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4 top disaster recovery packages compared

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Whether the disaster is a flood, a power outage or human error, IT departments have the critical role of getting business systems working again. And that requires reliable disaster-recovery software. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story)

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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

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OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in place or who purchased the off-site backup and disaster-recovery services offered by OVHcloud have been able to resume operations. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.

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What is DRaaS and how it can save your business from disaster

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides data replication, hosting, and recovery services from the cloud in the event of a disaster, power outage, ransomware attack, or other business interruption. In the event of a disaster, the business will failover to the DRaaS provider’s data center in a different region.

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8 ingredients of an effective disaster recovery plan

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That’s why it is critical for all businesses to have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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What's in the fine print of your disaster recovery vendor agreement?

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Sign on the bottom line Image by Thinkstock Disaster-recovery solutions require several complex, moving parts coordinated between your production site and the recovery site. Service-level agreements are ultimately the most accurate way to determine where responsibility is held for disaster-recovery process and execution.

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Disaster recovery in a DevOps world

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One thing is for certain: Embracing DevOps also pays off from a disaster recovery standpoint, because the tools and procedures that you use to move applications from development to testing to production and back to development again can also be applied to failing over and recovering from disasters and service interruptions.

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Disaster recovery: How is your business set up to survive an outage?

Network World

Dark disaster recovery vs. active architecture. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Asynchronous vs synchronous. Active/active vs. active/passive. No setup is objectively better or worse than another.