Tips

Tips

• 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

• 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

• Ten things you must have in your disaster recovery plan

  While disaster recovery (DR) plans are made to be followed, the recovery team must be given the flexibility to deviate from the plan's tasks while still following recovery objectives. In this piece, Ken Koch discusses ten tips for ensuring the ...  Continue Reading

• Achieving effective change management with a disaster recovery (DR) plan

  How can your organization get a handle on change management as it relates to disaster recovery (DR)? In this tip, Kevin Beaver discusses how you can please IT auditors and show management that their DR money is being well spent by leveraging ...  Continue Reading

• How to create a corporate disaster recovery policy

  For the dedicated technologist, disaster recovery (DR) planning can be fun. However, the temptation to plunge into this pool of excitement without planning is often overwhelming. Resist the temptation. This tip discusses how establishing a corporate...  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

• 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

• 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

• Network disaster recovery checklist

  This checklist, broken down into four topical areas -- general network considerations, LAN, WAN, and network infrastructure applications -- can help you focus your disaster recovery planning effort.  Continue Reading

• Better DR and BC planning

  Storage analyst Greg Schulz shares a list of items to consider and address as part of managing and maintaining a business continuance and disaster recovery plan.  Continue Reading

• How to determine acceptable data loss

  The first thing you need to do when creating a disaster recovery plan is to figure out what you can afford to lose.  Continue Reading

• Beyond storage: 12 types of critical disaster recovery teams

  This excerpt discusses the 12 types of teams you should identify and staff ahead of time, as part of efforts to develop an overall disaster recovery plan.  Continue Reading

• DR, BC, BIA: What's the difference?

  You have to know what you're talking about when you get into the business of keeping the business going. Here is some useful info.  Continue Reading

• Prepare remote access for disaster recovery

  Test to make sure it will work when you need it.  Continue Reading

• Classifying data for disaster recovery

  Classify your data so that the most important data gets recovered first.  Continue Reading