Small business disaster recovery
Explore pertinent information for small businesses that want to create a successful disaster recovery plan, including tips on using disaster recovery services for small business and a disaster recovery plan template, as well as other testing, policy and tool advice.
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News
21 Dec 2021
Disaster recovery planning on readers' minds in 2021
New disaster recovery products attracted the site's most page views in 2021, indicating disaster recovery planning is top of mind with cloud-native protection. Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Dec 2021
IT resilience management, planning top of mind for DR pros
Resilience is a key issue for disaster recovery pros. This year, readers sought to build up their skills and learn more about the role of resilience in DR. Continue Reading
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News
07 Dec 2021
Backups for Microsoft 365 expands Rewind's portfolio
Rewind expands its SaaS protection with Backups for Microsoft 365. The new service is the first from Rewind in support of a major SaaS platform. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Jun 2021
Organizational resilience questionnaire for recovery teams
Following organizational resiliency standards such as ISO and BSI can prepare organizations for disaster. These questions provide a starting point to validate OR readiness. Continue Reading
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Tip
14 Jun 2021
How to build a strong crisis communications team
A crisis communications team works best when all members are fully aware of their responsibilities. Here are some tips on building a highly effective response team. Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2021
StorageCraft DRaaS sets up shop on Google Cloud Platform
StorageCraft's new DRaaS offering uses Google Cloud as its back end, giving it the scale, flexibility and security to service customers with large data sets. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2021
Infrascale refreshes DRaaS offering with SSD appliances
Infrascale Backup and Disaster Recovery added two new SSD appliances, giving customers an on-premises high-performance backup and recovery option in addition to DRaaS in the cloud. Continue Reading
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25 Aug 2020
BackupAssist ER offers a cheaper, slower path to DRaaS
BackupAssist ER offers disk-to-disk-to-cloud replication as a low-cost alternative to DRaaS, but lacks the recovery speed of DRaaS. It is suited for small enterprises willing to make that tradeoff. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Jul 2020
Small business pandemic plan should cover supply chain, staff
COVID-19 has many organizations shifting gears when it comes to pandemic planning, and SMBs are no exception. For small companies, adaptability is the key to recovery. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Mar 2020
Don't cut corners with disaster recovery and backup
A well-thought-out BCDR plan is just half of the resilience equation. A solid data protection strategy relies on thorough backup and disaster recovery planning. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Feb 2020
Ensure your DR strategy meets the challenges of a new decade
Traditional disasters and new cyberthreats have organizations reexamining their DR plans to ensure they maintain high levels of availability and can restore operations quickly. Continue Reading
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News
10 Feb 2020
Disaster recovery automation tools gaining traction
As new disaster recovery automation tools emerge, vendors and industry analysts recognize a growing demand for simplifying what can be a tedious process. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2020
Survey: Many businesses neglecting disaster recovery testing
Even though DR testing is a low-cost way to ensure readiness, businesses don't do it enough. Roadblocks include limited time, stretched IT teams and basic human nature. Continue Reading
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25 Sep 2019
Experts: Disaster recovery plans may overlook major outages
Disaster recovery needs to provide protection from natural disasters such as hurricanes, fires and floods, as well as cyberattacks that concern many IT pros. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Jun 2019
Disaster recovery for small businesses leaves no room for excuses
Are you putting off investing in disaster recovery efforts for your small business? If your reasons include a lack of urgency and funds, we have some news for you. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2019
Iland DRaaS goes under automatic control
The new Iland DRaaS product targets customers with limited DR resources or expertise. The goal of Iland Autopilot is to make deployment, DR testing and failover simple. Continue Reading
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News
15 May 2019
Kaseya acquisition trail continues with ID Agent -- is DR next?
ID Agent, the latest Kaseya acquisition, adds its identity protection capabilities to IT Complete and will be integrating with Spanning and Unitrends products. Continue Reading
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News
29 Apr 2019
New factors driving disaster recovery adoption
Threats from cyberattacks and climate change have replaced natural disasters as the main drivers behind companies adopting disaster recovery and make no geographic zone safe. Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2019
Compute-heavy Unitrends appliances allow on-the-box recovery
Unitrends offers up extra compute and memory in low-capacity backup appliances as an alternative to using the public cloud for small companies and remote offices. Continue Reading
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News
02 Jan 2019
AsTech uses Flexential data center for backup and DRaaS
When remote automotive diagnostics provider AsTech grew too big for its on-premises data center, it turned to colocation with Flexential for backup and disaster recovery. Continue Reading
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Answer
29 Aug 2018
Can an SMB business continuity strategy compete with larger firms?
When crafting a business continuity plan, an SMB must try and meet customers' enterprise-level expectations, while using its available resources to the fullest. Continue Reading
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Opinion
06 Jun 2018
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
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Tip
30 May 2018
Backup strategy for small business starts with best practices
Small businesses can't afford to go without a solid backup strategy. Thankfully, there are many backup for small business options, from tape to disk to cloud. Continue Reading