Category: Disaster Recovery

Compliance, Disaster Recovery & Business Sustainability: Cloud Computing for Healthcare

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)’s financial stimulus plan for the meaningful use of EMR systems and IT services has motivated the healthcare industry to quickly adopt electronic data storage options. The large amounts of data … Continue reading

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2011 Cloud & IT Disaster Recovery Statistics

A recent survey conducted by the Aberdeen Group uncovered the IT disaster recovery trends of a range of companies using cloud computing for data storage, backup and recovery. Comparing cloud users and non-cloud users, they found that mid-sized companies ($50 … Continue reading

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Benefits of Cloud Computing (Virtualization) for IT Disaster Recovery

From faster recovery times to significant cost-savings and guaranteed backup, the benefits of  implementing cloud computing for both production and disaster recovery systems are worth deep consideration for any company running multiple, mission critical servers. Below is a cheat sheet … Continue reading

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Disaster Recovery in Cloud Computing

There are a lot of benefits with cloud computing – cost-effective resource use, rapid provisioning, scalability and elasticity. One of the most significant advantages to cloud computing is how it changes disaster recovery, making it more cost-effective and lowering the … Continue reading

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5 IT Disaster Recovery Preparations Every CEO Can Check on to Sleep Better at Night.

While most company CEOs have focus and responsibilities elsewhere, it’s inevitable to think about the “what if” scenario involving IT failures. It would be reassuring to know that the basics of critical IT infrastructure are current and in place – … Continue reading

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The Next Killer App for the Cloud: Business Continuity

In the Summer 2010 edition of Disaster Recovery Journal an article “Leveraging Cloud Computing for Business Continuity” by David Linthicum speaks to the fact that  DR for the cloud could become the next “killer app”. Leveraging cloud computing resources as a … Continue reading

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Can Your IT Department Survive: “No Word on When Power Will be Restored?”

In a recent ClickOnDetroit.com article entitled “Community Alert: 3,500 Without Power In Southfield” they explain how a simple outage can lead to the dreaded conclusion of “No word on when power will be restored.” It just continues to demonstrate that … Continue reading

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Guide to High Availability Hosting

How many 9s do you need? What is High Availability? High Availability is a term used to describe the procedures, infrastructure, and system design to ensure a specified level of accessibility to your server. Accessibility requires both power and network … Continue reading

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Disaster Recovery: Developing & Testing A Solid Plan Is Key To Quick Data Recovery

Processor Interviews Mike Klein, Online Tech’s President & COO, in It’s Article on Disaster Recovery Planning. For enterprises dependent on their IT operations—and today that pretty much means all of them—any kind of disaster can be potentially devastating, whether it’s … Continue reading

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An Easy First Step for Disaster Recovery

Online Backup to a Secure Data Center Delivers Cost Effective Disaster Recovery With the announcement of OTVault, new online data storage, businesses can take an easy first step towards disaster recovery by backing up their data online to one of … Continue reading

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