World Backup Day
According to Wikipedia, the term "Hallmark holiday" is used predominantly in the United States to describe a holiday that is perceived to exist primarily for commercial purposes, rather than to commemorate a traditionally significant event. One of my pet peeves are the made up “special occasions” that greeting card companies and others make up to drive sales of more $5 greeting cards. I’m all for celebrating mothers, letting my wife know I love her dearly, and otherwise acknowledging the important people in…
Top 5 Reasons for Disaster Recovery
With our guaranteed 15 minute disaster recovery and several years under our belt with our product, we’ve gotten an understanding of the top reasons for performing a disaster recovery and the list may surprise you: Changing storage platforms Failed ESXi data store Failed server Human error Moving data around the world What? A true disaster isn’t on the list? There’s no hurricane, earthquake, etc. on there. That’s right folks, DR is rarely performed for a true natural disaster. Let’s walk through the list and talk…
Nasuni’s Disaster Recovery to the Rescue (Again)
We’re never happy when one of our customers goes through a disaster or work disruption of any kind. Several months ago we heard of another event where our Filer’s built-in backup and disaster recovery saved one of our customer’s data. A storage administrator at one of our enterprise accounts was working on one of their VMware ESX virtualization platforms and made a potentially catastrophic mistake. One of the great advantages of virtualization is the ability to create new machines on demand. IT often does…
DR Solutions: Recovering from a True Disaster
Early in 2011 we had our first production disaster recovery event. We had thoroughly tested the Filer’s DR capabilities countless times on our own, and George Crump of Storage Switzerland has analyzed it and reported on his experience. More importantly, many of our customers put it to the test before buying the Filer. But we never really wanted it to be used in a real-world situation. Why? Because it's there to solve the pain after a disaster. And we wouldn’t wish a disaster on any of our customers. But then it…
OnDemand Webinar: Revolutionizing Disaster Recovery: From Hours to Minutes
Disasters can strike at any time whether they’re natural or man made - hardware failures, power outages, flooding, human error, bioterrorism. Minutes, hours, days without data costs companies millions. What is your cost of downtime? When a major piece of infrastructure fails, recovery is no easy task. How well prepared are you to recover from a disaster? How quickly can you actually get your organization back up and running with end users having access to their critical data? Fortunately, advanced data…
Disaster Recovery
Get back up and running quickly. Do you have a recovery plan that allows you to recover in minutes and reduces the pain and cost of bringing critical data back online?
Security and Control Are Greatest Concerns Preventing Enterprises from Adopting Cloud Storage
81 Percent of IT Decision Makers Cite Data Security Concerns; 48 Percent Worry About the Level of Control Over Data NATICK, Mass., Nov 15, 2011-- Nasuni, the leading next-generation enterprise storage company, today released the findings of a recent survey of information technology (IT) leaders' views on cloud storage. The survey revealed that 81 percent of IT decision makers have concerns about data security in the cloud, and 48 percent were concerned about the level of control they would have over data…
Simulating a Disaster
This document explains how to simulate a disaster recovery by powering down your current Nasuni Filer instance. Before you power down Nasuni Filer, make sure you know the names of your volumes and the data data stored in them. After the disaster recovery is complete, you need to check that your new Nasuni Filer instance has the correct volumes and associated data.
Why Disaster Recovery Isn't an Option Anymore
In a perfect world, recovering a company's data and getting it back into production after a major disaster would be fast and automatic. Got some news for you: Even “good enough” is rare in this world, never mind “perfect.”
First of all, industry analysts from Gartner and IDC say that 30 to 40 percent of all IT shops either have no disaster recovery system in place or do not know how to use it correctly. Second, even if a shop does have a DR apparatus in place and tests it occasionally, there are plenty of examples of such systems not performing according to plan.
Case Study Webinar: Taking the Disaster Out of Recovery
Hardware failures happen more often than expected. Regardless of whether it is for natural cause or human error, when a major piece of infrastructure fails, recovery is no easy task, unless you have implemented proper disaster recovery planning. Watch this webcast as we highlight the elements of a good disaster recovery plan and explain how Nasuni makes full and partial recoveries a simple task. Nasuni CEO, Andres Rodriguez, is joined by guest speaker and a Nasuni customer, a large manufacturing…
