We recently talked about why your business needs a disaster recovery plan to survive. Is yours updated and ready to protect you?
If success is what you aspire to, you need to know what to do when unexpected events cause harm or hassle to your business. You need to be prepared, and you need to know [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Disaster Recovery Plan'
When Did You Last Update Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
April 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
Three Business Plan Essentials: Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity
November 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Storage, Virtualization
Erratic by nature, disasters (natural or man-made) can happen anywhere at any time, and often with little or no warning at all. Planning ahead is imperative to ensure that your business can get back to normal operation as quickly as possible, with minimal loss and damage.
Small to medium-sized businesses usually think that disaster plans are [...]
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Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 3: Has your business planned ahead?
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
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, [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·data backup·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hurricane·Hurricane Season
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 · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
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 [...]
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Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 1: How much could your business withstand?
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting
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 [...]
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Disaster Recovery — An Increasingly Important Aspect of Your Business
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services
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 [...]
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Why You Can’t Survive Without a Disaster Recovery Plan
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
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 Contunuity·Computer Virus·Data Losses·Department for Trade and Industry·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hardware Malfunction·Managed Services·Ontrack·Security·Site Disaster·Software Malfunction·System Malfunction
Evaluating Your Backup Solution
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services
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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