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Disaster Recovery Facilities Operations

• 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

• Disaster recovery strategy guidelines: Preparation and response

  A disaster recovery and response plan should be unique to each organization, but there are universal best practices that can facilitate rapid and comprehensive incident response. Continue Reading

• How to ensure a secure disaster recovery operation

  As if recovering from a disaster isn't pressing enough, organizations also need to be mindful of potential security breaches when they are most vulnerable. 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

• Ransomware recovery effort aided by offline backups

  With ransomware threats so prevalent, one way to start your organization's protection strategy is to make sure critical data backups are disconnected from primary storage. Continue Reading

• What are top operational availability risks in data centers?

  Reasons for operational downtime range from the mundane to the extreme. If your organization wants to keep its mission-critical workloads running, here are three areas to monitor.Continue Reading

• Five disaster recovery test plan mistakes to avoid

  Expert Paul Kirvan details five disaster recovery test plan errors to eliminate from your pre-test buildup, and some considerations for during and after testing.Continue Reading

• How do I make a case for a business disaster recovery plan?

  Developing a business disaster recovery plan requires buy-in from management as well as the building landlord.Continue Reading

• How UPS devices can protect a virtualization host

  Uninterruptible power supply devices protect servers against power failures, but protecting virtualization hosts requires unique considerations.Continue Reading

• Do cloud disaster recovery providers allow users to access data?

  Some cloud DR providers offer provisions that make it feasible for an organization's employees to work remotely if the office is not accessible.Continue Reading

• How do you fail back to a production VM from a secondary VM in the cloud?

  Among the factors to consider when failing back to an on-site production VM is virtual machine IP address modification.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 five most important things to know about VMware failover?

  Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting discusses the top five things you should consider before deploying VMware failover in your data center.Continue Reading

• Five things you must do before a hurricane to protect your business

  Paul Kirvan lists five disaster-preparedness things you must do in the days leading up to a hurricane to protect your business.Continue Reading

• Include the VoIP system in your disaster recovery planning process

  Independent disaster recovery planning expert Paul Kirvan discusses why your VoIP system must be part of the disaster recovery planning process.Continue Reading