This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, examines how to play multiple cloud providers off each other and what vendors and tools can help you manage multiple clouds. Read ...

Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...

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The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them. In this final article, we look at maintaining the ...

The Disaster Recovery Standard provides information for critical process and function owners and support personnel about what they should do to prepare for a disaster to ensure that RIT as a whole can ...

Q: “Disaster recovery” seems pretty self-explanatory. Is there any difference between that and “business continuity planning”? A: Disaster recovery is the process by which you resume business after a ...

Properly backing up your data in a secure manner is tantamount to keeping your cherished memories and important files stored safely. Every year on March 31, IT pros around the world celebrate World ...

Given the number of blackouts, hurricanes and other disasters that have come our way over the past few years, many CIOs are wisely re-examining their disaster recovery strategies. Executive Council ...

Chris Furey, CEO of Savvy Networks, a Web hosting provider and co-location service provider based in Tarrytown, N.Y., said that when clients request a disaster recovery plan, his company informs them ...

When systems go down, business grinds to a halt. Downtime leads to $9,000 in losses per minute on average, damaged reputation, and operational disruption. To that end, IT disaster recovery is more ...

While overall demand for disaster planning services surged after the atrocities of 9/11 and then again with the rush to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, it is now cooling according to analyst firm Gartner.