DRJ Celebrates 40th Conference in Orlando

Disaster Recovery Journal celebrated its 40th conference March 29 to April 1, 2009, at Walt Disney World’s Coronado Springs Resort. “Despite the economic woes our world is facing, attendance was still strong with more than 750 registered attendees and more than 1,100 in total for the show,” said Bob Arnold, president of Disaster Recovery Journal.… Continue reading DRJ Celebrates 40th Conference in Orlando

Remote Access for Business Continuity: Adding the Human Factor to Disaster Recovery

Business disruptions take many shapes and forms, from hurricanes and earthquakes to man-made problems such as transit strikes. No matter the nature of the disaster, they all have the potential to prevent employees from getting to their place of work — if not to render that place of work uninhabitable. Dealing with such business disruptions… Continue reading Remote Access for Business Continuity: Adding the Human Factor to Disaster Recovery

Is Rip and Replace the Best Solution?

How many times over the last several years have you added some new piece of hardware or software technology to your backup system only to find that nothing really changed — backups still failed, took too long or did not yield restorable results? How much money was spent patching a system that was fundamentally flawed… Continue reading Is Rip and Replace the Best Solution?

Being Mindful of Stateful Recovery

Organizations have long faced the challenges of developing a disaster recovery (DR) plan for their mainframe and midrange computers. Industry standard systems, on the other hand, were not always considered in that plan because they were often performing less critical tasks. As more and more critical tasks are hosted on industry standard systems, these DR… Continue reading Being Mindful of Stateful Recovery

Comprehensive BIA & BCP: Including Processes and Mini-Disasters

Many business continuity practitioners approach business impact analysis (BIA) and business continuity planning (BCP) from the perspective of business cessation. They define the cessation only based on the failure of the information technology (IT) systems. When approached in this manner, the BCP becomes very narrow with the sole focus on recovering the IT system. However,… Continue reading Comprehensive BIA & BCP: Including Processes and Mini-Disasters

Virtualization and Business Continuity: Balancing Risk and Reward

One of the hottest topics in today’s IT corridors is the uses and benefits of virtualization technologies. IT professionals everywhere are implementing virtualization for a variety of business needs, driven by opportunities to improve server usage and flexibility, address business continuity and reduce operational costs. Server rooms across the world are full of machines designed… Continue reading Virtualization and Business Continuity: Balancing Risk and Reward

Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Business Continuity … Oh My!

Virtualization is all the rage this year, whether it is for load balancing and performance, high availability, or to lower development and operational costs. When IT employees hear the word, they think of server virtualization. As we shall see, there are many kinds of virtualization with many “flavors” within them. When combined, the many kinds… Continue reading Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Business Continuity … Oh My!