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Properly sizing your uninterruptible power supply
If you ever had to try to figure out how big a UPS you need to provide temporary power for your IT equipment, you may have many questions; this tip sheds some light on the subject.
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Eight tips for better disaster recovery
Achieving more reliable disaster recovery is still a challenge for most organizations. Learn eight tips for better DR planning in this tip.
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Best practices to help avoid and recover from security
Learn about the biggest security issues companies deal with today, how to avoid them, and how to recover from these types of disasters.
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Data classification and disaster recovery
Some companies are turning to data classification tools to determine what needs to be included in their disaster recovery plan.
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Change management in DR and BC planning
Change management is an important process for business continuity and disaster recovery planning for several reasons. Learn about change management best practices and its role in BC/DR planning.
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Disk array-based data replication: The pros and cons
Disk array-based data replication often seems like the simplest replication method with the least management overhead. Learn if it's right for your disaster recovery purposes.
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Data replication options for disaster recovery
Choosing the right data replication option for disaster recovery can be tricky. Here's a look at the replication options available today.
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Data replication tools for disaster recovery
For companies whose recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) for business-critical applications is a few minutes, data replication tools represent an efficient strategy for ...
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Data backup strategies simplify remote disaster recover
New backup and accelerator technologies are making remote disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) faster than ever. Learn more about implementing a cost-effective formal disk-based back...
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The economic benefits of a hot site disaster recovery i
A vendor-hosted hot site for disaster recovery purposes is an expense that may be better managed via an internal hot site. Learn more about the economic benefits of a hot site disaster recovery inv...
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Disaster recovery team planning: Guidelines on DR roles
With the amount of standards surrounding business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR), the roles personnel play in planning need to be established. Learn guidelines for establishing disaster...
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Disaster Recovery Manager be
Learn about IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Disaster Recovery Manager and how to set it up to automate disaster recovery and reduce the complexity of media management.
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Swine flu: Learn to plan for a pandemic
This article looks at how swine flu may impact your organization and offers practical advice on how to mitigate the impact on your organization.
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Choosing a data replication solution for disaster recov
Data replication has seen continuous and increasing adoption as a means of data protection since it first emerged. Learn how data replication can also be an effective part of disaster recovery and ...
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NFPA 1600 vs. BS 25999: Which is right for your busines
The amount of business continuity standards has been growing rapidly in recent years. This tip discusses the NFPA 1600 and BS 25999 standards to help you determine which is best for your business.
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Tape library trends for disaster recovery
For disaster recovery, no data center should be without a tape library system to protect critical and archived data. Learn more about cost-effectively storing and recovering critical data with a ta...
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Risk management for disaster recovery planning
Disaster recovery (DR) planning is typically driven by risk management. This tip focuses on mitigating some of the risks associated with data and storage.
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Disaster recovery and failback: Five tips
Most of the attention in business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) focuses on what to do before and during a disaster. This article explores what you should do to restore IT operations fo...
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Including server virtualization in your disaster recove
This tip discusses best practices for including server virtualization in your disaster recovery (DR) plan based on the hypervisor in use, the IT infrastructure in place and the required recovery ti...
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Best practices for selecting a disaster recovery facili
This tip discusses best practices for selecting a disaster recovery (DR) facility and will help you determine if an in-house DR facility, a collocation facility or a managed collocation space is be...
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Expert advice: Using replication in your DR strategy
Replication is increasingly finding its way into organizations' DR strategy. Check out our recent expert advice on the topic.
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Expert advice: Considerations for a facility DR/BC plan
Learn about creating a disaster recovery and business continuity plan for your organization's facility with this collection of expert advice.
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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.
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Financial activities to address in a disaster
Among the most important post-disaster activities to be addressed in your business continuity and disaster recovery plans are financial preparations.