That's one of the central findings from Symantec's sixth annual Disaster Recovery Study, which includes data from a telephone survey of some 1,700 enterprises with 5,000 or more employees in 18 ...

While most enterprises begin their virtualization foray at the server level, faith-based financial services firm Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA) came at it from the storage side of the shop. The primary ...

Melissa Delaney is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Since it began occupying its new arena in ...

"We don't get paid for backups," said Joey. "We get paid for restores." That guiding philosophy anchored the session, which moved beyond traditional DR to include policy enforcement, immutable ...

VMware today announced the general availability of VMware Live Recovery, which offers disaster and ransomware recovery capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation environments. Businesses today face ...

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

What is the most crucial aspect of business to focus on today? Finance? Logistics? Developers? It’s really hard to say, but the truth is that any employee can be replaced by someone (or something) ...

No organization is immune to disaster, whether it's ransomware, cloud outages or unexpected system failures. That's why having a solid disaster recovery plan is critical -- especially for Microsoft ...

Many cloud computing services are provided on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be accessed from anywhere at any time. In the world of IT, traditional disaster recovery is well-established in its ...

As noted in the first article in this series, IT disaster recovery (DR) strategies and procedures help organisations protect their investments in IT systems and infrastructures. The essential mission ...

Mental health charity Together For Mental Wellbeing has migrated its old server room to a virtual datacentre (VDC) hosted by Node4. Funded by the NHS and local authorities, the charity’s services ...