In data recovery discussions with senior IT executives, an oft-repeated refrain is about the difficulty in obtaining an accurate picture of their organizations’ ability to recover key applications and ...

Agencies need to improve their recovery time objectives for applications, data sets and systems to ensure they continue to operate in the face of increased threats to their IT environments. Recovery ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. Disasters come in ...

Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations. When evaluating the ...

Disaster is never convenient. If we learned anything from the pandemic, it’s that when a crisis hits, you don’t have the luxury of planning and systematically running software. During a crisis, IT and ...

Here’s a surprising take from a data resilience expert: Backups are useless. That is to say, backups are useless if you can’t efficiently and effectively recover from them. The reality is that backups ...

Protecting corporate data has always been a high priority for IT organizations. Years ago, customers had one choice to protect their data — backing up disk volumes to tape. Data protection ...