All too often, data protection is a checkbox exercise. Have we got backups of our data? Check! Three copies of each? Check! Are they on two different media? Check! Is one offsite? Check! All done! Except you’re not all done. Understanding the 3-2-1 Rule for Effective Data Backup Strategies Three copies of data on two different types of storage media with…

You’ve heard the downtime horror stories. You’ve seen the statistics from major research firms like Gartner, which found that businesses lose an average of $5,600 every minute they can’t access their mission-critical data and systems. You know your organization needs a disaster recovery plan. It’s the only way to be confident that if an incident ever takes your…

Data Protection Trends, News & Backup Tips What Makes a Disaster Recover System Succeed? When you think about putting together a disaster recovery (DR) test plan, thoughts almost always go to which servers need to be included, what user accounts are involved, what applications will be impacted, and more.  Next you might think who should help build your…

While IT tends to start and end anything with the tech involved, disaster recovery management requires starting with the business and the risk of losing operations and planning a disaster recovery system from there. Your technology DR plan can’t just be a culmination of steps to be taken to recover a certain data set or…

Building a testing plan for disaster recovery is often not the easiest task.  Looking past the simple “which workloads are critical?” discussions, DR testing is where “the rubber meets the road” and you put the plan through its measures.  So, you need to be certain that what you’re testing will adequately represent both the intent and the proper execution…