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• Preparing an annual schedule of business continuity activities

  Many activities comprise a business continuity plan, and the better you manage them, the more successful your overall business continuity program will be.  Continue Reading

• Free service-level agreement template for DR plans

  Download our free SLA template to help you get started planning the performance and response time requirements associated with disaster recovery activities.  Continue Reading

• Free IT disaster recovery plan template and guide

  A DR strategy is the cornerstone to ensuring infrastructure and applications continue to operate when a major outage hits. Our free DR template outlines the needed steps.  Continue Reading

• Free cybersecurity incident response plan template

  Want to boost your organization's ability to fight cybersecurity threats? Learn the essentials to creating an incident response plan and download our free, editable template.  Continue Reading

• Natural disaster recovery planning: 4 frequently asked questions

  When crafting a disaster recovery plan, don't rule out natural disasters as a major threat. Don't let a storm catch you off guard after making your recovery preparations.  Continue Reading

• Words to go: Disaster recovery planning checklist

  Working on a disaster recovery plan? Don't forget to include these vital tests, exercises, plans and assessments when preparing for a disruptive event.  Continue Reading

• A condensed look at the IT resilience market

  A lot is going on in the market for resilience. Acquisitions, partnerships and other consolidations have bundled DR planning offerings, creating one-stop shopping experiences.  Continue Reading

• BC/DR plan template: How to prepare for an active shooter event

  A standard BC/DR template typically covers weather, equipment failures and fires. In recent years, more organizations are naming active shooting scenarios as a BC/DR concern.  Continue Reading

• Developing an emergency communications plan: A template for business continuity planners

  Effectively communicating information in a crisis is an important part of business continuity planning. Get the steps to follow in our emergency communication plan template.  Continue Reading

• Using a business impact analysis template: A free BIA template and guide

  If you need to perform a business impact analysis, this guide and our free, downloadable BIA template will assist you in your business continuity planning.  Continue Reading

• A free business continuity plan template and guide

  A business continuity plan is critical for an organization when an unplanned event occurs. Follow this template and BC planning guidelines to get on the right path to resilience.  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

• A free IT risk assessment template

  A risk assessment is a critical part of the DR planning process. Read our guide on how to prepare a risk assessment, and then download our free risk assessment template.  Continue Reading

• Risk analysis boosts disaster recovery planning process

  Business continuity and disaster recovery are chronically overlooked. Learn what you can do to avoid losses that could impact your organization.  Continue Reading

• Focus on disaster recovery and contingency planning in 2013

  It's time to make disaster recovery and contingency planning a priority in 2013. This collection of templates, articles and videos is a great start.  Continue Reading

• What is business continuity? Learn these DR terms

  Check out this list of important BC/DR terms on SearchDisasterRecovery.com. The list includes terms you should know and some that may seem obscure.  Continue Reading

• Criteria for staffing a disaster recovery site

  Who should be staffing your disaster recovery site isn't always clear. Find out what you need to know about staffing your DR site in this Q&A.  Continue Reading

• Factoring VoIP into your disaster recovery plan

  Paul Kirvan, independent disaster recovery and business continuity expert, answers some commonly asked questions about disaster recovery and VoIP in this Q&A.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery and business continuity articles and podcasts by DR expert Paul Kirvan

  Learn about disaster recovery (DR) planning, business impact analysis, and download our free business continuity and DR templates in this collection of articles from DR expert Paul Kirvan.  Continue Reading

• Data center emergency power strategies in disaster recovery planning

  Despite all the precautions you can take to provide uninterrupted power to your data center, situations can occur that threaten your center's continued operations. Learn about emergency power strategies in disaster recovery planning.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery testing FAQ

  Pierre Dorion, data center practice director at Long View Systems Inc., discusses the importance of testing in a disaster recovery (DR) plan and best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of a test.  Continue Reading

• WAN acceleration and optimization FAQ

  Wide area network (WAN) acceleration and optimization can produce numerous benefits by reducing the traffic you're transmitting to remote locations. Check out this FAQ guide to learn about the significance of WAN optimization in the disaster ...  Continue Reading

• Failover and failback operations FAQ

  Failover and failback operations can be crucial to the success of a disaster recovery (DR) plan. So how confident are you in your organization's failover processes? Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, discusses the significance of ...  Continue Reading

• Failover and failback in server virtualization environments FAQ

  Failover and failback operations can be crucial to the success of a disaster recovery (DR) plan. Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, discusses the significance of failover and failback operations in the server virtualization ...  Continue Reading

• Why use server virtualization for disaster recovery (DR)?

  Server virtualizationhas some interesting implications for DR and I think it has driven a lot of organizations to consider it more seriously over the past few years. Not long ago, DR meant shipping tapes out to remote sites, loading them and then ...  Continue Reading

• What are the benefits of wide area network (WAN) acceleration/optimization?

  The list gets pretty long, because there are obviously numerous benefits to be had if you can reduce traffic you're transmitting to remote locations. On one hand, it allows you to consolidate resources in one central data center or in larger data ...  Continue Reading

• Can you define failover and failback?

  Failover is the process of shifting I/O and its processes from a primary location to a secondary disaster recovery (DR) location. This typically involves using a vendor's tool or a third-party tool of some type that can temporarily halt I/O, and ...  Continue Reading