Your organization’s disaster recovery plan is an essential component of its business continuity plan. It must include not only the physical setups for data replication and data protection at a secondary location, but also effective failover and fallback strategies to ensure you will be able to execute your disaster recovery plan successfully. Failover and failback operations are critical…
Data protection is the process of safeguarding important information from corruption, compromise or loss. In today’s environment, businesses are demanding faster recovery times than ever before. These demands are only achievable with a recovery plan that focuses on applications, not just data and servers. A strong data protection plan will help ensure that the data…
No step is more critical for success in the field of Information Technology than documentation. It is squarely in the middle of the System Development Life Cycle, but is usually left until after testing and deployment. However, when it comes to a successful Disaster Recovery strategy, documentation is even more important than it is for standard…
You come into the office on a Monday morning to find that a pipe has burst, and your desks are sitting in pools of water. What would you do? You are preparing for a major presentation when the fire alarms and overhead sprinklers go off. Do you have a place to go? Having a backup…
Today’s businesses are tech savvy enough to understand the importance of having a disaster recovery strategy as a part of their business continuity planning process. It is no longer a nice option to have, it is a necessity. Could your business survive a disaster without the critical hardware and software, data, and systems it relies on to…
Is your disaster recovery plan current, comprehensive, and readily available to everyone involved? Our proven guidelines and best practices will help set your business on the right path. Natural disasters, internal threats, and human errors are just some of the risks that could impact your business. If you believe you are safe due to the…
The level of risk from any particular threat varies widely across organizations, based on business type, location, and other factors. However, the danger of the “average” business facing some business disruption in any given year is far from insignificant, and it’s no longer a question of whether or not you should put a disaster recovery…
The need for long-term scalability makes colocation an attractive option to most growing businesses. If an organization were to build their own on-premises data center, they would face the challenge of determining what the best size would be. Not only would the data center facility need to meet their current requirements, but also be able…
