Disaster Recovery

So you’ve been convinced of the importance of conducting a disaster recovery test. You’ve done one, sometime within the last year. You got your applications up and met your recovery objectives, [...]

Even if you’ve moved all your applications and data into the cloud, you still need a disaster recovery strategy. The cloud vendor can have an outage; you can experience a network problem that [...]

Your disaster recovery plan depends on backups, so it’s important to make sure your backup process works. Don’t let these backup problems cause your disaster recovery strategy to fail: Problem: [...]

Disaster recovery is a numbers game. It’s hard to get solid statistics, but if you search online you’ll see numbers like this: 35% of businesses will experience an outage in a critical [...]

Disaster recovery planning is both critical and complex. One approach that can make the process simpler and more reliable is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Disaster Recovery on Demand [...]

Cloud offers high availability, but it isn’t infallible. A recent Microsoft Azure outage impacted several cloud services and the businesses that relied on them. That doesn’t mean you should take [...]

You know how noisy it gets in your workplace. Now imagine it totally silent. That’s the first moment after a systems failure. In the next moment, the noise level rises as employees start [...]

Your disaster recovery (DR) strategy needs to be revisited and updated every year. It’s better to get it done early than to risk being unprepared if a disaster happens at some point this [...]

There are lots of reasons to think about moving to the cloud. Reducing the complexity of disaster recovery is one of them. Cloud Reduces The Risk of Disaster and the Effort to Recover Of all the [...]

One of the advantages of virtual machines (VM) is that it’s easy to make copies and start them up on another physical server. In theory, that should make disaster recovery (DR) simpler. In [...]