The State of Disaster Recovery Preparedness 2024
February 18, 2024
Disaster Recovery Preparedness Is Evolving Many businesses underst and the need for disaster recovery capabilities, but adoption and implementation of various practices and capabilities are mixed. Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) have partnered to field a number of market studies in business continuity and DR to gather data for benchmarking and […]
Read MoreIn Disaster Recovery, Resiliency is Everything
August 4, 2022
Cloud computing has changed the way businesses work, and legacy Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solutions aren’t up to the task of providing resilience in a highly dynamic environment. This article from Recovery Point Solutions explains why real-time visibility into your DR environment, frequent testing, and application-level recovery are essential to meeting your RTO and RPO. […]
Read MoreBefore, During and After: A Guide to Building a Resilient Disaster Recovery Plan
August 2, 2018
[…] at your plans to see what adjustments you can make to ensure a smoother recovery process next time. Here’s what you should be thinking about and doing before, during and after a disaster. Before a disaster: How to make sure your DR plan is ready Your goal is a constant state of readiness. If you’re […]
Read MoreDisaster Recovery and Business Continuity in the Workplace
June 19, 2017
[…] from 15 percent in 2014. Finally, one-third of companies are using a site within 50 miles of their primary data center. This close proximity opens up risk during widespread natural disasters such as flooding, snow/ice, high winds, and more. What Does an Outage Really Mean for a Business? Our survey also produced new data […]
Read More10 Key Elements of a Disaster Recovery Plan Companies Often Overlook
October 30, 2019
Technology can sometimes give organizations a false sense of security. If you have the technology and automation in place, you might believe you can simply press a button and recover if you experience a disaster, right?
Read MoreSeismic Solutions for Enterprises and Data Centers in California and Beyond
August 17, 2021
[…] disaster recovery budgets for enterprises would increase this year, with half of businesses expected to spend more than 7% of their IT budgets on disaster recovery. However, during financially challenging times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, disaster recovery is one of the first areas looked at for cost reduction. The best prepared have industrialized […]
Read MoreDisaster Recovery Testing Done Right: A Guide to Confirming Your DR Plan Is Ready to Go
May 19, 2021
[…] timely recovery effort beginning at the time of declaration. There’s a gap between how tests are designed and performed and the actual conditions your team will face during a crisis. Testing is much more controlled and predictable. Depending on how you’re conducting tests, there can be many differences between a test and an actual […]
Read MorePreparing for Disasters to Ensure Continuity in a Data-Driven World
November 17, 2023
In today’s technological world, businesses depend heavily on IT and information to operate efficiently and make informed choices. Today’s increasing recurrence and severity of concern for organizations can create problems for businesses. Disasters can interrupt operations, destroy infrastructure, and lead to data loss, which may result in devastating financial and reputational ramifications. Steering through […]
Read MoreIs Your Organization Prepared for the Next Disruption?
May 19, 2021
[…] is a critical dependency on execution of other processes or plan, you could consider including either the dependency plan as part of the exercise or clear assumptions during the exercise in which these dependencies are available. For example, if we are discussing business recovery but it is dependent on a disaster recovery (DR) of […]
Read MoreA Reality Check on Instant Recovery
November 15, 2021
Data protection providers now routinely roll out new announcements about their instant recovery features. Prompted by the rise in ransomware attack, more organizations dem and this feature as part of their data protection solution. Using this technology, organizations may “instantly” recover from an attack or outage and resume production activities. While this technology helps […]
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