How Working from Home During an Emergency Is Different
There is a big difference between casually working from home from time to time, and working at home because a disaster has knocked out your regular workplace. In today’s blog, we’ll explain […]
In Time of Crisis: What to Do in the First 24 Hours
The first 24 hours is the critical period when it comes to responding effectively to a crisis at any organization. In today’s post, we’ll lay out some of the things you can […]
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Comes of Age
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is no longer an unproven new idea with a lot of question marks attached. It is now all grown up and has a lot to offer […]
8 Dos and 1 Don’t for Conducting Disaster Recovery Tests
Hope is a great quality for a baseball team in a pennant race to have, but it is not very good as a business continuity strategy. This is why it is critical […]
IT Change Management: Don’t Leave Your Recovery Environment Behind
It is a strange irony that the changes organizations make to remain competitive frequently open them up to risk in their DR/BCM program and recovery capability. But when it comes to business […]
Kill the Zombies, or How to Get More From Your DR Exercises
Has your organization ever been attacked by zombies? We don’t know any companies that have been, although we do know some that have used this as a scenario in their disaster recovery […]
Disaster Recovery in 2018: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
The year 2018 continues to see big changes in the practice of IT/Disaster Recovery, but the core concepts for achieving an effective solution for IT and disaster recovery in 2018 remain the […]
Don’t Rely on Technology to Keep Your Business Running During a Crisis
Given the title of this blog, you might wonder why a consultant whose focus is technology recovery would advise you not to rely on technology to keep your business running during a […]
How Your Business Continuity Plan Is Like Swiss Cheese
If your business continuity plan is like most of the plans we see, then it is highly likely that it bears more than a passing resemblance to Swiss cheese. We don’t mean […]
Command Performance: Using the Incident Command System (ICS)
Sometimes there is a good reason to reinvent the wheel—for example, if you are in business and the current “wheel” is a proprietary product controlled by your competitor. However, sometimes the tried-and-true […]
Beyond Hurricanes: 4 Examples of Recent, Real-Life Business Emergencies
It’s the rare workplace disaster that is dramatic enough to burst into the news. Most business emergencies are managed privately, with the outside world unaware that anything was ever wrong. This is […]
Beginner’s Guide to Recovery Exercises
Recovery exercises are an undervalued but critically important aspect of business continuity. In this beginner’s guide to recovery exercises, we’ll provide answers to some of the questions we are most frequently asked […]