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Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, unveiled Contrail Insights, a network monitoring and analytics tool, aiming to simplify data center operations. According to Juniper, Contrail Insights provides historical and real-time visibility that cuts through layers of infrastructure to improve operational speed, experience, and reliability.We are excited to offer customers a comprehensive Contrail solution with the addition of Contrail Insights. Cloud frameworks within data centers have provided tremendous infrastructure automation, but also bring about added operational complexity. We have designed Contrail Insights to bring visibility to troubleshooting and analytics issues faced today with powerful tools for discovery and analysis through all layers of the network, said Bikash Koley, Chief Technology Officer, Juniper Networks, in a statement.With the help of telemetry collection, artificial intelligence, and an intuitive user interface for analysis and observability, Contrail Insights simplifies multicloud operations. It works with VMware, OpenStack, Kubernetes and public cloud environments, as well as private cloud data center infrastructure. The core features of the new tool are:Real-Time and Historic VisibilityTroubleshooting AnalysisOverlay and Underlay CorrelationBy using machine learning-fed historical data and real-time streaming telemetry, Contrail Insights offers network visibility. It provides service-level and fine-grained observability for data center infrastructure, from the overlay and underlay networks to physical and virtual servers and their workloads. Juniper claims that the new data center topology heatmap allows operators to see the entire data center and then drill in to easily inspect localized issues.According to Juniper, its troubleshooting analysis helps customers manage microbursts, monopolized resources, and noisy neighbors in a multi-tenant or shared private-cloud environment. Also, the overlay-underlay correlation and path finding features allow operators to uncover root cause by mapping virtual infrastructure for workloads and network abstractions down upon the physical infrastructure and network.Contrail Insights is available standalone or as part of Contrail Enterprise Multicloud, a software-defined networking platform for enterprise data centers and public cloud deployments. Its available with Contrail Cloud for service providers.

ENGLEWOOD, CO. November 18, 2019 Datacenters.com, the #1 technology platform, directory and marketplace for buyers and sellers in the data center industry, recently added N.F. Smith Associates, a leading independent distributor of electronic components, to the Datacenters.com Vendor Directory as a preferred vendor.Were excited to have Smith listed in the Datacenters.com Vendor Directory, said Mike Allen, Vice President of Solution Engineering at Datacenters.com. The addition of Smith, as a leader in their space, continues to validate the need for a centralized directory in the datacenter ecosystem. We are pleased to be a part of their ongoing growth strategy Smith sources and distributes active, passive, and electromechanical IC components, as well as computer products and peripherals such as HDDs, processors, memory modules, graphics cards - both obsolete and in-production parts. It serves customers in a broad range of industries, including consumer electronics, enterprise electronics, server hardware, automotive, telecommunications, medical, oil and gas, energy, and aeronautics and defense.The Datacenters.com Vendor Directory gives our customizable IT asset disposition capabilities strong visibility, said Margo Evans, Smiths VP of Marketing. Datacenters.com has done a great job of reaching the right audience and highlighting Smiths data center decommissioning services. Were excited to be part of the directory as a preferred vendor.The vendor directory contains listings and profiles for best-of-breed, industry-leading manufacturers, distributors and service providers across numerous niches and disciplines within the data center, cloud, and technology industry. Vendors are categorized by their product and service offerings. The target audience for the vendor directory includes medium to large enterprises, data center owners and operators, cloud providers, telecommunication carriers and other technology companies.About Datacenters.comDatacenters.com connects buyers and sellers of data center colocation, cloud, connectivity, managed services, hardware and related technologies. Were dedicated to one thing helping IT professionals research, purchase, and manage their technologies across a diverse range of solutions, providers and vendors.Since 2014, Datacenters.com has attracted more than 1.8 million visitors. The platform provides detailed information on hundreds of providers, thousands of data centers, and marketplace products globally.Datacenters.com is the sister company of Global Consulting Group, Inc. (GCG), a leading technology services distributor and IT consulting company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.Learn more at Datacenters.com and follow us on LinkedIn.About SmithFounded in 1984, Smith sources, manages, and distributes the electronic components that go into everything from mobile phones and computers to appliances and directional drilling systems. In 16 cities around the world, from Silicon Valley to Seoul, Smiths legion of employees communicates in 50 different languages and dialects and buys and sells components 24 hours per day, with global annual sales of $1.66 billion. Smith is always moving: helping manufacturers navigate market shifts; customizing supply chain solutions; testing components using cutting-edge technology. With testing and logistics hubs in Houston, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam, Smiths processes focus on critical issues, from quality management to counterfeit prevention and environmental safety. Smiths operations, purchasing, and sales worldwide are seamlessly integrated with the companys global IT infrastructure, offering real-time inventory and logistics visibility anywhere in the world. Smith is the leading independent distributor of electronic components and ranks number eight among all global distributors. Smiths Intelligent Distribution model adapts to ever-changing demands by providing reliable global electronics sourcing and logistics, regardless of distribution channel or locale.For more information, please visit https://www.smithweb.com, or, to reach a Smith representative 24 hours a day, please call +1 713.430.3000.

Terms like disaster recovery, business continuity and data backups are often used interchangeably. However, these terms are not the same, and if you want to properly protect your data and mission-critical business systems, its essential to understand the difference.We will examine each of these concepts in great detail below and look at how cloud-based disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) factors into the equation.Business Continuity (BC) A business continuity plan describes how your organization will respond to a disaster and how to recover from it.Disaster Recovery (DR) Disaster recovery is one element of a larger business continuity plan. It typically involves information technology (IT) solutions for keeping an organizations data and critical systems safe so they can be restored after a disaster.Backup Application and data backups may be a part of your disaster recovery solution, but they arent traditionally automated for application recovery a fundamental difference between data backup and replication technologies.To elaborate, here are the main distinctions and considerations for each to help you craft your disaster recovery business continuity (DRBC) strategy.Business Continuity Planning: The First StepA business continuity plan and the discussions around them begin in the executive suite. Its essential that your executive team understands the business impact of critical systems going offline. Typical questionswhich you must formally premeditateinclude the following:What systems do we absolutely need to continue delivering products or services at an acceptable level? Which systems are nonessential?Will we continue to generate revenue if an application becomes unavailable? Or is losing the app is an annoyance but wont hinder operations?How will we respond to a disruptive event such as a natural disaster, cybersecurity threat or employee who has gone rogue?If our office becomes inaccessible, how will our employees continue to work? Do we need to consider business continuity suites?Answering these questions helps define which systems and data are mission-critical, how frequently they need to be backed up and how quickly they need to be restored when they fail.Hows your business continuity plan? Approximately 25 percent of organizations have a formal plan for disaster recovery or business continuity. This includes defining and documenting the systems that need to recover first and describes the impacts a disaster will have on revenue.The other 75 percent lack a business continuity plan and would benefit greatly from working with a third party to conduct a formal impact analysis.Business continuity planning is the first step in formulating a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy. Unfortunately, the majority of business continuity plans often get put on the back burner and their importance is only fully recognized after catastrophe hits.Disaster Recovery Plan: The Next StepAssuming youre in the 25 percent of organizations that have a business continuity plan, your next step should be to move forward with disaster recovery planning. This should always start at the business level and doesnt fall exclusively under the purview of the IT department.Do you have a disaster recovery plan checklist? If not, download yours by clicking here.A disaster recovery plan starts with figuring out whats needed to support your organizations applications and essential data. An expert disaster recovery consultant can use various tools and platforms to help answer the following questions:What operating system (OS) is your server or virtual machine running?How many compute resources are tied to this server?How much storage is being used?Are hardware versions relevant, and if so, what are they?What technologies can you use to replicate required workloads?At this stage, its necessary to document dependencies between servers and virtual machines. An application may reside fully on one system. However, in some instances an application resides on multiple VMs or servers, affecting the disaster recovery process considerably.Backups, Replication or Both?Does your organization have a regular schedule for data backup? Is it performed on-premise by your IT department, offsite at a colocation data center or do you relying on a cloud provider to do it for you?Many organizations mistakenly choose either data replication or traditional backup based only on their applications recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). However, data backups should never be your standalone disaster recovery solution.Replication includes the software, platforms, and providers that have near real-time data replication to a new location. With replication, data can be restored in as little as 15 minutes and can augment your strategy.What happens when your organization suffers a disaster with data replication? Your organization and IT department will immediately focus on retrieving data from the last recovery point. However, many organizations and IT departments run their backup daily and this elevates the risks of losing hours of data including sales, service, billing, inventory and everything else assuming your previous backup finished successfully and replicated offsite.You will also need to restore the applications that have access to your data. Offsite backups may only back up the application data, omitting the applications themselves. And if it excludes the operating system and application, youll have to coordinate replacing them before beginning the restoration.When is the last time that you tested your backup and replications systems? Do you have a schedule for testing? If not, you should create a process for testing and make sure that both onsite and offsite are in sync.Other Considerations: The Rise of Cloud DRaaSIn the past, planning for a disaster required a substantial investment in IT infrastructure. Given the rise in popularity of cloud technologies and virtualization as well as replication advanced disaster recovery technology is now within easy reach of most organizations.Cloud computing has dramatically reduced (or eliminated) capital expenditures, and software-defined processes decrease errors and reduce recovery time. Consequently, organizations and IT departments have better access to disaster recovery strategies that keep systems up to date at a secondary site or in the cloud and can bring them online in minutes.Notably, cloud disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) reduces complexity by providing the target environment, infrastructure, technology, and professional staff to help you quickly recover.Demand for DRaaS rise steadily over the last few years has been driven by cost reduction or cost avoidance. Certainly, greater adoption of cloud technologies and the associated benefits make DRaaS is an avenue worth exploring for many organizations.Given the many uncertainties that stem from a disaster potentially including power loss, water damage, user error, malware or a natural disaster such as a hurricane the people you need to restore backups and get your business up and functioning may themselves be affected. Since no one knows what the situation will be, its best to keep your disaster recovery solution as simple and automated as possible. Simpler, orchestrated disaster recovery is always more successful in disaster tests and during actual emergencies.Top Cloud DRaaS ProvidersThere are many cloud DRaaS and BaaS solutions in the market. How do you know which one is right for your Organization? Contact Us - An Independent Datacenters.com disaster recovery and business continuity consultant. We are an authorized partner for all of the major DRaaS and BaaS providers. Here are just a few of the top cloud DRaaS providers we represent.ZertoZerto offers an all-in-one IT Resilience Platform, converging Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Cloud Mobility in one simple, scalable platform. Their platform reduces the cost and complexity of application migrations and data protection with Zertos unique platform utilizing Continuous Data Protection. Orchestration built into the platform enables full automation of recovery and migration processes. Zerto analytics provides 24/7 infrastructure visibility and control, even across clouds.VeeamThe Veeam Availability Platform is designed to guide you through these stages. Its the most complete solution to help make your data smarter, self-governing and available across any application and any cloud infrastructure. Veeam helps customers evolve the way they manage data from policy‑to behavior‑based and make it smarter and self‑governing, and ensure its available across any application and any cloud infrastructure.Microsoft Azure RecoveryMicrosoft Azure Recovery allows you to achieve low recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) targets for every major system in your organization, simply and cost-effectively. Eliminate the hassle and cost of secondary data centers and tap into nearly infinite capacity at a moments notice with a cloud-based data recovery solution designed for the needs of enterprises.Achieve business goals for continuity and compliance throughout the lifecycle of your apps. Help secure your data with industry-leading protection offered by encryption features.CarboniteCarbonite Recover securely replicates critical systems from your primary environment to the Carbonite cloud. This ensures that an up-to-date secondary copy is available for failover at any moment, minimizing downtime as well as costs. You pay for what you use when you use it and not for idle resources.Carbonite provides byte-level replication maintains constant synchronization between the source and target. Push-button failover helps you keep critical systems online during an outage. RTOs as low as minutes, RPOs as low as seconds.Final Thoughts on Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and RecoveryIts time to make sure your business-continuity and disaster recovery plans are current and that your team is strategically positioned. With the advent of cloud-based services like DRaaS, the economics of scale for disaster recovery have shifted, and organizations of all shapes and sizes can more easily afford the disaster recovery planning their organizations require.