How often should you back up data for your business? This is just one of many important questions that organizations must consider when creating a small business backup strategy. And since each business is unique, every organization will have its own specific recovery needs and objectives.
According to Douglas Barnett, Risk Control Strategy Manager at AXA Insurance, “80% of businesses affected by a major incident either never re-open or close within 18 months.” That’s why testing your business continuity plan is so important.
Where is business continuity headed in 2018-2019? A quick look at today’s trends provides a glimpse of how companies’ priorities may be changing in the months ahead.
It’s no secret that backing up your data is essential to surviving an IT disaster. But it’s only one part of the picture. How and where you perform those backups is just as important as having the backups in the first place. If you’re not using offsite disaster recovery to store and restore your data, then you’re putting your organization at risk.
DattoCon22 had great speakers, insight and product news. It also answered a lot of questions that many of us have been wondering about.
Companies that respond fastest to ransomware rely on a business continuity framework to stay operational. Are you confident in your plan?
A hybrid cloud backup is a great way to protect your business from disastrous data loss. Learn what it is and eight ways that it can benefit your business.
Find best practices for data cloud protection to counter the exposure businesses face in moving IT resources to the cloud.
Choosing the right data backup for SMBs is easier than you might think—especially when you know what to look for. Yes, there are plenty of options to choose from, but you can quickly narrow those choices by focusing on the specific needs of your organization.
When a computer virus infected the IT systems of a UK hospital group in November 2016, the group was forced to halt operations at three hospitals. For five excruciating days, the hospitals turned patients away while they shut down their systems to isolate and remove the virus. According to a report in Computing.co.uk, some experts now speculate there may not have been a hospital business continuity plan in place that would have helped to keep the facilities running during the disaster.
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.
Many businesses are moving to converged infrastructure as a way to simplify their infrastructure, consolidating disparate IT components into a single hardware stack.
