In case you missed the live webinar, here is a short guide on the Do's and Don'ts of Disaster Recovery. Knowing what NOT to do is just as important as knowing what TO DO for a DR event.  For full reference, watch the recording and download the book below to learn how to prepare for a disaster, see real life examples of good and poor planning, and learn the basic elements of a disaster recovery plan.

With the alarming increase of complexity and volume of attacks, the US Department of Homeland Security confirmed that ransomware is a major threat to national security. 2022 will see both an increase in the number of ransomware attacks along with more avenues being exploited to inflict an attack.

Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives are the foundation of every disaster recovery plan to minimize essential data loss, maximize productivity, and to ensure uptime.

Once you are faced with the reality that your business operations have been compromised - time is of the essence.  Having a thorough disaster recovery plan will save you large amounts of money, time, and maybe a few gray hairs.

Businesses today are all at risk of facing a disaster that can inflict a high risk to the business. The implementation of a business continuity strategy has never been more necessary in order to minimize essential data loss, maximize productivity & efficiency, and to ensure uptime.  Ask yourself, do you know exactly how much an outage could cost your business if you were faced with a potential IT disaster? If you don't, your company is putting it's most valuable asset, data, up for risk. 

There are many factors that separate a great disaster recovery plan from a good one such as infrastructure, cloud provider, replication technology, cost, etc. True disaster recovery encompasses taking data from one site to another site where the data will be safe and separate from the event you encounter.

How will your business be impacted by a disaster?  Traditional replication and DR solutions were not designed for the virtualized data centers of today. And recovery from these new, virtualized environments may not give you the results you need. Protecting data is an ongoing challenge and to ensure business continuity, it's important to know how well your business can recover from a disaster event/outage.

Being able to achieve business continuity is vital to a business during a data loss event.   This Runbook template will be a living document that your team can update and change at any time.  By utilizing this template, IT teams can reduce human errors and bring machines back on line efficiently during what could be a very stressful time.

Ransomware is becoming an increasing risk due to the appearance of ransomware as a target and ransomware kits on the dark web.  Understanding the scope of ransomware and how if could affect your business may help you decide if your Backup/DR plan is up to the challenge.