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Disasters, such as hardware failure, can happen anytime, anywhere! This is why you always need a disaster recovery plan for your company. Every business, regardless of the industry, must be [...]

Expecting the transition to cloud to do away with the need for a disaster recovery plan is wishful thinking. Consider some common causes of IT disasters: accidental loss of data network outages [...]

When is the last time you reviewed your backup plan? If it’s been a while, take some time to look it over and make sure you aren’t making these backup mistakes: 1. Backups too infrequent. Once a [...]

2020 came with so many unplanned challenges and disruptions, it wouldn’t be surprising if your business skipped its annual disaster recovery test. Or maybe you decided that enabling all your [...]

Disaster recovery plans are important to keep businesses operational in case of an outage. It’s even better to prevent outages and avoid the need for disaster recovery. To do that, you need to [...]

To write an effective disaster recovery (DR) plan, you need to know what you need to protect, how much protection it needs, and the tools you have for protecting it. Before you write your plan, [...]

You would think a business knows what its critical applications are. Yet it’s fairly common during disaster recovery (DR) tests to discover that key applications and services have been [...]

Ensuring a business doesn’t lose vital systems during an incident requires an effective disaster recovery strategy. Developing that strategy requires overcoming a number of challenges: 1. [...]

The estimates of the cost of downtime keep getting higher. In one study, almost all respondents said the cost was more than $150,000, and a significant percentage estimated the cost at more than [...]

With all the talk about backup as a service (BaaS) and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), it’s easy to assume you need cloud as your backup and disaster recovery solution. It’s true that in [...]