Tips

Tips

• Use disaster recovery standards to guide pandemic planning

  International quality management and compliance standards can help an organization kick off a disaster recovery plan for unprecedented scenarios, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.  Continue Reading

• Remote data protection and DR in the work-from-home boom

  Building a data protection strategy around remote working requires companies to enable employee access to data while ensuring that it is protected from threats such as shadow IT.  Continue Reading

• Strategies for kicking off your pandemic recovery plan

  Before resuming business activities after a pandemic, establish a timeline and plan for recovery. Reviewing a business impact analysis and creating a recovery framework can help.  Continue Reading

• 8 DRaaS risks to identify and remediate

  Before signing with a specific DRaaS provider, get information on how the vendor handles data protection and recovery and restoration, among other things.  Continue Reading

• Iland vs. Recovery Point: Compare these DRaaS providers

  Iland and Recovery Point Systems are two leading providers of managed DRaaS. Learn how each vendor's services compare and how they differentiate themselves.  Continue Reading

• Remote business continuity techniques to implement now

  Managing business continuity and disaster recovery without employees on site can be a challenge for an organization that doesn't typically function remotely.  Continue Reading

• Prepare for serious health threats with a pandemic recovery plan

  COVID-19 has become a serious global threat and is rapidly becoming an issue for business continuity. Pandemic planning can help mitigate disruptive effects of disastrous events.  Continue Reading

• 5 tips for building a crisis communication plan

  A crisis communication plan is a set of steps and procedures that outlines how a company should communicate with its employees, stakeholders and the public during an emergency.  Continue Reading

• 12 key elements of a crisis management plan

  Starting or revising your crisis management planning? Include these elements in a plan to make sure you don't leave anything out and your organization can run effectively.  Continue Reading

• Roles and responsibilities of a crisis management team

  The formation of a crisis management team that includes members with diverse skills can help organizations respond quickly and decisively to a crisis.  Continue Reading

• Don't cut corners with disaster recovery and backup

  A well-thought-out BCDR plan is just half of the resilience equation. A solid data protection strategy relies on thorough backup and disaster recovery planning.  Continue Reading

• What to look for in DR orchestration

  Disaster recovery orchestration is a must-have in the modern data center. However, that doesn't mean choosing the right tools for your organization is an easy process.  Continue Reading

• The future of DR orchestration goes beyond recovery

  What's next for disaster recovery orchestration? As tools grow and change, orchestration may soon go beyond disaster recovery, as well as aid in planning.  Continue Reading

• Tips for updating your corporate pandemic response plan

  To ensure your workplace pandemic response plan is up-to-date and sufficient, check it against other business continuity procedures, and consult important sources for further guidance.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery regulations complicate data compliance

  Many organizations struggle when it comes to compliance with recent data regulations. Modern disaster recovery adds an extra layer of difficulty for meeting these requirements.  Continue Reading

• Use this disaster recovery plan checklist to improve your plan

  Our comprehensive disaster recovery plan audit checklist can help you thoroughly evaluate your organization's DR plan to find and address potential weaknesses.  Continue Reading

• Obtaining professional business continuity certifications

  Professional resilience certifications recognize those working in business continuity and disaster recovery, and the education that comes with them is a valuable resource.  Continue Reading

• Updating your old business continuance plan for the new year

  Has your business continuity plan kept up with data center changes of the past year? If not, it may be time to revisit your plan's capabilities and existing recovery objectives.  Continue Reading

• How to build and train organizational resilience teams

  Well-trained resilience and emergency response teams are a key element of maintaining business continuity and recovering your organization when disaster strikes.  Continue Reading

• Tips for outsourcing business resilience services

  Outsourcing IT resilience is more feasible than ever, thanks to a rise in cloud-based options. If you plan on outsourcing resilience to a third party, be sure to do your homework.  Continue Reading

• Where cloud-based disaster recovery is headed in 2020

  To understand how the cloud will be used for disaster recovery in 2020, it will help to look at its recent trajectory. While growth is inevitable, there are bumps along the way.  Continue Reading

• Post-disaster recovery, don't overlook user connectivity

  After you've successfully recovered your environment, the job isn't quite over. Ensuring user connectivity following a recovery is the final vital step of a complete DR plan.  Continue Reading

• Tips for obtaining BC/DR plan and resilience funding

  Creating a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plan is no joke, and funding those services can add another hurdle to your company's IT resilience strategy.  Continue Reading

• Organizational vs. operational resilience: What's the difference?

  Achieving both operational and organizational resilience is key to ensuring that a company can protect and adapt its processes and bounce back in the event of a disaster.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery and backup: To converge or not to converge?

  While it makes sense to some degree to have overlap between backup and disaster recovery systems, there may be even more sense behind keeping them discrete.  Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity and business continuity integration boosts resilience

  Are you doing all you can to make your organization resilient? You might be hampering your company's efforts by keeping business continuity and cybersecurity planning separate.  Continue Reading

• Using multiple cloud providers can benefit your DR plan

  Incorporating a cloud-to-cloud strategy using multiple providers may not simplify your DR plan, but it can offer peace of mind in the event of a disaster.  Continue Reading

• Fortify your business resilience with consequence management

  Is there something lacking in your incident response strategy? Consequence management could be the missing piece in your organization's IT resilience plan.  Continue Reading

• Underscore preparation in your natural disaster recovery plan

  When it comes to recovering after a natural disaster, you'll need more than just basic business continuity and recovery planning. Being informed about severe weather events is key.  Continue Reading

• 3 types of DRaaS: Which approach is best?

  Your disaster recovery-as-a-service strategy needs to consider not only business needs but your IT staff's capabilities. Options range from full-on help to do-it-yourself DRaaS.  Continue Reading

• A good business disaster recovery plan considers IT, staffing

  Not sure if your disaster recovery plan takes business needs into account? A good plan should cover business operations, as well as technology and staffing requirements.  Continue Reading

• Successful disaster recovery approaches set priorities

  By taking a tiered approach, similar to cybersecurity, disaster recovery planners can structure their recovery to cut downtime and protect high-priority data.  Continue Reading

• How to plan for the worst possible disaster recovery scenarios

  Your worst-case DR scenario today might be vastly different than it was just a few years ago. What's the worst that could happen to your data center in the event of a disaster?  Continue Reading

• How to evaluate DRaaS providers

  DR-as-a-service providers need to be vetted properly to ensure that the services you have purchased are deliverable and meet expectations during a disaster.  Continue Reading

• Conduct a business impact analysis with these tips and tools

  A business impact analysis is a fairly standard part of disaster recovery planning, but nuances within your organization may affect your approach to conducting and using a BIA.  Continue Reading

• Secure disaster recovery will be a priority in 2019

  Along with weather events and IT outages, data security has become a major concern in DR. With cyberattacks on the rise, strategists are placing higher importance on resilience.  Continue Reading

• What to do if an internal notification system fails

  Having an emergency notification system in place can help maintain contact with staff during a crisis, but make sure that your company has a plan in place in case it malfunctions.  Continue Reading

• How to determine your disaster recovery objectives

  Ideal recovery objectives are different for every business. Luckily, there are four basic steps you can follow to ensure you set the right RTO and RPO.  Continue Reading

• DRaaS benefits that make ditching traditional DR worth it

  The benefits of disaster recovery as a service include lower cost, enhanced reliability and streamlined administration. It's no wonder that more organizations are being drawn to it.  Continue Reading

• How to ensure a secure disaster recovery operation

  As if recovering from a disaster isn't pressing enough, organizations also need to be mindful of potential security breaches when they are most vulnerable.  Continue Reading

• 4 key qualities in a disaster recovery team consultant

  An experienced and reliable disaster recovery consultant can offer significant benefits to a DR team. When choosing a DR consultant, it helps to be picky.  Continue Reading

• Focus more on disaster recovery strategy in 2019

  Evolving disaster recovery technologies have eased some of the common DR burdens over the past year, but strategic areas such as funding and security could use some more attention.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery trends and technologies to watch

  Major disaster recovery developments have changed the market yet again, and it's time to get ready for a new year in DR technology, before you end up lagging behind.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery planning tools: Predictive analytics for DR

  Today, predictive analytics and AI are fully realized disaster recovery tools. In the unpredictable world of DR, predictive analytics is a particularly powerful technology.  Continue Reading

• 3 common disaster recovery challenges from 2018

  The past year was a big one for disaster recovery teams, for better or for worse. Major challenges included the prevalence of ransomware, GDPR compliance and the cloud.  Continue Reading

• DR failover may benefit from API use

  Automating failovers for disaster recovery is a complex process, and APIs can help. However, implementing these changes effectively takes time and effort, so plan accordingly.  Continue Reading

• 10 steps for optimal IT disaster recovery plan design

  Have you ensured your disaster recovery planning is comprehensive and able to be understood by everyone involved? Our guidelines will help set you on the right path.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery vs. backup: Plan for and prioritize VM workloads

  Before admins design a recovery plan, they must plan out which VM workloads need a disaster recovery environment and which need backups. Weigh these factors before making the call.  Continue Reading

• 5 crucial multi-cloud disaster recovery principles

  A multi-cloud DR plan looks different for every organization, based on its needs. However, there are five universal precepts that can be applied to most multi-cloud strategies.  Continue Reading

• Malware response plan recovers data in 6 steps

  Responding to and recovering from malware is a complex process that requires significant preparation. With a response plan in place, you can be ready to prevent a malware disaster.  Continue Reading

• GDPR and disaster recovery: How to ensure you're covered

  After all of the preparations and changes your organization has gone through to prepare for GDPR, make sure disaster recovery doesn't get swept under the rug.  Continue Reading

• Highlight these 4 areas in your malware incident response plan

  The malware threat is on the rise, and recovery is no simple process. When planning a malware response, it's vital to get down specifics and eliminate unknown factors.  Continue Reading

• 4 areas where compliance with GDPR and disaster recovery intersect

  Your disaster recovery plans may have to change following the need for compliance with GDPR. These four elements involve backups, personal data, security and archiving.  Continue Reading

• With a data recovery plan, take advantage of all resources

  Data security and data recovery have a lot in common, and both can cause a lot of strife if not handled properly. Are you using every disaster recovery resource available to you?  Continue Reading

• Five tips for disaster recovery insurance and funding

  Having a complete disaster recovery plan is essential. So is having DR insurance and the money available to fund the recovery. These steps will help you succeed with the latter.  Continue Reading

• Five data recovery planning steps to protect vital assets

  Accurately restoring lost data after disaster strikes requires planning, patience and logic. If your goal is a smooth recovery process, here's what you'll need to know beforehand.  Continue Reading

• Use an IT outage communication plan to recover from a host crash

  Efficiently recover from a host crash by maintaining transparency for your stakeholders and evaluating the resources available for a full root cause analysis.  Continue Reading

• 3 signs you may need a business continuity service provider

  Using a BC/DR service provider may give your recovery plan a much-needed boost. As new technologies and standards arise, a partner can address changing needs.  Continue Reading

• Best practices for social media and business resilience

  Solid business continuity and resilience depend on a thorough examination and update of company social media policies. Otherwise, you may have a disaster on your hands.  Continue Reading

• Consider multi-cloud disaster recovery for added protection

  Using multiple clouds in your disaster recovery strategy may be more difficult to implement, but it will also give your cloud plan an added level of reliability.  Continue Reading

• What to do when a BC/DR plan goes awry

  Insufficient testing or not knowing what to expect could result in a failed business continuity plan. Luckily, there are steps you can take if your BC/DR planning goes belly up.  Continue Reading

• Don't let your BC/DR plan get lost in the shuffle

  How can you maintain consistency in your BC/DR strategy in a world of constantly evolving technology? If it's a reactive part of IT, you're already behind.  Continue Reading

• Lessons in business continuity and disaster recovery planning

  When crafting a business continuity and disaster recovery plan, you have to anticipate the unexpected. Here is what we can learn about BC/DR from two high-profile disasters.  Continue Reading

• Converged backup and recovery strategies offer efficiency, reliability

  Are you confident in your backup and recovery strategy? Make sure you have locked down the speed, testing and security of both processes to recover data appropriately.  Continue Reading

• Cloud data recovery challenges and how to overcome them

  For an organization with a short recovery time objective, what makes a good cloud DR strategy? Availability, along with strong security, is a must-have.  Continue Reading

• A ransomware recovery plan for SMBs in five steps

  SMBs are especially at risk of cyberattacks. Follow these steps, and even with a limited budget and staff, you could successfully recover from ransomware.  Continue Reading

• Create your best GRC program with business continuity and DR

  Any governance, risk management and compliance program should work with an organization's business continuity process. There are challenges to consider, though.  Continue Reading

• Using virtualized disaster recovery to fight ransomware

  When it comes to fighting and protecting against ransomware, there are some major features of virtual disaster recovery that top physical environments.  Continue Reading

• Don't overlook these business resilience plan essentials

  Business resilience planning requires preventive and proactive protections across power supply, systems, cybersecurity and backup procedures. Staff planning is important as well.  Continue Reading

• Protection against ransomware takes flight with canary files

  As ransomware attackers get smarter, it's important for data protection systems to step up their game. Canary files and infection detection are a good start.  Continue Reading

• Risk assessment analysis and BIA data in BC plans

  Examine how BIA and RA data are used to formulate business continuity strategies. It's common to bypass these steps, but the data can result in more precise and focused BC plans.  Continue Reading

• Use business continuity to boost your corporate governance process

  Business continuity planning can round out a corporate governance plan by identifying potential areas of failure and how to survive them.  Continue Reading

• Speed Hyper-V replication process by seeding replica VM

  Hyper-V replication lets IT create secondary, offline virtual machines that can be used to recover operations following an outage of the primary VM.  Continue Reading

• Six steps to build an effective enterprise risk management program

  Follow these six steps to develop an enterprise risk management program that maps risks and establishes countermeasures.  Continue Reading

• Look closer at the granularity, flexibility of hypervisor replication

  Increasingly, storage services are moving to the hypervisor. One of the storage services that stands to gain the most is hypervisor replication.  Continue Reading

• Building an incident response plan

  Learn how incident response plans offer a starting point for responding to a situation and then deciding how to proceed in this tip from Paul Kirvan.  Continue Reading

• The importance of cloud recovery testing

  Brien Posey explains why it is extremely important to perform cloud recovery testing that simulates a real recovery following a catastrophe.  Continue Reading

• Removing a bad patch using Microsoft Windows Server Update Service

  This tip offers information about how to remove a bad software patch using Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Update Service.  Continue Reading

• Getting started with outsourcing disaster recovery sites

  Disaster recovery outsourcing can save you money, but follow these tips before you sign on the dotted line.  Continue Reading

• Free disaster recovery planning templates

  Download our free templates today to help create the best disaster recovery plan for your business.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery planning for your help desk: A help desk template

  The help desk is a vital part of IT operations, but it's often not included in disaster recovery plans. Download our help desk template for DR planning.  Continue Reading

• Top 10 IT disaster recovery tips of 2010

  To help alleviate the problems that often arise with disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing, we've compiled our top 10 DR tips from 2010. Learn about cloud disaster recovery, DR maturity levels and more.  Continue Reading

• Off-site disaster recovery: DR solutions for remote offices

  Learn how to find the right off-site disaster recovery solution for your remote or branch office.  Continue Reading

• Selecting a managed business continuity service provider

  In this tip, determine whether or not you need a managed BC service provider for BC/DR planning purposes and the steps to take to get the best results.  Continue Reading

• Due diligence on a disaster recovery plan enables business continuity

  Creating an effective disaster recovery plan is essential to business continuity, regardless of ambiguity around IT controls for data protection.  Continue Reading

• The pros and cons of IT disaster recovery outsourcing

  Outsourcing DR is becoming a popular option for many companies because of its lower cost. Learn about the pros and cons of outsourcing DR in this tip.  Continue Reading

• Change management in disaster recovery and business continuity planning

  Change management is an important process for business continuity and disaster recovery planning for several reasons. Learn about change management best practices and its role in BC/DR planning.  Continue Reading

• Data replication tools for disaster recovery

  For companies whose recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) for business-critical applications is a few minutes, data replication tools represent an efficient strategy for disaster recovery (DR).  Continue Reading

• Risk management for disaster recovery planning

  Disaster recovery (DR) planning is typically driven by risk management. This tip focuses on mitigating some of the risks associated with data and storage.  Continue Reading

• Including employees in your disaster recovery plan

  To really ensure business continuity, organizations need to protect and support employees while continuing to manage the business. This tip examines key issues that are affecting employees in business continuity and disaster recovery situations.  Continue Reading

• Top disaster recovery tips for protecting your VoIP systems

  Voice over IP (VoIP) technology is the principal technology for supporting converged or unified communications. This tip discusses how converging voice and data in an all-IP environment gives businesses cost-effective and flexible solutions that ...  Continue Reading