1. Contingency Planning and Management - "Disaster Recovery" by Charles Carter
    If your company utilized a BIA (Business Impact Analysis) prior to a disaster, then the weeks following the disaster will actually assess the goals and objectives addressed by the BIA. The disaster has given your company an opportunity to test your Disas... more
     
  2. Pulling the Rabbit Out of the Hat: Disaster Data Recovery by A.B. Newland
    Like most people, when you think of disasters, you probably envision flooding, hurricanes or earthquakes. Yet in the world of a networks, PC's and data or to someone who makes their living using information technology, a disaster can be quite different an... more
     
  3. Colocation and Disaster Recovery Facilities by John Tourloukis
    How valuable is your data? Does it mean the world to you? If yes, your worst nightmare is probably loss of all or part of the data. And if just the thought of that makes you cringe, it’s time you educated yourself about the existence of disaster recovery ... more
     
  4. The Importance of Disaster Recovery Planning by Adrian Martin
    Picture the scene, its Monday morning and you’ve traversed the morning rush hour and arrived at the office only to find a disaster zone. Over the weekend the office has experienced a fire that has all but destroyed the premises. IT, key documents, plant... more
     
  5. Microsoft SQL 2000 Disaster Recovery with SANRAD V-Switch - Planning Guide by Efrat Aharoni-Levi
    IntroductionDesigning a disaster recovery system requires planning and consideration of the available options that will best fit your company’s needs, SLA and budget.With SANRAD DR Solution there is no need to use Log shipping (which requires extra recove... more
     
  6. When Your Computer Fails: A Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Home-based Business by Pamela Bruce
    If you are self-employed and work from home, you wear several hats, so to speak: you may be the marketing manager, accountant, receptionist or PR person. You are also your own technical support department and therefore responsible for safeguarding your da... more
     
  7. Lessons From Katrina - Does Your Business Have an Adequate Disaster Recovery Plan? by Mike Makler
    The Hurricane Katrina Disaster has lessons for all business owners. Now is a Good time to look over your Disaster recovery plan and see if it would survive a Hurricane Katrina Type Disaster. You may be surprised how easy and cheap it is to have a Disast... more
     
  8. Disaster Recovery- Managing the Risk by Terry Cohen
    Helping your business survive in the event of an unforeseen disaster: Most business failures are not from bad business but from bad business practices.Most companies that fail are the ones that have not planned how their business will continue to functio... more
     
  9. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Reducing Your Risk Profile by Robert Mahood
    Like all plans, there is an ultimate goal to achieve. The goal in a business continuity plan is simply that: to continue your business in the face of a disaster or a disruption. A business continuity plan is not just for a disaster. It’s also for the s... more
     
  10. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan by Robert Mahood
    Essentially, the plan addresses the who, what, where, why and when of recovery. Goal number one is to reduce the risk profile of the business. Goal two is to be well prepared so the impact of any disruption is minimized. Overall, the objective of the plan... more
     
  11. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Selecting A Business Continuity Strategy by Robert Mahood
    The risk analysis and business impact analysis have identified risks to key business functions. Also, the potential impacts and probabilities of these risks as well as the costs to prevent or mitigate damages and the time to recover will have been establi... more
     
  12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Business Impact Analysis by Robert Mahood
    Business impact analysis is a critical part of the business continuity planning process. This step quantifies data and gets into the real world issue of potential losses that can negatively impact your business. It is used to understand the most important... more
     
  13. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Risk Analysis and Control by Robert Mahood
    In the risk evaluation phase, there are a number of key areas that must be covered. One of the most important is to understand probable threats. In an ideal world, which most of us have noticed does not exist, we would identify and protect ourselves again... more
     
  14. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - A Business Not a Technology Issue by Robert Mahood
    Hackers, hurricanes, fires, flooding, power outages, denial of service attacks, application failures, employee error, sabotage and now terrorism are helping companies to focus on the necessity of a business continuity plan.Through the late 1990s as compan... more
     
  15. Disaster Recovery Made Easy With Online Backups by Harald Anderson
    Whenever disaster strikes the most critical asset that every company should have protected from sudden loss due to fire, flooding, or theft is their data. No matter what happens to your hardware you can be sure to be able to be up and running no matter h... more
     
  16. Big Time Disaster Recovery Solutions Available for the Little Guy by Harald Anderson
    There was a time — not too long ago — that Data Disaster Recovery solutions were available only in the domain of multinational corporations and big business in general. However, with the proliferation of high speed internet access and the ability to stor... more
     
  17. Exchange Disaster Recovery with SANRAD V-Switch Planning Guide by Efrat Aharoni-Levi
    IntroductionDesigning a disaster recovery system requires planning and consideration of the available options that will best fit your company’s needs, SLA and budget. This guide will help you design an Exchange Disaster Recovery plan in conjunction with ... more
     
  18. Really? You Don't Need A Website Disaster And Recovery Program? Why? by Manny Jao II
    If you answered YES to that, you’re dead wrong my friend. Let me prove it to you by giving you real true-to-life examples.Recently, I asked this question to one lady webmaster named Dorothy and she said quite simply,“Well, why should I do that? My webhost... more
     
  19. Recovery From Business Disaster by Scotty Patterson
    It never ceases to amaze me that when people decide to go into business for them selves, the lack of planning that follows their initial enthusiasm.Now I’m not talking about the use of a Business Plan, although terribly important for a business if you pla... more
     
  20. Remote Backup as Part of a Disaster Recovery Strategy by Mike Colesante
    2ace New technologies and recent storm reports have forced many companies to review disaster recovery plans and data protection policies.Hurricanes striking the Gulf Coast and Eastern seashore have a significant impact on the businesses operating in thei... more
     
  21. Disaster Recovery Services: Questions to Ask of a Service Provider by C Seagrave
    With increasing dependence on systems availability, the recovery of your core servers, applications and network are fundamental in the event of a disaster. In fact, as organisations rely more and more on ‘anytime, anywhere’ connectivity, ‘systems availabi... more
     
  22. Planning A Backup And Restoration Of Files For Disaster Recovery by Roger Stuart
    The Backup utility creates a copy of data on a hard disk of a computer and archives data on another storage media. Any storage media such as removable disks, tapes, and logical drives can be used as a backup storage.While taking a backup of files, the Bac... more
     
  23. Do You Have a Disaster/Recovery Plan? by Terry Green
    Do You Have a Disaster/Recovery Plan?With the recent onslaught of ice storms and flooding happening all over the US and Canada, as well as the hurricanes that ripped through Florida and the south earlier this year, many people are finding themselves faced... more
     
  24. Hurricanes: Disaster Prevention - Recovery by Mario Ramis
    Before the next time you hear hurricane --think inland flooding!Conduct another walk-through of your organization's business continuity plan. Look for business and computing changes since the plan was originally implemented, last tested, or revised. Deter... more
     
  25. Disaster Recovery: Failure to Plan is a Plan to Fail by C Seagrave
    1f74 Today’s organisation is increasingly dependent on its IT infrastructure and communications network. Remote offices, customers and business partners are all reliant on their ability to access your core systems, Intranet or Extranet – often 24 hours a... more
     
  26. CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Hot Sites, Warm Sites, and Disaster Recovery by Chris Bryant
    Part of passing the Network+ exam and being an outstanding network administrator is being prepared for disaster. Sometimes that's a disaster on a relatively small scale, such as a drive failure. If you're running data backups on a regular basis (and you... more
     
  27. Records Management And Its Key Role In Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery by Steve Holmes
    The UK’s Records Management Society defines records management as, “the process by which a company manages all the elements of records whether externally or internally generated and in any format or media type, from their inception/receipt, all the way th... more
     
  28. Ask a Disaster Recovery Specialist by June Campbell
    What would happen to your data if: you backed your SUV over your laptop? your laptop spent two days in a sunken cruise ship submerged at the bottom of the Amazon River? firefighters rescued your computer's scarred carcass from a flaming warehouse? ... more
     
  29. Preparing For Disaster Recovery by Alexander Gordon
    Disasters can happen any time and anywhere. Chemical spillage from overturned truck, power outages, brownouts or surges, windstorms, tornadoes and earthquakes can affect your business adversely. Prepare your employees and clients to respond to any possibl... more
     
  30. Disaster Recovery Services for Small Businesses by Alexander Gordon
    In this era of automation, disaster recovery is gaining increasing significance. Since all the business have adopted computer technology, and rely on the computers’ memory to run their businesses, any attack on the machine can adversely affect a company’s... more
     
  31. Data Disaster Recovery - Is It Really Necessary? by Greg Eiskins
    When people think of disasters, they mainly think of flooding or earthquakes. In the world of computer experts or people who makes their living using information technology, a disaster can be quite different and yet can have the same paralyzing effects. L... more