Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Reducing Your Risk Profile by Robert Mahood
Like all plans, there is an ultimate goal to achieve. The goal in a business continuity plan is simply that: to continue your business in the face of a disaster or a disruption. A business continuity plan is not just for a disaster. It’s also for the smaller things in life, like your friendly... Some of the more authoritative sources are: Disaster Recovery International (www.drii.org), Disaster Recovery Journal ( www.drj.com ), and Global Continuity ( www.globalcontinuity.com ). ... Disaster recovery has traditionally been associated with computing systems and data storage and recovery of...

Do You Have The One Key Ingredient Necessary For Disaster Recovery? by Renee Rich
It is not rocket science, we all know that we should have a disaster recovery plan in place for our business regardless of its size. When disaster strikes, it seldom discriminates on the size of the company. Every business is vulnerable. Whether the disaster is a hurricane, tornado or the latest... It is virtually impossible, to be organized and strategically think through and implement a disaster recovery plan while in the throws of a disaster. ... What can I do if I didn’t do my disaster recovery planning?

Data Disaster Recovery - Is It Really Necessary? by Greg Eiskins
When people think of disasters, they mainly think of flooding or earthquakes. In the world of computer experts or people who makes their living using information technology, a disaster can be quite different and yet can have the same paralyzing effects. ... Data recovery experts are specialized in multiple areas of recovering data including, but not limited to: fire recovery, water damage recovery, and miscellaneous crash recovery that may have occurred with an act involving a sledgehammer and a frustrated information technology worker on his last day of work when the coffee was cold and...

The Importance of Disaster Recovery Planning by Adrian Martin
Picture the scene, its Monday morning and you’ve traversed the morning rush hour and arrived at the office only to find a disaster zone. Over the weekend the office has experienced a fire that has all but destroyed the premises. IT, key documents, plant and machinery – gone – what are you going... Recovery team Put together a recovery team with clear lines of authorization who are responsible for co-ordinating activity in case of disaster. ... For many businesses and their managers disaster recovery planning never cross their minds, businesses carry out their usual day to day activity...

Ensuring Instant Access to a Data Recovery Specialist by Christopher J Enders
The services of a data recovery specialist is undoubtedly something you desperately need when you have a need to have data recovered. However, it is not usually necessary or cost-effective to have a data recovery specialist on staff, unless of course they serve multiple roles... If you can find an automated backup service provider with an on-staff disaster recovery specialist coordination of your data recovery plan can be simplified. ... In addition to identifying a data recovery specialist and an alternative data recovery specialist, a data recovery plan should...

Pulling the Rabbit Out of the Hat: Disaster Data Recovery by A.B. Newland
Like most people, when you think of disasters, you probably envision flooding, hurricanes or earthquakes. Yet in the world of a networks, PC's and data or to someone who makes their living using information technology, a disaster can be quite different and yet can have the same paralyzing effects. ... Data recovery technicians are specialized in multiple areas of recovering data including, but not limited to: fire recovery, water damage recovery, and miscellaneous crash recovery that may have occurred with an act involving a sledgehammer and a frustrated information technology worker on...

Lessons From Katrina - Does Your Business Have an Adequate Disaster Recovery Plan? by Mike Makler
The Hurricane Katrina Disaster has lessons for all business owners. Now is a Good time to look over your Disaster recovery plan and see if it would survive a Hurricane Katrina Type Disaster. You may be surprised how easy and cheap it is to have a Disaster Recovery Plan that will protect your... If you run your business off a computer or even a server then an offsite back-up of key customer and vendor data is a minimal requirement for a good Disaster Recovery Plan. ... At one time My own personal Disaster Recovery Plan consisted of placing a tape back-up weekly in a safe deposit box in a...

CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Hot Sites, Warm Sites, and Disaster Recovery by Chris Bryant
Part of passing the Network+ exam and being an outstanding network administrator is being prepared for disaster. Sometimes that's a disaster on a relatively small scale, such as a drive failure. If you're running data backups on a regular basis (and you are, aren't you?), you're prepared for... What is your network's disaster recovery plan from a true disaster, either natural or man-made? ... Disaster recovery is taken to the next level by preparing a cold site, warm site, or hot site at another physical location.

Incorporate A Disaster Recovery Plan by Alexander Eiriksson
Nordural ehf's backup system needed to incorporate a Disaster Recovery plan that would reduce the backup window from ten hours to two-three hours. A Disaster Recovery Plan is a coordinated activity to enable the recovery of IT/business systems due to a disruption. ... It was essential that Nordural's backup system incorporate a trustworthy Disaster Recovery plan that would reduce its backup window from ten hours to two-three hours. ... In addition to this, Nordural wanted a Disaster Recovery plan that restored the company's most critical servers to bare metal restore in less than two hours.

Data Recovery Services by Vivek Sharma
Considering the importance that information assumes these days it is important to have software in place that ensures that nothing unforeseen happens. Whenever you start a business your main worry is the data created or stored by you. It has been seen that people are more worried about their... Majority of London data recovery companies follow a set path of data disaster recovery plan in which they evaluate your device and diagnose the actual fault. ... Data recovery services can be used in the following cases: when your computer does not boot, you have formatted your disk recently, there...