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Crisis communications plan: How to build one, with template

Don't overlook crisis communications when you are disaster recovery planning. Use these tips and our free template to build a thorough crisis communications plan.

By Paul Kirvan • July 18, 2025

Implement a business continuity plan for remote workers

Business continuity efforts don't stop when employees go remote. Learn how to create and manage a reliable business continuity plan for remote workers.

By Paul Kirvan • July 2, 2025

What is business continuity software?

Business continuity software is an application or suite designed to make business continuity planning/business continuity management (BCP/BCM) processes, metrics and compliance more efficient and accurate.

By Paul Kirvan, Ed Hannan • July 2, 2025

Can AI predict natural disasters?

AI technology works with vast amounts of information to provide data-driven planning. Learn how AI can help organizations prepare for upcoming disruptions with this tip.

By Damon Garn • July 1, 2025

Rubrik pivots to generative AI with Predibase acquisition

Data stored within Rubrik's backup platform could soon be another data lake for customers to tap into as the vendor looks to acquire AI specialists Predibase.

By Tim McCarthy • July 1, 2025

Change management in business continuity

Change management and business continuity share a common goal: Preventing future disruptions. Find out where change management fits into business continuity planning here.

By Paul Kirvan • June 30, 2025

Best practices for VoIP disaster recovery

VoIP technology can provide communications support in a crisis. Disaster recovery teams must protect VoIP systems just as you would any server holding mission-critical information.

By Paul Kirvan • June 24, 2025

What is a pandemic plan?

A pandemic plan is a documented strategy for how an organization plans to provide essential services when there is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.

By TechTarget Contributor • June 20, 2025

Business continuity failures: 5 real-world examples to study

Business continuity failures are costly and can significantly harm a company's reputation. These five high-profile examples demonstrate what can go wrong when a plan fails.

By Stuart Burns • June 16, 2025

6 DRaaS risks to assess and mitigate

Cloud DR is a popular strategy today, but not exactly invulnerable to threats. Assess the risks associated with DRaaS and learn to mitigate them before a crisis strikes.

By Paul Kirvan • June 13, 2025

What is change control?

Change control is a systematic approach that includes the various steps needed to process changes made to a product or system.

By Wesley Chai, Paul Kirvan, Scott Robinson • June 11, 2025

Rubrik expands cloud databases and Oracle Cloud protection

Backup vendor Rubrik will protect numerous new workloads in the platform this year, but cybersecurity experts warn customers to continue prepping for threats.

By Tim McCarthy • June 5, 2025

Organizational vs. operational resilience

Organizational and operational resilience are two critical components of BCDR. Learn the differences between the two and how to establish them for peak resilience.

By Paul Kirvan • June 2, 2025

What is risk mitigation?

Risk mitigation is a strategy that helps businesses prepare for disasters and other issues and decrease the effects of threats they face.

By Ben Lutkevich • May 30, 2025

8 data sanitization software options for businesses

These eight data sanitization software options can help backup administrators protect sensitive information, ease compliance and strengthen data security.

By Brien Posey • May 29, 2025

Data center power outage causes and how to prevent them

Mitigating data center power outages is crucial for business survival. Learn the strategies today's organizations use to safeguard their critical infrastructure from disruptions.

By Paul Kirvan • May 27, 2025

Clear, Purge, Destroy: NIST media sanitization 101

NIST SP 800-88 outlines how to responsibly destroy data and keep confidential information out of the wrong hands. Learn more about the NIST guidelines for media sanitization here.

By Paul Kirvan • May 21, 2025

High availability and resiliency are vital to a DR strategy

Together, high availability and resiliency can prepare an organization for potential disruptions. Find out how these metrics work in disaster recovery.

By Paul Kirvan • May 16, 2025

The importance of a data destruction policy

Data destruction policies increase backup efficiency, ease data management and help organizations meet compliance requirements for data storage.

By Damon Garn • May 13, 2025

What is an emergency notification system?

An emergency notification system is an automated approach to crisis communications that contacts people within an organization and distributes important information during a disruption.

By Paul Crocetti • May 12, 2025

What is image-based backup?

Image-based backup creates a copy of an operating system (OS) and all the data associated with it, including the system state and application configurations.

By TechTarget Contributor, Erin Sullivan • May 12, 2025

What is data recovery?

Data recovery is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or made inaccessible.

By Stephen Bigelow, Andrew Burton, Ed Hannan • May 5, 2025

Veeam CEO discusses data resilience, VMware migrations, IPO

In this Q&A, Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran speaks to the customer pain point of VMware migrations, the potential for acquisitions and whether tariffs have affected Veeam's business.

By Paul Crocetti • May 2, 2025

10 ways to reduce your MTTR

Mean time to repair is a critical metric for BCDR professionals. Learn how to calculate and reduce MTTR with this tip.

By Paul Kirvan • April 30, 2025

7 ways to improve your ransomware backup strategy

It's time to review your strategy for ransomware backup and recovery.

By Paul Kirvan • April 28, 2025