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Disaster Recovery Facilities Operations
Strategies for kicking off your pandemic recovery plan
Before resuming business activities after a pandemic, establish a timeline and plan for recovery. Reviewing a business impact analysis and creating a recovery framework can help. Continue Reading
Prepare for serious health threats with a pandemic recovery plan
COVID-19 has become a serious global threat and is rapidly becoming an issue for business continuity. Pandemic planning can help mitigate disruptive effects of disastrous events. Continue Reading
5 tips for building a crisis communication plan
A crisis communication plan is a set of steps and procedures that outlines how a company should communicate with its employees, stakeholders and the public during an emergency. Continue Reading
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12 key elements of a crisis management plan
Starting or revising your crisis management planning? Include these elements in a plan to make sure you don't leave anything out and your organization can run effectively. Continue Reading
disaster recovery (DR) test
A disaster recovery test (DR test) is the examination of each step in a disaster recovery plan as outlined in an organization's business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning process. 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
How to build and train organizational resilience teams
Well-trained resilience and emergency response teams are a key element of maintaining business continuity and recovering your organization when disaster strikes.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
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How to plan for the worst possible disaster recovery scenarios
Your worst-case DR scenario today might be vastly different than it was just a few years ago. What's the worst that could happen to your data center in the event of a disaster?Continue Reading
Disaster recovery planning checklist: Put your team to the test
With all of the planning that disaster recovery takes, it's easy to overlook the basics. Ensure that your DR team isn't skipping over internal issues, like staffing and security.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
warm site
A warm site is a type of facility an organization uses to recover its technology infrastructure when its primary data center goes down.Continue Reading
How to create an emergency phone tree and template
When disaster strikes an organization, employees must be alerted. Using a call tree in emergency situations is a time-tested way to effectively communicate events and next steps.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
Incident management planning and response are not synonymous
When it comes to disaster preparedness, incident response is just one aspect of an incident management plan that should cover training, funding and administrative tasks.Continue Reading
virtual disaster recovery
Virtual disaster recovery is a type of DR that typically involves replication and allows a user to fail over to virtualized workloads.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
natural disaster recovery
Natural disaster recovery is the process of recovering data and resuming business operations following a natural disaster.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
call tree
A call tree -- sometimes referred to as a phone tree -- is a telecommunications chain for notifying specific individuals of an event.Continue Reading
mass notification system (MNS)
A mass notification system is a platform that sends one-way messages to inform employees and the public of an emergency.Continue Reading
synchronous replication
Synchronous replication copies data over a SAN, LAN or WAN so multiple copies are available. The technique is used for applications with low recovery time objectives.Continue Reading
emergency notification system
Emergency notification systems contain names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses so crucial information can be communicated to employees during a disaster.Continue Reading
emergency communications plan (EC plan)
An emergency communications plan (EC plan) provides guidelines, contact information and procedures for how information should be shared should a crisis that requires immediate action occur.Continue Reading
disaster recovery site (DR site)
An organization uses a disaster recovery (DR) site to recover and restore its technology infrastructure and operations when its primary facility becomes unavailable. In deciding the location and setup of a disaster recovery site, a business must ...Continue Reading
Four tips for a successful business continuity audit
Learn how best to collaborate with internal and external auditors to audit for business continuity and disaster recovery improvements.Continue Reading
Improve your disaster recovery project management
Effective project management in business continuity and disaster recovery requires proper plans, establishing goals and deliverables, and setting a schedule.Continue Reading
Continuous improvement process important for BC/DR
A process for continuous improvement of BC/DR operational and administrative activities is an important aspect of a business continuity management system.Continue Reading
How do you choose the best uninterruptible power supply?
Here are the factors to consider when choosing uninterruptible power supplies to ensure systems remain online in the event of a power outage.Continue Reading
The 4-1-1 on DR testing technologies and best practices
Experts agree that testing is one of the most important aspects of disaster recovery planning. It is the only way to ensure that you are able to bring systems back online to meet recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives.
But, ...Continue Reading
Speed Hyper-V replication process by seeding replica VM
Hyper-V replication lets IT create secondary, offline virtual machines that can be used to recover operations following an outage of the primary VM.Continue Reading
What are the top five ways to train personnel in disaster response?
What are the five best ways to ensure personnel are trained in disaster response and ready to respond to a disaster event?Continue Reading
What you need to know before deploying VMware SRM
What are the top five things you need to know before deploying VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager)?Continue Reading
Virtualizing business continuity and disaster recovery activities
Given the growing popularity of virtualization, it makes sense to consider virtualizing business continuity and disaster recovery activities.Continue Reading
array-based replication
Array-based replication applies the functionality of data replication across one or more storage controllers, which eliminates the processing overhead from servers and makes it easier to copy large amounts of data.Continue Reading