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 ...

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 ...

The daily demands of keeping an IT infrastructure operational have grown increasingly complex thanks to how often and how rapidly vendors, technologies, and deployments change. In addition, ...

In the not so glamorous but critical world of disaster recovery planning, Meta Group highlights an unsurprising disconnect between how fast a business thinks it can recover from a disaster and how ...

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 ...

Data is one of the most important assets for many organizations. A significant level of care should be given to prevent data security incidents. However, despite the best plans and intentions, both ...

Every business has faced—or will face—disruptions that challenge its survival. It could be a ransomware attack paralyzing operations, a natural disaster wiping ...

As noted in the first article in this series, IT disaster recovery (DR) strategies and procedures help organisations protect their investments in IT systems and infrastructures. The essential mission ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity planning in areas such as remote access, networking, SaaS applications and ransomware. Over the past year, IT ...