Putting a disaster recovery plan in place is a task that every company pays lip service to but when push comes to shove, how many companies - regardless of their size - actually take the initiative and follow the plan all the way through? The answer is far too few. (read more)

Dec 21 may well serve as a point of demarcation in terms of changing how businesses can expect to restart their IT operations using AmeriVault's services should a disaster occur. The new ReStartIT-VDR and -HA services from AmeriVault make a lot of sense for many businesses. For about $25,000 a year, a business with 300 GB of production data can introduce a level of business continuity and application recovery that previously was available only to companies with DR budgets of millions of dollars and dedicated staff. (read more)

Over the last few years, many of the major vendors in traditional backup software and storage solutions have strayed from their well-established roots. Iron Mountain, Seagate, EMC and Symantec have all jumped into the online backup managed service pool... (read more)

"Online backup has gone from an educational process to which vendor should I choose." That's the state of online backup according to AmeriVault's CIO, Kevin Harris. In the 10 years since he and CEO Bud Stoddard founded AmeriVault, he has... (read more)

Businesses have come to terms that their data growth rates are climbing ever higher and generally deal with them by consistently bringing in more storage to house it. However what companies may fail to do is account for how they... (read more)

The October 2007 issue of InfoStor magazine ran an article entitled "IT's New Dirty Little Secret" which includes an estimate from the Enterprise Strategy Group where they believe that 60 - 80% of data on primary storage today is... (read more)

Scott Bush, AmeriVault's Director of Marketing, and I regularly discuss over the phone current trends that are shaping the future of online backup. It was during one of these conversations that Scott just happened to mention that AmeriVault relies... (read more)

VMWare has captured the attention of the storage space unlike any other technology in quite some time. VMWare's primary value proposition is virtualizing multiple physical Linux, NetWare, Windows and Solaris servers on a single physical server. While companies may first... (read more)

In this first blog entry for AmeriVault, DCIG Inc wishes to thank AmeriVault for agreeing to be a beta client for DCIG Inc's new blogging service. As part of this beta, DCIG Inc will provide AmeriVault with three blog entries... (read more)