DISASTER RECOVERY Articles
Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centers are not a perfect solution
Disaster recovery is being addressed by private and public cloud providers with multi-site load balancing. But the lack of centralized control of application and infrastructure configurations can lead to trouble at both sites
BC/DR spending not a top budget priority
Forrester Research finds organizations understand the importance of spending on business continuity and disaster recovery, but put it off in favor of other priorities
BC/DR and cloud-services lessons learned from a recent Amazon outage
An Amazon cloud-services outage that occured earlier this month shines the light on some weaknesses with the company's disaster recovery plans. Gregory Machler opines on what companies should consider to protect themselves
Cloud services as part of a BC/DR plan after a terror attack
While terrorists usually go for big targets, even small-and-medium sized business need to think about the reprecussions of a terror attack. Gregory Machler outlines how the cloud can keep business running
Amazon's cloud failed: How can your cloud be better?
How should industry respond to cloud failure like Amazon's? Gregory Machler looks at the the root cause and examines how weakness can be addressed within the cloud product industry
CSO's ultimate guide to business continuity and disaster recovery
Executive Guide PDF provides BC/DR practicals
In Canterbury earthquake, mobiles for emergency calls only
Telecom New Zealand and Vodafone have both issued statements asking people to only use their mobile phones for emergency calls after a massive earthquake hit Christchurch.
Cloud disaster recovery: Can you trust your provider?
There are thousands of service-level products and their major features within a cloud application stack. How can you be sure it will recover from a business interruption or disaster?
Selected security book excerpts
Cyber Monday shopping? Here is a sampler of in-depth coverage by experts in application security, investigations, business continuity and more.
Survey: Business continuity plans still need work
A new survey from CDW finds that while most companies report having a business continuity plan in place, almost all still take a hit when there is a network disruption
