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 ...

How to Get the Most Out of Your Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan Your email has been sent On the surface, it would seem cloud computing was made for disaster recovery, a “set it and forget it” concept due ...

In an article aimed at people new to business continuity and disaster recovery, Mitch Mitchell explains what the difference between these two vital disciplines is and why it is a mistake to use the ...

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

Disaster is never convenient. If we learned anything from the pandemic, it’s that when a crisis hits, you don’t have the luxury of planning and systematically running software. During a crisis, IT and ...

The interconnected nature of modern business means that your vendors’ operational resilience can, and frequently does, have an outsized impact on business operations. Case in point: 61% of companies ...

The chief information security officer (CISO) plays a critical role in the security strategies for organizations today. With ransomware attacks on the rise and the technology footprint of businesses ...

Do you have a business continuity plan in place? Every hour counts in trucking. Being prepared for disaster recovery can be the difference between keeping customers and losing to the competition.

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

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 ...

Scott Opalewski is a seasoned senior business development manager with over three decades of experience bridging technology solutions and business needs across multiple industries, including ...