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Marathon Blog
- Real Redundancy is a Tenet of True Availability December 3, 2010I grew up in an old, two-family Victorian home just outside Boston, MA. My father, like many dads of the post-World War II generation, had a workshop in the basement. It worked out well because the house needed quite a bit of regular maintenance and repair. As a child, I found the vast array of gear and other paraphernalia in his workshop fascinating. There […]Marathon Technologies
- The Dangers and Risks of the Norms of Availability October 3, 2010OK. Were not being coy, even though we have a big Major Product Announcement box on the front page of our web site. Really. Am I going to share? Yes, but not now. Instead, Im going to provide a bit of a drum roll and some recent feedback from many worldwide discussions with some great analysts and thought leaders. To start off, were not just making a pr […]Marathon Technologies
- Achieving 24x7 Uptime on a Budget September 8, 2010Last week we hosted a webinar looking at why High Availability Doesnt have to be Expensive. We reviewed the trends that are creating todays always-on world where businesses, customers and employees expect 24x7 uptime for all of their applications. We also highlighted several common sources of planned and unplanned downtime, and identified some specific […]Marathon Technologies
- Effective Risk Assessment: Q&A August 24, 2010We had a very lively presentation and Q&A during last weeks webinar How to Cut Risks and Costs with a Downtime Analysis and Action Plan. A summary of the Q&A is below. Q: Should branch offices be included in a downtime assessment? Absolutely you cant ignore branch offices. Forrester estimates that 20% of your business comes from branch offices. […]Marathon Technologies
The Neverfail Corporate Blog
- Paper Towel Disaster Recovery January 28, 2012On Monday, Neverfail’s US offices moved into a new building, just north of the intersections of highway 2222 and 360 in Austin, TX. Since the move, we’ve hit the ground running with new team members (including myself), a micro site … Continue reading → […]Ross Clurman
- HA vs. HA: Which one are you looking for? January 14, 2012In this growing world of virtualization, there are many options to consider when it comes to disaster recovery and high availability. With a high percentage of most datacenters now consisting of virtual machines it is relatively easy to keep workloads … Continue reading → […]Neverfail
- Neverfail Extends VMware Site Recovery Manager to Protect Any Business Application October 20, 2011Neverfail’s new SRMXtender product allows VMware customers to standardize on VMware Site Recovery Manager to protect critical applications, even those on physical servers. On October 18, 2011 we announced that we are releasing Neverfail SRMXtender, a software-based continuous availability solution … Continue reading → […]Neverfail
- Virtual Availability Director to support Tier-1 Applications in VMware vCenter October 19, 2011The new Neverfail Virtual Availability Director extends vSphere Client to provide a single business continuity solution for applications running on any mix of physical and virtual machines. On October 11, 2011 we announced that we are releasing the Neverfail Virtual … Continue reading → […]Neverfail
The PHD Experts
- PHD Virtual Backup Support for XenServer 5.6 SP2 June 2, 2011Recently, Citrix announced the availability of their latest patch release for XenServer, 5.6 SP2. Today, PHD Virtual announced that the recently released PHD Virtual Backup version 5.2 (released on 5/20/11) fully supports XenServer 5.6 SP2. Full regression testing has been completed. If you are running XenServer 5.6 SP2 or thinking of upgrading, you will nee […]Pete Del Rey
- PHD Virtual Release v5.2 for vSphere/XenServer – 5/20/11 May 23, 2011On May 20th, 2011 PHD Virtual released PHD Virtual Backup version 5.2. The v5.2 update patch was made available for both hypervisors PHD Virtual supports, VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer. The update patches are available on the Updates page of the PHD Virtual web site. Each update patch consists of two main components: A new […]Pete Del Rey
- PHD Virtual Backup 5.x Data Connector with Symantec NetBackup May 17, 2011***Update 11/21/11: Note that in PHD Virtual Backup v5.3, there is new functionality called the Exporter for additional tape integration options. The Exporter is a separate Windows application that will rehydrate PHD backups to compressed OVF files to be stored anywhere a user chooses, to allow for vaulting off-site or to tape. Because the process […]Pete Del Rey
- Pre/Post Scripts with VMware using PHDVB 5.x April 23, 2011One of the challenges with Virtual Backups today is how to handle application level consistency from within an imaged based backup. In the days of agent level backups, the agent was running inside the machine, so it could initiate activities like shutting down a database or rotating a transaction log. With virtual backup solutions like […]Pete Del Rey
[Old Site] DataCore – In the News
- DataCore's Blog has moved! Please Visit the New "DataCore - In The News' Blog for the latest news and updates... March 5, 2011[…]DataCore
- Virtualization Review and Jon Toigo Webcast on DataCore SANsymphony-V, February 22, 2011 at 11:30am EST February 22, 2011[…]DataCore
- DataCore Announces New Generation of Storage Virtualization Software that Solves the “Big Problem” Stalling Today’s Server and Desktop Virtualization Projects January 31, 2011SANsymphony-V delivers the critical “third dimension” to virtualization: software to cost-effectively shape the shared storage infrastructure required by virtual IT environmentsRead the full product announcement at: http://tinyurl.com/6j65pyzCheck out the new material on the SANsymphony-V launch page: http://www.datacore.com/SANsymphony-V.Read the New Enterp […]DataCore
- It’s time to solve the “Big Problem” stalling today’s server and desktop virtualization projects January 31, 2011[…]DataCore
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Providence Solutions distributes cost-effective, high value-added technologies to expert system integrators through all of Asia Pacific outside Japan. Our only business is preventing server failures (not recovering from them) and site disaster prevention, a better option than disaster recovery (DR). Customers include the most demanding defense and security organizations, and companies in manufacturing, oil & gas, telecommunications, logistics, financial services, utilities, intelligent building management, transportation and other industries. A partial list of end-user customers is available on request.
