In Case of Emergency (TEST), Don’t Break Gifts

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Charitable donations are an important funding source for the University of Illinois. To insure that gifts can be processed in the event of a disaster, the UI Foundation recently performed a DR test with systems running for a week from a secondary location. Session will include an overview of the Foundation’s DR architecture, plan, and […]

How to Use Veeam Replication and Failover Plans to Lower Downtime

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Many departments on campus use Veeam for backing up their VMs. In this presentation and demo, we will briefly go over the design concepts and how to configure Veeam to replicate your VMs to lower shorten your recovery times for critical systems to minutes (rather than hours). It will include a live demo of a […]

Preparing for the Worst: Disaster Planning and (Business) Climate Change

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Customer expectations are rapidly changing and having your data and the services used to access it available is increasingly more critical. Long gone are the days where systems only needed to be online during ‘normal business’ hours. A critical part of keeping things available is planning for how to get things back to (or keeping […]