When Matt Camden, chief information officer at UHY Advisors in Chicago, faced an audit server outage in one of his New England offices over a February weekend, he was able to restore his data in a ...

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The main aim of IT disaster recovery planing is to generate a detailed recovery plan that can be executed upon in the case of an unforeseen outage. Such a plan should set out the detailed steps needed ...

Here are examples of three IT managers who have taken creative approaches to dealing with issues such as recovering from laptop crashes and monitoring all of those security sensors. Organization: ...

Summary: Working through a worst-case scenario is the only way to truly understand how much resiliency a business needs—not only for disaster recovery but for any business continuity or crisis ...

“Every American should have the opportunity to be as healthy as he or she can be. Every community should be safe from threats to its health. And all individuals and families should have a high level ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...

According to Gartner, the majority of small and midsize businesses (SMB) under-invest in business continuity and disaster recovery planning. Gartner estimates only 35% of SMBs have a comprehensive ...

Earlier this month, a monkey caused a nationwide power outage in Kenya. Millions of homes and businesses were without electricity. Which just goes to show that “not all disasters come in the form of ...

It’s clear that the stakes for businesses facing IT disaster recovery have never been higher. The recent CrowdStrike outage – a global IT disruption caused by a faulty software update – served as a ...

In an article aimed at people new to business continuity and disaster recovery, Mitch Mitchell explains what the difference between these two vital disciplines is and why it is a mistake to use the ...