Ransomware is fast becoming a huge challenge to the corporate world. Ransomware is a kind of malware that limits access to the computer system that becomes infected, whereby demanding some
Seven Questions to Ask When Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan
According to a recent IDC report titled “DevOps and the Cost of Downtime: Fortune 1000 Best Practice Metrics Quantified,” the average total cost of unplanned application downtime for a Fortune
The IT, Data Loss, High Availability Relationship
Information technology provides enormous value for organizations, but it can also represent a tremendous point of weakness. No matter your industry, data drives your business. And when markets are global,
Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan in the Cloud
You’ve moved your disaster recovery operation to the cloud and now it’s time to test it. That’s essential because it’s the only way to guarantee your plan works and that
The Audit After: Compliance and Disaster Recovery
We all know the story. Calamity, large or small, befalls data center. IT scrambles to save the day by ensuring systems fail over rapidly and functionally. Nowadays, modern IT DR
Be Wary of Being Arbitrary When Choosing RTOs
Few business continuity (BC) tasks exceed the importance or visibility of determining the recovery time objective (RTO). Unfortunately, dysfunctional practices can creep into this process and cause “arbitrary” RTOs to
Closing the Delta Between RTO and RTC
The ability to recover critical systems in a timely manner during an event is the cornerstone of any effective disaster recovery program. All too often large and small organizations fail
Data Management: Top 5 Overlooked Considerations
A successful data management organization enables the achievement of business goals and objectives efficiently and in a cost-effective manner. DM organizations which consistently achieve this have a clear, robust, and
What Keeps IT Pros Awake at Night: 4 Tips for Effective Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery (DR) has been a challenge for IT organizations for decades, with much of that challenge stemming from the cost and complexity of legacy solutions. Since IT operations have
The Devil’s in the Details When it Comes to Data Protection – What SMBs Need to Know About Building a Complete Strategy
The road to ensuring comprehensive and reliable data protection and recovery is fraught with complexity, expense, and often confusion. For decades, the high cost of a complete data protection and