Essential Guide
Essential guide to disaster recovery and business continuity
Everything you need to know about business continuity and disaster recovery, planning and prevention.
Introduction
Planning for business continuity and disaster recovery can be a real challenge, so we have pulled this guide together to make things a bit easier for you.
This guide includes everything you need to know about planning or recovering from a disaster/unexpected event, to ensure you resume operations quickly without too much disruption or none at all.
In this guide you will find information on business continuity and disaster recovery management, storage and servers, networking, security, facilities and templates.
1Management -
Good planning and management are key for business continuity and disaster recovery success
Everything you need to know about the management of your business continuity and disaster recovery plan.
Disaster recovery: Risk assessment and business impact analysis
Disaster recovery: Risk assessment and business impact analysis are key stages in disaster recovery planning, but where do they fit into the DR planning process? Continue Reading
Disaster recovery awareness and testing require training, strategic plans
After you develop DR plans, disaster recovery awareness and testing strategies ensure the plan works and that everyone knows their role within it. Continue Reading
Coming up with a new configuration and change management plan
That old configuration and change management plan was unwieldy and out of reach, but the need for having one hasn't gone away. Continue Reading
Evaluating BC/DR program performance
Business continuity and disaster recovery are not "set-it-and-forget-it" activities. Paul Kirvan outlines how to evaluate a BC/DR program in this tip. Continue Reading
2Storage and servers-
Recent storage and server developments ease BC/DR planning
Everything you need to know about storage and servers for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Where and how to use data deduplication technology in disk-based backup
The data deduplication market is getting crowded and confusing. Avoid trouble by knowing where and how to use data deduplication. Continue Reading
Tips on selecting BC/DR software
When launching business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives, consider using specialized BC/DR software to help you achieve those goals. Continue Reading
SRM replication choices: vSphere Replication vs. storage replication
VMware's disaster recovery manager SRM has two replication options: via the hypervisor or via storage. The choice involves scalability and cost. Continue Reading
SMEs see the benefits of cloud disaster recovery
Cloud disaster recovery cuts costs and puts effective DR provision within reach of SMEs. We talk to two SMEs that opted for it Continue Reading
How Covid-19 is affecting the colocation market
This e-guide shares details of some of the latest trends and thinking in colocation, while also shining a light on how datacentre operators are rushing to meet the soaring demand for compute capacity they are seeing both from enterprises and hyperscale cloud firms.
3Security-
Security an important part of BC/DR planning
Everything you need to know about security for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Data security and backup encryption remain critical
Listen to our podcast on making sure your organization’s data is secure and that you have adequate backup encryption for your critical information. Continue Reading
Manage identity and access to improve business processes
Streamlining identity and access management is essential to exploiting your organisation’s assets and employees’ productivity. Continue Reading
Protecting Intellectual Property: Best Practices
Organizations need to implement best practices to protect their trade secrets from both internal and external threats. Continue Reading
4Networking-
Network disaster recovery planning and building resilient networks
Everything you need to know about networking for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Veeam adds WAN acceleration to virtual machine backup product
Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam has added WAN acceleration, storage array snapshots and other features to version 7 of its Backup & Replication virtual machine backup product Continue Reading
Developing technology scenarios for BC/DR exercise planning
The most effective BC/DR exercise plans begin with choosing disaster scenarios for technology issues, particularly IT-focused ones. Continue Reading
Heineken rolls out new communications network
Heineken plans to link 60,000 employees across 53 countries using a secure private network from Orange Business Services Continue Reading
5Facilities-
BC/DR planning considerations for facilities
Everything you need to know about facilities for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Evaluating emergency power supply options
Independent disaster recovery consultant Paul Kirvan discusses what you should consider when evaluating emergency power supply options. Continue Reading
FM-200 systems: What data centre managers need to know
Get the lowdown on using FM-200 systems for data center fire suppression, and whether or not they're a good choice for your company. Continue Reading
6Templates-
Business continuity/disaster recovery planning templates
Everything you need to know about templates for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Building staff-related disaster scenarios for BC/DR exercise planning
Develop effective staff-related disaster scenarios in your BC/DR exercise planning by focusing on the sudden loss of more than one key person. Continue Reading
A guide to creating a business impact analysis for business continuity planning purposes
A business impact analysis (BIA) is an important part of your business continuity plan. Learn how to create a business impact analysis in our top five tips collection. Continue Reading
IT risk assessment methodology guide for disaster recovery planners
In our IT risk assessment methodology guide, learn about how to perform a risk assessment and why it's an important part of disaster recovery planning. Continue Reading
Law firm gets EMC unified storage for effective disaster recovery
Surrey law firm TWM builds VMware virtualised infrastructure with EMC VNX unified storage to enable disaster recovery best practice Continue Reading