Disaster Recovery Journal

is a leading provider of myCOOP, the BCM solution used by a growing list of clients globally. With a proven reputation for reliability and ability to support clients’ existing BCM practices, COOP Systems’ clients believe myCOOP is simply the best BCM software in the world.

For more information, visit www.coop-systems. com.

SunGard Availability Services’
Customers Recover Following the
Boston Back Bay Electrical Fire

WAYNE, Pa. — SunGard Availability Services has reported several of its customers were impacted by the Boston Back Bay electrical fire on March 13, 2012. Nearly 300 employees unable to return to their facilities resumed business operations on March 14th at the end-user Workforce Continuity Center in Marlborough, Mass.

SunGard Workforce Continuity offers comprehensive options for organizations to recover their most important assets – their people. Fully-functional office space includes security-controlled access, space and power, PC workstation systems, secure network connectivity, email, and telephone connectivity with seamless rerouting of an organization’s existing numbers.

For more information, visit www.sungardas.com.

Severe Storm Readiness Tips for Homeowners from SERVPRO

GALLATIN, Tenn. — The announcement comes over your TV or radio: there’s a storm headed your way. What can you do to help protect yourself, your family and your home?

According to SERVPRO, the answers to those questions lie in understanding the difference between a storm watch and a storm warning; in knowing where to seek shelter if you’re caught by a storm; in taking precautions as storm season approaches to minimize the potential for storm-related property damage; and finally in knowing where to turn for prompt, professional help if your home or property does sustain damage.

“While violent storms can strike anytime,
the return of warmer weather typically marks an
increase in the threat of sudden, severe storms with
their accompanying wind, rain, lightning and even
hail,” said Rick Isaacson, Executive Vice President
of Servpro Industries, Inc. “Authorities issue a
storm ‘watch’ when there is the potential for severe
weather. A storm ‘warning’ means that the danger is
imminent. We hope that the following tips* will give
homeowners the information they need to help keep
themselves, their family and their property safe when
the first storm warning hits the airwaves.”
For more information about SERVPRO, please
visit www.servpro.com.

DataBank Announces New Data Center Development

DALLAS, Texas – DataBank Holdings, Ltd., a leading custom data center and colocation provider based in Dallas, announced plans for development of a new data center facility in North Dallas. DataBank’s construction plans have placed the facility opening in the fourth quarter of this year.

DataBank currently owns and operates 6 data
center facilities totaling over 140,000 square feet of
data center space in the Dallas area. The new facility
will be deployed in a multi-phased ‘Pod’ configura-
tion which will allow DataBank to offer Built-to-Suit
data halls to meet specific customer requirements.
Early facility specifications include dual 10MW util-
ity feed with true 2N redundant systems, custom high
density power delivery architecture, and access to top
network providers.

Independent Survey Results: How
Businesses are and will be using
Cloud Storage

NATICK, Mass. –– TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator of cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, has announced survey results, gaining insight into the burgeoning enterprise-class cloud storage market. The survey polled IT decision makers to gather data around cloud storage use cases and their relevance to data storage challenges.

It’s no secret that many organizations have begun to look at public and private clouds as alternatives to traditional IT infrastructure. In January 2012, Enterprise Strategy Group published their 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey revealing that 28% of organizations surveyed were using cloud computing services as a way to control IT costs, up substantially from 13% in 2009.

Cloud storage is one of the many ways that organizations are leveraging cloud services today. With public and private cloud storage available from a number of well-known providers such as Amazon, AT&T, Nirvanix, RackSpace, Google, HP and OpenStack, and cloud storage gateway technologies enabling instant integration of cloud storage into existing IT storage environments, businesses are examining and/or using cloud storage to augment existing IT infrastructure as an alternative to traditional storage.

For more information, visit www.enterpris-estrategygroup.com/category/content-types/reports/ research-reports/

Arkeia Reduces Storage Costs for
Southwest Ohio Regional Transit
Authority

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use and affordable network backup solutions, today announced that the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority has selected its appliances to provide a complete data protection solution of both physical and virtual environments in order to reduce the cost and complexity of managing backup and disaster recovery operations.

SORTA is a public transportation agency serving Cincinnati and its suburbs, providing more than 17 million rides per year as part of its fixed-route bus and Access paratransit services. With a data center in downtown Cincinnati and three satellite data centers connected by 100Mbps links, SORTA was looking to replicate backup sets between data centers for safekeeping on disk while limiting tape to archiving in its main data center. SORTA wanted a single solution for data protection of both physical and virtual environments, complete with high-compression dedupli-cation to take maximum advantage of limited LAN and WAN bandwidth.

To protect its four sites SORTA selected two Arkeia Network Backup appliances: the R220 backup appliance and R220-LTO backup appliance. Two sites are backed up over the WAN to an R220 Backup Appliance. All backups to each appliance are replicated to the other. While the replication delivers required off-site storage, the integrated LTO4 drive in the second appliance allows tapes to be written for archiving purposes.

For more information, visit www.arkeia.com

Alert Logic Announces General
Availability of Alert Logic Threat
Manager and Active Watch

HOUSTON, Texas – Alert Logic, a leader in delivering Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, has announced general availability of Alert Logic Threat Manager and Active Watch for Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS customers using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) interested in an added layer of network protection can cost-effectively enhance the protection of their networks against threats by subscribing to Alert Logic’s fully managed vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection solution.

Beginning immediately, customers can subscribe to Alert Logic Threat Manager and Alert Logic Active Watch for Amazon EC2 directly from Alert Logic. Threat Manager gives customers the ability to add vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection to their infrastructure running on the AWS platform. Alert Logic Threat Manager provides subscribers the ability to automatically aggregate and correlate anomalous behavior patterns to quickly identify threats and attacks to their network by leveraging Alert Logic’s patented expert system, which includes 7-Factor Threat Scenario Modeling, purpose-built grid computing infrastructure and API-driven provisioning capabilities. Subscribers may also sign up for Active Watch, which provides 24x7 monitoring and expert guidance services from Alert Logic’s Security Operations Center (SOC) staffed by certified security analysts.

For more information, visit www.alertlogic.com.

Intel & InMage Deliver Best-in-
Class Business Continuity and Data
Protection with Intel Server Continuity
Suite

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – InMage Systems and the Intel Corporation have collaborated to deliver Intel Server Boards and Systems with best-in-class business continuity and data protection to Intel customers and partners. InMage is embedding its award-winning recovery technologies into the Intel Server Continuity Suite, announced today at the Intel Solution Summit. The Intel Server Continuity Suite enables customers to manage server hardware, storage and backup from anytime and anywhere, with an unprecedented level of simplicity. This simplicity and level of integration was achieved through a multi-year collaboration between the companies. It builds upon InMage’s patented data protection engine, which has been trusted for years by the most demanding enterprise customers. The software will be integrated with Intel® Server Boards and Systems, extending best- in-class data protection features to hundreds of thousands of servers a year.