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An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage

Plan B Consulting

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. There is very little spare capacity in the system to accommodate delayed passengers and cancelled flights, so the effects take days to sort out.

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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

MHA Consulting

Doing this work is one of the most productive activities a BC professional can undertake. Capacity limitations. We often see that efforts to recover critical apps are derailed by limitations in computing or storage capacity. In today’s environment, you cannot just go out and buy capacity. Having these items is not enough.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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Breakthrough Award: Nissan Australia, Our G.O.A.T. Winner for APJ

Pure Storage

The manufacturing processes they support—like the aluminum casting required to produce powertrain and engine components—are energy-intensive and prone to outages. FlashBlade has also allowed Nissan Australia to consolidate its mainframe backups. What’s more, they had to pay for two systems concurrently during those crossover periods.

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Pure Storage at VMware Explore 2022

Pure Storage

If you look back, the buzzwords of past VMware events were largely centered on the virtual machine (VM)—VM backup, VM recovery, VM granularity, VM insights. This provides end-to-end performance, capacity, and feature management/insights. Active-active stretched cluster vVol support with VMware and Pure Storage.

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Using Per Protection Group SafeMode with Pure Cloud Block Store

Pure Storage

To recognize its importance, you only need to look at the multibillion-dollar industry that has been built up around it or read the news to observe the near-daily outages of major businesses or ransoms paid to bad actors. Once SafeMode has been activated for a protection group, the only way to turn it off is to contact Pure Support.

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It’s OK, it’s in the Cloud: Lessons from the OVH Cloud Data Centre Fire

Plan B Consulting

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. If you use SaaS, where your data is stored, and the backup arrangements are often very transparent.

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