Breaking the data replication bottleneck

Wide Area Networking Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Breaking the data replication bottleneck By Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler The vast majority of IT organizations are concerned about disaster recovery. While there is wide disagreement as to whether the most appropriate backup is a cold, warm or hot site, IT organizations do agree on the need for backing up key business data. Backing up large volumes of data is not trivial and as we'll show in the next three newsletters, data replication takes a lot more than just a big pipe. Read full story Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com Jim Metzler is the Vice President of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a consulting organization that focuses on leveraging technology for business success. Jim assists vendors to refine product strategies, service providers to deploy technologies and services, and enterprises evolve their network infrastructure. He can be reached via e-mail. MORE STORIES SPONSORED BY PACKET DESIGN Regaining MPLS VPN WAN Visibility with Route Analytics Organizations that have outsourced their WAN backbone to a MPLS VPN service lose their ability to independently manage their network since MPLS VPNs are an opaque routing "cloud" between all the VPN-connected sites. IT is still responsible for delivering applications across the MPLS VPN. 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