Disaster planning traditionally focuses on three variables: data center replication, building design and backups. Analysts have maintained for years that the most common “disaster” is outright ...

As noted in the first article in this series, IT disaster recovery (DR) strategies and procedures help organisations protect their investments in IT systems and infrastructures. The essential mission ...

The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them. In this final article, we look at maintaining the ...

IT assets and physical infrastructure are high priority for disaster recovery planning, which should address an all-important source of critical business data: payroll. Keeping employee payments ...

Disasters that severely impact business operations can come in many shapes and sizes. Events like fires, floods, snowstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes can bring companies to a screeching halt by ...

A good disaster recovery plan comes from a combination of planning, documentation, testing and optimizing to remove any snags and expedite recovery. With all these factors at play, one size does not ...

Planning is one of our major functions as emergency managers. Back when I had my staff track how they spent their time, planning was one of the significant blocks of time on the schedule. Back in the ...

Good emergency planning practices and regulatory compliance mandate that long-term care facilities identify the potential threats, perils, and hazards that can adversely impact operations both from an ...