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Data replication and recovery strategies

Gary Flood — 2002-02-27T10:26:24.000Z

Gary Flood, Management Consultancy, Wednesday 27 February 2002 at 10:26:24

The growth of satellite trading rooms and data centres in uptown New Jersey in the aftermath of 11 September mirrors the developments surrounding the siting of corporate data: once an inmate of the mainframe, it now lives essentially on the network and can be protected in a number of different ways. Gary Flood reviews data replication and recovery strategies, a hot topic on the corporate agenda.

You can't get the train from Jersey City, a former blue-collar town across the Hudson from Manhattan, directly to Wall St anymore; the station is now smashed steel and rock...

IP Security 19 - How safe are you?

Anthony Harrington — 2002-01-25T17:19:21.000Z

Anthony Harrington, Management Consultancy, Friday 25 January 2002 at 17:19:21

While infrastructure security has long been on corporate agendas, the events of 11 September undoubtedly emphasised the importance of effective disaster recovery. Anthony Harrington finds that while firms accept the costs of security as an essential part of doing business, many of them are only slowly realising that a firewall is just one element of what should be a constantly refreshed and reassessed defensive system.

If there is one topic that should be of enduring interest to both consultants and corporates it is Internet and network infrastructure security.It's hard to do, which means consultants have...