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• 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 planning for mobile phone users

  Any disaster recovery plan that includes cell phone support must restore text messaging capabilities as well as email to text and text to email linking mechanisms. This tip discusses best practices for including mobile phones in your disaster ... Continue Reading

• Top reasons why disaster recovery tests fail

  Too many disaster recovery (DR) plans end up being a documentation exercise and never rise above the day-to-day priorities of the business. This tip explores the top reasons why disaster recovery tests fail and how you can prevent these problems. Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery planning strategies for email

  Email has become a mission-critical application. Loss of email access can result in lost revenue opportunities, missed contractual obligations and reduced employee productivity. This tip discusses best practices for ensuring email continuity. 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

• Conducting a business impact analysis for SMBs

  A business impact analysis (BIA) can be the most daunting task in business continuity planning and its complexity sometimes overshadow its value to SMBs. This tip offers a simplified approach by focusing on the essential elements of a BIA.Continue Reading

• How to create a Windows disaster recovery plan

  When disaster strikes, or site outages occur, there's absolutely no substitute for a carefully crafted, well-orchestrated and thoroughly tested disaster recovery (DR) or business continuity plan. The following list is a helpful reminder of the key ...Continue Reading

• Outsourcing data storage considerations for SMBs

  Outsourcing data storage and backups is an effective way for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) to capitalize on IT without making the investment themselves. This tutorial provides a list for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) to consider when ...Continue Reading

• How to create a business impact analysis for disaster recovery in 10 easy steps

  A business impact analysis (BIA) is crucial to a disaster recovery (DR) plan. This tip will identify the processes, systems and functions that are critical to a DR plan and help you allocate resources to ensure operational continuity during ...Continue Reading

• Communication in the workplace during a disaster

  Effective communication can be crucial to a disaster recovery (DR) plan. In this tip, Leo A. Wrobel and Sharon M. Wrobel discuss best practices for ensuring effective communication with employees in the event of a disaster.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

• RAID levels and application suitability, Part one

  With disk protection for business data, one size does not fit all. Applications and the various categories of data within a given application require different levels of protection. This tip discusses the individual types, or levels of RAID, and how...Continue Reading

• How to conduct a disaster recovery test

  This tip provides an overview of the benefits of disaster recovery testing and outlines important steps you need to consider.Continue Reading

• How to establish a recovery time objective (RTO)

  This tip will help you to understand how to establish your critical applications' recovery time objective.Continue Reading

• Risk management: Know your storage risks

  Risk management is a complex discipline and covers a broad area ranging from business and operational risk to the more focused IT risk. This tip narrows down the focus to specifically identifying data storage risk.Continue Reading