In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
The best time to respond to a disaster is before it even happens. As we stated in Part 1 of this series, [...]
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 3: Has your business planned ahead?
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Backup · Business Continuity · Disaster Recovery
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 2: “I’m not in the flood plain so I’m not going to flood.” … Think Again!
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments
In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
Many people think that bad things will never happen to them. They think that when a hurricane comes they won’t flood [...]
Tags: Backup · Business Continuity · Disaster Recovery
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 1: How much could your business withstand?
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments
In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
Hurricane season began on June 1st and will end on November 30th. During this time the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast [...]
Tags: Backup · Business Continuity · Disaster Recovery · Managed Hosting
Disaster Recovery — An Increasingly Important Aspect of Your Business
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
As networks and devices become increasingly complex, more and more things can go wrong. As a result, disaster recovery plans have had to become more intricate.
Is yours good enough?
According to Jon William Toigo, the author of Disaster Recovery Planning, 15 or 20 years ago a disaster recovery plan might have consisted of powering down a [...]
Tags: Backup · Business Continuity · Disaster Recovery · Managed Hosting · Managed Services
Why You Can’t Survive Without a Disaster Recovery Plan
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments
It’s simple: Businesses that suffer data losses usually fail as a result.
That’s according to a study by the Department for Trade and Industry, which found that 70 percent of small businesses suffering a major data loss are out of business within 18 months.
What this means is businesses have failed to protect themselves from a plethora [...]
Tags: Business Continuity · Disaster Recovery · Managed Services · Security
Evaluating Your Backup Solution
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments
You can’t have a disaster recovery plan until you first have a good backup solution. Is your backup solution good—or just good enough?
The traditional backup process was done to tape – which had a number of limitations including high cost (particularly as capacity increases), difficult upgrades, degradation over time, and slow backup and restoration. Over [...]
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