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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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Disaster recovery can be an effective way to ease into the cloud

TechCrunch

Instead, leaders unfamiliar with the cloud should start by moving over their disaster recovery program to the cloud, which helps to gain familiarity and understanding before a full migration of production workloads. DRaaS emphasizes speed of recovery so that this failover is as seamless as possible. Define your strategy.

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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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AWS Disaster Recovery Strategies – PoC with Terraform

Xebia

This post explores a proof-of-concept (PoC) written in Terraform , where one region is provisioned with a basic auto-scaled and load-balanced HTTP * basic service, and another recovery region is configured to serve as a plan B by using different strategies recommended by AWS. Pilot Light strategy diagram. Strategies.

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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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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

Kaseya

Let’s take a look at why disaster recovery fails and how you can avoid the factors that lead to this failure: . Failure to Identify and Understand Recovery Dependencies . As a result, disaster recovery will fail, data may be lost, and you may waste many hours troubleshooting the issues. Configuration Issues .

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

CIO

In response, traders formed alliances, hired guards and even developed new paths to bypass high-risk areas just as modern enterprises must invest in cybersecurity strategies, encryption and redundancy to protect their valuable data from breaches and cyberattacks. Theft and counterfeiting also played a role.

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