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What to expect when expecting a disaster

Small businesses differ from their enterprise counterparts in many ways, from funding to infrastructure and staffing. At the same time, they also share some common challenges, including the need to ensure business continuity even in the wake of a disaster.



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How to Recover From Virtualization Disasters

Disaster recovery, to many people, means not much more than a hot site, but there is much more involved. What exactly is involved depends on how much money you have to put to the problem.

| Opinion | Storage | Virtualization | 09/02/08 at 3:16 pm |


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Outsourcing infrastructure applications for SMBs

The promise of rapid time-to-market combined with lower total cost of ownership continues to drive the adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) among small and mid-sized businesses. This on-demand or hosted application model delivers significant benefits through quick adoption, reduced IT costs and increased budget flexibility. Better yet, outsourcing allows staff to focus on business-related initiatives rather than spending valuable energy selecting, implementing, and maintaining complex on-site solutions.

| Opinion | SaaS | Small business | 07/08/08 at 9:36 am |


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Dell adds storage, disaster management services to portfolio

Dell on Wednesday announced it was adding customizable storage and disaster management services to build out its services portfolio, which it began revamping last year.

| News | Storage | 06/25/08 at 4:41 pm |


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