The Clock Starts Before the Restore: Measuring Recovery Time and Data Recovery Capability
In the late 1970s, while working as an IBM programming systems representative supporting a major bank, I spent two months developing a system to recover from communications failures in five
Small But Mighty – Micro Data Centers are the Foundation of Security and Disaster Recovery
Digital services now underpin almost every aspect of modern society. Banks process millions of transactions every minute, insurers rely on their IT systems to manage policies and claims, while governments
The Cloud Didn’t Fail — We Asked the Wrong Question
Why Disaster Recovery Should Be Designed Around Workload Availability, Not Workload Location For the better part of the last decade, the IT industry has been asking the same question: Where
How to Prove You’re Recovery-Ready Before Your Next Breach or Agentic Mistake
Your cloud is one prompt away from a blackout. A misread instruction from an AI agent, a mistyped command, or even just one compromised login can take production down as
Rethinking Disaster Recovery Planning Using Optimized Sequencing
Why recovery sequencing is becoming an important part of IT disaster recovery planning IT disaster recovery programs provide organizations with critical information about what they need to recover, in what
Cyber Resilience: Keeping the Business Running During Disruption
Resilience Is a Business Issue The recent Boston Scientific cyberattack is a reminder that cyber resilience is not only about protecting IT systems. It is about maintaining critical business operations
The ‘Non-Critical’ Lie: Why Your Non-Production Systems Are Your Biggest Resilience Risk
For decades, resilience programs have been organized around a single, comforting word: production. We tier it. We replicate it. We test its recovery. We wrap it in monitoring, runbooks, and
When the Incident Becomes a Crisis: AI Governance for Enterprise Resilience
How artificial intelligence accelerates detection, sharpens prioritization, and strengthens coordination while preserving human command over consequential decisions Crisis management has crossed a threshold of its own. It is no longer
Make the Best Choice Between General-Purpose and Purpose-Built Backup Appliances
Organizations have long viewed backup appliances as repositories for accelerating backups, storing their backup data, and reducing data stores. While they still fulfill those roles, they now play a more
A New Framework for a New Resilience Reality
If there is one thing I have learned after nearly four decades around this profession, it is that resilience never stands still. The risks change. Technology changes. Organizations change. And
