Understanding the importance of data availability is easy enough. Actually achieving high data availability, however, is harder. If you’re wondering how you can improve data availability, keep...

How do you protect sensitive data when you need to use it and put it to work? Privacy regulations place strict controls on how personal information can be accessed and shared. But you also can’t...

What stands in the way of high availability and your data? Keep reading for a list of common reasons why data may become unavailable. Highly available data means data that is accessible virtually...

Achieving high availability for data is tough. The best-laid data infrastructures often go awry for a variety of reasons, and they bring data availability down with them. What are those things that...

When disaster strikes, your firm must find a way to ensure business continuity. That means getting your networks and systems up and running as quickly as possible. However, that raises questions. Do...

How many times do you access your data on a daily basis? It could be just a few or 100 times a day, but in either case, you depend on that data for almost every decision you make. So imagine what...

What makes System i different from other platforms? A large part of the answer lies in the CPU architectures that System i servers use: System i relies on IBM POWER microprocessors, whereas most...

In this article, we look at disaster recovery plan examples in reaction to three real-world scenarios: a DDoS attack, data center destruction and data sabotage. Disaster recovery is one of those...

Estimates for average costs of downtime at an organization came in at around $9,000 per minute [1] last year. That number leaves little doubt that the direct costs of technical downtime can cripple...