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 ...

As companies continue shifting mission-critical systems to the cloud, they’re discovering that 24/7/365 reliability isn’t a given. Even brief outages can interrupt sales, slow internal workflows and ...

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let’s delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...

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 ...

As noted in the first article in this series, IT disaster recovery (DR) strategies and procedures help organisations protect their investments in IT systems and infrastructures. The essential mission ...

A data warehouse became corrupted and needed to be recovered. The entire process was completed in three days, and following the completion the IT group felt pleased with the fact that they had ...