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Best practices for choosing a colocation data center
Incorporating colocation into your IT strategy eliminates the expense of building or upgrading your own facility, but choose your colocation data center wisely, as providers vary greatly in terms of service costs, connectivity and service-level agree... Tip
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Handling weaknesses in remote server management
Necessity and convenience have made remote server management commonplace, but there are times when this hands-off form of server administration requires a hands-on approach. This tip delves into how to handle the pitfalls of remote management. Tip
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Using information lifecycle management for mainframe disaster recovery
The benefits of information lifecycle management (ILM) for mainframe disaster recovery include reduced storage needs and expenses as well as faster backup and recovery. In this tip, learn best practices for ILM in a mainframe DL environment and how i... Tip
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Data center pros must prepare for increased space weather
NASA predicts increased solar activity in 2012, which could lead to severe space weather that would wreak havoc on data center systems, and pretty much everything else. Tip
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How will ultra-low sulfur diesel affect data center generator performance?
While ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel is a boon for the environment, it could negatively affect your data center generator performance and lead to equipment failure. Tip
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Are you wasting disaster recovery budget to avoid employee inconvenience?
It's common for IT to over invest in disaster recovery, even after conducting a business impact analysis. According to a DR expert, one of the most common mistakes when determining DR objectives is trying to avoid inconvenience to employees at high c... Tip
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Avoiding disaster recovery pitfalls in VMware and Linux: Rejecting default settings
When running Linux in a VMware environment, vendors' default configurations can complicate disaster recovery and backup. To exploit serverless backup tools such as VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) and efficiently replicate data to a disaster recovery... Tip
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Make IT change management part of your disaster recovery plan
While disaster recovery preparedness certainly includes planning for large-scale disasters, IT process maturity is also essential to your disaster recovery strategy. Failing to implement IT change management or ignoring seemingly unimportant procedur... Tip
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Using carrier colocation in your data center disaster recovery plan
Using carrier colocation services is a solid option for an IT disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Colocations offer well-hardened facilities as well as connections to major telecom carriers, VoIP, wireless Internet service providers, satelite communicat... Tip
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Disaster recovery planning tools: Are they worth it?
Are disaster recovery planning tools worth the price? The answer depends on your organization's IT complexity, size and disaster recovery experience. Tip