Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

Agencies need to improve their recovery time objectives for applications, data sets and systems to ensure they continue to operate in the face of increased threats to their IT environments. Recovery ...

Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations. When evaluating the ...

In data recovery discussions with senior IT executives, an oft-repeated refrain is about the difficulty in obtaining an accurate picture of their organizations’ ability to recover key applications and ...

When you write a service-level agreement with one of the groups in your company, how do you make sure that the value they place on the data they leave under your control actually corresponds to the ...

Disaster is never convenient. If we learned anything from the pandemic, it’s that when a crisis hits, you don’t have the luxury of planning and systematically running software. During a crisis, IT and ...

The Disaster Recovery Standard provides information for critical process and function owners and support personnel about what they should do to prepare for a disaster to ensure that RIT as a whole can ...

The recovery of data and critical applications—from granular recovery of an email through full site restoration—is still a risky proposition for most organizations. That’s because all too often data ...

Here’s a surprising take from a data resilience expert: Backups are useless. That is to say, backups are useless if you can’t efficiently and effectively recover from them. The reality is that backups ...

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Neglecting proper data recovery planning is increasing risk for organisations across Africa – particularly small and medium-sized businesses. So says Mark Govender, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam, ...