Informational Update For August 9, 2012

IBM Business Continuity White Paper

Business continuity and resiliency are critical requirements of modern businesses, but they are not always well understood beyond departments with immediate responsibility. By asking key questions and providing a business continuity rating of mature, capable, aware or exposed, the IBM Business Continuity Index establishes a tangible focus for discussions to drive new initiatives. Since its launch in 2011, the interactive questionnaire has been completed by organizations all over the world. This white paper aggregates and analyzes participant data to reveal four marks of maturity, four signs of exposure and the value of a holistic approach to business continuity. The findings reinforce IBM's own focus on the importance of taking a holistic approach to business continuity and resiliency, one that spans all layers of an organization, not just technology and facilities. Download this white paper for practical guidance on improving business continuity for your organization.

Live Webinar Series: Secrets, tips and lessons learned

If you've ever had to craft an important message when employees might be in danger and your company's survival is at stake, you know how difficult it can be. Join this webinar series for insider tips on doing it right.

The series will reveal secrets like:

• Four critical tips on choosing a notification tool

• The one thing every emergency alert should include

• Why notification is essential to business continuity planning

• How to avoid four common alerting mistakes

• How to communicate when rumors are flying

Discover how notification has evolved to become a powerful platform to help streamline business operations and enhance resiliency throughout organizations.

Webinar 1
The hidden role of crisis communications in BC/DR
The insider's secret is that best practices in crisis communications are invaluable when applied to internal notification and alerting. Get tips and understand best practices in integrating strong communications throughout your business continuity programs.

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WHITE PAPERS

Replication Reinvented: What's New in Zerto Virtual Replication 2.0?

Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) 2.0 takes Zerto's award-winning, hypervisor-based replication technology to the next level, providing enterprises with a scalable, robust and automated solution for their data protection needs across different sites and application types.

Mission-Critical Disaster Recovery in the Virtual World

Virtualization has changed the face of disaster recovery, but traditional replication and recovery solutions are not conditioned to deal with the demands created by the virtual paradigm. In light of these challenges, Zerto has compiled a list of ten questions enterprises should use to evaluate their current DR initiatives for mission-critical applications and ensure its suitability for the virtual world.

SUMMER JOURNAL

Volume 25, Issue 3 Now Available at DRJ.com

BC TRAINING

New BCI Licensed Level 1 Course

The BCI Level 1 Course is a foundation course based on the Business Continuity Institute's "Good Practice Guidelines". It covers the full business continuity lifecycle and helps prepare students to pass the Business Continuity Institutes Certificate in Business Continuity.

Help Spread the Word on Fall World 2012 and Win!

Our attendees know Disaster Recovery Journal has the best conferences in the industry! Now you can help spread the word - and win a fantastic prize.

Log on to any of our social media outlets including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ and make a comment about Fall World 2012. The comment, mention or share must be positive and in good taste! All persons who meet the requirements will be entered into a drawing for a free conference pass, valued at $1195.00.

Our attendees provide hundreds of helpful comments and accolades on our conference evaluation forms. So, now is the chance for our supporters to provide the same type of comments in a public environment.

All persons who provide a qualifying comment or other mention by August 10 on the aforementioned social media will be entered into a prize drawing, held on August 15.

Sign on and make your voice heard! Fall World 2012 is an outstanding conference. Help us spread the word!

Monday Evening Hospitality

You won't want to miss the Monday Evening Hospitality hosted by conference Gold Sponsor SendWordNow. It is a fun-filled event for attendees, vendors and speakers. Food, drinks and networking are offered in a relaxing environment.

Enjoy the Amenities at Sheraton San Diego Hotel

Fall World 2012 will be held at the luxurious Sheraton San Diego Hotel. This bayside location is the perfect spot for attendees to unwind after conference hours. Restaurants are onsite and nearby, offering a variety of places to explore. The hotel also features a fitness center, two pools, spa and a beautiful bay and marina views. Meeting space is updated and ample size to host the largest gathering of business continuity planners from around the globe. Make your hotel reservations early, as a block of rooms with the special conference rate will only be held for a limited time. The hotel provides free shuttle service to and from the airport from 5:30 a.m. to midnight. Shuttles run approximately every 15 minutes.

Travel Discounts Available

American Airlines is DRJ's official airlines for Fall World 2012. For reservations, call 800-433-1790 or visit www.aa.com. Use file #8392AZ for the discounted rate. Avis is DRJ's official rental car service. Call 800-331-1600 or visit www.avis.com. Use file #D005078 for the discounted rate.

Discover Information on Disaster Recovery and Cloud Computing at Fall World 2012

DRJ has lined up industry experts to lead these sessions in our Technical Track. Attendees can choose one session from each track. Browse the full agenda at DRJ.com/FallWorld and make your selections before your favorite session fills. Register by August 9, 2012 to qualify for the last early registration discount!

TS 2: DDoS from the DR Perspective
Jason Stradley, BT Global Services
In recent months there have been numerous high-profile Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched against very well-known organizations. This session will focus on some high level approaches to defending against DDoS type attacks and some approaches to leveraging traditional DR response / recovery and restoration techniques as a part of the defensive framework.

TS 3: Business Resiliency in the Cloud - Reality or Hype?
Karen Jaworski, EVault
Can you truly achieve business resiliency in the cloud? With today's broadly distributed IT environments, and the business demanding always on, fast access to data from anywhere, the cloud has emerged as a viable alternative for backup and disaster recovery services. But does it pass the test on speed, security and reliability?

TS 4: Backing Up Your Big Data
Jeremy Suratt, Iron Mountain; Fred Moore, Horison Info.
The big data phase is underway and in the next few years will give way to the era of colossal content approaching annual data storage growth rates of 100% or more. Learn how this unprecedented volume of meaningful data will demand new backup and recovery strategies and drive traditional storage solutions to new levels of functionality and availability.

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• Discount Information
• Exhibiting/Sponsoring
• Justification Kit
• DRJ Virtual World

Informational Update For August 2, 2012

Join us Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT!

In today's world, cloud connection storage solutions are the way to go for IT organizations. The benefits of cloud connected solutions are clear-low CAPEX, elasticity, higher availability, lower operational hassle, etc. But what is the best way to connect to the cloud? Should you push all your backup data directly to the cloud? Does a pure cloud-based backup and recovery solution meet your company's recovery time objectives? Is there a better way of connecting to the cloud?

Join backup and recovery experts Ninad Desai and Shawn Swanson as they describe a hybrid cloud-connected architecture that balances the flexibility of cloud storage with the instant availability of on-premise data.

In this live webcast, you will learn about:

• Various cloud-connected architectures

• The benefits of hybrid cloud-connected solutions (cloud solutions with local cache)

• Physical and virtual options for hybrid cloud-connected appliances.

• Discover how a hybrid cloud-connected solution can give you the best of both worlds.

Disaster Recovery: You Can Afford It

By Nick Mueller

Implementing a disaster recovery strategy is critical, but is often delayed for two reasons:

1. It's complicated to evaluate business operations to find critical data that needs to be made available first after a disaster

2. The perception that a disaster recovery solution that meets targets is too expensive

Both of these issues create friction that slows down adoption of disaster recovery strategies and technologies. As a result, IT stays focused on daily proverbial fires instead of actual fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, or floods.

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FALL WORLD BLOG

Conference Workshops Offer In depth Learning Opportunity

Fall World 2012 features a variety a in depth workshops that allow attendees to explore numerous cutting edge topics. The following workshops are offered on Tuesday afternoon for 2 1/2 hours. The instructors are industry experts who will provide intense interaction with attendees and allow for hands-on learning experiences.

BCM World

Conference and Exhibition 2012: Designed for the industry by the industry!

BCM World Conference and Exhibition 2012 provides attendees with the tools, skills and knowledge to support professional development and to drive important and critical organisational change.

Assessing Business Continuity World-Wide

Take Part In BC Management's 11th Annual BCM Compensation and Program Management Study!

SUMMER JOURNAL

Volume 25, Issue 3 Now Available at DRJ.com

BC TRAINING

New BCI Licensed Level 1 Course

The BCI Level 1 Course is a foundation course based on the Business Continuity Institute's "Good Practice Guidelines". It covers the full business continuity lifecycle and helps prepare students to pass the Business Continuity Institutes Certificate in Business Continuity.

Informational Update For July 31, 2012

Join the True Confessions Webinar Series

If you've ever had to craft an important message in a time of crisis when rumors run rampant, you know how difficult it can be. In this three-part webinar series you'll not only learn how to deliver targeted, effective notifications, but you'll also discover how notification can go beyond business continuity and disaster recovery to being a useful tool from IT to the executive team.

Webinar #1, The hidden role of crisis communications in BC/DR, takes place on August 15, at 11:00am PT. BC/DR standards expert Ann Pickren will reveal how best practices in crisis communications are equally valuable when applied to internal notification and alerting. Find out how to integrate strong communications throughout your business continuity programs. Joining Ann will be Jim Satterfield, president, CEO and founder at Firestorm Solutions.

Register for the webinar

Register for DRJ's Virtual World '12!

Disaster Recovery Journal has an exciting FREE educational opportunity for you! DRJ's Virtual World '12, is a virtual tradeshow that will highlight product and educational offerings from Disaster Recovery Journal's Spring World 2012 and Fall World 2012 show.

This event includes exclusive access to presentations, exhibitor information and networking with other attendees. This is the one place to find all the information from the conferences, plus even more reference and educational items. Industry white papers and other materials will also be available.

DRJ's Virtual World '12 features a highly interactive format, allowing virtual attendees to view sessions, participate in question and answer sessions, chat with other attendees and see and hear from onsite exhibitors.

This is a groundbreaking format that allows all the benefits of the conference to be gained in the comfort of your own office.

Standard information is available at NO COST for attendees. Premium registrations are available for the low cost of $99. Premium membership allows attendees to view additional presentations and access additional information at the virtual conference.

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DRJ Blogs

Data Center Selection - What do I do?

Posted by: Kelly Hudson

"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in. " Bill Gates

Assessing Business Continuity World-Wide

Take Part In BC Management's 11th Annual BCM Compensation and Program Management Study!

SUMMER JOURNAL

Volume 25, Issue 3 Now Available at DRJ.com

BC TRAINING

New BCI Licensed Level 1 Course

The BCI Level 1 Course is a foundation course based on the Business Continuity Institute's "Good Practice Guidelines". It covers the full business continuity lifecycle and helps prepare students to pass the Business Continuity Institutes Certificate in Business Continuity.

Informational Update For July 25, 2012

Disasters Happen...Are You Ready? -- Download this Free DR eBook Today!

You can't afford to be caught off guard or without a plan when a man-made or natural disaster strikes. Take the next step to ensuring your systems and data are safe if an emergency hits when you least expect it. Download this short, easy-to-digest Disaster Recovery eBook today. You'll learn unique planning approaches to make your data center less vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters. A few minutes of your time today could make all the difference if a disaster strikes your Data Center.

The Advancement of Social Media

By THOMAS MAGEE

"Obscurity of the situation is the rule. Seldom will one have exact information of the enemy... However to wait in tense situations for information is seldom a token of strong leadership. "

-- Generals Warner von Fritsch and Ludwig Beck, Troop Leadership 1933

That quote captures what is the million dollar challenge for managers, continuity personnel, and emergency response authorities. How do you collect critical information in emergency situations? You know something has happened but not sure what. The phone is ringing off the hook. The news stories are buzzing a million words a minute. You know you can't wait for the dust to settle but you aren't sure where to go. You have to get that information on events yesterday. Your boss is pressuring you to have the answers. Millions in dollars and maybe lives are on the table depending on what happens. What's a person to do? How can you find that magic answer that is going to save the day?

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COMMUNITY BLOGS

Defining Recovery Requirements

Posted by: Joe Flach in DRJ Blogs

Remember the movie, "The Jerk", with Steve Martin? Great movie. Anyway, there is a scene in this movie where Navin Johnson (Steve Martin's character) loses all his money and walks out of the house saying something like, "I don't need anything. I need this ashtray. But, that's all I need. I don't need anything but this ashtray...oh, and this lamp. Just this ashtray and this lamp. I need this. ...". You get the picture, right?

SUMMER JOURNAL

Volume 25, Issue 3 Now Available at DRJ.com

Virtual Tradeshow

DRJ's Virtual World '12 features a highly interactive format!

Disaster Recovery Journal has an exciting FREE educational opportunity for you! DRJ's Virtual World '12, is a virtual tradeshow that will highlight product and educational offerings from Disaster Recovery Journal's Spring World 2012 and Fall World 2012 show.

BC TRAINING

New BCI Licensed Level 1 Course

The BCI Level 1 Course is a foundation course based on the Business Continuity Institute's "Good Practice Guidelines". It covers the full business continuity lifecycle and helps prepare students to pass the Business Continuity Institutes Certificate in Business Continuity.

Discover the Difference at Fall World 2012

There's a reason DRJ's conferences are the world's largest dedicated to business continuity! We have hosted 46 conferences and are constantly improving with each conference. Our attendees return year after year to discover that each show has more information, more education and a stronger agenda than any other.

We carefully select our speakers, choosing only those who can bring reliable, unbiased, necessary information to our attendees. The topics are fresh and tackle today's toughest issues. Our conference management has been in place for decades, bringing you the most experienced team in the industry. We listen to our attendees' praise and their criticisms, and make sure those things are made even better for the next show.

Discover why we are the world's #1 conference dedicated to business continuity. Register now to get an early bird registration discount!

Visit www.drj.com/fallworld for complete details!

Monday Evening Hospitality

You won't want to miss the Monday Evening Hospitality hosted by conference Gold Sponsor SendWordNow. It is a fun-filled event for attendees, vendors and speakers. Food, drinks and networking are offered in a relaxing environment.

Enjoy the Amenities at Sheraton San Diego Hotel

Fall World 2012 will be held at the luxurious Sheraton San Diego Hotel. This bayside location is the perfect spot for attendees to unwind after conference hours. Restaurants are onsite and nearby, offering a variety of places to explore. The hotel also features a fitness center, two pools, spa and a beautiful bay and marina views. Meeting space is updated and ample size to host the largest gathering of business continuity planners from around the globe. Make your hotel reservations early, as a block of rooms with the special conference rate will only be held for a limited time. The hotel provides free shuttle service to and from the airport from 5:30 a.m. to midnight. Shuttles run approximately every 15 minutes.

Travel Discounts Available

American Airlines is DRJ's official airlines for Fall World 2012. For reservations, call 800-433-1790 or visit www.aa.com. Use file #8392AZ for the discounted rate. Avis is DRJ's official rental car service. Call 800-331-1600 or visit www.avis.com. Use file #D005078 for the discounted rate.

Informational Update For July 24, 2012

Relevant Communications: What Mass Notification is Missing

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT (REGISTER NOW!)

Years ago you saw a need in your company for a tool that would allow you to communicate to people when emergencies happened. You innovated how your company operated in times of crisis. Instead of relying on call trees, you implemented a mass notification tool so you could blast messages out to the people who needed to know. But just as you innovated then - growing from call trees to mass notification - it's time for change again. There is new technology available to make the notifications you send out relevant to the people that receive them. Instead of sending a generic message to everyone and hoping that it's relevant to them, there is a new way to communicate. This need to provide the right information to the right people means that the communication vendor you select for emergency communications needs to do more than just "spray and pray".

Join us for this hour long webinar where we'll discuss how the emergency mass notification services market has evolved.

Free Webinar Presented By eVault

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT (REGISTER NOW!)

In this webinar, learn to identify the critical issues to select and implement a successful backup and restore solution for your remote and branch offices. As you know, allowing the freedom of each office to select its own backup technology often results in a quick win followed by inconsistent policies, inefficient management, and poor control of this essential function. As the corporate IT function looks to drive consistent policies for data retention, it needs to assess solution security, restore speed, and ease of management. Sometimes, getting all your remote and branch offices to follow consistent policies may feel like herding cats. Further, from a strategic standpoint, you need to address considerations such as retention policy for compliance reasons and a migration away from tape or to the cloud. Gain insight into the criteria and process for selecting and implementing a winning backup/restore solution that keeps your organization purring.

Drink Up Information for Your ROBO Backup and Recovery Strategy

Is your ROBO backup and disaster recovery fully carbonated or is it uncoordinated and a little flat? Get information you need to develop the right strategy for your organization by attending "Successfully Herding Cats: Creating a Winning ROBO Data Backup and Recovery Solution," Wednesday, July 25, 2- 3 PM EDT, sponsored by industry-leading EVault.

All attendees will be entered into a drawing for a SodaStream. SodaStream turns plain tap water into flavored sparkling drinks in fewer than 30 seconds—just like the right ROBO solution rapidly transforms an inconsistent, frustrating situation into a coherent organization-wide backup and recovery strategy.

Industry experts Anne Vincenti, EVault director of SaaS product management, and Bruce McKnight, EVault customer advocacy director, will present this informative webinar. Discover insight into the criteria and process for selecting and implementing a winning backup/restore solution that keeps your organization purring. And, you just may win the SodaStream , which will keep your home or office pouring!

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SUMMER JOURNAL

Volume 25, Issue 3 Now Available at DRJ.com

DRJ BLOGS

Business Continuity and Legislative Requirements

Posted by: Kelly Hudson

In today's business climate, business continuity is all about ensuring your resources can work anywhere, anytime. Technologies that include cloud services, wide ranging mobile devices, desktop virtualization and online collaboration tools (e.g., Office 365) enable this 24/7, global connectivity. This trend towards increasing never-ending access to information and resources makes legal and regulatory compliance even more important in order to protect a company's assets and customers.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES

The Advancement of Social Media By Thomas Magee

BC TRAINING

New BCI Licensed Level 1 Course

The BCI Level 1 Course is a foundation course based on the Business Continuity Institute's "Good Practice Guidelines". It covers the full business continuity lifecycle and helps prepare students to pass the Business Continuity Institutes Certificate in Business Continuity.

Industry Spotlight

Avalution Consulting

Avalution Consulting, 2012 BC/DR Company of the Year (award by the Business Continuity Institute North America), is a U.S. based firm that specializes in business continuity, continuity of operations planning (COOP) and IT disaster recovery consulting, outsourcing and software solutions.

Discover the Difference at Fall World 2012

There's a reason DRJ's conferences are the world's largest dedicated to business continuity! We have hosted 46 conferences and are constantly improving with each conference. Our attendees return year after year to discover that each show has more information, more education and a stronger agenda than any other.

We carefully select our speakers, choosing only those who can bring reliable, unbiased, necessary information to our attendees. The topics are fresh and tackle today's toughest issues. Our conference management has been in place for decades, bringing you the most experienced team in the industry. We listen to our attendees' praise and their criticisms, and make sure those things are made even better for the next show.

Discover why we are the world's #1 conference dedicated to business continuity. Register now to get an early bird registration discount!

Visit www.drj.com/fallworld for complete details!

Monday Evening Hospitality

You won't want to miss the Monday Evening Hospitality hosted by conference Gold Sponsor SendWordNow. It is a fun-filled event for attendees, vendors and speakers. Food, drinks and networking are offered in a relaxing environment.

Enjoy the Amenities at Sheraton San Diego Hotel

Fall World 2012 will be held at the luxurious Sheraton San Diego Hotel. This bayside location is the perfect spot for attendees to unwind after conference hours. Restaurants are onsite and nearby, offering a variety of places to explore. The hotel also features a fitness center, two pools, spa and a beautiful bay and marina views. Meeting space is updated and ample size to host the largest gathering of business continuity planners from around the globe. Make your hotel reservations early, as a block of rooms with the special conference rate will only be held for a limited time. The hotel provides free shuttle service to and from the airport from 5:30 a.m. to midnight. Shuttles run approximately every 15 minutes.

Travel Discounts Available

American Airlines is DRJ's official airlines for Fall World 2012. For reservations, call 800-433-1790 or visit www.aa.com. Use file #8392AZ for the discounted rate. Avis is DRJ's official rental car service. Call 800-331-1600 or visit www.avis.com. Use file #D005078 for the discounted rate.

Informational Update For July 19, 2012

Half Prepared?: Business Survey on Disaster Recovery

Half Prepared? - Regus recently surveyed over 12,000 organizations across 85 countries to test their levels of preparedness for loss of IT and Workplace.

Download the Half Prepared? report to view the full survey results and in depth analysis sorted by Country, Sector and Company Size.

Regus is the world’s largest provider of flexible workspace, with a global network of business centers in 1200 locations spanning 550 cities and 95 countries. This is why most Fortune 500 businesses are Regus customers.

Free Webinar Presented By eVault

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT (REGISTER NOW!)

In this webinar, learn to identify the critical issues to select and implement a successful backup and restore solution for your remote and branch offices. As you know, allowing the freedom of each office to select its own backup technology often results in a quick win followed by inconsistent policies, inefficient management, and poor control of this essential function. As the corporate IT function looks to drive consistent policies for data retention, it needs to assess solution security, restore speed, and ease of management. Sometimes, getting all your remote and branch offices to follow consistent policies may feel like herding cats. Further, from a strategic standpoint, you need to address considerations such as retention policy for compliance reasons and a migration away from tape or to the cloud. Gain insight into the criteria and process for selecting and implementing a winning backup/restore solution that keeps your organization purring.

Our speaker: Anne Vincenti is the EVault Director of SaaS Product Management. Anne is passionate about market research and developing highly differentiated products that deliver an experience that makes best practices easy for users. Her storage product and services background includes leadership roles at SGI, PowerQuest and Linux Networx, most recently defining break-through SaaS solutions in the field of online retail analytics. She has an MS from Carnegie Mellon and has published on the topic of innovative products and services in a number of fields.

Bruce McKnight, customer advocacy director, has provided EVault technical support and customer advocacy for 12 years. He is committed to helping customers resolve technical issues and get operations back up and running. Before joining EVault, Bruce ran his own IT consulting firm and subsequently lived the ROBO experience working for Hilton Hotels. He holds a BSc in electronics and computer science from University of the West Indies.

Quick Links

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SUMMER JOURNAL

Volume 25, Issue 3 Now Available at DRJ.com

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES

The Advancement of Social Media By Thomas Magee

BC TRAINING

New BCI Licensed Level 1 Course

The BCI Level 1 Course is a foundation course based on the Business Continuity Institute's "Good Practice Guidelines". It covers the full business continuity lifecycle and helps prepare students to pass the Business Continuity Institutes Certificate in Business Continuity.

DRJ BLOGS

When a Hurricane Meets Social Media: The Rise and Fall of Brand Reputation

Written by Cheryl Burgess

Industry Spotlight

Avalution Consulting

Avalution Consulting, 2012 BC/DR Company of the Year (award by the Business Continuity Institute North America), is a U.S. based firm that specializes in business continuity, continuity of operations planning (COOP) and IT disaster recovery consulting, outsourcing and software solutions.

Fall World Blog

Discover Money-Saving Tips for Attending Fall World 2012

In today's economy, budgets are tight. But attending Fall World 2012 does not have to be out of reach. Don't miss your chance to attend this conference. The education, skills and strategies you will learn at Fall World 2012 are well worth the low admission fee. In addition to having the lowest registration fee in the industry, we have several other money-saving features..

Informational Update For July 17, 2012

IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery Video

Any disruption to your customer-facing services can damage your reputation—and even one minute of downtime can end up costing you thousands of dollars. For most businesses, outages are not an option, but many recovery solutions force you to choose between cost and recovery speed.

Not anymore.

IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery delivers an affordable, reliable source for application continuity and fast recovery that will keep your business going even in the face of a power outage, server failure-or a full-blown natural disaster. Watch the IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery video to learn how fully managed, around-the-clock replication can help you:

• Minimize service disruptions

• Reduce risk of business down time with improved recovery times

• Optimize application recovery times with tiered service levels

• Control costs by using shared disaster recovery services via cloud computing

• Build confidence and refine disaster recovery plans with more frequent testing

• Increase visibility and control with a web-based management portal

Watch this video now to learn more about what IBM Smartcloud Virtualized Server Recovery can do to help protect your business.

Manage and recover with Hybrid Cloud - When Minutes Matter Most

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT (REGISTER NOW!)

Did you know that business downtime can cost an Small to mid-sized business an average of $1,230 dollars per minute? So what happens when a disaster strikes a business? In this day and age it's only a matter of when...not if. Whether it's a hurricane or a server misconfiguration, companies need to have a disaster recovery solution in place in order to continue to operate, while their internal IT departments resolve the problem.

Quorum's CEO, Larry Lang, will focus his session on the importance of going beyond traditional backup methods to implement a disaster recovery and management plan that enables business continuity and prevents costly downtime.

While many traditional tape backup methods make disaster recovery a slow-motion proposition, hybrid cloud solutions -- a combination of high-speed-recovery appliances and cloud-based technology -- are paving the way for the future of backup, recovery and continuity.

This webinar will explore:

• The business impact of system downtime

• An overview of the top "disasters" small to mid-sized businesses must prepare for- from hurricanes to system updates

• Real world examples of successful disaster recovery plans across various industries

Larry Lang will discuss this next phase in hybrid cloud technology, and the crucial role of instant recovery in small to mid-sized businesses, and how it is the next frontier for business continuity.

This webinar will provide attendees with an overview of current recovery systems, from tape backup, disks, data center replications to private and public cloud-based solutions. Lang will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each, as well as how various solutions have performed for real companies in real-life disaster scenarios.

The component of speed and simplicity will also be discussed, with a focus on how hybrid cloud solutions can benefit small to mid-sized businesses from a proactive recovery-testing scenario before a disaster strikes.

Quick Links

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SUMMER JOURNAL

Volume 25, Issue 3 Now Available at DRJ.com

The latest issue of Disaster Recovery Journal is available! This edition features an in depth look at the ISO Standard. Discover expert opinions on the newest industry standard as well as dozens of other cutting edge topics. The edition also features our annual alternate site survey. Browse the edition online or download it in a pdf version.

White Papers

A BCM Professional's Playbook on Customer Satisfaction

Sponsored by Strategic BCP

Elevate your BCM profile within your organization by taking a page from this playbook on customer satisfaction.

DRJ BLOGS

Cyber Safety - How can you be ready?

Posted by: Kelly Hudson

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing

Industry Spotlight

Avalution Consulting

Avalution Consulting, 2012 BC/DR Company of the Year (award by the Business Continuity Institute North America), is a U.S. based firm that specializes in business continuity, continuity of operations planning (COOP) and IT disaster recovery consulting, outsourcing and software solutions.

Fall World Blog

Discover Money-Saving Tips for Attending Fall World 2012

In today's economy, budgets are tight. But attending Fall World 2012 does not have to be out of reach. Don't miss your chance to attend this conference. The education, skills and strategies you will learn at Fall World 2012 are well worth the low admission fee. In addition to having the lowest registration fee in the industry, we have several other money-saving features..

Discover Money-Saving Tips for Attending Fall World 2012

In today's economy, budgets are tight. But attending Fall World 2012 does not have to be out of reach. Don't miss your chance to attend this conference. The education, skills and strategies you will learn at Fall World 2012 are well worth the low admission fee. In addition to having the lowest registration fee in the industry, we have several other money-saving features:

• Our conference is held at the beautiful San Diego Sheraton, located bayside, and offering several restaurants onsite as well as many more within walking distance.

• All attendees receive 6 meals included with the registration fee. And, we're not talking a sandwich in a bag. Hot, delicious breakfasts and lunches are served Monday through Wednesday. And, on Sunday night, food is provided at the Welcome Reception. Snacks, sodas and coffee are also provided. This is a huge savings to your budget!

• Free entertainment is provided onsite at two receptions in the evenings. In addition there's networking in the exhibition hall, private hospitalities and numerous product demonstrations to attend. There's no need to travel offsite for anything!

• The hotel offers free shuttle service to and from the airport. This combined with the entertainment onsite and restaurants within walking distance eliminates the need for a rental car. That's another huge savings for your budget.

• We also have several travel discounts available for airfare and rental cars, if you decide you would like to explore the area.

• Download a free Justification Kit from our website to aid you even further in getting the funds to attend.

Join us in San Diego and discover how you can get a great education, become a more marketable employee and find solutions and skills you need! The return on investment is incredibly high at Fall World 2012 - and these money-saving features make it an even better deal.

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