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 ...

Despite an increase in the shift from offsite backup to virtual standby methods, cost is still the highest priority when choosing a disaster recovery strategy. This demonstrates an increase in ...

Over the past 18 months, businesses of all sizes have learned to live with disruption. As lockdowns forced offices to close, organisations moved to remote working en masse. For some, this was new ...

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

One of the most important but often missed steps in having a reliable infrastructure is disaster recovery (DR). Surprisingly, most companies decide either to not implement DR or to implement it ...

Disaster recovery (DR) is a requirement of any business continuity plan, but a hybrid cloud infrastructure poses unique challenges and benefits. If you’re looking to migrate to the cloud or need to ...

Let’s start by admitting that the title of this article is a tease. It’s a valid question and one that thinking people ask all the time. But in truth it’s not the first question you should be asking.

It could be your worst nightmare. A server overheats, starting a fire that consumes your computer room before the sprinkler system kicks in and completes the disaster process. You’ve lost facilities, ...