DR

Disaster recovery

Hi guys, I'm planning to put a DR strategy in place for my firm. I have the option of backing up our data & system volume to an external drive or tape drive. However, I have been having challenges backing up to a tape drive. Do you think external drive is a better option?

Replicating SAN to DR Site

We are looking to build a warm DR site across town. How are other companies managing to duplicate their data in a reasonable time to another location? We are looking to copy around 150 GB per day. We don't need up to the minute data, up to the hour or two is acceptable.

NAS or SAN?

We have a need to run numerous virtual servers from a NAS/SAN. The questions is, which should we choose? THe product we support (Citrix XenServer) supports either for backend virtual system storage and can run VM's from either. Currently, our needs are small. We have about 10 virtual servers that...

License vs. leasing third party data center space

My organization's legal department is reviewing a DR co-location contract and they want to change the terms from a "license to use" data center contract to a "lease" agreement. From what I have been able to discern, the vendor should balk at this big time and I predict a significant issue to...