• Practical advice about disaster recovery planning

  By Jeff Klaus, Intel Corporation | 20 May, 2013 20:33

  Disaster recovery plans and the usual mix of uninterrupted power supplies (UPSs), co-location services, data mirroring and hot-standby technologies theoretically make it possible to weather any storm. But are backup systems, replication rules and fast failover solutions enough?

• Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage

  By Sharon Gaudin | 08 May, 2013 16:52

  Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today.

• Understanding hypervisor-based disaster recovery

  By Gil Levonai, VP of marketing and products, Zerto | 07 May, 2013 20:32

  A common misconception in IT is that virtualization and enterprise-class disaster recovery just don't mix. Either you get the flexibility of the virtual data center or the robust capabilities and short recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) that come with great DR, but never both at the same time.

• Encryption as an enabler: the top 10 benefits

  By Steve Pate, CTO and co-founder of HighCloud Security | 30 April, 2013 21:04

  If deployed correctly, encryption does not need to be a headache. Instead, encryption can be an enabler to achieve the flexibility, compliance and data privacy that is required in today's business environments.

• STORserver enters cloud business

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 April, 2013 20:11

  STORserver, a maker of backup appliances, announced private and public cloud backup services.

• 6 CIOs Share Their Strategic Visions for 2013

  By John Brandon | 30 January, 2013 14:38

  If your IT organization doesn't have a clear core strategy, it's easy to get caught up in--and spend too much on--technology trends. Learn about six CIOs' strategies for 2013 and see how they compare to your plans for the rest of the year.

• 'Black swan' predictions for 2013 include solar storm

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 20 December, 2012 11:05

  If you are making a list of tech predictions for next year, as this story does, it may be a good idea to put the solar maximum on this list. The next one is expected in 2013, says NASA.

• Hurricane Sandy leaves wounded servers in its wake

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 November, 2012 11:09

  Data recovery experts have been kept busy in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which left a slew of data centers underwater, damaging equipment and threatening a significant loss of business-critical data.

• New York, New Jersey financial sector well prepared for Hurricane Sandy

  By Lucas Mearian | 27 October, 2012 10:14

  Lessons from 9/11 have helped ensure the financial services sector in New York and New Jersey is prepared for disasters, and even shorted the time to recover when regional events happen.

• Business continuity planning - more than just disaster recovery

  By Allan Davies | 12 February, 2011 08:00

  As a nation, we have certainly faced our fair share of disasters lately; flooding in Queensland and Victoria, cyclones in Queensland and massive bush fires in Western Australia — just months after devastating earthquakes in Christchurch. Our hearts certainly goes out to all of the people affected by these disasters but I personally feel the pain of all the IT professionals who are, or will be, working tirelessly to bring IT systems back on-line in order to maintain some form of business continuity in these affected areas.

• Dealing with disaster

  By Tim Mendham | 06 September, 2010 10:08

  Earthquakes? Volcanoes? Pandemics? Tsunamis? Are these the stuff of business continuity? Gartner has issued several papers covering major disasters such as the Iceland volcano eruption and its impact on business travel, admitting that “few, if any, businesses plan for a volcanic ash disruption scenario”, which is probably the understatement of the year.

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