Disaster Recovery Resources

Recovering from ransomware: Defend your data with best practices

What does it take to recover from a ransomware attack? In most cases, it's planning, testing and resources. Is your organization prepared for the worst? Continue Reading

4 areas where compliance with GDPR and disaster recovery intersect

Your disaster recovery plans may have to change following the need for compliance with GDPR. These four elements involve backups, personal data, security and archiving. Continue Reading

What standards for business continuity aid in compliance?

Business continuity and disaster recovery compliance is a valuable asset and may require a deeper understanding of modern standards and changes your organization needs to make. Continue Reading

What does the ISO 22330 business continuity standard cover?

With ISO/TS 22330, the International Organization for Standardization covers the issues related to the people involved in BCDR incident response. Continue Reading

Software developer uses Flexential data center for DR

Out of the cabinet and into the cloud, Virtual Resort Manager's disaster recovery journey started at colocation and ended up completely off premises in a cloud. Continue Reading

With a data recovery plan, take advantage of all resources

Data security and data recovery have a lot in common, and both can cause a lot of strife if not handled properly. Are you using every disaster recovery resource available to you? Continue Reading

Cloudian storage replaces tape at Vox Media

When tape just wasn't cutting it, Vox Media turned to Cloudian object storage to handle the massive influx of rich media its publications were producing. Continue Reading

Gen 8 Unitrends appliances span SMB to enterprise

Unitrends adds 12 TB hard disk drives and more models to cover a greater range of customer and workload sizes in its Gen 8 Recovery Series integrated appliances. Continue Reading

Five tips for disaster recovery insurance and funding

Having a complete disaster recovery plan is essential. So is having DR insurance and the money available to fund the recovery. These steps will help you succeed with the latter. Continue Reading

Five data recovery planning steps to protect vital assets

Accurately restoring lost data after disaster strikes requires planning, patience and logic. If your goal is a smooth recovery process, here's what you'll need to know beforehand. Continue Reading

Use an IT outage communication plan to recover from a host crash

Efficiently recover from a host crash by maintaining transparency for your stakeholders and evaluating the resources available for a full root cause analysis. Continue Reading

Can you recover from ransomware? Take our quiz and find out

Ransomware recovery is a complex, often expensive process. Are you prepared in the event of an attack? It may be time to ask yourself the difficult (or perhaps easy) questions. Continue Reading

Is your cloud DR strategy agile enough?

As business requirements evolve, not every DR tool can keep up. In the age of agile IT, there are drawbacks to consider with a cloud-based disaster recovery strategy. Continue Reading

Iron Mountain data recovery adds ransomware protection

The isolated nature of Iron Mountain's latest Iron Cloud offering is important to its battle against ransomware. The Virtual Cleanroom provides an offline recovery environment. Continue Reading

3 signs you may need a business continuity service provider

Using a BC/DR service provider may give your recovery plan a much-needed boost. As new technologies and standards arise, a partner can address changing needs. Continue Reading

Disaster avoidance requirements ensure business continuity

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A data replication strategy for all your disaster recovery needs

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A data replication strategy for all your disaster recovery needs

Know your IT environment inside and out to choose the right data replication product for your organization's current and future disaster recovery requirements. Continue Reading

Disaster avoidance requirements ensure business continuity

Include disaster recovery and avoidance requirements as design goals when creating storage and production environments to ensure business continuity during weather events. Continue Reading

Which modern disaster recovery tool is often overlooked?

When crafting a DR strategy, there are a number of useful tools available. To avoid missing out on some serious benefits, make sure you take a look at all available options. Continue Reading

Best practices for social media and business resilience

Solid business continuity and resilience depend on a thorough examination and update of company social media policies. Otherwise, you may have a disaster on your hands. Continue Reading

Protection from ransomware requires layered backup, DR

A strategy for protection and successful recovery from ransomware includes everything from monitoring tools to offline storage. Organizations should use multiple methods. Continue Reading

Consider multi-cloud disaster recovery for added protection

Using multiple clouds in your disaster recovery strategy may be more difficult to implement, but it will also give your cloud plan an added level of reliability. Continue Reading

Test your ransomware recovery plan to safeguard data

Testing your restore process prior to an attack is a major part of surviving a ransomware infection. Reduce recovery time and ensure data is secure with planning and preparation. Continue Reading

What to do when a BC/DR plan goes awry

Insufficient testing or not knowing what to expect could result in a failed business continuity plan. Luckily, there are steps you can take if your BC/DR planning goes belly up. Continue Reading

How does the ISO 22316 standard cover resilience?

Definitions for business continuity and resilience sometimes clash, but both processes help an organization stay on its feet. A new ISO standard tackles the latter. Continue Reading

JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform takes flight for DR, management

New vendor JetStream Software incorporated technology from flash caching developer FlashSoft and worked with VMware on its initial cloud data management releases. Continue Reading

Want IT resiliency? Look to both security and disaster recovery

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Want IT resiliency? Look to both security and disaster recovery

Security, protection from hackers and ransomware, disaster preparedness and disaster recovery are all means to the goal of resilient IT infrastructure and business processes. Continue Reading

What are vital elements of a workplace emergency response plan?

Emergency response planning needs to be specific and varied enough that it will enable an organization to recover in the event of many different kinds of incidents. Continue Reading

Key elements of an effective incident response playbook

In this book excerpt, cybersecurity expert and author Bryce Austin highlights the importance of creating an effective incident response plan and delineates its key elements. Continue Reading

Disaster recovery for cloud computing: Burning questions

Disaster recovery is a delicate, vital process that every organization needs to consider. With the rise of cloud computing, is cloud disaster recovery a viable option? Continue Reading

Tintri replication speeds agriculture firm's backup, restore

Tintri hybrid flash enables Life-Science Innovations to complete replication every night for all of its servers. The system can provide a server restoration in seconds. Continue Reading

What is a short business continuity history?

From mainframes to the cloud, the business continuity profession has seen a lot over the decades. How did we get to the business continuity process of today? Continue Reading

Don't let your BC/DR plan get lost in the shuffle

How can you maintain consistency in your BC/DR strategy in a world of constantly evolving technology? If it's a reactive part of IT, you're already behind. Continue Reading

Zerto Virtual Replication reduces marketing firm's RPO

Maritz needed a short RPO and flexible cloud provider options for its recovery process. Zerto replication protects applications to and from clouds and between multiple clouds. Continue Reading

Nakivo Backup & Replication software gets automated

Nakivo updates its software for quick and automated recovery. While the vendor has a focus on virtual data protection, it has expanded to include cloud support. Continue Reading

Lessons in business continuity and disaster recovery planning

When crafting a business continuity and disaster recovery plan, you have to anticipate the unexpected. Here is what we can learn about BC/DR from two high-profile disasters. Continue Reading

IT business continuity and disaster recovery: Past to future

From protecting mainframes to recovering from cyberattacks, the methods for business continuity and disaster recovery have changed, but the practice remains vital. Continue Reading

Which data protection trends will take off next?

Expect data protection technologies to veer toward an expansion of recovery capabilities, as organizations need to be able to recover in multiple locations -- and fast. Continue Reading

Converged backup and recovery strategies offer efficiency, reliability

Are you confident in your backup and recovery strategy? Make sure you have locked down the speed, testing and security of both processes to recover data appropriately. Continue Reading

Cloud data recovery challenges and how to overcome them

For an organization with a short recovery time objective, what makes a good cloud DR strategy? Availability, along with strong security, is a must-have. Continue Reading

A ransomware recovery plan for SMBs in five steps

SMBs are especially at risk of cyberattacks. Follow these steps, and even with a limited budget and staff, you could successfully recover from ransomware. Continue Reading

Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 dives deeper into multiple clouds

Zerto has added to its bidirectional Virtual Replication software with multi-cloud protection for data and applications stored in AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. Continue Reading

Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct cuts downtime for cloud DR

Arcserve UDP delivers short RPO and RTO for backup and disaster recovery in the cloud. The upgraded platform targets the enterprise and medium-sized businesses. Continue Reading

What are the top disaster recovery trends for 2018?

Expect disaster recovery market trends to include consolidation and simplification. Vendors should also note that quick failover and recovery time remain top needs for customers. Continue Reading

Create your best GRC program with business continuity and DR

Any governance, risk management and compliance program should work with an organization's business continuity process. There are challenges to consider, though. Continue Reading

IT DR planning helps Frost Museum of Science weather Irma

The Frost Museum of Science in Miami braced for Hurricane Irma with a solidified DR planning, storage and data center infrastructure, and it suffered minimal damage from the storm. Continue Reading

Using virtualized disaster recovery to fight ransomware

When it comes to fighting and protecting against ransomware, there are some major features of virtual disaster recovery that top physical environments. Continue Reading

Don't overlook these business resilience plan essentials

Business resilience planning requires preventive and proactive protections across power supply, systems, cybersecurity and backup procedures. Staff planning is important as well. Continue Reading

Data center disaster recovery plan template and guide

Read our guide on data center DR planning, and then download our free template to assess how your data center facility and its infrastructure would perform during a disaster. Continue Reading

Network disaster recovery plan template

If your organization doesn't have a network disaster recovery plan, download our free network DR plan template for tips on how to get started. Continue Reading

Free business continuity policy template

A business continuity plan can help organizations of any size prepare for a disaster. Resiliency, recovery and contingency planning are key elements to get systems up and running. Continue Reading

Business continuity and disaster recovery testing templates

BC and DR testing can be major challenges for any organization. Our free templates offer ways to incorporate testing into your overall management process. Continue Reading

Protection against ransomware takes flight with canary files

As ransomware attackers get smarter, it's important for data protection systems to step up their game. Canary files and infection detection are a good start. Continue Reading

How do I design and initiate a call tree procedure?

A call tree can be an important piece of disaster recovery planning. Follow these steps for call tree design and execution to ensure your company is ready for unplanned events. Continue Reading

Risk assessment analysis and BIA data in BC plans

Examine how BIA and RA data are used to formulate business continuity strategies. It's common to bypass these steps, but the data can result in more precise and focused BC plans. Continue Reading

Use business continuity to boost your corporate governance process

Business continuity planning can round out a corporate governance plan by identifying potential areas of failure and how to survive them. Continue Reading

Speed Hyper-V replication process by seeding replica VM

Hyper-V replication lets IT create secondary, offline virtual machines that can be used to recover operations following an outage of the primary VM. Continue Reading

How do you choose between file- and block-level replication?

Block- and file-level replication each offer important benefits, but for different applications. Learn the use cases of each in this Expert Answer. Continue Reading

What are the top five ways to train personnel in disaster response?

What are the five best ways to ensure personnel are trained in disaster response and ready to respond to a disaster event? Continue Reading

What are some common VMware High Availability configuration errors?

What are the most common mistakes people make when configuring VMware High Availability? Continue Reading

Six steps to build an effective enterprise risk management program

Follow these six steps to develop an enterprise risk management program that maps risks and establishes countermeasures. Continue Reading

Why the change management process is important for DR

Paul Kirvan discusses the importance of the change management process for disaster recovery in this Expert Answer. Continue Reading

Include the VoIP system in your disaster recovery planning process

Independent disaster recovery planning expert Paul Kirvan discusses why your VoIP system must be part of the disaster recovery planning process. Continue Reading

Your disaster recovery planning process must include your phone system

Independent disaster recovery planning expert Paul Kirvan discusses why your disaster recovery planning process must include your phone system. Continue Reading

Look closer at the granularity, flexibility of hypervisor replication

Increasingly, storage services are moving to the hypervisor. One of the storage services that stands to gain the most is hypervisor replication. Continue Reading

10 mistakes to avoid in your disaster recovery planning process

Don't make your DR planning process harder than it is by trying to do too much or cutting corners. Careful planning is key to a successful recovery. Continue Reading

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Toigo: Archiving data can accommodate ongoing data growth

IT administrators should begin looking at archiving data as a means of accommodating ongoing data growth, according to Jon Toigo. Continue Reading

Challenges of data deduping across public wide area networks

According to Jon Toigo, you have to know your payload and your distance when deduping across public WANs for data protection. Continue Reading

Building an incident response plan

Learn how incident response plans offer a starting point for responding to a situation and then deciding how to proceed in this tip from Paul Kirvan. Continue Reading

'Time to data' measures success in your business continuity program

In this Storage Decisions video, disaster recovery expert Jon Toigo discusses the major goals of a disaster recovery/business continuity program. Continue Reading

Determining your organization's critical data

In this video, Jon Toigo discusses the steps IT pros need to take to ensure they capture all of their organization's critical data. Continue Reading

Your data protection plan must consider latency in WAN-based replication

In this Storage Decisions video, Jon Toigo highlights issues IT pros must address in their data protection plan when using WAN-based replication. Continue Reading

The importance of cloud recovery testing

Brien Posey explains why it is extremely important to perform cloud recovery testing that simulates a real recovery following a catastrophe. Continue Reading

Building a DR site vs. outsourcing disaster recovery

Paul Kirvan explains some of the pros and cons of using a third-party vendor to provide a backup DR site versus building your own site. Continue Reading

Removing a bad patch using Microsoft Windows Server Update Service

This tip offers information about how to remove a bad software patch using Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Update Service. Continue Reading

Disaster recovery in the cloud explained

Discover whether or not disaster recovery in the cloud is a good choice for your organization, and the pros and cons of different cloud DR approaches. Continue Reading

Business impact analysis questionnaire template

Download our free business impact analysis questionnaire template we've created to help you jumpstart your BIA process. Continue Reading

What you need to know about automatic failover and disaster recovery automation

Learn about the benefits of automatic failover for disaster recovery, an option for companies that need zero downtime. Continue Reading

What you need to know about cold site disaster recovery

Get answers to your most important questions about cold site disaster recovery in this podcast with disaster recovery expert Harvey Betan. Continue Reading

High availability guidelines and VMware HA best practices

Elias Khnaser discusses VMware High Availability best practices in this chapter excerpt. After you read the excerpt, download the full backup and high availability chapter. Continue Reading

Getting started with outsourcing disaster recovery sites

Disaster recovery outsourcing can save you money, but follow these tips before you sign on the dotted line. Continue Reading

Free disaster recovery planning templates

Download our free templates today to help create the best disaster recovery plan for your business. Continue Reading

Network disaster recovery plan basics

A good set of network documentation can prove to be valuable in the event of a disaster. Learn about what to document and make part of your network DR plan. Continue Reading

Survey says cloud DR is viable, but security concerns linger

Nearly half of IT admins believe cloud disaster recovery (DR) services are a viable option, while others cite security concerns, according to a survey of IT professionals. Continue Reading

Bulletproof your disaster recovery planning process

Learn how to bulletproof your disaster recovery planning process with this free guide. Continue Reading

Disaster recovery security: The importance of addressing data security issues in DR plans

Data security issues have a constant presence in the IT industry and should be addressed in DR plans. It's not enough for storage managers to only cover basic security measures. Continue Reading

Disaster recovery planning for your help desk: A help desk template

The help desk is a vital part of IT operations, but it's often not included in disaster recovery plans. Download our help desk template for DR planning. Continue Reading

Hot IT disaster recovery trends for 2011

Here's a look at our predictions for the hottest disaster recovery trends for the year ahead: cloud disaster recovery, data center outsourcing, and more. Continue Reading

Top 10 IT disaster recovery tips of 2010

To help alleviate the problems that often arise with disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing, we've compiled our top 10 DR tips from 2010. Learn about cloud disaster recovery, DR maturity levels and more. Continue Reading

Maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPOD) vs. RTO and RPO

Learn what maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPOD) means for disaster recovery planners vs. the terms RTO and RPO. Continue Reading

Off-site disaster recovery: DR solutions for remote offices

Learn how to find the right off-site disaster recovery solution for your remote or branch office. Continue Reading

Virtualization disaster recovery planning tutorial

Virtualization disaster recovery (DR) differs from physical server DR in many ways. Learn the different technologies for virtual server backup and recovery, including VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and how VMware environments differ from Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer environments. Continue Reading

Network disaster recovery and business continuity technology tutorial

Whether you are getting started with server virtualization, are creating a disaster recovery network checklist or need to learn more about protecting your VoIP systems, we have the answers in our disaster recovery networking tutorial. Continue Reading

Disaster recovery site requirements: Building your own DR site

Take these physical, operational and functional concerns into consideration before you build your own recovery site. Continue Reading

Business continuity planning methodology quiz

Test your knowledge of business continuity with our business continuity planning methodology quiz. Continue Reading

Selecting a managed business continuity service provider

In this tip, determine whether or not you need a managed BC service provider for BC/DR planning purposes and the steps to take to get the best results. Continue Reading