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Avoid common business-continuity planning pitfalls
The trouble with establishing a business continuity program is that you just don't know what might disrupt your business down the road. You could be perfectly prepared to withstand earthquakes, fires and tornadoes, but then the levies might collapse and take everyone by surprise.
Are business continuity software packages really necessary?
Do the advantages of business continuity software packages outweigh the hassle and time it takes to load data into them and complete a deployment? Stieven Weidner, senior manager at consulting firm
Q&A: Disaster recovery when your business sits on the San Andreas Fault
Graniterock, a century-old provider of construction materials in Watsonville, Calif., operates a quarry that happens to sit on the San Andreas Fault. The company has 20 locations from Oakland to the
Lessons from 9/11 about data storage and disasters
There were several data centers around Ground Zero that were wiped out on Sept. 11, 2001, and the data of dozens of organizations was lost. In the years since, backup data centers, once considered
Va. earthquake shows little impact on data centers, cell networks
The biggest earthquake to strike Virginia in more than 100 years reverberated all the way to Maine and clogged up cell phone networks, but it doesn't appear to have had much of an impact on data
AT&T offers businesses cell site in a suitcase
AT&T introduced the AT&T Remote Mobility Zone, a new offering that allows businesses and government users to set up their own cell sites during a disaster or in remote locations where
The ioSafe SoloPRO for fireproof, waterproof data protection
Businesses or power users looking for a way to fireproof or waterproof their precious data will want to take a closer look at the ioSafe SoloPRO . The company compares its family of "disaster proof
Japan: A lesson in investing in secure infrastructure
When confronted with a tragedy like last week's earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan, I don't think our minds can begin to process the magnitude of loss and suffering. And so we
Tape-to-tape back up saves data from fire
An electrical fire in the office building where the law firm of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin is located kept employees out for two weeks. But thanks to disaster recovery tools and
Why Carlyle Group opted for a hosted ERP
When the Carlyle Group went to upgrade its ERP system, it would have had to hire at least six new IT pros to meet its stringent, round-the-clock requirements. Instead, it opted for a hosted solution,
