The following pages provide a quick overview of various websites I researched and thought it might help others in the OpenVMS community.

Extended SAN (1 of 4)

Disaster Recovery Journal, Winter 1997
http://www.drj.com/

TechAccess Corporation, Business Continuity Whitepaper
http://www.techaccesscorp.com/whitepapers/BusinessContinuityWhitepaper.pdf

Wikipedia
Speed of Light article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
Optical Fiber article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_fiber

Keith Parris’ Disaster Tolerant Cluster Information:
http://www2.openvms.org/kparris/

Choosing Wisely (for Shadowing /READ_COST article)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd996sqXnDw

Natural Disasters Becoming More Frequent
http://www.enn.com/climate/article/37640

Christian Science Monitor “Insurer: Weather disasters becoming more frequent”
http://features.csmonitor.com/

Storage Basics: Understanding SANs
http://articles.directorym.net/Storage_Basics_Understanding_SANs-a896122.html

Brocade FastWrite
http://www.brocade.com/…/Optimize_Data_Transfer_FastWrite_GA-TN-045-00.pdf
http://www.brocade.com/…/FC_FastWrite_External_FAQ_5-18-07.pdf

Cisco Write Acceleration
http://www.cisco.com/…/prod_white_paper0900aecd8024fd2b.pdf

Disaster Reference Material
Natural Disasters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

Newsweek “When Nature Attacks”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/135814

Man-made Disasters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Man-made_disasters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_outage
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077316/ - How the Grid powers a continent
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/12474/page1/ - A Smarter Power Grid

Business Continuity Planning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_continuity_planning
http://www.plasticsbusinessmag.com/wp/?p=35
http://www.isp-planet.com/business/2001/disaster1.html
http://www.techaccesscorp.com/whitepapers/BusinessContinuityWhitepaper.pdf

Business continuity solutions for concentration risk mitigation
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA0-6584ENW.pdf

hp AlphaServer technology helps Commerzbank tolerate disaster on September 11
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/brochures/commerzbank/commerzbank.pdf

Regulations
DR Rules and Regulations
http://www.drj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=713&Itemid=328

DR Rules and Regulations (the spreadsheet)
http://www.drj.com/images/rulesregs/drj-rr.xls

Interagency Paper on Sound Practices to Strengthen the Resilience of the U.S. Financial System
http://www.sec.gov/news/studies/34-47638.htm

U.S. regulators issue disaster recovery guidelines
http://www.computerworld.com/…/0,10801,80262,00.html

Feds back off proposed disaster recovery regs for Wall Street
http://www.computerworld.com/…/0,10801,77250,00.html