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Power Checklist: Building Your Disaster Recovery Plan

Tech Republic Data Center

Natural and man-made disasters can jeopardize the operations and future of any company today. As a result, the development of a disaster recovery plan is a must to ensure ongoing business processes in the wake of a crisis situation.

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The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery : spf13.com

SPF13

The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery. There are a variety of reasons businesses either do not have a disaster recovery plan or their current plan is substandard. This is problematic when the decision-makers have bought into one or more of the common myths surrounding disaster recovery.

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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?

Eric D. Brown

In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. This has generally worked well for those companies that have planned and tested their DR systems and plans appropriately.

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The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery

SPF13

There are a variety of reasons businesses either do not have a disaster recovery plan or their current plan is substandard. This is problematic when the decision-makers have bought into one or more of the common myths surrounding disaster recovery. Myth – Disaster Recovery is Expensive and Resource Intensive.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

Network World

European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one. Companies that had some type of off-site backup seemed to be up and running again, such as Centre Pompidou To read this article in full, please click here

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ViaWest Enters Phoenix Market With New Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

ViaWest continues its aggressive expansion, opening up its first Arizona data center in Phoenix. The company is seeing a lot of demand in the market from disaster recovery, re-locations from California as well as local, primary uses.