MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

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Virtual Corporation

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

If your enterprise has a disaster recovery plan, you’re on the right track, but these plans don’t always go into the details of how your business will operate and regain access to your data during an outage.

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everbridge

MARCH 7, 2022

Regardless of the actual figure, time really is money, so organizations must be proactive in setting themselves up for successful recovery in the event of a disaster. CASE STUDY: IMPROVING DISASTER RECOVERY. What is Disaster Recovery? How to Create a Disaster Recovery Plan.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Automating Disaster Recovery for Pure Storage FlashArray and Pure Cloud Block Store with JetStream DR by Pure Storage Blog Summary Cloud-based disaster recovery can offer many advantages for organizations. Scalability and Flexibility The cloud enables businesses to quickly provision resources as needed.

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BMC

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In the wake of the recent unforeseen global pandemic, many organizations are thinking about what they have done, what they should have done, and what they need to do in the future in order to maintain normal business operations during times of disaster.

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Acronis

MAY 19, 2022

In the event of a sudden and unexpected disruption, from a power outage or natural disaster to equipment failure or system crash, the consequences can be catastrophic. This underlines the compelling case for MSPs to offer clients a way to maintain business continuity if the worst should happen.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

AUGUST 5, 2020

A recent trip to a local grocery store demonstrated organizational understanding of business continuity. The situation was not a disaster but a business disruption that may have affected customer perceptions if management had not correctly addressed the problem. Sounds of angst reverberated from all of the checkout lines.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

AUGUST 5, 2020

A recent trip to a local grocery store demonstrated organizational understanding of business continuity. The situation was not a disaster but a business disruption that may have affected customer perceptions if management had not correctly addressed the problem. Business Strategies.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Many organizations struggle with establishing a sound business continuity strategy, a foundational aspect of a strong BC program. Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. Business Continuity Manager.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. Get the Guide What Is Disaster Recovery Planning? What Is Business Continuity Planning?

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. What Is Disaster Recovery Planning? What Is Business Continuity Planning?

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IT Governance BC

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*. Business continuity management.

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 6, 2017

Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. Why didn’t they activate their Disaster Recovery Plan? In the outage described above, the IT organization response was delayed by almost two hours and was initially sluggish.

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NexusTek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

READ TIME: 6 MIN September 2, 2020 (Updated May 15, 2023) Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery: Whats the Difference? In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. What Is a Disaster Recovery Plan?

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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

READ TIME: 6 MIN May 15, 2023 Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. What Is a Disaster Recovery Plan? How Do They Work Together?

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Diligent

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Disaster recovery and business continuity are two terms often used interchangeably – but doing so risks missing some of the key differences between the two strategies. To debunk the disaster recovery plan vs. business continuity plan debate, we look at: What each means. How they differ.

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BMC

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In the wake of the recent unforeseen global pandemic, many organizations are thinking about what they have done, what they should have done, and what they need to do in the future in order to maintain normal business operations during times of disaster.

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IT Governance BC

JULY 30, 2024

Mitigating supply chain risk After widespread coverage, the CrowdStrike outage from 19 July 2024 hardly needs an introduction. The outage was caused by a bad security update rolled out by CrowdStrike. Without question, this is one of the most expensive IT outages to date, with significant global impact. million Windows devices.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

Ultimately, any event that prevents a workload or system from fulfilling its business objectives in its primary location is classified a disaster. This blog post shows how to architect for disaster recovery (DR) , which is the process of preparing for and recovering from a disaster. DR objectives.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Disaster recovery (DR) testing is important across all industries and companies of all sizes to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery. Importance of disaster recovery. Perform more frequent, smaller-scale tests to help keep your disaster recovery plan updated and your teams trained.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

What does static stability mean with regard to a multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) plan? As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. Testing your disaster recovery plan.

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Zerto

JULY 18, 2024

In the realm of uncertainty around cyber threats and other unplanned outages, disaster recovery (DR) testing stands as a crucial pillar. It ensures maximum uptime for IT operations that are now more crucial to all businesses than ever. And, if you are ready, try DR testing yourself with our free Zerto hands-on lab.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage.

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Solutions Review

JULY 26, 2022

In this submission, SIOS Technology Solutions Architect Ian Allton outlines the four keys to disaster recovery implementation, as well as 7 steps to proper business continuity planning. Establishing a disaster recovery plan could be a stressful task for IT and database administrators. 3) DR Options.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

How to Create a Network Disaster Recovery Plan by Pure Storage Blog When Colonial Pipeline fell victim to a devastating cyberattack in May 2021, the company’s operations came to a standstill, leading to widespread fuel shortages throughout the eastern United States. Get the Guide What Is a Network Disaster Recovery Plan?

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

How to Create a Network Disaster Recovery Plan by Pure Storage Blog When Colonial Pipeline fell victim to a devastating cyberattack in May 2021, the company’s operations came to a standstill, leading to widespread fuel shortages throughout the eastern United States. What Is a Network Disaster Recovery Plan?

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. What is a Business Continuity Plan? What Is A Disaster Recovery Plan?

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Erwood Group

MARCH 20, 2023

That’s a sobering statistic that underscores the importance of having a solid disaster recovery plan in place. However, even with the best intentions, many organizations make common mistakes that can leave them vulnerable to downtime, data loss, and costly recovery efforts.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 1, 2022

In this submission, OwnBackup CTO Adrian Kunzle offers three key steps for implementing a disaster recovery strategy. With the right planning and tools, you can maintain business continuity and minimize service disruptions should a data loss occur. All around us, there is a great data transformation afoot.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

This week we have seen a textbook example of a business continuity issue making the mainstream news. Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. We often, in looking at disaster recovery, tend to concentrate on servers and data centres.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

This week we have seen a textbook example of a business continuity issue making the mainstream news. Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. We often, in looking at disaster recovery, tend to concentrate on servers and data centres.

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Erwood Group

MAY 30, 2024

Recovery Time Objective: A Key Component in Business Continuity Understanding Recovery Time Objectives: A Key Component in Business Continuity In the business world, change occurs rapidly, and maintaining operational resilience even during these changes is critical.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Disaster recovery planning is no easy task, but it is a necessary one. With so many different options of data recovery plans that a business can implement out there, the process of developing the best fit can be overwhelming. The importance of a data recovery plan has never been more apparent than it is right now.

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Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Data infrastructures aren’t just built for storage, performance, and scale—they’re designed for resilience. Two key areas of concern include disaster recovery in general, and, more specifically, cyber recovery.

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KingsBridge BCP

AUGUST 30, 2022

It usually takes a large-scale outage to convince a team to get their core processes written down. An outage on the scale of a few hours could have been measured in minutes if documentation existed. This is just one of the many business continuity and disaster recovery practices that your organization should think about.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. Back then, finding information on how to do anything in BC and IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) was impossible.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. People new to our field are often puzzled by one of its key terms: “continuity.” As the headline on the page explains, we provide “Business continuity consulting for today’s leading companies.”

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