ITProToday, Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Introduction To IT Disaster Recovery Planning
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DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, July 29th, 2024
Data Center Disaster Recovery: Essential Measures For Business Continuity
Data center disaster recovery is vital for business continuity. Learn essential strategies to protect against outages, human error, and cyber-attacks.
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CIO, Thursday, July 25th, 2024
The Evolving Role Of Security And IT In DR And Incident Response
When an incident is reported, there's often a lack of clarity re whether the incident falls in IT territory or security territory. To address this ambiguity, there must be a coordinated and efficient response.
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Search Disaster Recovery, Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
CrowdStrike Outage Shows Business Continuity Still A Must
Disaster recovery has centered on cyberattacks the past few years, but the CrowdStrike outage illustrates why companies can't forget about traditional business continuity.
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Seach Disaster Recovery, Monday, July 22nd, 2024
Business Continuity Testing Template For IT Pros
Business continuity testing can be a major challenge for any organization. This free template offers ways to incorporate testing into the business continuity management process
more → Techstrong ITSM, Monday, July 15th, 2024
What Is Disaster Recovery Planning? Create A Successful DRP
The business world is a world of endless possibilities and risks. No matter how big or small businesses are, eliminating the factor of unforeseen circumstances that can cause lethal harm is impossible.
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Search Disaster Recovery, Thursday, July 11th, 2024
13 Reasons Your Disaster Recovery Plan Failed
Preventing failure is an important goal for DR teams, but disasters do not conform to how plans are designed. Familiarity with the causes of failure can help bolster a DR plan.
more → Future of CIO, Monday, June 3rd, 2024
Impact Of Business Continuity Planning
Business continuity planning is not just about responding to crises; it's about proactive preparation for the unexpected.
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Search Disaster Recovery, Friday, May 17th, 2024
7 Ways To Use AI In It Disaster Recovery
AI is everywhere these days, and disaster recovery is no different. IT teams can use AI to mitigate, prevent and recover from disruptions faster than traditional methods.
more → Search Disaster Recovery, Thursday, April 25th, 2024
What Is Disaster Recovery (DR)?
Disaster recovery (DR) is an organization's ability to respond to and recover from an event that negatively affects business operations.
more → Search Storage, Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
What Is Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?
A business impact analysis (BIA) is a systematic process to determine and evaluate the potential effects of an interruption to critical business operations as a result of a disaster, accident or emergency.
more → Search Disaster Recovery, Thursday, April 18th, 2024
What Is A Disaster Recovery (DR) Site?
A disaster recovery (DR) site is a facility an organization can use to recover and restore its technology infrastructure and operations when its primary data center becomes unavailable.
more → InformationWeek, Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Time For A Disaster Recovery Health Check
Now is a good time to revisit those disaster recovery plans that are still data center-centric and probably haven't kept up with the changing computing environment.
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Gigaom, Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Weathering the Storm: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity as a Service (DR/BCaaS) in 2024
Disruption is the new normal. Cyberattacks, natural disasters, and unforeseen technical glitches can cripple even the most prepared businesses. In today's interconnected world, downtime translates to lost revenue, reputational damage, and potentially, the demise of your company.
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SearchStorage, Friday, March 1st, 2024
RPO Vs. RTO: Key Differences Explained With Examples, Tips
The recovery point objective and recovery time objective enable an organization to know how much data it can lose and how long it can be down, key elements of a backup and DR plan.
more → Solutions Review, Friday, February 23rd, 2024
15 Backup And Disaster Recovery Best Practices To Consider
Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) strategies are of paramount importance to enterprises due to their critical role in preserving data integrity, ensuring business continuity, and mitigating risks associated with various disruptions.
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TRUEFORT, Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Essential Business Continuity Requires Application Resilience
For organizations playing a crucial role in infrastructure and the economy, application resilience is a necessity
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wallarm, Friday, November 24,2023
What is Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
At the heart of organisational durability and a tactical roadmap directing towards reestablishing regular operations post-disruptions, lies the often misrepresented 'Recovery Time Objective' (RTO). This guide aims to deconstruct and demystify the RTO. Let's dive into the nuances of RTO and comprehend its significance.
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The Register, Monday, November 6,2023
Overheating Datacenter Stopped 2.5 Million Bank Transactions
Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges - but so do failed disaster recovery plans
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ComputerWeekly, Monday, November 6,2023
IR Plans: The Difference Between Disaster And Recovery
What goes into a good incident response plan, and what steps should security professionals take to ensure they are appropriately prepared for the almost inevitable attack, and secure buy-in from organisational leadership?
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ComputerWeekly, Friday, October 20,2023
Five Key Questions About Disaster Recovery As A Service
Disaster recovery as a service builds recovery data and systems into the cloud, accessible from anywhere. We look at the difference vs cloud backup, DRaaS use cases, the cost, and the firms that provide it
more → Tech&Learning, Tuesday, September 12,2023
Incident Response Plans Vs. Disaster Recovery Plans - Are You Prepared?
Having both an incident response plan and a disaster recovery plan is critical for school districts to be prepared for cyber attacks and natural disasters
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ITProToday, Monday, August 28,2023
How A University Evolved Its Disaster Recovery Strategy Over The Years
Clarke University's technology evolution showcases a strategic approach encompassing disaster recovery, cost-efficiency, security, and collaboration.
more → Continuity Central, Wednesday, August 2,2023
The Metrics Struggle: Creating Metrics For A BC Or DR Program
After years struggling with tracking metrics for a disaster recovery program, the authors of this article came across a metric tracking system used by a peer which was successfully modified for DR use. The system is shared here to help you move from nagging to supporting the teams that you work with.
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Solutions Review, Thursday, July 13,2023
How To Build An ERP Business Continuity Plan
The editors at Solutions Review have outlined the fundamentals of building an ERP business continuity plan to help companies ensure their systems can keep running if disruptions occur.
more → ITProtoday, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Why AI and BCDR Are a Natural Fit
Artificial intelligence promises to transform business continuity and disaster recovery processes, but organizations must be mindful of its current limitations.
more → Solutions Review, Friday, June 9,2023
Business Case For Data Recovery
In today's data-driven world, organizations heavily rely on data for their day-to-day operations and decision-making processes.
more → Spanning, Thursday, June 8,2023
RTO Vs. RPO: Understanding Their Differences And Importance
Disasters, such as cyberthreats, data loss and downtime, are inevitable in business. How your organization handles them can be the difference between overcoming a crisis quickly and grappling with unsatisfied clients, lost productivity, tarnished brand reputation, and legal and regulatory issues.
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NETWORKComputing, Wednesday, May 24,2023
Achieving High Availability Cost Efficiently
A clear understanding of where to apply high availability must be based on the financial and reputational impact an outage will incur.
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Continuity Central, Friday, May 12,2023
Business Continuity Basics: How To Plan And Carry Out Exercises
Business continuity plans and strategies require the involvement of many different members of your organization, but to be effective during a crisis, these individuals need to have practiced their roles. This is where business continuity exercising comes in, as Julie Miranto explains...
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Tuesday, May 9,2023
Disaster Recovery Testing: What You Need To Know
Disaster recovery refers to your enterprise's ability to respond and recover after an event such as a cyber attack or natural disaster. It means planning for the worst by increasing redundancy, working to eliminate single points of failure, and ensuring you have working backups to prevent disasters from disrupting your business continuity.
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Search Disaster Recovery, Friday, April 28,2023
Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR)
Cloud disaster recovery (cloud DR) is a combination of strategies and services intended to back up data, applications and other resources to public cloud or dedicated service providers. When a disaster occurs, the affected data, applications and other resources can be restored to the local data center -- or a cloud provider -- to resume normal operation for the enterprise.
more → Search Disaster Recovery, Friday, April 28,2023
12 Business Continuity Trends To Keep An Eye On
As technology rapidly evolves, IT pros are bound to see countless trends come and go. In business continuity, there are some significant trends shaping up to change the field.
more → ComputerWeeky, April 18th, 2023
IT Priorities 2023: Cloud And Disaster Recovery Top Storage And Backup Plans
Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents
more → HelpNet Security, April 3rd, 2023
How Can Organizations Bridge The Gap Between DR And Cybersecurity?
Breaking down the silos between disaster recovery (DR) and cybersecurity has become increasingly important to ensure maximum business resiliency against outages, data breaches, and ransomware attacks.
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Search Disaster Recovery, March 31st, 2023
Network Documentation Best Practices For DR Teams
In the event of a disaster, IT teams often think of servers and storage, but forget about networks. Find out what you should document as part of your network DR plan.
more → CXOtoday.com, March 21st, 2023
How To Test If Your Business Continuity Plan Is Working
Resilience is a much desired attribute, and its prominence has increased during the pandemic. Most businesses have a business continuity plan in place today.
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Spanning, March 21st, 2023
High Availability: How It Works and Why It's Important
In today's digital economy, where organizations increasingly rely on their IT infrastructure to deliver services 24/7/365, downtime is a nightmare.
more → Technative, March 20th, 2023
Reality Check On Cybersecurity: 9% Of Companies In Europe Are Ready To Defend Against Cyber Threats
To contend with the explosion of cybercrime and its impact on business operations, many organisations are updating their disaster recovery plans to include cyber incident response.
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SearchDisasterRecovery, February 28th, 2023
How To Maintain Network Continuity In A DR Strategy
Disaster doesn't just come in the form of fire, flood and ransomware. Loss of network continuity is a real issue and must be appropriately addressed in disaster recovery planning.
more → Technative, February 22nd, 2023
Top 5 Tips For Proactive Active Directory Disaster Recovery
Imagine learning that one of your most foundational systems has no disaster recovery plan.
more → InformationWeek, February 15th, 2023
Does Your Disaster Recovery Plan Really Work?
Most companies have a disaster recovery plan, but few test theirs with any regularity. What if you discover the hard way that the plan doesn't work?
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, January 26th, 2023
RTO vs RPO: Definitions, Examples & Difference Explained
Recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) help enterprises measure the allowable time for critical software to be down and backup intervals.
more → The Register, January 26th, 2023
Disaster Recovery Blunder Broke New York Stock Exchange This Week
On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) failed to open properly, disrupting and invalidating auction trading for more than 250 securities.
more → Solutions Review, January 24th, 2023
An Expert Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist Template For 2023
Solutions Review's Expert Insights Series is a collection of contributed articles written by industry experts in enterprise software categories. In this feature, Barracuda's SVP of Data Protection Tim Jefferson offers a disaster recovery plan checklist as an essential resource to consider this year.
more → FORTA, January 18th, 2023
Cybersecurity Crisis Management And Business Continuity
The massive increase in cyberattacks and the rapid evolution of advanced criminal techniques requires every single business in any sector to take protective measures to strengthen its cyber perimeter and minimize risk.
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Continuity Central, January 11th, 2023
How Will High Availability Develop In 2023?
Cassius Rhue, VP of Customer Experience, SIOS Technology, predicts the following major trends in high availability and related areas.
more → Security Boulevard, January 10th, 2023
7 Key Benefits Of A Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategy
A man-made or natural disaster can happen at any time, potentially putting your business in jeopardy. This is why it is imperative to ensure that your digital assets are backed up and safe so they can be recovered should a major event occur.
more → HelpNet Security, January 4th, 2023
How To Start Planning For Disaster Recovery
There is a famous quote I often think about at 3am on a Sunday morning as I am working with a client to recover from a large-scale cybersecurity incident: 'Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.'
more → Continuity Central, January 3rd, 2023
The Most Read Continuity Central Feature Articles Of 2022
What did Continuity Central readers find most interesting during 2022? Out of more than a thousand pieces of content published, here are the top twenty feature articles...
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