Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBusiness continuity teams provide insight and focus that can keep an organization on its feet when disaster strikes. Don’t rely on a disaster recovery team to reduce downtime. By Alan R. Earls Business continuity and disaster recovery are grouped together by many organizations, but the teams in charge of these operations serve different purposes. Along with a disaster recovery team,
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA disaster recovery plan may seem like an unnecessary expense to some businesses, but a lack of preparation will cost you. By Stuart Burns Some organizations question how much to invest in a disaster recovery plan. They’re reluctant to allocate significant budget and staff to systems they’ll need in the face of a disaster that may, or may not, occur.
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesDisaster recovery (DR) is an organization’s ability to respond to and recover from an event that negatively affects business operations. By Erin Sullivan, Paul Crocetti and Ivy Wigmore Read on to learn more about why DR is important, how it works, and the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity. You’ll also discover what to include in a disaster recovery
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations have used disaster recovery tiers to define the DR process for years. These key tiers can serve as a backbone to a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. By Paul Kirvan Disaster recovery focuses on the protection and restoration of IT system functions and network services, and it dates back to the 1970s. Its roots are in mainframe computing systems, and
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations have used disaster recovery tiers to define the DR process for years. These key tiers can serve as a backbone to a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. By Paul Kirvan Disaster recovery focuses on the protection and restoration of IT system functions and network services, and it dates back to the 1970s. Its roots are in mainframe computing systems, and
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesSMART is a system that monitors the internal information of your drive. Its clever name is actually an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. SMART, also written as S.M.A.R.T., is a technology found inside HDDs and SSDs. It is independent of your operating system, BIOS, or other software. Original Tutorial (Edited) By Codrut Neagu A lot of us have experienced a hard
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA disaster recovery test (DR test) is the examination of each step in a disaster recovery plan as outlined in an organization’s business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning process. Evaluating the DR plan helps ensure that an organization can recover data, restore business critical applications and continue operations after an interruption of services. By James Alan Miller and Ed Hannan In many organizations, DR testing is
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAn organizational resilience strategy is far-reaching, involving many facets of IT and the business — from disaster recovery to supply chain management. By Paul Kirvan While exact definitions of organizational resilience vary, several key characteristics are fundamental to the concept. Resilience refers to an organization’s ability to absorb the effects of a disruptive event, adapt to the circumstances associated with the event and
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented, structured approach that describes how an organization can quickly resume work after an unplanned incident. A DRP is an essential part of a business continuity plan (BCP). By Kate Brush and Paul Crocetti It is applied to the aspects of an organization that depend on a functioning IT infrastructure. A DRP aims
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHot sites are a viable disaster recovery strategy, but high costs and changing DR risks have made alternatives like disaster recovery as a service a more appealing option. By Alan R. Earls Not too long ago, the gold standard for IT preparedness was having a dedicated facility for hot site disaster recovery. Now, at a time when bullet-proof, interruption-free IT
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