It’s human nature to want to accentuate the positives and downplay the negatives about us. This is as true for individual people as it is for our businesses and organizations. The problem is that the bigger organizations usually have bigger rugs to sweep the unflattering stuff under.
Author: Steve Tower
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.
Is Your Business Prepared For The Unthinkable?
In the past several months, we’ve seen environmental events cause billions of dollars of damage for North American businesses. We’ve seen ice storms virtually close down major cities for days without electrical power. Floodwaters have swamped vast city blocks on different parts of the continent, causing untold headaches. Hurricanes and tornadoes seem to threaten more…
Small Business? Building A Disaster Recovery Plan In Five Stages
Owning a small business these days is a bit like performing in the circus. Some days it feels as if you’re juggling chainsaws just to stay on top of things. Our days are full, and sometimes, important longer-term tasks get put aside, things like preparing your organization for a major IT disaster. The good news…
Why Cloud-Based Services Are Changing The Face Of DR
It wasn’t that long ago when an organization, once hit with an IT catastrophe like a flood or prolonged power outage, had to retrieve from a warehouse hundreds of magnetic tape canisters that constituted their backup. From there it was a painstaking, labor-intensive and time-consuming process getting the IT systems restored and running. In retrospect,…
Should You Use the Cloud as a Disaster Recovery Tool? Here Are the Pros and Cons
As global Cloud computing capabilities continue to grow on a daily basis, the Cloud seems to be asserting itself into more and more of our computing functions. Some things like data, document and file storage seem like a perfect fit for the Cloud. And there’s something intuitively appealing about using the Cloud as a way…