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
Disaster Recovery Challenges in Facility Control Systems
As you know, when we say, “disaster recovery” in this blog, we mean IT disaster recovery. Read more
Disaster Recovery and the Human Factor
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
Put a Reptile in Your IT Disaster Recovery Planning
Alligators in your APIs? Cobras in your cloud backups? Not quite. Read more
Disaster Recovery Economics and How the Poor Get Poorer
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
Is Your Disaster Recovery Truly Part of Your Business Continuity?
While IT disaster recovery is technically part of a larger, overall business continuity plan, the two things can sometimes drift apart. Read more
Disaster Recovery and Shift Left Testing
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
The Difference Between BaaS and DRaaS
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
Should You Take Containerisation for Disaster Recovery Further?
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
Disaster Recovery Millennial-Style – Don’t Let DR Become “tl;dr”!
Unless you have been living an extraordinarily sheltered life (which is difficult to do in business), the concept of millennials will probably be familiar to you. Millennials are people born at some time during the period 1980 to 2000 (although these dates are approximations). Also known as “Generation Y”, they are typically at ease with digital technology and big on digital collaboration, among other traits. Read more