Disaster Recovery

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 [...]

Your disaster recovery (DR) plans are unlike any other business process, because you hope you’ll never need to execute the procedure. Despite that, your DR strategy is among your most [...]

The importance of an effective disaster recovery (DR) plan can’t be overstated. When systems go down, the business goes down, and getting things back online quickly is crucial. Don’t [...]

Ransomware is becoming a much more common threat that businesses need to defend against. The risk isn’t just that an employee will click on an email infected with malware. Some newer [...]

Disaster recovery plans today need to take into account the impact of the cloud in two ways. First, how can using the cloud help you achieve disaster recovery for your data center? Second, how do [...]

Keeping systems available is one of the top priorities for CIOs. The dependence of today’s enterprises on their information systems means downtime is too costly to tolerate. Having an [...]