Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

In data recovery discussions with senior IT executives, an oft-repeated refrain is about the difficulty in obtaining an accurate picture of their organizations’ ability to recover key applications and ...

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 ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. Disasters come in ...

Agencies need to improve their recovery time objectives for applications, data sets and systems to ensure they continue to operate in the face of increased threats to their IT environments. Recovery ...

Here’s a surprising take from a data resilience expert: Backups are useless. That is to say, backups are useless if you can’t efficiently and effectively recover from them. The reality is that backups ...

Last week’s column (see: “The data recovery expectations gap”) discussed the gap that often exists between end users and IT infrastructure, and suggested the need to distinguish between operational ...

How to Get the Most Out of Your Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan Your email has been sent On the surface, it would seem cloud computing was made for disaster recovery, a “set it and forget it” concept due ...

The region is scaling cloud adoption and intelligent systems at an extraordinary pace. But the same forces enabling this growth are also inadvertently reshaping cyber risk just as quickly ...

For years, businesses believed a simple rule: If you had backups, you were protected. That idea worked when attacks were slow and predictable, and when recovery meant swapping hardware or restoring a ...