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... Disaster recovery has traditionally been associated with computing systems and data storage and recovery of data. ... Some of the more authoritative sources are: Disaster Recovery International (www.drii.org), Disaster Recovery Journal ( www.drj.com ), and Global Continuity (...

Backup And Recovery Plans - An Introduction by Robin Yearsley
These days most companies secure their data by regularly backing it up onto tape and storing it externally – either at the owners place of residence or in a safety deposit box at the bank. They follow a DIY IT disaster recovery plan to preserve their data in the event that a system failure or... Some companies feel that by implementing more comprehensive and advanced IT disaster recovery software at the problem they can still manage the processes in house and it will work out just as effective, but still works out more cost effective than engaging external IT disaster recovery vendors.

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. ... If data recovery is essential to your business, experts in this field are available to make sure you have done all that can be done to...

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...

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... In addition to identifying a data recovery specialist and an alternative data recovery specialist, a data recovery plan should contain procedures for day to day operations to ensure that PCs and databases are backed up regularly.

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. ... If the Area of my home had suffered a Hurricane Katrina like Disaster even if the bank and the contents of that safe...

Data Recovery, Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery – Definitions Merge by Richard Myers
Over the past several years there has been a confluence of the definitions of Data Recovery, Data Backup and Restoration, and Disaster Recovery. The merging of these definitions does not serve the industry. It only serves to confuse the consumer, the very people these various industry segments... Disaster recovery may include data recovery and/or data backup and restoration. ... Disaster Recovery takes into consideration the complete infrastructure including facility restoration, data restoration and data recovery as a last resort.

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 using a warm site will still take longer than if a hot site were maintained, but basic communications are back in place much more quickly than if a cold site were used.

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. ... SecurStore also provided Nordural with the option of assigning which data is 'critical; and which is 'important' data by using Long Term Storage with the use of Backup Lifecycle Management system that manages data during all backing up and archiving processes.