Disaster recovery planning - management

The planning phase is crucial to the success of any disaster recovery (DR) initiative. This topic section provides administrators with up-to-date news and how-to information about the personnel, staffing, training and documentation needs related to DR. In addition, this section discusses the best practices for mitigating risks, analyzing potential business impacts, personnel issues, documentation, change control and performing RTO and RPO assessments.

April 26, 2021 26 Apr'21
What's on 2021's data protection conference calendar

Curious about data protection conferences in the coming months? This roundup details dates and topic areas for 2021 events covering backup and disaster recovery.
April 02, 2021 02 Apr'21
Castellan Solutions says COVID-19 forced BCDR rethink

COVID-19 caught organizations flat-footed in terms of business continuity, and new challenges will arise as vaccines are distributed, according to Castellan Solutions' CEO and COO.
January 19, 2021 19 Jan'21
Everbridge CTO details critical event management 'wake-up call'

Everbridge CTO Imad Mouline discusses how the coronavirus pandemic changed his company and businesses around the world, plus how organizations can improve crisis management.
October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20
Cohesity tries to fill 'SLA gap' with backup-DR combo

Cohesity's new SiteContinuity product is an automated disaster recovery product that uses the company's backup and continuous data protection capabilities based on the data's SLA.

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Establish a business continuity team to get the full picture

Business continuity teams provide insight and focus that can keep an organization on its feet when disaster strikes. Don't rely on a disaster recovery team to reduce downtime. Continue Reading
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Prepare for the unknown with an organizational resilience model

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The reality of Docker disaster recovery in practice

A successful Docker DR strategy must account for a range of factors, including the host infrastructure, networks and redundancy in the cloud. Continue Reading
Follow these standards for business continuity and resilience

Business continuity, disaster recovery and resilience professionals have numerous IT standards they can reference for nearly every aspect of planning. Continue Reading
Enterprise data storage 2020 Products of the Year finalists

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Operational resilience frameworks hinge on breaking down silos

Resilience is more than just business continuity and disaster recovery. Operational resilience depends on communication among many different business functions at an organization. Continue Reading
Top 3 backup and recovery requirements for data protection

Data protection teams are responsible for some of an organization's most critical activities. The right policies, testing and technologies are key to a backup and recovery plan. Continue Reading
Top 10 tips to effectively manage the data backup process

An organization's backup process should be comprehensive -- it could save the business in a crisis. These 10 tips describe how to run the process from start to finish. Continue Reading

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Combine business continuity and crisis management practices

Together, business continuity and crisis management procedures help an organization prepare for the worst. But careful planning is key. Continue Reading
Use APIs to create a custom disaster recovery report

The right set of PowerShell commands and API calls can go a long way to build and customize a disaster recovery report. Learn how with these steps. Continue Reading
Remote disaster recovery presents new business challenges

With more employees working remotely than ever, natural disasters and other typical DR crises present an entirely new challenge. How can businesses tackle this new set of risks? Continue Reading