When a discussion turns to disaster recovery and business continuity planning (BCP), the talk of IT staff quickly turns to ensuring that system and service availability is raised “to five nines” — an ...

Given the number of blackouts, hurricanes and other disasters that have come our way over the past few years, many CIOs are wisely re-examining their disaster recovery strategies. Executive Council ...

One in two small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have no recovery plan in the event of a network outage, data loss, or other IT disaster, according to a study released Tuesday by Symantec. That ...

Balancing Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery is crucial for robust organizational resilience. So, how does your organization integrate both strategies for maximum impact? What would it cost ...

No organization is immune to disaster, whether it's ransomware, cloud outages or unexpected system failures. That's why having a solid disaster recovery plan is critical -- especially for Microsoft ...

Having a downtime plan is only the first step. Healthcare organizations need to test their plans to ensure clinical staff know what to do when systems go down.

Next-generation data centers require next-generation business-continuity-planning and disaster-recovery strategies. Sounds obvious, yet those strategies are an ongoing struggle for the IT executives ...

Spring is the season of renewal, making it the perfect time to refresh not only physical spaces but also strategies and programs (like your IT Disaster Recovery (IT/DR) plans). Many organizations ...

The cyber event in the early morning hours of July 19 gave the world a rather surprising curveball in the disaster contingency planning arena. In what is being broadly tabbed as the most impactful ...

Scott Opalewski is a seasoned senior business development manager with over three decades of experience bridging technology solutions and business needs across multiple industries, including ...

Many companies treat disaster recovery documentation as a one-time exercise, rarely testing or updating it. But outdated runbooks can lead to delayed recovery, financial losses and reputational damage ...

Calamity can strike any business, whether it’s a natural disaster, a major infrastructure failure or a man-made disaster like a mass shooting or terrorist attack. Your small business can be thrown for ...