Many Michigan data centers are on generator power this morning. From the Associated Press, "Wind gusting more than 60 mph knocked out power to about 413,000 Michigan homes and businesses on Sunday as temperatures dipped back into the 20s and 30s." AT&T Wireless was out state wide yesterday. Level 3 Communications, a backbone Internet provider, also had an outage yesterday morning in the Detroit NOC.

How are your disaster recovery strategies faring?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/120508-virtual-server.html?netht=rn_120508&nladname=120508

Good article. I go back to the ending sentence: “but assuming you control sprawl, virtualization is typically worth it from an ROI perspective."

Sprawl is much the same, whether physical or virtual. We have finite resources and definite deadlines. The bottom line is that we need effective capacity planning, configuration management, and change management. The better capacity meets requirements, the closer our foot print will reflect business demand. The faster we can affect change, thru configuration and change management, the better we can meet changing demands.

Personally, I am more focused on improving our capacity and flexibility. Sprawl I can manage.

J Wolfgang Goerlich

Resources for the DPM project:

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/default.aspx

Protect SharePoint
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/protect-sharepoint.aspx

Protect Exchange Server
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/protect-exchange.aspx

Protect Virtual Environments
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/protect-virtual-environments.aspx

Learning Plan for Considering the Deployment
http://learning.microsoft.com/manager/LearningPlanV2.aspx?resourceId=%7b13cd4c27-c315-4108-b2fb-8e8e605d9890%7d&clang=en-US

Investment Firm Expands Service Recovery, Lowers Cost with Virtualization