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Disaster Recovery Facilities Operations

• 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

• Your disaster recovery planning process must include your phone system

  Independent disaster recovery planning expert Paul Kirvan discusses why your disaster recovery planning process must include your phone system.Continue Reading

• Call center disaster recovery testing best practices

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

• Creating a call tree plan for emergency communications

  Independent disaster recovery expert Paul Kirvan discusses how to create a call tree plan for emergency communications in this Expert Answer.Continue Reading