Category: Disaster Recovery Technology and Trends

“Going green” cannot only save your business money and make it a good corporate citizen, but green business practices can also make you less susceptible to the kinds of major events that call for DR in the first place. Here are some of the different levels of green practices you can incorporate to help establish…

There still seems to be some confusion over what disaster recovery really means. It’s definitely not the same thing as backup and recovery, although there are elements of backup within a DR plan. Here are the key differences between DR and backup.

Having decided that a comprehensive disaster recovery plan is a necessity at a time when freakish weather conditions are becoming the norm, many organizations are opting for Cloud-based disaster recovery services. A comprehensive DR “system” is a big task, and many decision-makers are realizing that the manpower and hardware costs associated with creating one in-house…

It’s not your imagination, and it’s not some creation of hyperactive news cycles. Weather-related disasters are on the rise around the globe, and that’s a fact. In 2013, there were 41 weather “events” around the world, which caused more than $1 billion in damages each, an all-time record.

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,…