Articles about business continuity

Overcoming Escalating Disaster Recovery Costs

The high cost of disaster recovery solutions is often justified by the cost of “not doing business.” Simply put, the cost of downtime is usually high enough to justify the expense of a disaster recovery solution. Continue Reading »

The Data Center in Winter

As the East Coast of the U.S. rotated toward the sun this morning, the scene resembled something that might have been part of Ursula K. Continue Reading »

The Third Snowman of the Apocalypse

The scene near Washington, D.C. resembles something from a bad science fiction movie. It’s white everywhere you look. The snow is three to four feet deep, the wind howls. Continue Reading »

Five Ways CTOs Can Save Time and Money While Keeping Data Secure

With more data, growing costs and increased complexity, mid-market businesses face the most challenging data environment yet. Continue Reading »

CommVault Integrates Backup and Recovery with the Cloud

Provider of backup and archiving system delivers cloud computing connector. Continue Reading »

Disaster Recovery Is All About Imagination

Within our IT-centric world, we tend to forget that disaster recovery is more – much more – than getting mission-critical data restored. Continue Reading »

Avoiding Wireless Catastrophe

Earlier this week T-Mobile crashed, taking about two million of its customers down with it. Some lost voice, some data, some lost both services. It took until the wee hours of the next morning for the carrier to get everyone back on line. Continue Reading »

Backup and Recovery: Dodging the Digital Danger

I was frustrated because I’d been trying to reach my doctor on the phone all day, and all I got was a busy signal. I needed a prescription refill, and the doctor needed to make the call. So, while I was in the area, I cruised over to see his office manager. Continue Reading »

Let's Ban the iPhone

After I wrote about the Sidekick data loss catastrophe a couple of days ago, one of the first questions I got Continue Reading »

Caveat Cloner! Best Practices for PC Management with Cloning Software

Viruses, worms, user preference, compliance issues --  maintaining a single client hardware profile is next to impossible, but business pressures demand it. Cloning can be the answer.

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