Disaster recovery and ICT continuity resources

Disaster recovery and ICT continuity resources

What’s the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery?

Mitch MitchellIn an article aimed at people new to business continuity and disaster recovery, Mitch Mitchell explains what the difference between these two vital disciplines is and why it is a mistake to use the two terms interchangeably.

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Better data protection: is the 3-2-1 rule still relevant?

Christopher RogersThe 3-2-1 rule has been at the heart of successful data protection strategies for many years. Christopher Rogers looks at whether it still has relevance in today’s rapidly changing technology and threat environment.

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Boosting Kubernetes disaster recovery

Faiz KhanKubernetes is an open-source system for containerized applications. It offers various disaster recovery capabilities including automated rollbacks and self-healing but reliance on inbuilt options is not enough, as Faiz Khan explains…

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All our disaster recovery and ICT continuity listings in date order

Title Published Date
Many UK businesses are unprepared for downtime 17 November 2015
Derdack unveils new software designed to cut IT incident response and resolution times 12 November 2015
Making the first minutes of a major IT incident count 03 September 2015
Plugging the virtual holes that Citrix and Terminal Servers create 25 August 2015
To invoke or not to invoke? That is the question when it comes to disaster recovery 24 July 2015
What does disaster recovery have in common with the Tour de France? 16 July 2015
Six tips to help managed service providers ensure that downtime is kept to an absolute minimum 14 May 2015
The benefits of agentless backup 07 May 2015
Only 57 percent of critical IT infrastructure issues are detected before business impact: survey 28 April 2015
The benefits of taking backup and recovery to the cloud 28 April 2015
Human error to blame for nine in ten SQL restore requests 23 April 2015
Converged infrastructure is the solution to shadow IT says Logicalis US 23 April 2015
Top five considerations for businesses colocating in a data centre 21 April 2015
The challenge of keeping your critical applications running: how cloud and managed services can help 16 April 2015
New business continuity facility opened in Mozambique 03 April 2015
IT disaster recovery under the spotlight 03 April 2015
The top 10 global software failures of 2014 03 April 2015
Go back to basics to avoid network outages 03 April 2015
‘It must be the network’: how to avoid the blame game and reduce downtime in an app-centric IT environment 04 February 2015
Now is the time to create a Windows Server 2003 migration plan 15 January 2015


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