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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 [...]

There’s no such thing as a standardized disaster recovery plan. While it’s easy to find templates for a plan, the actual contents of the plan need to reflect the specifics of your IT [...]

The best way to handle a disaster is to avoid experiencing the disaster in the first place. It isn’t always possible to prevent all IT outages, but building resilient infrastructure is an [...]

Disaster recovery plans can be invoked for many reasons. Operational problems often occur due to cyberattacks that overload networks, and prevention efforts often focus on security. However, [...]