Put Some DevOps in Your Disaster Recovery
IT disaster recovery is about saving IT, but it’s also good to see how IT itself can feed back into IT DR, offering new concepts and ideas for moving forward. Read more
IT disaster recovery is about saving IT, but it’s also good to see how IT itself can feed back into IT DR, offering new concepts and ideas for moving forward. Read more
As you know, when we say, “disaster recovery” in this blog, we mean IT disaster recovery. Read more
Can technology do everything you need for disaster recovery of your IT systems, applications, and data? It can certainly do a lot, but it can’t do it all. Read more
What do you do, when you’re a software vendor trying to provide a solution to business continuity managers? You’ve got to make money, if your company is to survive. Read more
Alligators in your APIs? Cobras in your cloud backups? Not quite. Read more
When disaster strikes, the poor are typically worse off afterwards. Although statistics for enterprises are harder to come by, a recent survey by The Pew Charitable Trusts indicated that 63 percent of Americans (individuals) would not be able to pay for their own recovery from a $500 emergency. Read more
While IT disaster recovery is technically part of a larger, overall business continuity plan, the two things can sometimes drift apart. Read more
What good is disaster recovery planning if there is no testing? Testing your plans and preparations is a vital part of DR, but the next question is – how (or when) should that testing be done? Read more
Can you use a Backup-as-a-Service solution as a Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service solution? After all, your online backups are (or should be) neatly stored in the cloud, and you can include not only data files, but also configuration information and even applications. Read more
There is something attractive about containers (the software versions) in terms of resilience and recovery from disasters. The idea is to package up applications with everything they need to run, except for the basic operating system. Read more