If the cloud didn’t exist, disaster recovery experts would want to invent it. The two fit together that well. One of the key elements of a disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) plan is ...

As state and local governments increasingly rely on cloud services, they have a responsibility to protect their data and ensure their systems are secure. This starts by understanding current practices ...

What is the most crucial aspect of business to focus on today? Finance? Logistics? Developers? It’s really hard to say, but the truth is that any employee can be replaced by someone (or something) ...

As companies continue shifting mission-critical systems to the cloud, they’re discovering that 24/7/365 reliability isn’t a given. Even brief outages can interrupt sales, slow internal workflows and ...

Workflow disasters are inevitable, whether caused by cyberattacks, natural disasters or economic disruptions caused by a global pandemic. With proper preparations for disaster recovery, efforts can be ...

Melissa Delaney is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Since it began occupying its new arena in ...

Many cloud computing services are provided on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be accessed from anywhere at any time. In the world of IT, traditional disaster recovery is well-established in its ...

For many years, a central component of Allan Hancock College’s disaster recovery planning was ensuring mission-critical data was backed up and readily available to be restored. But a shift in payroll ...

These days, businesses rely heavily on cloud disaster recovery service providers to help them recover their precious data and application environments after accidental deletion or ransomware attacks.

I personally operate with a 5-tier plan for data protection: 1. Fault tolerance - Protect data with RAID, etc., or failover servers so that minor hardware failures don't result in lost data or lost ...

I'm familiar with this issue all too well. While the hospital has a redundant copy of a Live environment that is meant for use should the main servers become unusable, the plan assumes: 1. That this ...