New Year, New Business Resolutions

Have you set your business targets for 2013? What do you hope your organisation will be better at in 2013?

As the New Year begins the custom of setting New Year's resolutions starts, the tradition of setting resolutions dates back at least to ancient Roman times, and 2,000 years later the goal-setting habit is still thriving. With nearly half the population making New Year's resolutions from getting fit, eating healthier to spending more time with the family... the lists are endless! But, what goals has your business got for 2013? Better profit margins, employee new staff, build customer base, increase skill sets, but you should not forget about increasing data security and protection against disasters whether natural, cyber or human error? Protecting your business and your critical data, ensuring that you can recover and reduce downtime to a minimum is a key component to business continuity and should be strategically put into place.

Make sure you keep your organisation's critical data recoverable in 2013.

Business continuity and disaster recovery became hot topics in 2012, with some very high profile downtime affecting large corporations including RBS, O2, Amazon cloud and Blackberry, bringing the threat of not being able to recover quickly from a disaster to the forefront of C-level management's mind.

With resilience and preparedness planning activities trending for most of 2012, highlighted by some of the natural disasters including Hurricane Sandy, it is looking like those topics are here to stay for 2013 too. The ever increasing pressure placed on organisations for the need for more data storage space whether physical, virtual or cloud with a continuously growing amount of data needing to be available for access anytime and anywhere along with the need for it being secure and recoverable.

Cristie Software can help 

Cristie understand that in the event of a disaster recovery situation, your business needs to react quickly and have a tested and working DR plan in place, where Bare Machine Recovery (BMR) is a key component. BMR is at the heart of Cristie Software's solutions, with specific solutions created to seamlessly integrate with common Backup solutions like IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager and EMC's NetWorker.

Helping to minimise disruption and ensuring critical operations can continue. Cristie provide a range of fast and reliable offerings that can:

• Recover critical servers from scratch within minutes
• Fully automate recoveries
• Recover to dissimilar hardware
• BMR for Windows, Linux, AIX and Solaris operating systems

Bare Machine Recovery solutions:

TBMR - Tivoli Bare Machine Recovery software. 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. www.cristie.com/products/tbmr

NBMR - NetWorker Bare Machine Recovery software. NBMR provides fast automated recovery for users of EMC's (formerly Legato) NetWorker. In the event of a server failure, NBMR will recover the operating system and applications direct from the NetWorker backup. The recovery can be to the original or to new dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine.www.cristie.com/products/nbmr

CBMR - Cristie standalone Bare Machine Recovery software. CBMR is a complete and fully featured backup and recovery product that provides an ideal solution for protecting the IT infrastructure at branch offices and small data centres. www.cristie.com/products/cbmr

To review Cristie's BMR product range please visit the website www.cristie.com/products

Would you like more information:
Contact us at sales@cristie.com and we can provide demos, further technical advice and free 30 day trials of the software for you to try, that include full access to our support team.

Visit www.cristie.com


Other information:
Have a look at a previous blog post for our top ten tips DR planning tips. http://business-disaster-recovery.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/disaster-recovery-planning-10-top-tips.html

Cristie Software solutions are compatible with range of operating platforms

Cristie Software Bare Machine Recovery solutions support a wide range of Operating Systems.

Updated: 02/01/2013

Cristie's Bare Machine Recovery (BMR) solutions, CBMR, TBMR for IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and NBMR for EMC's NetWorker, all work with a range of operating systems as listed below:

Operating Systems	x86	x64	Sparc	PowerPC
Windows 2000	**
Windows Server 2003	X	X
Windows 2008	X	X
Windows 2008 R2		X
Windows Vista, Win7 and XP	X	X
RHEL / CentOS 4, 5 and 6	X	X		X
SuSE Enterprise 9, 10 and 11	X	X		X
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 and 6	X	X
SUN Solaris 9 and 10	X	X	X
AIX 5, 6 and 7				X

** = limited support provided, but not in current version.  
X = supported

BMR product overviews:

CBMR is a complete and fully featured backup and recovery product that provides an ideal solution for protecting the IT infrastructure at branch offices and small data centres.
http://www.cristie.com/products/disaster-recovery/cbmr/ 

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.
http://www.cristie.com/products/disaster-recovery/tbmr/

NBMR provides fast automated recovery for users of EMC's (formerly Legato) NetWorker. In the event of a server failure, NBMR will recover the operating system and applications direct from the NetWorker backup.
http://www.cristie.com/products/disaster-recovery/nbmr/

For more information on support and compatibility of any of our BMR solutions please get in touch at sales@cristie.com or visit the website www.cristie.com


About Cristie:
Cristie Software Limited was established in the UK in 2007 and has grown rapidly to become a leading software provider specializing in machine recovery, migration and data protection. The software provides fast, reliable and highly automated backup, recovery and migration solutions for Windows, Linux and other Unix machines. Cristie Software solutions are sold worldwide by EMC, IBM and through a global network of leading resellers.

Connect with Cristie Software on Twitter and LinkedIn

Staff away for the Christmas break and your main server fails.... are you prepared?

Is your business disaster prepared even when key team members are away for the festive break?

Cristie Management Console (CMC) is an extension for CBMR, NBMR and TBMR, allowing users to remotely manage server backups and recoveries, coordinated from a central console.

If you already have NBMR (NetWorker Bare Machine Recovery) or TBMR (Tivoli Bare Machine Recovery) or CBMR (Cristie's standalone Bare Machine Recovery) installed on your machines you can easily add the management console to provide further benefits to your systems and help manage downtime or scheduled recoveries better.

CMC means you aren't limited to recovering on-site and can provide multiple users with access to backup the required machines. Achieve greater flexibility, rapid reaction and recovery times and a streamlined response that is not hampered by staff holidays with CMC.

The recovery can be performed to similar or dissimilar hardware by local staff with no specialist IT skills, so that your business can be in control with the Cristie Management Console.

The Cristie Management Console puts you in charge of your Cristie BMR products by providing you with centralized control, eliminating the limitations of onsite recoveries and covering staff vacations or illness.

The CMC gives you the convenience of centralized control with all the power and functionality that you would expect, giving you the ability to manage backups in your enterprise environment.

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

Features	Benefits
Remote deployment of CBMR, TBMR and NBMR	Provides centralized control and coordination
Ability to create users and assign groups of machines to those users	Enables delegation for specific groups of machines
Remote management of recoveries and backups	Eliminates the need for on-site recoveries
Remote monitoring of backup or restore status for selected groups or machines	Monitor your enterprise environment centrally
Utilizes features and advantages of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with TBMR and EMC NetWorker with NBMR	Convenience, flexibility and an integrated response
Receive log reports via email	Get all the important information about your recoveries by email

Don't be stuck in the office - remotely coordinate your DR response with the Cristie Management Console (CMC). 

Want to find out more?

CBMR Management Console - http://www.cristie.com/products/disaster-recovery/cbmr/cbmr-console/

NBMR Manangement Console - http://www.cristie.com/products/disaster-recovery/nbmr/nbmr-console/

TBMR Management Console - http://www.cristie.com/products/disaster-recovery/tbmr/tbmr-console/

If you would like to know costs, implementation guidance or need more advice email our sales team and they can help provide you further information, sales@cristie.com

Cristie Software’s BMR software now available for EMC Products NetWorker and Avamar

PRESS RELEASE:
12th December 2012 - Stroud, United Kingdom

Cristie Software today announced that NBMR and CBMR will now be available for EMC NetWorker and Avamar end users.  NBMR provides a unique BMR solution for EMC NetWorker users as it recovers servers directly from NetWorker backups and without having to perform separate backups.  This reduces the requirements for both storage space and network bandwidth.

CBMR is Cristie Software’s standalone solution that integrates with EMC Avamar.

Cristie Software provides fast, automated recovery of downed servers whether to similar or dissimilar hardware.  Recoveries are typically completed in less than ten minutes and multiple servers can be recovered simultaneously.

Ian Cameron, CEO at Cristie Software said “Cristie are currently working to develop sales into their NetWorker and Avamar user base, and specifically  for those UNIX and Linux based users of the discontinued EMC HomeBase product.  We expect that NBMR will offer NetWorker users an excellent alternative, and are looking forward to 2013 and continuing to build a strong foundation for the future.”

To find out more about NBMR and CBMR please contact Cristie Software at sales@cristie.com.

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About Cristie Software Limited
Cristie Software Limited was established in the UK in 2007 and has grown rapidly to become a leading software provider specializing in machine recovery, migration and data protection.

The software provides fast, reliable and highly automated backup, recovery and migration solutions for Windows, Linux and other Unix machines.  Cristie Software solutions are sold worldwide by EMC, IBM and through a global network of leading resellers.

Connect with Cristie Software on Twitter https://twitter.com/CristieSoftware and LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/cristie-software-limited


Press Contact
Natalie Schofield – International Marketing Manager
sales@cristie.com

All trademarks are duly acknowledged and are used only to indicate compatibility or integration with those products.

Cristie, NBMR and CBMR are trademarks of Cristie Software Limited.
© 2012 Cristie Software Limited

Cristie Software strengthens relationship with IBM as products are included in Passport Advantage®

PRESS RELEASE

Cristie Software, Stroud, UK
27th November 2012

From the 27th November 2012, Cristie’s CBMR and TBMR software products will now be available to order through Passport Advantage®.  This will significantly simplify the quoting and ordering process for both IBM and all IBM channel partners.

CBMR and TBMR deliver best-in-class BMR software that provides fast, automated disaster recovery – whether to similar or dissimilar hardware.  TBMR fully integrates with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and can recover directly from TSM without having to perform separate backups.  This provides considerable savings in storage space and network bandwidth.  CBMR and TBMR will typically restore server operating systems in less than ten minutes and are able to perform multiple server recoveries simultaneously.

Ian Cameron, CEO at Cristie Software said “Cristie has worked closely with IBM for the last 5 years and this is an exciting step that should greatly strengthen our relationship.  The previous procurement system made it difficult for IBM and partner sales execs to quote and order our software and this move will take all that pain away.  We therefore expect to see a big increase in TSM users’ adoption of TBMR to provide their disaster recovery solution.”

To find out more about the move to the IBM PPA system for your region please find links to the IBM documentation which includes product part codes:

• APAC PPA Announcement documentation
• EMEA PPA Announcement documentation
• USA PPA Announcement documentation

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About Cristie Software Limited
Cristie Software Limited was established in the UK in 2007 and has grown rapidly to become a leading software provider specializing in data protection and machine recovery and migration.

The software provides fast, reliable and highly automated backup, recovery and migration solutions for Windows, Linux and other Unix machines.  Cristie Software solutions are sold worldwide by IBM and through a global network of leading resellers.

Connect with Cristie Software on Twitter and LinkedIn

Press Contact
Natalie Schofield – International Marketing Manager
Email Natalie here / Website: www.cristie.com


All trademarks are duly acknowledged and are used only to indicate compatibility or integration with those products.
Cristie, TBMR and CBMR are trademarks of Cristie Software Limited.
© 2012 Cristie Software Limited

Simplify your DR process by recovering to a virtual environment using Cristie’s BMR solutions

Cristie Software are experts in Bare Machine Recovery and with their range of BMR solutions businesses can recover from physical or virtual environments.

So what are the advantages of recovering to a virtual environment? 

Well, the advantages are split into two categories dependent on usage, for testing and for disaster recovery.




For testing purposes:

1. You don’t need dedicated hardware. You can create a virtual machine in minutes and can delete it after the test
2. May not have to allocate operating system and other licenses to the test machine
3. Testing can be automated and scheduled
4. Automate your recoveries using Cristie’s Answer File creation tools

As part of a Disaster Recovery plan:

1. Don’t have to have dedicated hardware standing by for recoveries
2. Drivers required for VMware and HyperV VM’s are included with Cristie’s BMR software
3. Can help improve Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) if DR is due to an incident like flooding etc. not reliant on a physical server being available
4. Possible to reduce overall costs for Business Continuity due to no dedicated hardware requirements

Cristie Software can help

At Cristie Software our BMR solutions work across virtual and physical, so you don’t need to purchase and maintain a separate product for each environment and the products seamlessly can connect the two interfaces when recovery is required.

Cristie Software provide BMR, backup and migration solutions worldwide through a network of leading global resellers and business partners including IBM.

The range of BMR solutions from Cristie Software includes:

• TBMR – Bare Machine Recovery exclusively for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Allows TSM users to recover their machines direct from TSM
• NBMR – Bare Machine Recovery solely for EMC’s (formally Legato) NetWorker. Recovers machines fast directly from NetWorker to a pre-disaster state
• CBMR – Cristie Bare Machine Recovery, a stand-alone solution designed to provide complete protection of data, as well as the ability to recover critical machines from scratch within minutes 

CBMR, TBMR and NBMR all support dissimilar hardware restores and recovery to other physical or virtual environments. Our software supports a range of operating systems including AIX, Linux, Windows and Solaris.

With dedicated support teams that are available 24/7 for priority one failures, Cristie offer a first class service to their customers to ensure that downtime is kept to a minimum and business can return to a fully operational state as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Find out more information at www.cristie.com/products/disaster-recovery/

Be in control of your Bare Machine Recovery with the Cristie Management Console (CMC)

The Cristie Management Console provides you with centralised control of your CBMR, TBMR and NBMR solutions.

If you are an existing customer of CBMR, TBMR or NBMR the Cristie Management Console can give you even more control of your current BMR and disaster recovery solutions as it:

• Enhances the functionality of CBMR, TBMR and NBMR
• Eliminates the limitation of onsite recoveries
• Remotely manage recoveries, backups and migrations
• Streamlines your disaster recovery plan across multiple locations
• Create user permissions to coordinate responses

Achieve greater flexibility, rapid reaction and recovery times and a streamlined response with CMC

>> Download your free 30 day trial here http://www.cristie.com/download/


MORE INFO...

• For more information view the full datasheet http://www.cristie.com/fileadmin/Documents/Datasheets/CMC/CMCNov11.pdf
• Video demo of Installation and deployment http://www.cristie.com/fileadmin/Videos/CMC%20Install%20and%20Deploy%20-%20Tutorial%201.mp4
• Video demo of Backup management and reporting http://www.cristie.com/fileadmin/Videos/CMC%20Backup%20Management%20and%20reporting%20-%20Tutorial%202.mp4
• Video demo of Remote management of machine recoveries http://www.cristie.com/fileadmin/Videos/CMC%20Managing%20Recoveries%20-%20Tutorial%203.mp4

Contact us for more information on any of our BMR solutions at sales@cristie.com 

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.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hmHJMJUOFA&feature=plcp
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02WCKxinog&feature=plcp
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhQ3yEMW4k&feature=plcp

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.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAIIdpf1CQQ&feature=plcp
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrAWa4OZJuQ&feature=plcp
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmSBBYGmGLk&feature=plcp
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iu3gx-gOWM&feature=plcp
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWLRFOgM68&feature=plcp

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.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP4X_3AHyds&feature=plcp
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ69d8mKNiI&feature=plcp
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQPlibVTzbM&feature=plcp

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