Leeds virtualises servers

Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has chosen CSA Waverley to virtualise its server and storage infrastructure, reports E-Health Insider.

The solution being installed will consolidate storage to one central location and will virtualise all servers. The aim is to bring business agility and operational efficiencies to the trust.

The trust installed the system to ensure they met the business continuity and disaster recovery elements of their IT strategy.

InMage has released version 4.0 of DR-Scout, the company's disaster recovery (DR) and continuous data protection software solution. The solution now supports platform upgrades for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and 64-bit computing environments, says SDA India.

InMage's DR-Scout is a DR and continuous replication solution that enables medium and large enterprises to achieve instantaneous recovery of data with transactional integrity, ensuring the least disruption to business operations.

DR-Scout supports multi-vendor storage arrays and servers, as well as SAN, NAS, DAS and iSCSI block- and file-level replication. DR-Scout allows IT organisations to keep pace with their ever-increasing data protection requirements.

Xjhead = Business continuity a priority

Business executives surveyed in the Toronto Area have adopted an "expect the unexpected" approach to business continuity and disaster recovery, reports CNS Magazine.

According to an AT&T survey of 100 business executives in the Toronto region dealing with business continuity and disaster recovery planning, 66% said business continuity is a priority, with 30% indicating that it has moved up on the priority list due to natural disasters or terrorist threats.

The report also states that the majority of respondents are well-prepared for such events, as 77% indicated they already had a plan in place, 54% of which have been updated in the past 12 months.