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.

Data Backup

How to use the duplicity backup tool
Open source tool duplicity can help sys admins manage many file servers, as well as back up and restore large amounts of data. ...
Arcserve prioritizes cloud choice with UDP platform update
Data backup specialist Arcserve is expanding the data resilience capabilities of its flagship platform with Azure support, ...
Cohesity's generative AI Gaia gets keyword search tool
A new search, questioning and data visibility feature arrives in Cohesity's generative AI Gaia with Data Explore. The update also...

Storage

Scality aims to build speed for object storage with Ring XP
Scality's Ring XP utilizes all-flash storage hardware with a stripped-down software-defined storage platform. The service brings ...
Physical vs. virtual memory: How the two types compare
Physical memory wasn't enough for storage systems. Computer architects created virtual memory to ease the performance burden and ...
Dell PowerMax uses AI for storage performance, efficiency
Dell PowerMax 10.2 uses the company's AI to optimize dynamic cache, while also building out data protection and using Apex's ...

Security

How to create an incident response playbook with template
Using an incident response playbook can speed up an organization's responses to cyberattacks. Find out how to build repeatable ...
Play ransomware attack tied to North Korean nation-state actor
A relationship between North Korean actor Jumpy Pisces and Play ransomware would be unprecedented, as the former has not ...
Microsoft warns of Midnight Blizzard spear phishing campaign
The tech giant is notifying users affected by a recently observed campaign, which has targeted more than 100 victim organizations...

CIO

Growing AI energy use, tech workloads constrain IT
Speakers at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2024 warned of rising energy use and cost. Workarounds include acceleration; microgrids; and...
Agentic AI sparks need for more orchestration, oversight
Orchestration all the way down: Experts say multiple levels of autonomous coordination and oversight will guide the near- and ...
Disinformation campaigns pose risk to enterprise businesses
Spotting and stopping disinformation campaigns often involve multiple entities within an enterprise business, including security,...

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