A business impact analysis is one of the smartest preventative maintenance tasks a company can invest in today, particularly with cyber security risks increasing in number and severity. One area that is carefully examined in the analysis is disaster recovery. While preventing disasters with proactive measures, such as automated traffic monitoring, is a part of every good plan, knowing what to do in the event of a disaster is equally as proactive and can protect your business. Digitalization … [Read more...]
Disaster Recovery Strategies for the Digital Era
Reports of extreme weather across the globe are causing companies to consider how to best protect their data and systems. For disaster recovery experts, this means they’re constantly thinking of new and improved ways to claw back from a natural disaster or perhaps even keep everything operational during a weather event. But disasters aren’t solely at the hand of Mother Nature; disaster recovery can also help a business recover when employee error or technology failure occurs. In the best-case … [Read more...]
Your Network Disaster Recovery Audit: Best Practices for an Enhanced Strategy
Companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on cloud technology to hit growth goals, making cloud solutions critical components in infrastructure planning. But one question IT teams are asking is whether cloud-based solutions assist in generating a network disaster recovery audit. A disaster recovery audit allows companies to protect data and systems from the possibility of a disruptive event, such as a network or equipment outage, or a power outage due to a natural disaster. Audit … [Read more...]
Why Your Company Should Consider DRaaS for Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers a variety of services, including hosting, data replication, and recovery – all managed in the cloud to reduce the impact of a power outage, natural disaster, or ransomware attack. All applications, data, and infrastructure are backed up in the cloud using multiple data centers over a wide geographical region. If a natural disaster occurs, the company can utilize the data center in another geographical location for backup. The Key Benefit of … [Read more...]
Do You Need to Update Your Disaster Recovery Strategy?
The list of disasters that can impact your ability to carry on with business as usual is long. Rather than being reactive to a bad situation, getting ahead of them and knowing exactly how you will react to unfortunate circumstances is important for your business. If it’s been a while since your organization has addressed your disaster recovery strategy, there’s no time like now to make some important adjustments. Cloud Assistance Organizations have flocked to cloud-based solutions for … [Read more...]