What you will learn in this tip: Disaster recovery and business continuity professionals often turn to hot sites and cold sites for disaster recovery planning. This tip provides a good starting point for those who are investigating hot/cold site options,…
Should you be using outsource data center for a do-it-yourself disaster recovery center? Ten years ago, organizations that wanted to protect their enterprise data center from disaster had few choices. Back then, the mainframe was usually the centerpiece of the…
While I’m by no means trying to take attention away from the horrific environmental and economic disaster that the now largest oil spill in U.S. history has caused, I can’t help but see some lessons that I and other IT…
The 2010 Haiti earthquake killed more than 210,000 people, and approximately 1 million people were evacuated from their homes. That disaster was followed about a month later by the 2010 Chilean earthquake, which scientists said shifted the earth’s axis, and…
A new Forrester Research Inc. report by Stephanie Balaouras examines the lack of progress made in data center disaster recovery since the September 11 attacks in 2001 and, more recently Hurricane Katrina in 2005. According the report’s summary drawn from…
