Disaster Recovery 101: Don’t Make This Common Mistake
Responding to a disaster is a three-phase process, but in implementing this process business continuity professionals commonly make a serious mistake. In today’s post, we’ll tell you that common mistakes when responding […]
The Cloud Is Not a Magic Kingdom: Misconceptions About Cloud-Based IT/DR
Many business continuity professionals think of the cloud as a magical realm where nothing bad can happen. The reality is that things go wrong in the cloud all the time and as […]
Getting in Sync: Eliminating Recovery Strategy Gaps between BC and IT
Sometimes problems result when the IT department does its own recovery planning then BC comes along and conducts an analysis that shows IT’s plans to be inadequate. In today’s post, we’ll look […]
Spread Your Wings: There’s More to BC Drills Than Tabletop Exercises
There’s more to Business Continuity (BC) disaster recovery drills than tabletop exercises, but you wouldn’t know it from the practices of most organizations. Most companies limit themselves to tabletop drills, the most […]
Let’s Get Real: The Limitations of Tabletop Recovery Exercises
Tabletop recovery exercises are great, but they only get you so far. In today’s blog, we’ll sketch out the full range of disaster recovery exercises that organizations can conduct, explain the limitations […]
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 […]
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 […]
America’s Red Zones: Where Natural Disasters Cluster and What It Means for You
Everyone knows that natural disasters aren’t spread evenly across the United States, rather they occur in the same places year after year. This fact was given striking visualization in a recent New […]
Overreacting: Don’t Learn the Wrong Lessons During a Disaster
A natural disaster can jumpstart your business continuity plans, but it can also do it more harm than good. Is your disaster response hurting you? Disasters like the one in Puerto Rico […]
Aligning Your ITIL Process With Your Disaster Recovery Plan
Aligning ITIL processes to your DR plan leads to more efficient and effective use of IT infrastructure. Inadequate planning is a risk to the business, and is often overlooked until it is […]