The Service Disruption Continuum
Disruptive events don't have to be a major disaster to wipe out your business. They can be anything from a relatively minor malfunctioning network card to a devastating event such as a sudden regional disaster [...]
How to Get Your DR Fund Requests Denied
I have been asking a lot of organizations that do not have disaster recovery or business continuity plans to explain to me why they have not developed this important capability. Increasingly, the response I am [...]
Help from Above: Five Reasons to Consider Using Satellite Technology for Disaster Recovery
In a perfect world, companies would have everything they need to get back up and running after a disaster, regardless of cost. A backhoe cuts the fiber line in front of your office? No problem. [...]
What’s Holding BC Back? Confronting the Conundrums of Business Continuity in 2005
In government and business, there continues to be more discussion than doing in the realm of disaster recovery and business continuity. One hears a lot of talk about "10/12" - the next 9/11 - which [...]
Addressing Privacy Issues During Disaster Recovery
Here are some key areas where planners need to be concerned with private and personally identifiable information when creating, updating, and testing disaster recovery plans. Businesses possess a staggering amount of private and personally identifiable [...]
Avoiding an IT Crisis: Understanding and Overcoming the Pitfalls of Replication Systems
As data and applications have become critical to an organization's ability to operate, companies have invested heavily to protect these assets. One technology designed to protect both data and applications is replication. However, despite millions [...]
Data At Risk Multi-Tiered Storage Poses Opportunities and Obstacles for Data Protection
In case you haven't noticed, these trends have breathed life into coping strategies built around multitiered data storage architectures. That is to say, many companies are beginning to leverage inexpensive disk arrays based on Serial-ATA [...]
In-House Versus Third-Party Recovery
Which Is Better? A key decision point in the engineering of business continuity capabilities is whether the recovery environments (operations) will be integrated with other in-house operations or co-sourced/outsourced to third-party providers. An equally important [...]
Information Protection Isn’t about Cost; It’s About Business Value
It seems every day we wake up to a new challenge to our organization. Like never before, the engines of global economic prosperity - people, capital, infrastructure, and information - need to be managed for [...]