Category: Disaster Recovery Technology and Trends

It’s every organization’s nightmare: a catastrophic loss of your IT data and functions. And as much as you imagine that it will never happen to your business or organization, the fact is that there’s no wishing away of power failures, or flooding, or egregious employee errors, or any other kind of disaster before it happens.

Availability, Capacity and Configuration are areas that all IT organizations are responsible for. Each of these areas relates directly to a Disaster Recovery Plan and it is important to consider each in the implementation and maintenance of this plan.

As professional computing services continue the trend towards remote access, businesses are relying on more and more on thin clients and centralized processing. Rather than furnish every workstation with a fixed desktop, most companies prefer the efficiency and cost savings of hoteling, work location flexibility and portability by provisioning laptops and other mobile devices with…

When a natural disaster (flood, earthquake, etc.) or electronic disaster (virus, systems crash, etc.) strikes an organization, the results can be devastating. Luckily, there are tools available to make coping less stressful.

Preparing for a disaster is not something that can be achieved overnight. Indeed, many elements of a recovery plan require days, weeks, months, even upwards of a year, to be ready for deployment.