The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them. In this final article, we look at maintaining the ...

According to Gartner, the majority of small and midsize businesses (SMB) under-invest in business continuity and disaster recovery planning. Gartner estimates only 35% of SMBs have a comprehensive ...

Disruptive events can affect an organization in multiple ways, but with the right strategy and practice CISOs can minimize downtime and accelerate the recovery process. On the morning of August 30, ...

In today's digital world, data is the lifeblood of businesses. Losing it can lead to significant financial losses, operational disruptions, and damage to a company's reputation. To safeguard against ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

Businesses have placed a greater emphasis on disaster recovery efforts since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Recovery managers are faced with the challenging task of ensuring that they can ...

According to FEMA and the US Small Business Administration, 40% of businesses do not reopen after a major disaster, 25% will fail within one year and 90% of businesses will fail within two years of ...

Disasters that severely impact business operations can come in many shapes and sizes. Events like fires, floods, snowstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes can bring companies to a screeching halt by ...

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 ...

While overall demand for disaster planning services surged after the atrocities of 9/11 and then again with the rush to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, it is now cooling according to analyst firm Gartner.

Miller, Holmes, Engemann, Kurt J., Yager, R.R. Recent events such as hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, power outages, and the threat of pandemics have highlighted our vulnerability to natural ...