Underestimate the complexity and cost of cloud computing backup and recovery and you risk missing data and lost customers. Here’s what to do. It’s late on a Friday. You get a call from your CIO that ...

For many years, a central component of Allan Hancock College’s disaster recovery planning was ensuring mission-critical data was backed up and readily available to be restored. But a shift in payroll ...

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 ...

Ask most IT teams whether they're protected against a major outage or ransomware attack, and the answer will almost certainly be yes, because the backups are in place and the box marked 'disaster ...

"We don't get paid for backups," said Joey. "We get paid for restores." That guiding philosophy anchored the session, which moved beyond traditional DR to include policy enforcement, immutable ...

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After years of chatter, health systems are finally loosening the reins and moving some—but not all—of their data to servers off-site, sometimes miles away and maintained by today’s biggest tech giants ...

Only the luckiest IT professionals will go through their careers without experiencing a major systems failure, outage or other incident that forces them to invoke a disaster recovery (DR) plan.

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, examines how to play multiple cloud providers off each other and what vendors and tools can help you manage multiple clouds. Read ...

Really good disaster recovery (DR) is expensive and complex, with the most robust disaster recovery strategies usually the preserve of banks, government departments or critical industries. But the ...