Even under optimal conditions and thorough disaster recovery (DR) planning, the possibility always exists that your disaster recovery strategy can go wrong. How disaster recovery can go wrong The steps you have taken to ensure your organization stays operational when disaster strikes can go awry for reasons including: A lack of planning – despite including … Read more
Disaster can present itself in many forms – corruption, theft, hurricane, ransomware – resulting in downtime, data loss and applications being taken down. Ideally, you would want data protection that could immediately restore all lost data and applications to the exact time and point of failure and immediately have your organization back to business as … Read more
Until the advent of the cloud, protecting crucial business applications and workloads traditionally required building and maintaining a second on-prem data center which was a costly commitment and a massive operational exercise. Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solutions can now extend data centers into the cloud at a fraction of the costs. The latest DRaaS report from … Read more
As technology becomes more advanced in the mobile, social, and IoT spheres, businesses become more resilient and more responsive. But, with the desire to remain resilient and available comes an increased risk of disaster striking. When considering Disaster Recovery as a Service and whether it is right for you, the key question is how much, … Read more
In our previous post we defined business continuity and disaster recovery, distinguished between a business continuity plan and a disaster recovery plan, and motivated why you need these. Today’s post deals with best practices when it comes to disaster management and ensuring business continuity. Best practices are those practices that render the best results with … Read more
