When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

The Principal Financial Group has completed installation of a new disaster recovery system from IBM designed to restore its IT and business systems in less than 24 hours following a disaster.

Microsoft Exchange server downtime costs companies millions of dollars a year. Technically savvy IT organizations are therefore working to eliminate or lessen the impact of both planned and unplanned ...

One of us lived through Superstorm Sandy 10 years ago and hoped that our broken disaster recovery system would be fixed after the glaring problems in getting help to communities was laid bare. But it ...

“The pieces of hardware become less critical in a virtualized environment — if there are 400 servers, with virtualization you could conceivably do disaster recovery on 20 servers. That might be ...

Delhi: In today's hyper-connected digital landscape, maintaining the availability and performance of systems during high query-per-second (QPS) events is crucial. Unexpected surges in traffic, whether ...

Disaster recovery planning is vital for smaller businesses. The rise of cyber attacks, especially ransomware, has increased the risk of disruption and data loss to smaller firms. SMEs are also ...

Research by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) suggests more than half of firms now use DRaaS. That’s because DRaaS allows customers to recover quickly from a disaster or other outage, but without the ...

Dr. Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the author of “Disasterology: Dispatches From the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis.” This summer ...

A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both terms describe two sides of the same coin, complementary processes that are often brought together.