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Virtual Compute Helps With Swift Disaster Recovery
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 02, 2004 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned the Texas oil industry of potential attacks by al-Qaida on pipelines and refineries near the time of the November presidential election, although it added that the information it had received was uncorroborated. An FBI spokesman in Houston, Bob Doguim, stated that "maybe too much is being made of this; nonetheless it's the responsible thing for us to do." He added: "We have raw and unconfirmed information, but the information was specific in that it talked about Texas and oil refineries." The CEO of VCC Edward Hawes commented that regardless of the potential terrorist attacks, companies will always need to consider how much risk they are really willing to take and do a little planning. Where will they operate if the main facility is unusable? Are the tape backups really going to save them? How fast can they get up and running? What about network connectivity? The time to ask these questions is now. "Not only are we faced with terrorist attacks but extreme weather conditions. Hurricanes, tornados and flooding can not only cause a disaster but even if you miss the bulk of a storm there could be long duration power outages and in some companies this is very expensive." Virtual Compute Corporation is uniquely positioned to capture a significant piece of the disaster recovery market. This is a result of some careful planning in the deployment of their advanced technical infrastructure and its data center facility. Virtual Compute Corporation decided to place all of its operations in secure, hardened underground facilities. "We can provide all the disaster protection a company could want. Our design allows us to immediately engage a replicated environment if a client is affected by a terrorist attack or disaster. With the data center being located in a "Cold War" underground facility we can even withstand a nuclear detonation over the city of Houston," commented Hawes. VCC currently has over 200 servers online that are able to run any applications needed and a large amount of scalable mass storage hot and ready to be utilized in case of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. Their tape-less backup systems allow companies to always have hot data secured offsite. Along with the technical infrastructure VCC has partnered with Westlin to immediately provision Voice over IP to those companies that are affected by an unexpected disaster. This will allow a company to immediately begin operating even if the main facility is suddenly unusable. VCC is prepared for all contingencies. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Virtual Compute SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Earth Observation News - Suppiliers, Technology and Application
New Legislation Initiated To Support Commercial Remote Sensing Industry
New York NY (SPX) Jan 11, 2006The importance of remotely sensed data and technologies to support natural disasters has prompted attention and action in Washington. New initiatives and legislation authorizing appropriations to the remote sensing industry will be discussed at Strategic Research Institute's U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Industry conference, scheduled for February 9-10, 2006 in Washington D.C. |
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