for disaster recovery are more limited. And this is where DRaaS comes into play.

This service will allow smaller organizations to acquire virtual real estate in the form of Microsoft's...

Environment

Primary Site

OS=win2008R2

SFHA=5.1SP2

Secondary Site

OS=win2008R2

SFHA=5.1SP2

Problem

Error while adding secondary host in Replication--  ( Error V106-58644-533 ). See the snaps for reference:

Note: offcourse no need to remove primary site DiskGroup :)

There may be...