Articles about business continuity

The Hidden Data Loss Dangers of Virtualization

Virtual machine contention for disk resources creates increased opportunities for data loss. Continue Reading »

Security Lessons Learned from California Power Outage

The 9th of September 2011 saw a power outage in the U.S. affecting 5 million people in the area of Southern California — the root cause analysis of which is said to have been one single employee switching out a piece of problematic equipment. Continue Reading »

Getting IT Ready for Hurricane Irene

Up and down the East Coast preparations are being made for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, people are boarding up windows, battening down hatches, buying bottled water and so on. However, what are businesses doing to prepare for this pending disaster? Continue Reading »

The Coming Data Crisis

Existing backup and archiving technologies will not meet current data management challenges. Continue Reading »

Automatic Backup: A Key Disaster Recovery Component

Many people confuse backup with disaster recovery, often with disastrous results. Nowhere is this more apparent than in small business and branch office locations that lack dedicated IT staff. Continue Reading »

Replicating the Hypervisor

Disaster recovery tasks today are still based on the same basic replication technologies that have been a hallmark of backup and recovery for more years than anyone cares to remember. Continue Reading »

Dealing with Cloud-based Storage

A few days ago when I wrote in Forbes about using the cloud as a means to ensure your data is safe for disaster recovery, I got an interesting question. What, the questioner asked, do you do with the data once it’s there? How, he wondered, do you recover the data so that you can use it after the disaster? Continue Reading »

Business Continuity Is Never Foolproof

Recent events have shown us that planning for any type of disaster is still filled with uncertainty. Continue Reading »

Truly Preparing for the Worst

A couple of days ago, while I was watching the horrific scenes of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I thought about writing about disaster planning in this blog. But the more I watched, the more it became obvious that Japanese businesses and the Japanese government had done far more planning, and had been doing it for many more years, than anyone I know of in business in the U.S. Continue Reading »

Disaster Warnings Shouldn't Take You Down

This is being written during a week in which there are disasters and potential disasters throughout the world. Continue Reading »

Syndicate content (C01 _th3me_)