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• How to keep your Linux-heavy data center up and running

  Linux is an excellent tool for creating the flexible IT environment you want, but find a technology provider to help keep your business up in the event of a disaster.

• The cloud makes comprehensive protection possible for every VM

  By leveraging resources in an elastic cloud in conjunction with the latest platform and workload transformation technologies, data centers get rapid operational recovery, near-infinite capacity, seamless management and easy migration back on-premise ⎯ at a price that everyone can afford.

• Yahoo struggles under weight of long email outage

  As Yahoo goes into a fourth day of an email outage, angry users are venting their frustrations on social networks.

• Cell-phone mishaps and mysteries from the masses

  Real-life smartphone mini-disasters are widespread. They can be maddening and often amusing.

• Fire at Internet Archive reaffirms need for an Internet archive

  The Internet Archive, a massive, publicly accessible online repository of everything on the World Wide Web, suffered major fire damage to one of its San Francisco facilities Wednesday night.

• How to use cloud-based disaster recovery tools to prepare for the worst

  Four simple steps to help you use cloud-based disaster recovery options to ensure natural disasters result in only temporary set backs.

• ERP Comes to the Cloud and (Finally) Smaller Businesses

  Trek Global claims that its cloud-based ERP service can help midmarket and small businesses leverage ERP to create efficiencies.

• NSW councils team up to cut software costs

  Forty-three councils across NSW are rolling out new server and desktop virtualisation technology under a new enterprise licensing agreement that harnesses their collective buying power.
  

• Boulder's tech workers cope with historic flood

  Tech firms in Boulder must shutter downtown offices as floods damage offices and close most roads. But the Internet-based firms keep running smoothly.

• Amazon website, mobile apps down in hour long outage

  Just as many people are doing their back-to-school shopping, Amazon.com's website crashed for the better part of an hour today.

• In times of chaos, SunGard's mobile office is an island of normality

  Sungard's mobile office is designed to work in areas where nothing else is working. It is for use in places where there is no power or network. It's for disaster zones.

• Linux lets you customize your environment, but find a partner to address continuity

  Businesses that value the independence Linux provides can benefit from partnering with a technology provider that can keep their business running in the event of disaster.

• Quantum Dawn 2 will test Wall Street's cyber readiness

  Starting at around 8.30 a.m. ET Thursday, dozens of major Wall Street firms will come under a series of simulated cyberattacks aimed at crippling financial services networks around the country.

• Forget Sandy. Telx still likes NYC for its latest data center

  Manhattan is one of the best locations in the U.S. for data center network connectivity, but it is also an increasingly risky location because of flooding. That didn't stop Telx from opening a third facility there.

• EMC 'Bringing the Sexy Back' to Data

  When it comes to backup and recovery, IT is struggling to meet business demand within most enterprises--and the problem stands to get only worse. EMC believes the answer is a more open and agile protection storage architecture.