Disaster Recovery Journal, Summer 2010

The FBCC offers critical and affordable workforce recovery, telecommunication, and unique data center services with geo-diverse and dedicated contract options for clients. The FBCC is within easy reach from all parts of Florida, yet tucked away from the risks associated with coastal locations. Its location at 168 feet above sea level is outside both the 500-year Flood Zone X and maximum wind-borne-debris areas associated with land-falling hurricanes. Fully-appointed facilities include 250 fully equipped workstations with available advanced call center capabilities, on-site technical support, private offices, conference rooms, kitchen and break room, equipment storage space and full bathroom and shower facilities.

For more information, visit www.fbccdr.com.

Send Word Now First in Industry to
Launch Fully Integrated Alerting and
Incident Management Platform

NEW YORK, NY – Send Word Now, the leading provider of on-demand emergency notification and incident management services, has released its Incident Management Service (IMS), which will be fully integrated with the company’s existing Emergency Notification Service (ENS). With the release of IMS, Send Word Now becomes the only provider in the emergency notification space to offer fully integrated and proprietary incident management and mass notification tools using a SaaS ( Software-as-a-Service) model.

Send Word Now’s IMS platform will present emergency management officials with an entirely new set of tools to coordinate their responses during crisis situations, during an age in which natural disasters and terrorist attacks are becoming ever more prevalent around the globe. For example, after a massive earthquake strikes, groups of emergency responders and corporate officials will be able to use Send Word Now’s centralized IMS console to send alerts, communicate internally, coordinate humanitarian relief and rescue efforts, monitor and respond to any escalations in crime or instances of looting, and plan for any aftershocks. The service will simplify what is often a very complex process of crisis communication.

The new IMS offering—the first of its kind in the industry—reaffirms Send Word Now’s position as an innovator in the field of on-demand notification and emergency management.

For more information, visit www.sendwordnow. com.

LAN Infotech and SoftwareONE, Inc. Announce Strategic Partnership

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. and NEW BERLIN, Wisc. – LAN Infotech, Florida’s leading IT consultants, has joined SoftwareONE’s VARassist Partner Program to form a strategic relationship, expanding their customer offerings to include the entire scope of Microsoft licensing solutions, as well as full access to additional publisher licensing programs and expertise. LAN Infotech is a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in providing turnkey solutions to its clients to make them more efficient at a price they can afford.

LAN Infotech and SoftwareONE employ a con-
sultative approach, allowing them to work together
to understand the complete landscape of a cus-
tomer’s business. By asking the right questions and
incorporating strategic plans and growth projections,
the partners can recommend the best licensing and
system integration solutions for the customer’s cur-
rent and future IT needs.

HP Offers Solutions for Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2010

PALO ALTO, Calif., – HP has introduced infrastructure services and tools to help clients simplify, integrate and automate business collaboration using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

HP’s Converged Infrastructure helps clients achieve an optimal approach across applications with a common architecture. This includes management and tools for assessment, planning, deployment and lifecycle management.

To help clients plan and assess the best solution for their collaboration needs, HP is introducing the HP Sizer. This online tool gives clients a detailed implementation assessment including their optimal configuration of HP technology for SharePoint Server 2010. Clients can access the HP Sizer at www. hp.com/go/sharepoint.

To accelerate implementation and achieve faster return on investment for SharePoint Server 2010, clients can use the HP Sizer to generate HP BladeSystem Matrix reference templates. The templates can be imported into a client’s Matrix environment to save administrators time in the infrastructure planning, design and provisioning processes.

The new solutions build on the unified communications and collaboration initiative between HP and Microsoft announced in May 2009.

For more information, visit www.hp.com.

EMC Satcom’s Carrier
Overlapping Technology Saves
Full Transponder In Asia

RAISTING, GERMANY – EMC Satcom Technologies GmbH established a new landmark in satellite link optimization by achieving a symmetrical 155/155Mbps circuit inside a single transponder and in turn liberating a full 72MHz transponder.

The existing STM- 1 in Asia-Pacific was utilizing a 72MHz transponder of the outbound carrier 155Mbps and another 72MHz for the inbound carrier 155Mbps. By placing EMC Satcom’s NRS Bandwidth Booster at each end of the link a full 72MHz has been cancelled allowing the existing symmetrical 155/155Mbps STM- 1 to operate within one transponder only.

This optimization and releasing of satellite capacity equates to over $2million a year in savings for the customer.

The NRS Bandwidth Booster is available for
satellite MHz bandwidth cancellation at 12MHz,
25MHz, 36MHz and 72MHz and is completely
modulation agnostic being able to work with all sat-
ellite modems. In addition to SCPC links, the NRS
works with all brands of TDMA hubs allowing the
MHz currently allocated to the inbound channels to
be saved. As a hub only installation the NRS achieves
these savings without any physical changes to the
remotes making it ideal for networks large or small.

Experts at Nasuni Offer Five Tips for Adopting Cloud Gateways

NATICK, Mass. – As cloud storage becomes more mainstream, moving from predominately offsite backup and archiving to enterprise-class primary storage, the number of vendors jumping into the marketplace is quickly growing. Finding the best way to gets files to the cloud is an important step in leveraging the benefits of cloud technology for a company’s particular business. With more and more cloud gateways being announced, here are the top five issues companies should consider before making a purchasing decision, according to experts at Nasuni, creator of the industry’s first gateway to the cloud for primary storage.

1. Security: Unlike what most cloud storage providers offer, a gateway to cloud storage has the ability to encrypt and protect data before sending it to the cloud. Every precaution should be made to ensure that the network provider, cloud storage provider or gateway vendor do not have the ability to access your business-critical files.

2. Choice of cloud vendors: A gateway to cloud storage should allow customers to pick the cloud vendor of their choice, and in some cases enable more than one provider for replication.

3. Billing and provisioning: Using a gateway to cloud storage should not mean dealing with two or more separate bills from separate vendors. Pick a vendor that does the work themselves and consolidates all the bills. This way, even if a company has separate files stored with different cloud storage providers it does not need to deal with more than one billing entity. Provisioning storage from cloud should be simple, seamless and immediate.

4. Software only: With virtualization technology maturing, companies should expect to be able to add a cloud storage gateway to their current virtual environment without having to buy new hardware. Companies that are not yet virtualized may want to consider implementing free VMware products to avoid having to purchase and maintain another new piece of hardware.

5. File restores and disaster recovery: One of the fundamental benefits of cloud storage is that files will be stored offsite and protected with multiple copies. On top of that, companies need the convenience and peace of mind of fast day-to-day file restores from snapshots and rapid recovery from full system failures. Pick a vendor that offers seamless, quick and easy file restores and full, speedy recovery. And if the cloud provider goes down do you have another offsite backup somewhere else for quick recovery?

The Nasuni Filer leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file access, storage and protection, while eliminating the expense of storage hardware and infrastructure expansion.