IT Complexity and the Risk of IT Failure
IT Complexity and the Risk of IT Failure For the past few years, the unabashed enthusiasm around clouds, virtualization and software-defined everything has led to some unfortunate side effects. One is the suspension of disbelief [...]
What Answers Do BC Planners Need from Their Cyber Security Team?
Some experts say there is a thin line between disaster recovery and business continuity planning (BCP). The first is owned by the computer operations or IT department, while the second is usually owned by the [...]
Information Security and Public Cloud Computing
If you asked a group of ten or more IT practitioners or business people what cloud computing is, they would probably give ten different answers. Each would have an answer consistent with his own specific [...]
The WAN’s the Thing
If you want to send chills up the spine of cloud vendors and consumers alike, just say the word Nirvanix. Once declared a comer in the “new” world of infrastructure (storage, backup, archive...) as a [...]
Challenges for Continuity Planning 2014
For 2014 and the foreseeable future, trends in business continue to favor increased dependency on information technology. Truth be told, while some of the economic circumstances that accompanied the Great Recession have begun to recede, [...]
The Anatomy of a Disaster (and how to prevent one)
The word disaster should not be thought of as literal in the term “Disaster Recovery Planning,” but instead as more of a generic term for “downtime.” And, no business owner likes downtime, because time lost [...]
Information Availability: How to Utilize and Reference Architecture
In the preponderance of the organizations we support, a key impediment to effective Disaster Recovery is the fact that it is an afterthought in the system lifecycle – rather than a component of the overall [...]
When Data Leaves the Roost
Who really owns your business computers and devices and their contents? It’s hard to escape the push for social networking. TV anchors brag about their Twitter files. Facebook and MySpace are in head-tohead competition to [...]
Taking a Look at Deduplication
We’ve all seen data deduplication quickly evolve as one of the hottest topics within the industry. And why wouldn’t it be? After all, any technology that eliminates unneeded copies of the same identical data would [...]
Converging Information Security and Privacy Activities During Business Continuity
What kinds of disasters are looming ahead for your business? What kinds of business interruptions will you need to deal with tomorrow? Of course we do not know the answers to these questions. But what [...]
Bricks, Mortar & Beyond 10 Steps to Developing Your Next-Generation Data Center
If the headline grabbed your attention, you are most likely charged with achieving some or all of these goals: integrating consolidation, green initiatives, and aligning cost efficiencies with recovery time objectives (RTO s) and recovery [...]
DR Planning in the C-4 Era
Visit any company today and you are likely to find business and IT managers confronting the same challenges. Call them the “C-4” issues: cost-containment, compliance, continuity and carbon footprint reduction (reduced IT energy consumption, also [...]