The Impact of Data Loss on Downtime
It’s pretty straightforward to calculate the cost of downtime. A lot of analysts, pundits, government agencies, suppliers, and services companies have offered their opinions. They talk about the...
View ArticleScottish Government Prepared When Data Pipes Fail
Scotland is not known for having a lot of natural disasters. The most common events are flash floods, which occurred in 2002 and again this year. On a typical day and during typical storms, Scotland’s...
View ArticleDon’t Waste Time Identifying the Critical Applications
We’ve all been taught that organizations need to classify applications into various buckets according to how critical they are for the organization. The classification exercise helps us determine what...
View ArticleNew Global Survey: Nearly half of companies know they will suffer data loss...
EMC, together with research firm Vanson-Bourne, released the results of a new global survey that encompassed 3,200 respondents around the world, half of which are IT people and the other half are...
View ArticleOne announcement we have been dying to talk about
Finally! After building, proofing, testing, qualifying and then some… we are proud to announce the Phoenix System RP’s new VPLEX support. Data Protection and Data Availability go hand in hand, but are...
View ArticleThe Is and the Ought… What a swift and complete recovery of mission critical...
This week, we released a new tutorial video on how the Axxana Phoenix System for Oracle protects your data in a way that was never possible or perceived ever affordable before. Recovering critical...
View ArticleSales insight on the DR challenges businesses face these days.
As part of my role as VP of Sales at Axxana I get to visit many of our customers and prospects, from different segments of the Enterprise market and from around the world. I recently visited several...
View ArticleIs Data Guard Max Availability Over Any Distance with Zero Loss Possible?
The short answer – YES! We are all familiar with the most common challenges related to Asynchronous and Synchronous replication. To be reminded, you can refer to my colleague’s post on this issue. With...
View ArticleThe Halloween Scare of Replication Environments – Lag Size “Surprises”
Before installing the Axxana Phoenix System, we need to analyze the lag size in our customer’s asynchronous replication environment. We use this parameter to determine the size of the...
View ArticleUsing Axxana’s Time Machine to Determine Data Guard Lag Size
What is a lag? In the replication world, we aspire to reach RPO=0, which means zero data loss, but due to network, infrastructure, distance and other technical difficulties, the DR site will always be...
View ArticleData Center Consolidation
Using the Phoenix System® for Oracle to Eliminate the Nearby Data Center in a 3 Data Center Topology Most enterprises, governments, and other organizations are under pressure to consolidate data...
View ArticleThe cost saving dilemma
Every IT team is looking for ways to cut costs. How can this be done without affecting the level of service to the business owners? In my previous blog, I discussed how enterprises are compromising...
View ArticleUsing Flash-Based Storage Without Compromising Transactions (or Performance)
Everyone wants fast write access, high performance, a smaller footprint, green IT solutions, and the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO). For these reasons, many organizations use solid state...
View ArticleAchieving High Performance and Zero Data Loss—in a Flash
If your organization has been avoiding flash-based storage because of concerns about losing mission-critical data in the event of a disaster, Axxana’s Phoenix System provides the ideal solution—without...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery – From Practice to Theory?
I was recently invited to give a talk at a Research institution about the products we are developing in Axxana. This forced me to step back and look at Disaster Recovery from a more “rigorous” point of...
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