Disaster recovery is a term often used in Information Technology (IT) circles to describe the necessity for backup technology systems to safeguard an organization’s data. While this type of safeguard ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...

Q: “Disaster recovery” seems pretty self-explanatory. Is there any difference between that and “business continuity planning”? A: Disaster recovery is the process by which you resume business after a ...

Disaster planning traditionally focuses on three variables: data center replication, building design and backups. Analysts have maintained for years that the most common “disaster” is outright ...

The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them. In this final article, we look at maintaining the ...

Here's the best disaster-recovery advice available: Avoid disasters altogether. But as most VARs know from experience, that's not always possible. Take it from Patrick McNicholas. The president of ...

The Small Business Administration needs to enhance and complete planning for its Disaster Loan Program and improve its internal funding process to address shortcomings uncovered during the 2005 ...

The original version of this story was published on Law.Com Today’s lawyers — and clients — have no tolerance for computing downtime. They expect recovery time to be measured in minutes, not days.

Good emergency planning practices and regulatory compliance mandate that long-term care facilities identify the potential threats, perils, and hazards that can adversely impact operations both from an ...

Photo courtesy of AFP When calamity strikes, the immediate imperative is saving lives, restoring essential services and delivering relief to those who have lost everything. But once the dust settles - ...

LACON — An Ottawa-based government consulting agency is trying to generate interest among county and municipal governments north of Peoria in a pre-disaster planning process that would create a new ...