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"Announcing Solaris 11 Express support is a clear indicator of Storix's ongoing commitment to future releases of Oracle Solaris"

“Announcing Solaris 11 Express support is a clear indicator of Storix’s ongoing commitment to future releases of Oracle Solaris, including the much anticipated release of Oracle Solaris 11, expected sometime in the fall (2011),” says Manuel Altamirano, Sales and Marketing Director at Storix. “Storix is already testing with an Early Adopter Release of Oracle Solaris 11, ensuring customers will have a reliable bare-metal recovery solution in the absence of Solaris Flash Archive.”

This article from businesswire, announcing Storix's support for Solaris 11 Express, is a great resource to learn more about Storix and our bare-metal system recovery system called "SBAdmin".

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It is important for every AIX, Linux, and Solaris administrator to better understand the differences between backup and disaster recovery. The resources below should help you learn more about the backup techniques that we’ve discussed in our recent blog posts.

• There are many ways to affect server uptime. Itmanagement.com explores the top eight datacenter disasters of 2007, showing that even the major players deal with these problems periodically.
• A large portion of restoration from backup is the result of user error, and managing users effectively can reduce the occurrence of this. Novell has published a guide on Linux user management, which is an excellent primer.
• In an article at ZDNet, Jason Perlow goes over how to perform a bare-metal image backup and recovery the manual way. While this is unfeasible in a production environment due to the time involved, it is useful to get an understanding of how the process works.
• It is important to know what the costs of downtime are to your specific business. Dave Patterson from U.C. Berkeley provides a simple way to estimate the cost of downtime, giving you an important perspective on recovery techniques.
• Some insight may be gained by looking at the National Institute of Health’s data center disaster recovery plan. Their comprehensive plan outlines the process they use to restore an extremely important data center back to full operation.

For experts in backup and disaster recovery for Linux, Unix, AIX, and Solaris servers, give Storix a call today at (619) 543-0200 or visit us online.

The Oracle Solaris 11 Early Adopter release is now available to download

The Oracle Solaris 11 Early Adopter release is now available to download for Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members at Gold level and above.

To see the overview, benefits, installation, product docs/tools of Solaris 11 check out this article from oracle.com about the latest release.

Concerning the recent power outage in Southern California and your Linux and UNIX system backups

"The massive electrical power outage which on Thursday night turned the lights off throughout Southern California, Arizona, and northern Mexico caught solution providers and their customers off-guard, but proper disaster recovery programs appears to have helped many recover quickly."

This article from CRN Technology explains why your business needs a backup solution, after the recent blackout in San Diego.  Are you prepared?  What would happen if your business lost EVERYTHING?  Stay prepared, call Storix today at (619) 543-0200 or visit us online for the best in Linux and UNIX system backups.

Requirements for recovering from a major failure of a server

A common misconception is that a data-only backup will allow system administrators to be able to quickly recover to previous operating levels should something happen to one of their servers. However, there is a major difference between data-only backup and system backups when it comes to Linux disaster recovery.

In this video, you’ll learn about the requirements for recovering from a major failure of a server. If you are unclear about the differences between data-only and bare-metal backups and what the advantages of bare-metal backups are, then take a look at this video.

To explore your choices for bare-metal backup or to understand more about the concept, visit us online or call us at (619) 543-0200. Storix provides solutions for Linux, AIX, and Solaris backup management, as well as Adaptable System Recovery, which adapts a system backup to restore nearly any hardware configuration.