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• Natural disaster? There's an app for that!

  As Friday's earthquake in Japan demonstrates, natural disasters happen. And when they do, the first two things to go down are electricity and telephone services.

• After 3 days, Google Gmail still not fixed for everyone

  Three days after Google's Gmail first suffered an outage, some users still don't have their service back.

• Google still working to restore Gmail service

  Two days after tens of thousands of Google Gmail users discovered their e-mail, chat histories and contacts had disappeared from their accounts, the problem still is not fixed.

• Google Gmail outage leaves 150,000 users without e-mail

  About 150,000 of Google's Gmail users woke up Sunday morning to missing e-mails, contacts and chat histories.

• Wisconsin blizzard vs. data center: How Marquette won

  Marquette University's IT department deployed unified communications tools to improve collaboration among faculty and staff - IT staff collaboration wasn't the priority. But as it turned out, Microsoft's Lync suite of voice, videoconferencing and instant messaging tools proved to be IT's life raft during a snowstorm-related data center calamity.

• Disaster recovery trial by fire... literally

  On a Sunday morning last year, John Brooks received news no one wants to hear. There'd been an electrical fire in the basement of a New York City office tower - where his law firm has an office.

• Quest adds replication to VMware backup tool

  In an effort to ease virtual machine management, Quest Software has folded its VMware replication software into its VMware backup software program, and now offers both in a single package, vRanger Pro.

• Microsoft delivers enterprise backup tool

  Microsoft's flagship backup and archiving software, Data Protection Manager, has come a long way since we first tested it in 2005.

• Businesses still stumble over off-site back-up

  British businesses are lagging behind many of their global competitors when it comes to disaster recovery in the clouds, according to research from Acronis. And even the companies who are diligent about backing up are failing to treat virtual servers in the same way as they treat physical ones.

• Reserve Bank seeks new high-speed DR network

  The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will refresh its existing network services over the next 12 months to keep pace with growing disaster recovery requirements at its $38 million data centre.
  

• Supply chain talent: In demand and out of stock?

  One critical shortage in the supply chain right now has nothing to do with Apple iPhones, Nintendo Wiis or Zhu Zhu Pets being out of stock for the holidays: It's the people who manage companies' supply chains.

• The trouble with supply-chain best practices

  Best Practices: It's an often overused term that can apply to literally any decision-making process: parenting quandaries, personal finance questions, buying a house, getting a job, or selecting a puppy breed.

• Symantec adds service-level templates to Storage Foundation

  Symantec Corp. today announced Veritas Operations Manager 3.1 and Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 5.1, the company's next generation family of storage management software.

• Facebook outage spotlights social media addiction

  After Facebook went down on Thursday, one thing was certain: People don't like to go without their favorite social networking site.

• JPMorgan Chase's online banking site crashes

  JPMorgan Chase is blaming "technical issues" for an outage to its online banking site that may well be one of the longest outages by a major provider in recent memory.