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Disaster Recovery Facilities Operations
Underscore preparation in your natural disaster recovery plan
When it comes to recovering after a natural disaster, you'll need more than just basic business continuity and recovery planning. Being informed about severe weather events is key. 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
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
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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
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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