IT disaster recovery

Belts and braces…
Prepare for major disasters but don’t overlook the potential minor incidents that could bring your business to a grinding halt.
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Choosing the right DR service provider
Corporates have to be prepared to face disasters. The better the disaster recovery plan, the better the chances of survival in business. Sudipta Sen has some tips when it comes to choosing a DR service provider.
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Common hard drive revival mistakes
A checklist from Kroll Ontrack.
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Contingency planning guide for information technology systems - recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Exhaustive guide which provides instructions, recommendations, and considerations for government IT contingency planning. Although aimed at the public sector, most businesses will also find useful advice here. Covers the interim measures required to recover IT services following an emergency or system disruption, including the relocation of IT systems and operations to an alternate site and the recovery of IT functions using alternate equipment. 107 page PDF.
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Dealing with downtime
IT continuity considerations for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). By Ian Masters.
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Disaster recovery - best practices white paper
The paper starts with a discussion of performance indicators for disaster recovery and then provides a high level process flow chart to identify the workflow for managing a recovery.
Contents: performance indicators for disaster recovery; high-level process flow for disaster recovery; management awareness; disaster recover planning process; resiliency and backup services; vendor support services; related information.
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Eight best practices for disaster recovery
Three members of the CIO Executive Council offer their advice on building, testing and deploying disaster recovery plans.
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Eight best practices in implementing disaster recovery protection for Microsoft Exchange Server
A technology white paper which aims to help assure the success of any Exchange disaster recovery deployment.
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ERP systems and business continuity management
Michael Gallagher outlines the key considerations.
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Extensive library of IT DR related white papers
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Fending off disaster
Article aimed at convincing CIOs of the importance of business continuity.
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IT disaster recovery glossary of terms
Looking for a definition? Richard Abel has provided a useful and comprehensive glossary.
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Resilient data centre selection and design
The threat of interruption or unplanned downtime can be greatly reduced through the careful choice of location and good design.
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Survivable functional units: balancing an enterprise’s mission and technology
Lawrence R. Rogers explains how this concept can help IT technicians understand their contribution to enterprise continuity.
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The case for CDP
Simon Kelson explains why he believes that continual data protection is the optimum IT disaster recovery solution for most businesses.
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The changing face of business continuity
David Honour overviews the new generation technologies that will influence business continuity planning in the future.
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The importance of the network in IT disaster recovery planning
Too many companies are inadequately prepared to deal with adverse events relating to their business and network operations, says Dr. Jim Kennedy.
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The IT disaster recovery plan
Carl Bradbury, MBCI, provides a very useful overview of the process of creating and testing effective IT disaster recovery plans.
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Time to review your disaster recovery plans?
Mark Reeve gives his view on some current DR and business continuity issues for SME businesses.
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Top New Year's resolutions for disaster proofing your enterprise
Evergreen Assurance offers six business continuity tips that businesses should heed.
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Using virtualization to reduce your RTOs
For disaster recovery professionals, virtualization is particularly promising as a tool to help reduce recovery time objectives. Jack Wade explains.
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Virtualization and business continuity
Paul Thomalla looks at some of the business continuity considerations when implementing a virtualized computing environment.
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