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Disaster Recovery Articles
With many years of professional IT experience, and training as a Certified Management Consultant, a Project Management Professional, a Professional Engineer and a Member, Business Continuity Institute, Steve Tower has the skills and abilities required to assist with even the most complex disaster recovery planning initiatives. Below, Steve discusses the necessary tools involved in setting up a disaster recovery plan and program.
Keep Your Business Afloat When Disaster Strikes – 2 Items You Need To Know
Disaster recovery planning is a must these days. Whether you start creating the right plan for compliance purposes or to help protect your company’s stakeholders, understanding how to keep your business running in the face of any kind of a disaster is par for the course in today’s economy. Not sure how you might recover?…
Make Disaster Recovery Planning a Positive Experience – Here’s How
There are few things more frightening than an audit. At the end of the process, you always feel blindsided. It’s never possible to see what’s coming, and you always end up feeling unprepared, no matter what the outcome. After all, when was the last time you talked to someone who had just left an audit…
Finding Opportunities in Disaster Recovery Planning – It’s Not Just Planning for the Worst
The words “opportunity” and “disaster” are rarely used together, but from every solid DR plan opportunities arise. The reality is that disaster recovery planning has a beneficial side few companies even begin to consider. Wondering what kinds of positive aspects can really come out of planning for the worst possible day of your company’s existence?…
What Mistakes Are You Making in Disaster Recovery That Will Cost you?
After developing a clear strategy in the initial stage of DR planning, the next two phases put the plan into a “ready for action” state. Implementation and maintenance are two distinct parts of the overall life cycle, but work together to ensure readiness, should the plan need to be set in motion.