As a backup and recovery specialist, I can pretty much look at your backup scenario (the number of servers you are backing up, the amount of data you are backing up, your backup medium, etc.) and tell ...

At the core of every logistics or supply chain strategy lies one key question: What is the objective? The answer determines ...

The recovery time objective (RTO) for a server, application, or system is often considered the holy grail by IT personnel. After all, this is the absolute drop dead time when things need to be up and ...

Establish a downtime threshold When building a disaster-recovery plan, the first objective should be to decide the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). The RPO dictates ...

According to FEMA and the US Small Business Administration, 40% of businesses do not reopen after a major disaster, 25% will fail within one year and 90% of businesses will fail within 2 years of ...

An effective disaster recovery plan assumes that the worst can, and will, happen. Organisations face a growing number of risks, from natural disasters and power and network failures, to human error, ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

While most enterprises begin their virtualization foray at the server level, faith-based financial services firm Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA) came at it from the storage side of the shop. The primary ...

Can your business get by with an asynchronous backup or must that offsite server be updated by the second to keep the business up and running at all times. Asynchronous vs synchronous. Dark disaster ...

IT has become critical to the operation of almost every company that offers goods and services to businesses and consumers. We all depend on email to communicate, collaboration software (such as ...