Evaluating DRaaS Providers
Learn to select from today’s wide range of DRaaS providers, including what questions to ask and how to be sure they fit into your overall recovery strategy. The use of various “cloud” […]
Lessons from 150 Years of Business Continuity Experience
Take a look at top lessons learned from our staff’s combined 150 years of business continuity experience. Use our knowledge to benefit your BCM plans. When I look at my children and […]
Common Business Continuity Disasters
We should always be performing risk analysis, even if it is ad hoc or a thought exercise. As the new year is now well underway, we have forgotten about our New Year’s […]
Resiliency Theater – You May Not Really Be Prepared for an Outage
We spend time preparing for major data center or facility outages. We perform a risk analysis and write plans; we put in technologies to keep the business running and perform various tests. […]
Disaster Recovery Strategy Execution, or Will It Really Work?
Do you know how to actually execute a recovery using your defined disaster recovery strategy, or will your team have to figure it out? We’ve discussed developing a disaster recovery strategy at length, but […]
Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja
We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. In today’s post we’ll look at the top […]
Disaster Recovery Trends for 2017
As we begin a new year, many will review where they would like to improve or change. Fitness clubs will be full and we will try to eat better in January. And […]
Employee Readiness – Do Your Employees Know What To Do?
Your organization’s actual ability to respond to and recover from an event is directly related to employee readiness across the organization. It is important to note that too many times we train only […]
Your Data Recovery Plans are (Probably) not Functional
If your data recovery plans are lengthy, detailed, and/or “bare metal” based, requiring comprehensive operating system, database and application recovery steps, then they are almost certainly out of date and not functional. […]
Developing Disaster Recovery Strategies
The right disaster recovery strategies can mean the difference between a swift recovery and a business-imploding We know. Disaster recovery isn’t a fun subject. Sometimes it can When developing functional disaster recovery […]
Benefits of Business Continuity and Recovery Testing
Business Continuity and Recovery Testing is critical to ensuring that your plan documentation is functional and accurate. As part of our responsibilities as Business Continuity professionals, we spend a significant amount of […]
When A Good Recovery Strategy is Better than a Perfect Recovery Strategy
Your recovery strategy does not have to be perfect, but it does need to be good enough. Remember, perfect is the enemy of good. When I worked in the IT department at […]