Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

Assured Data Protection unveiled a disaster recovery service powered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) Zerto as a means ...

According to FEMA and the US Small Business Administration, 40% of businesses do not reopen after a major disaster, 25% will fail within one year and 90% of businesses will fail within two years of ...

Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations. When evaluating the ...

Neglecting proper data recovery planning is increasing risk for organisations across Africa – particularly small and medium-sized businesses. So says Mark Govender, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam, ...

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 ...

Establish a downtime threshold When building a disaster-recovery plan, the first objective should be to decide the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). The RPO dictates ...

Really good disaster recovery (DR) is expensive and complex, with the most robust disaster recovery strategies usually the preserve of banks, government departments or critical industries. But the ...

Data is one of the most important assets for many organizations. A significant level of care should be given to prevent data security incidents. However, despite the best plans and intentions, both ...

The recovery of data and critical applications—from granular recovery of an email through full site restoration—is still a risky proposition for most organizations. That’s because all too often data ...