A friend of mine had the most comprehensive family emergency plan I had ever seen. I’m talking about phone trees, pet plans, and ladders that fit into the sills of the upper level windows. A ...

Disaster recovery (DR) plans have evolved into a central mechanism for safeguarding today's enterprises against the rising threat of cybercrime and natural disasters. With 86% of global businesses ...

Every business has faced—or will face—disruptions that challenge its survival. It could be a ransomware attack paralyzing operations, a natural disaster wiping ...

When your IT systems go down, every second counts — and the costs can be staggering. Research shows that more than half of IT and data centre outages cost over $100,000, and 16% exceed $1 million. In ...

Disaster recovery (DR) forms a critical part of a comprehensive business continuity plan and can often be the difference between the success and failure of an organisation. After all, disasters do ...

In networking, there is nothing more critical than having a solid disaster recovery plan, so I recommend making April “Test Your Disaster Recovery Plan Month.” Each enterprise should take time during ...

As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.

Cloud file storage service Dropbox has explained how it took its key data center completely offline to test its disaster readiness capabilities. As Dropbox explains, after migrating its computing ...

The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s ...

A prominent Republican said that a nearly $100 billion aid request could be “potentially pared down rather substantially.” Lawmakers are poring over the massive $99 billion disaster aid request that ...