Find out how Cristie Software can help your business IT disaster recovery plans and bare machine recovery solutions to keep your downtime to a minimum and critical data recoverable. www.cristie.com

Friday, June 29, 2012

New TBMR, NBMR and CRISP Video Tutorials available

We are pleased to announce three new video tutorials are available on our YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/CristieSoftware


TBMR for Windows tutorial - Bare Machine Recovery software for a Tivoli Storage Manager user, the tutorial shows how to install, backup and recover from a Windows operating system.

NBMR for Windows tutorial - Bare Machine Recovery software for an EMC NetWorker users, the tutorial shows how to install, backup and recover from a Windows operating system.

And CRISP Cristie Recovery ISo Producer tutorial - the tutorial demonstrates how to use CRISP for your BMR software.

To find out more about Cristie Disaster Recovery and Bare Machine Recovery Software please visit our website -



We hope that you find the videos useful and welcome any comments as usual.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Introducing Cristie BMR for Healthcare

Make sure your trust has a reliable Disaster Recovery plan with Cristie Bare Machine Recovery solutions - predictable recoveries in an unpredictable world.

“60% of London NHS Trusts lack disaster recovery systems” according to Corporate Services Benchmarking Report from London NHS Commercial Support Unit.
Full story available here http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240149710/60-of-London-NHS-trusts-lack-disaster-recovery-systems

Cristie provide Disaster Recovery, Data Backup and Machine Migration solutions for Windows, Linux, AIX and Solaris operating systems. All Cristie products support recovery or migration to dissimilar hardware and to virtual machines. Recoveries may be fully automated and typically take under 10 minutes to perform.

Fast, reliable and highly automated solutions

TBMR is fully integrated with TSM

Restore to similar or dissimilar hardware

Rapid recovery to an identical server state

Automatic hardware and driver detection

Rebuild a server OS in under ten minutes

Multiple servers can be recovered simultaneously
TBMR - Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Allows TSM users to recover their machines direct from TSM without having to perform any additional backup of the operating system files. Find out more information about TBMR here

CBMR - provides complete protection of data, as well as the ability to recover critical machines from scratch within minutes. It is a standalone backup solution for branch offices and SMEs which provides protection for local data, combined with fast automated machine recovery in the event of failure. Find out more information about CBMR here

NBMR - Bare Machine Recovery for EMC NetWorker users. Allows NetWorker users to recover their machines directly from NetWorker without having to perform any additional backup of the operating system files. Find out more information about NMBR here

CMC - The Cristie Management Console allows users to remotely deploy and manage CBMR and TBMR, providing centralised control. Recoveries can be performed remotely and multiple servers can be recovered simultaneously. Find out more information regarding CMC here

Cristie BMR Healthcare Customers Include:


  • Albert Einstein Healthcare
  • Apollo Munich Healthcare Insurance
  • APWU
  • Aspen Healthcare
  • Cascade Healthcare
  • Community Health
  • Covenant Health
  • Dept of Health Exec Yuan
  • EMH Regional Healthcare
  • Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health Systems
  • Gentiva Healthcare
  • Health Authority Abu Dhabi
  • Healthcare at Home Limited
  • Health Net Inc
  • Inland Northwest Health Systems
  • Johnson Health Technology
  • Methodist Healthcare
  • Novant Health
  • Orlando Health
  • Palomar Health
  • Providence Health Systems
  • Ressurection Healthcare
  • Saint Lukes Healthsystem
  • Shared Health
  • St Vincent Healthcenter
  • Trinity Health
  • United Health Group
  • Wilmington Health Associates
  • Tuesday, June 19, 2012

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) bare machine recovery software from Cristie

    Bare Machine Recovery for TSM usersWe offer Bare Machine Recovery Software specifically for TSM Users

    Cristie Software's TBMR solution provides fast automated recovery for TSM users. In the event of a server failure, TBMR will recover the operating system and applications direct from the TSM backup. The recovery can be to the original or to new dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine.

    TBMR is unique in its ability to recover directly from TSM and without requiring any additional backup to be performed. This means that (unlike other BMR software products) TBMR consumes no additional storage or network bandwidth. TBMR also has the advantage of not requiring a separate backup application to be installed, managed and monitored.

    Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is IBM’s enterprise class backup and archiving software and TBMR works exclusively with TSM and is re-sold by IBM and its channel partners worldwide as the recommended BMR solution for TSM.

    The main features of our BMR solution for Tivoli:
    • Fully integrated with TSM Rebuild a server OS in under ten minutes 
    • Uses the TSM backups for Disaster Recovery 
    • Multiple servers can be recovered simultaneously 
    • TBMR is the ONLY software that can recover direct from the TSM server without doing a separate backup
    Tivoli recovery is available for a number of Operating Systems including:

    View the supporting documentation and YouTube Videos here:

    TBMR Overview
    TBMR for Windows datasheet
    TBMR for Windows technical demonstration video
    TBMR for Linux datasheet
    TBMR for Linux backup and recovery tutorial video
    TBMR for Linux installation and configuration demonstration video
    TBMR for Linux restore process demonstration video
    TBMR for Solaris datasheet
    TBMR for AIX datasheet

    Download a free 30 day trial of TBMR for your operating system at www.crisite.com/download 

    Wednesday, June 13, 2012

    Need IT Disaster Recovery? But not sure where to start or why....

    In 2000, the Fibre Channel Industry Association published a report that looked at business continuity and Hourly Outage Costs by Industry, and although now quite out of date it really does highlight how important it is to have a good IT disaster recovery solution in place for businesses.

    The report suggested that the average outage cost by industry was a huge $944,395 per HOUR!! See a selection of the table published....

    Industry
    Hourly Downtime Costs
    Brokerage Operations
    $6,450,000
    Energy
    $2,817,846
    Credit Card Sales Authorizations
    $2,600,000
    Telecommunications
    $2,066,245
    Financial Institutions
    $1,495,134
    Information Technology
    $1,344,461
    Insurance
    $1,202,444
    Retail
    $1,107,274
    Pharmaceuticals
    $1,082,252
    Banking
    $996,802
    Food/Beverage Processing
    $804,192
    Consumer Products
    $785,719
    Transportation
    $668,586
    Utilities
    $643,250
    Healthcare
    $636,030
    Professional Services
    $532,510
    Electronics
    $477,366
    Construction and Engineering
    $389,601
    Media
    $340,432
    Hospitality and Travel
    $330,654
    Airline Reservations
    $90,000
    ATM Fees
    $14,500
    AVERAGE
    $944,395
    Source:IT Performance Engineering and Measurement Strategies: Quantifying Performance and Loss, Meta Group, Oct. 2000; Fibre Channel Industry Association.


    Disaster Recovery or Bare Machine Recovery (BMR) is a term used for the recovery of a machine to new (bare) hardware. Recovery includes the operating system and application configurations. A rebuild can take several hours and can require a high level of technical knowledge.

    Here at Cristie Software we have made our BMR solutions user-friendly and fast. Our mission is to create software that can be used by anyone, so that if your business IT fails it can be restored as quickly as possible by anyone that has access to the system so that it can be restored to a pre-disaster state to ensure that your downtime is at a minimum. Our software recoveries may be fully automated and typically take under 10 minutes to perform!

    Cristie Software BMR products are resold by IBM worldwide we have covered a huge range of industries and our software is used in 70 different countries with over 110,000+ licenses.

    View our quick overview of the BMR solutions we provide worldwide corporations, large organisations and mid-small size businesses.

    Get in contact with us today to find out how we can support your IT DR needs and ensure that we can keep your outage costs to a minimum.

    sales@cristie.com
    www.cristie.com
    Tel: +44 (0) 1453 847000
    US Toll free Tel: +1 (312) 957 7211

    Monday, June 11, 2012

    Cristie Software Tutorials and Product Demonstrations on YouTube

    View our software demonstrations on the Cristie Software YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/CristieSoftware/videos we have product demonstrations for our Disaster Recovery software - Cristie Bare Machine Recovery (CBMR), Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Tivoli (TSM) users (TBMR), LiveClone Tutorial and Cristie Management Console (CMC) videos.

    The Cristie Bare Machine Recovery videos show the software working for different operating systems including Windows and Linux.

    CBMR is a complete and fully featured backup product that provides an ideal solution for protecting the IT infrastructure at branch offices and small data centres. It is used by many leading banks and retailers to ensure rapid recovery from a server failure so that the branch or store is not out of operation for more than a few minutes. The recovery can be performed to similar or dissimilar hardware by local staff with no specialist IT skills and is available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX operating systems.

    The Tivoli Bare Machine Recovery videos shows the software working for Linux and Windows operating systems.


    TBMR provides fast automated recovery for TSM users. In the event of a server failure, TBMR will recover the operating system and applications direct from the TSM backup. The recovery can be to the original or to new dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine. TBMR is unique in its ability to recover directly from TSM and without requiring any additional backup to be performed. This means that (unlike other BMR software products) TBMR consumes no additional storage or network bandwidth. TBMR also has the advantage of not requiring a separate backup application to be installed, managed and monitored. TBMR supports Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX users.

    The Cristie Management Console videos are available as a Tutorial guide that highlight the benefits of using CMC to enhance the features of our solutions CBMR, TBMR and NBMR.

    CMC allows you to centralise your disaster recovery and backup response, simplifying and streamlining your disaster recovery plan across multiple environments and locations.