Two key components of a modern disaster recovery plan are backup and replication. Ben Weinberger of Lathrop & Gage describes how his firm, with sophisticated IT leadership and the right management of ...

With that ominous question, Google spotlighted the disaster recovery and data backup capabilities of its Google Apps cloud computing platform and unveiled a new disaster recovery feature to Google ...

Disaster recovery (DR) is one of the most critical insurance policies in which a business can invest. A high-quality disaster recovery strategy can be the difference between a minor speed bump and a ...

We do backups because we know we have to – in case we lose the primary versions of data and/or the systems that create and manage that data. It could just be that the original gets accidentally ...

Some might remember what disaster recovery (DR) used to look like for IT. Endless stacks of tapes made for a logistical nightmare, and if even one was missing an entire recovery effort could fall ...

In terms of virtualisation and disaster recovery, there are numerous options available to protect virtual machines that run on Microsoft Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a feature of Windows Server 2008, Windows ...

The growing number of natural disasters and the rise in data loss has increased the significance of having an effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Thankfully new capabilities are helping smaller ...

When is a backup not a backup? When you can't get information out of that backup. Backups are worthless if you can't actually restore from them, a truism that underlies much of the real-world planning ...

The Islandia, N.Y.-based software vendor on Wednesday unveiled BrightStor ARCServe Backup/WANSyncHA, a software bundle that includes WANSync high-availability and Assured Recovery disaster-recovery ...

It’s hard to pick the best disaster recovery software for your organization’s needs, but advice from people who have actually used them live in their networks can help you make informed decisions.