文档介绍：Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Larry Penrod
Network Manager
Barkley
Kansas City
high availability
lowdown
THE BARKLEY AD Firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to
strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning.
The philosophy at the Kansas City-based ad agency is that every idea has an expiration date. And what
worked yesterday may not work today. »»»
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Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
That’s certainly true of storage-based business-continuity/
disaster-recovery strategies. Once a small 50-person shop, the
firm holds the distinction of being the largest employee-owned ««« “Moving to HP blades has allowed us to
advertising agency in the United States.
drastically reduce our server footprint in
Now pany has grown to 340 employees since its
founding in 1964. And high availability that can keep the the data center.”
business up and running for its 36 current clients — including
24-Hour Fitness and Helzberg Diamonds — is a number one
are doing this for a quarter of what it would have cost us just
concern.
a few years ago.”
“We’re at the point now that if our primary file server (where
Penrod has this advice for other IT managers: “Just a couple
the majority of our files are stored) were to go down for a day,
of year