Business Continuity Blog

A disaster recovery test plan provides a framework for testing IT systems and protocols to identify problems that may impede recovery efforts during a real disaster. By routinely testing your systems and processes, you help to eliminate unexpected challenges during a disruption and ensure that the business is able to quickly recover in a real-world event.

Business continuity technologies have come a long way over the past decade, making enterprise-grade data protection accessible to small and mid-sized businesses. But the latest disaster recovery statistics reveal that today’s organizations still face costly interruptions, due to a wide range of threats.

Protecting data was already a top priority for organizations before COVID-19. But as the coronavirus pandemic upended operations across the globe, businesses have had to rethink their strategy for data backup and disaster recovery.

The challenges created by the COVID-19 outbreak will likely continue for months, if not years, to come. But already, businesses are scrambling to navigate the “new normal” of maintaining continuity through a pandemic and beyond.

Covid-19 has pushed businesses into crisis mode. Companies had to rapidly rethink operations to ensure both continuity and the safety of their employees.

Disaster recovery planning is vital to surviving an unexpected disruption to your business – including a pandemic. Whether or not your business has been put in disarray by COVID-19, it’s not too late to revisit your disaster recovery plan.

As businesses scramble to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, many have shifted to remote working with little planning for how data backups should be handled going forward. It’s a costly mistake that could threaten a small business’s survival during these already challenging times. But it’s not too late to do something about it.

We’re only just beginning to see the impact of COVID-19 on businesses around the globe. But already the data is staggering.

With government-mandated lockdowns across the globe, companies in numerous industries are facing massive cuts and closures. Even in sectors that are shifting to remote work, coronavirus is causing major operational disruptions just about everywhere.

The COVID-19 outbreak has upended businesses in nearly every industry. Across the globe, companies are quickly shifting operations and forcing employees to work from their homes. In some U.S. states, non-essential businesses have been ordered to close altogether.

As businesses rapidly adapt to the COVID-19 outbreak, the need for comprehensive disaster recovery planning has never been more vital. The global pandemic has forced many organizations to rethink their operations, adopting new telecommuting policies and building out infrastructure to support it.

In this post, we look at why data backup for startups is so important and which solutions are best for these fast-growing small businesses.

Disaster recovery testing gives you peace of mind that your data backups can be successfully restored when it matters most.

Corporate data backup is the bedrock of any business continuity plan. With backups, businesses can recover lost data after a ransomware attack, hardware failure, accidental deletion and numerous other incidents.

Deploying a dependable data backup system is essential to maintaining business continuity in legal services. But with so many different backup products to choose from, it can be difficult for firms to know which solution is best for your practice.

Microsoft guarantees a 99.9% uptime for its Office 365 services, providing some peace of mind that your email, cloud apps and files will be available when you need them. But as any O365 user knows, that tiny 0.1% of potential downtime can translate into a nightmare when the service actually goes down.

2019 was a rough year for government organizations as ransomware wreaked havoc on public services across the United States. More than 70 state and local governments were successfully infected.

The key difference between unified continuity and traditional backup solutions is that unified systems are fully integrated technologies. They combine hardware, software and cloud infrastructure to create a seamless business continuity solution, developed by a single vendor.

One of the most disastrous ransomware attacks of 2019 happened in the rural community of Jackson County, Georgia. On a Saturday morning in March, attackers infiltrated the county's networks, locking staff out of nearly every government system. 9-1-1 dispatchers'...

Data loss is one of the most common causes of business disruption today—and one of the most costly. When critical files get wiped out, operations suffer and downtime ensues.