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6 Ways to Elevate Your Testing and Exercising Program

Fusion Risk Management

Functional Exercises : These involve the actual execution of certain tasks or processes, such as sending employees to work from an alternate site. Live Exercises : These are full-scale simulations that involve switching over to backup systems or locations. They validate specific strategies but can be resource-intensive.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site. Determine whether a restoration at the alternate site is necessary. Depending on when services can be restored at the primary location, it might not make sense to perform a recovery at the alternate site.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity is not a data backup. The Managed Services Providers (MSPs) industry has managed to h ij ack the Business Continuit y term , and it became all about data backup. A data backup is only one component of I T D i s a s t e r R e c o v e r y P l a nn i n g , which we address in Section 7.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity is not a data backup. The Managed Services Providers (MSPs) industry has managed to h ij ack the Business Continuit y term , and it became all about data backup. A data backup is only one component of I T D i s a s t e r R e c o v e r y P l a nn i n g , which we address in Section 7. ARTICLE SECTIONS.