There is no easy way to quantify the financial benefits of investing in backup and recovery. That’s why with many companies, funds and resources for a backup and recovery solution are only allocated as part of another project. Too often the costs aren’t fully understood until after a company faces a major data loss. Can you afford to […]
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction recently released its report on economic business loss from disasters. The 246 page report was shocking in that it reports economic losses since 2000 are over $2.5 trillion. This figure is disturbing because it is at least 50% higher than international estimates held it at previously. The […]
What Changes With Disaster Recovery in the Cloud? Is your company prepared to save critical business data in the event of a disaster? Statistics estimates that 33% of businesses won’t survive a disaster, making an IT disaster recovery plan an invaluable investment for any business owner. A decade ago, businesses could open a filing cabinet […]
What is disaster recovery and business continuity and how do they differ? Disaster recovery and business continuity are so closely related that they are often confused and many times they will be combined as Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery or BCDR or BC/DR. Disaster recovery is simply the area of an organizations security that focuses […]
Recently, a business contact (Frank) lamented that he diligently wrote a DR plan and no one in the organization seemed to care. This included senior management, middle management and rank and file employees. He shared the plan with me. From what I could see, the plan was well written and well thought out. There were […]