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Is your disaster recovery a house of cards? Why BIA, BCP, and DRP are your foundation

CIO

Disaster recovery is more than just an IT issue. In fact, successful recovery from cyberattacks and other disasters hinges on an approach that integrates business impact assessments (BIA), business continuity planning (BCP), and disaster recovery planning (DRP) including rigorous testing.

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Increase flexibility and enable a cyber-resilient IT infrastructure

CIO

With our longstanding technology and go-to-market partnership, we are yet again innovating to deliver value in the space of cyber and disaster recovery. VMware Live Recovery was engineered to solve these challenges. For example, 59% of organizations were hit by ransomware in 2023 and 70% of them suffered data encryption.

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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

Kaseya

You diligently back up critical servers to your on-site appliance or to the cloud, but when an incident happens and you need it the most, the backup recovery fails. . Let’s take a look at why disaster recovery fails and how you can avoid the factors that lead to this failure: . Configuration Issues .

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO

One such area that’s getting more thought today is SaaS backup and recovery, something many CIOs have to date taken for granted, leaving it to their SaaS vendors to not only deliver better than five-nines uptime but also be the sole entities backing up and recovering SaaS-siloed data that is increasingly vital to companies’ data-driven operations.

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Why You Need to Consider Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

CIO

Investing in a robust disaster recovery program upfront can save considerable costs down the road. According to FEMA, nearly a quarter of businesses never re-open following a major disaster—a sobering statistic. [i] Without a robust disaster recovery plan in place, it can take days, weeks, or even months to recover.

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Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery

CIO

They also know that without a reliable disaster recovery (DR) solution to protect business-critical applications, all their modernization efforts could be rendered moot in a matter of seconds. An IDC survey across North America and Western Europe highlights the need for effective disaster recovery.

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AWS Disaster Recovery Strategies – PoC with Terraform

Xebia

The project will generate a subset of the following diagram ( source: AWS Disaster Recovery Workloads ). Backup service repository. RPO is the acceptable time frame from the last data recovery point. It defines the age limit for the last data backup before the downtime event. Backup and Restore.