Sooner or later, your business will endure a disaster and the downtime that such calamity brings. Most IT pros are old hands at handling small-scale disasters, such as computer failures and short-duration power outages. Thankfully, you're much more likely to face this sort of minor breakdown than a more serious disaster, such as damage caused by severe weather, a network hack, or, heaven forbid, a terrorist attack. To prepare for handling disasters, you need a disaster plan and technology that protects and recovers business systems and data. Fortunately, the disaster-recovery segment of the IT market is flourishing, offering a plethora of products and services in areas such as backup and recovery (tape-based and disk-based), data archiving, data replication, and power protection. For the 2005 Readers' Choice awards, hundreds of Windows IT Pro readers voted on disaster prevention and recovery products in six hardware and software subcategories, showing that Windows IT pros take their backup and recovery seriously. Here are the winners:
Replication/Data Availability Solution 1st—Neverfail Group Neverfail for Windows Product Suite
http://www.neverfailgroup.com 2nd—NSI Software Double-Take
http://www.nsisoftware.com 3rd—VERITAS Software Replication Exec
http://www.veritas.com
UPS 1st—American Power Conversion InfraStruXure
http://www.apcc.com 2nd—Three-way tie: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS, Liebert UPS products, and Tripp Lite UPS products, all write-ins
http://www.apc.com, http://www.liebert.com, http://www.tripplite.com
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