Military Grade Rugged Hard Drive

If you are in the market for a portable hard drive that is durable and reliable look no further than the Olixir military grade USB, firewire or internal disk drives.

Olixir offers a full line of semi-rugged to fully-rugged transportable external hard drives, backup systems and customizable removable storage systems designed for specific applications, including military applications. They even make a RAID enclosure that can survive shock and impact.

One of our clients need a ruggedized and fireproof data disaster recovery plan - we recommended they purchase a Mobile DataVault Enterprise/Custom System from Olixir and an ioSafe fireproof USB drive. By using both of these backup devices our client could easily backup and transfer files (with plenty of room for storage growth) to the DataVault and do a nightly backup of the most critical business data to the USB drive from ioSafe, adding in extra data security from fire, flood and sprinkler systems.

Green Data Storage

IT and Data Center Infrastructure energy and environmental topics are at the forefront for IT professionals across the globe. From power and cooling to performance and availability there are countless metrics used to analyze the data center and server closest to maximize value and minimize costs.

Do you have a unique story or special insight into the green movement in the IT world? Visit www.greeendatastorage.com to learn more and share your own success stories with the rest of the IT industry.

Do you have a solution or technology or a success story that you would like to share with us pertaining to data storage and server I/O energy optimization strategies? Do you need assistance in developing, validating or reviewing your strategy or story?

Send an email to: green@storageio.com or call 651-275-1563 to learn more about green data storage and server I/O or to schedule a briefing to tell us about your energy efficiency and effectiveness story pertaining to IT data centers and data infrastructures.

Inside Look at the New DR Kit from ioSafe

We've just got the inside look at the disaster recovery kit from ioSafe hardware. Enclosed in one of the toughest (read; military spec.) and durable black pelican case enclosures you can get your hands on you can rest assured that your data recovery procedures and operations can withstand any punishment you can dish out.

With spare hard drives that are waterproof, recovery tools and a complete RAID array to get your server data up and running in no time flat these Disaster Recovery kits are definitely made for enterprise recovery. For more details you can visit www.iosafe.com or www.hddfiresafe.com

USB Drives

One of the best features of an ioSafe USB External Hard Drive devices is that you can simply plug and play with USB 2.0 directly into your computer or server. It is also possible to mirror this backup system to all of your workstations and share the fire resistant hard drive amongst all of your computers. With ioSafe you can easily add another dimension to your existing data backup plan. Most people are getting better at making backup copies of client information, accounting records and customer databases, however the idea of a fireproof hard drive is somewhat of a new concept in the world of storage. You'll find that these drives are the perfect external storage solution with the best in functionality and adaptability.

Disaster Recovery Tool Kits

No matter if you are recovering data from a crashed server, PC computer hard drive or serious disaster such as fire or flood, it's important to have a contingency plan for reducing the amount of time your hardware or servers are down. Proper planning means redundant data locations (off site and on-site) to prevent data loss that is critical to your business operations.

Most on site businesses data backup plans mean that data is stored in more than one location on the individual computer workstation. This includes redundancy on file servers, email servers and external hard drives. A solid plan for knowing where data is located and how to restore both software applications, client information and financial records can mean the difference between a few hours of downtime and a few days. Take time today to consider how your business would function without your computer systems and you'll be happy you have invested in a business continuity plan.

Field Replacement DR Kits - Tools of the Trade
Disaster recovery kits with internal computer hardware components enable the IT engineer and technician to quickly upgrade or replace failed components to network attached storage servers and USB RAID drives in the field. The ability to quickly react and correct downed servers, computers or data centers is a very important part of business continuity. Minimizing the recovery time is of great importance for large enterprise businesses with multiple locations. E.g. Retail chain with several stores across one or more cities.

A mobile Disaster Recovery kit will minimize downtime and enable far better recovery time objectives. Again, proper planning and outfitting service vehicles with tools, spare parts and data recovery equipment is a business critical element that should be considered by every CTO and CIO.

To learn more about disaster recovery and business continuity planning please visit the following websites;

http://www.entrepreneur.com/technology/gear/article174670.html
http://www.iosafe.com
http://www.seagate.com
http://www.infrant.com