Helping your customers create a disaster recovery plan is sort of like helping them write their wills. They may not need it for a long time, but once they do, it’s too late to do anything about it. Your customers should take time now to create a disaster recovery plan […]
Channel Partners: Start Now to Make a Better 2018
Channel partners have an unusual sort of power in their hands. They go forth with other suppliers’ technology and offer it up to companies in a bid to see return. That means making sales is vital to overall success, not just for the channel partner, but for the suppliers, too. […]
Ensure Business Continuity With a Disaster Recovery Plan
Disaster recovery is an important part of business continuity, but enterprises often either underestimate the necessary steps for an effective plan, or find it too overwhelming and time-consuming to implement them. In the case of a natural disaster, disaster recovery will determine whether a business survives, so take time to […]
Are You Suffering from Cyber Intimidation?
Security threats are everywhere. Are you racing against the clock betting that one won’t happen to you? While attacks can happen to any company, an article written by the Atlantic states “companies with 500 or more employees are particularly vulnerable to attack.” It’s easy to feel helpless while hackers continue […]
Optimize Disaster Recovery Planning with RPO, RTO, and Business-Specific Factors
Backing up enterprise data to the cloud is fast becoming a standard in disaster recovery planning, but it’s not an out-of-the-box solution. Every business is different, and processes and departments within a single organization may also have different needs. In order to have a disaster recovery plan that provides effective […]
The Ultimate Security Checklist
The complicated undertaking of setting a security strategy can be overwhelming, as can the thought of actually implementing one. But the costs of not having a security strategy (or having a weak or unmanaged one) are vast and damaging on many levels. This checklist will help you examine your current […]
The Cloud’s Growing Role in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) planning is nothing new, but the mid-2010s and early 2020s are poised to show the explosive growth of a new player: cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) applications. In reports from Transparency Market Research, the data suggest that the DRaaS market segment will […]
Slimming Down Big Data Backups
Big data has required massive changes to all aspects of business data handling. In fact, the term big data was coined to describe datasets too large to be managed through traditional applications. While this has caused businesses across the board to adopt new technologies in data gathering and analytics, many companies […]
When It Comes to Backup and Disaster Recovery, Testing Is Essential
Failure can strike at any time for just about any reason. This is especially true in the world of IT, where hardware, software, and even personnel failures are commonplace. The key to overcoming adversity caused by an unexpected failure is to have a safety net in place for support. Backup […]
Highlighting the Need for IT Resilience with Disaster Recovery
In today’s interconnected world, there are so many online threats that it’s only a matter of time before an organization suffers an outage. Having an effective disaster recovery plan is critical for resolving breaches and service failures. However, IT resilience is essential for keeping an organization’s data intact and business […]