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• Remote data protection and DR in the work-from-home boom

  Building a data protection strategy around remote working requires companies to enable employee access to data while ensuring that it is protected from threats such as shadow IT. Continue Reading

• 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

• Using a pandemic recovery plan template: A free download and guide

  Outbreaks like the latest coronavirus can spread fast. Download our free pandemic planning template and read our step-by-step guide on pandemic planning for businesses. Continue Reading

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Call center disaster recovery planning best practices

  Independent disaster recovery expert Paul Kirvan offers some best practices for call center disaster recovery planning in this Expert Answer.Continue Reading

• Fire suppression system inspection and testing best practices

  Independent disaster recovery consultant Paul Kirvan discusses fire sprinkler system inspection and testing best practices in this Expert Answer.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

• Include vendors in your business continuity planning process

  Involving vendors in your business continuity planning process helps ensure that critical resources are available when they are needed most.Continue Reading

• Prepare for a data center resilience assessment

  Your data center must be resilient to threats like hurricanes and tornadoes. Paul Kirvan offers tips to conduct a data center resilience assessment.Continue Reading

• Integrating business continuity management system into an organization

  Your business continuity management system must be accepted by your organization, and its policies and procedures embedded into the firm's operations.Continue Reading

• 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.Continue Reading

• Diesel vs. natural gas generator for data center disaster readiness

  Independent disaster recovery expert Paul Kirvan offers insight on choosing between a diesel and natural gas generator for disaster readiness.Continue Reading

• Evaluating emergency power supply options

  Independent disaster recovery consultant Paul Kirvan discusses what you should consider when evaluating emergency power supply options.Continue Reading

• Identifying business impact assessment errors

  Find out what business impact assessment errors you can most easily identify in this Expert Response from Pierre Dorion.Continue Reading

• Business impact analysis tools available to help companies

  Pierre Dorion highlights some of the business impact analysis tools available to help companies in this Expert Response.Continue Reading

• Debating quantitative impact vs. qualitative impact

  Pierre Dorion explains how to weigh a short-term financial risk against a damaged reputation in this Expert Response.Continue Reading

• Outsourcing DR to hot and cold site providers

  Learn when it is inappropriate to outsource DR to a hot or cold site provider in this Expert Response by Paul Kirvan.Continue Reading

• Comparing the costs of hot sites and cold sites

  Learn the differences in cost between hot sites and cold sites in this Expert Response from Paul Kirvan.Continue Reading

• WAN design: Building a resilient WAN

  This tip will help you spot potential WAN design problems before they escalate and show you how to boost resilience without sacrificing performance.Continue Reading

• Wireless local area network backup and recovery

  Paul Kirvan offers wireless local area network (WLAN) backup and recovery tips to help you protect your investment in WLAN technology.Continue Reading

• Conducting a damage assessment

  The damage assessment provides an initial view of the situation (what happened, what has been damaged, and potential for it to continue).Continue Reading

• Tips for recovering from cyber attacks

  Find out how your organization can fully recover from a cyber attack in which your network infrastructure has been attacked and defenses breached.Continue Reading

• Essential disaster recovery (DR) program activities

  Find out what must be part of a well-organized disaster recovery (DR) program in this Expert Response from Paul Kirvan.Continue Reading

• What must happen before activating a DR plan

  Find out what must happen before a DR plan is activated in this Expert Response from Paul Kirvan.Continue Reading

• Identify DR strategy before completing a DR plan

  Without a disaster recovery (DR) strategy, you will have a difficult time completing a DR plan, says Paul Kirvan in this Expert Response.Continue Reading

• Tips for protecting hard-copy records

  Find out how to protect hard-copy records and what your business continuity/disaster recovery plan for vital documents should include.Continue Reading

• Tailoring a disaster recovery program to your organization’s needs

  Check out these tips to ensure that your business continuity and disaster recovery programs are synchronized to your business.Continue Reading

• Top five disaster recovery templates

  The editors of SearchDisasterRecovery.com have compiled this list of our five favorite templates published this year.Continue Reading

• Getting started with outsourcing disaster recovery sites

  Disaster recovery outsourcing can save you money, but follow these tips before you sign on the dotted line.Continue Reading

• The impact of ISO 31000 risk management standard on business continuity

  Learn about the new of ISO 31000 risk management standard and how you can leverage it to improve your business continuity management program.Continue Reading

• Top five disaster recovery and business continuity books

  Are you new to business continuity or want to brush up on best practices? Learn about the top five business continuity books for veterans and those new to the profession.Continue Reading

• Off-site disaster recovery: DR solutions for remote offices

  Learn how to find the right off-site disaster recovery solution for your remote or branch office.Continue Reading

• Developing an emergency evacuation planning strategy for your business continuity program

  It's critical to have a reliable and safe evacuation plan included in your DR/BC plan. Use these tables to construct one.Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery site requirements: Building your own DR site

  Take these physical, operational and functional concerns into consideration before you build your own recovery site.Continue Reading

• Facilities management guidelines for business continuity professionals

  If facilities management is integrated with other aspects of disaster recovery and business continuity, disasters may be more easily resolved.Continue Reading

• Fire suppression systems and your data center disaster recovery plan

  Fire suppression systems are important to have in case of a fire. Learn about the pros and cons of the most popular fire suppression systems in this tip.Continue Reading

• Top five free disaster recovery plan templates

  Check out our compilation of the top five free disaster recovery (DR) plan templates. Download our free templates and then read our DR plan template guides.Continue Reading

• The importance of workforce continuity in a disaster recovery plan

  Strong workforce continuity is important to have in a disaster recovery (DR) plan. Companies must prepare employees for disasters in order for a DR plan to run smoothly.Continue Reading

• Twelve tips for business continuity management in a recession

  Follow these 12 tips for the most successful business continuity management during a recession.Continue Reading

• Change management in disaster recovery and business continuity 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.Continue Reading

• The economic benefits of a hot site disaster recovery investment

  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 investment.Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery planning for both internal threats and external threats

  Both internal threats and external threats can wreak havoc to even the best disaster recovery plan. Read important tips about why your disaster recovery plan needs to go deeper than just a business impact analysis.Continue Reading

• Using business continuity templates for disaster recovery

  Formulating business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plans requires a significant amount of time and effort. This tip explores how document templates can guide you through the disaster recovery planning process by providing ready-made ...Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery sites: How to choose the correct location

  There are no clear standards for choosing a disaster recovery (DR) site. So how do you determine the appropriate level of geographic diversity? This tip breaks down how to choose the correct location for your DR site.Continue Reading

• Five questions to ask disaster recovery service providers

  For many companies, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) planning are rushed reactions to a disaster. Proactive DR and BC support can be established with relatively little time investment by employing DR outsourcing services. This tip...Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery site options

  When planning, setting up and operating a disaster recovery (DR) plan, having alternate sites for IT operations is critical. In this tip, Ed Tittel discusses the specific features, functions and costs of hot, warm, cold and mobile sites.Continue Reading