A storm like Sandy is a perfect reminder on why every small business needs to constantly be prepared for disaster. This isn’t just ensuring that your company’s data is backed… Continue reading After Sandy: 4 Steps to Disaster Recovery

For Tim Shea, the founder and CEO of Alpha NetSolutions, a 10-year-old managed services and cloud computing provider based in Millbury, Mass., Hurricane Sandy was a non-event for his customers.… Continue reading The Cloud Provides Disaster Recovery As Hurricane Sandy Rages

Once again, a terrible natural disaster strikes, and Americans from the Carolinas to New England are doing their best to sort through the wreckage and get their lives back to… Continue reading Hurricane Sandy, And The Invisible Hand Of Disaster Recovery

Disaster preparedness is a well-known best practice in running a data center, but Hurricane Sandy is showing that in disasters, the unexpected happens. When it does, some disaster recovery plans… Continue reading Hurricane Sandy: Disaster Recovery Improv Tales

When seawater flooded streets in lower Manhattan Monday night, it filled the bottom floors of the basement of an office building at 75 Broad St. and its lobby up to… Continue reading Huge customer effort keeps flooded NYC data center running

The most recent Amazon Web Services outage left customers (and rival cloud providers) blaming Amazon. Instead, CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden says, everyone needs to accept that cloud computing is not… Continue reading The Amazon Outage in Perspective: Failure Is Inevitable, So Manage Risk

In the aftermath of the recent storm, Sandy, it’s good to examine Disaster Recovery. Organizations, solutions partners (vendors), and practices have created a ready handle for recovery from disastrous harm… Continue reading Disaster Recovery vs. Disaster Awareness, Preparedness, and Recovery (DAPR)

If you don’t mention it, you appear heartless; if you give in to it, you appear weak. That is the fine line that each one of us faces in communicating… Continue reading The Aftermath — Business Communication Rules for Recovery from Hurricane Sandy

As a lifelong New Yorker who left the center of the known universe to move to Santa Fe, NM just a month ago, and the author of more than a… Continue reading Superstorm Sandy Lessons: 100% Uptime Isn’t Always Worth It