In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers.

Continue reading 4 critical trends in IT business continuity

Tags: cloud computing, I.T. DIsaster Recovery, mobile devices in the workforce, Social Networking, virtualization

Most organizations moving assets into cloud provider environments realize it’s prudent to do a thorough risk assessment beforehand. However, even the most robust cloud infrastructure can suffer from availability and security failures.

Continue reading Cloud outages and cloud computing breaches: Lessons learned

Tags: cloud computing, cloud computing breaches, denial of service, DoS

Just 23% of the 414 respondents to InformationWeek’s latest BC/DR survey use cloud services as part of their application and data resiliency strategies. What’s the holdup?

Continue reading The Cloud And Your BC/DR Plan

Tags: Business Continuity, cloud computing, Disaster Recovery, public cloud services, server virtualization, survey

Private and public clouds can make high-quality DR/COOP more affordable — if you don’t undermine yourself with outmoded assumptions.

Continue reading Don’t Bring Old Thinking To A New Disaster Recovery Model

Tags: cloud computing, Disaster Recovery

InformationWeek has released a research report, Cloud’s Role in BC/DR, encompassing analysis of results from InformationWeek’s 2011 Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Survey and guiding readers in using cloud services to improve their BC/DR strategies.

Continue reading InformationWeek Research: 23% of IT Pros Have Incorporated Cloud Services Into Their Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plans

Tags: cloud computing, IaaS, InformationWeek, infrastructure as a service, PaaS, platform as a service

Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th, 2011 in a Dublin, Ireland data center due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center.

Continue reading Lessons learned from a recent Amazon outage

Tags: Amazon, cloud computing, cloud services, Disaster Recovery, outage, service providers, sla

If there was a catastrophe like a dirty bomb, many of the affected small-and-medium-sized businesses would go out of business. Many large businesses, like banks or healthcare firms, have extensive disaster recovery plans. A large terrorist attack would lead to many problems, but they could scramble services to various data centers around the country and select new suppliers to keep them running.

Continue reading Cloud services as part of a BC/DR plan after a terror attack

Tags: cloud computing, cloud services, terrorism

Hosting.com,  a provider of cloud hosting and recovery services, released its 2011 Cloud Industry Trends and Best Practices Report.

Continue reading Cloud Industry Trends and Best Practices Report Released by Hosting.com Introduces New Market Insights

Tags: cloud computing, Hosting.com, hybrid solutions, survey

There are thousands of service-level products and their major features within a cloud application stack. How can you be sure it will recover from a business interruption or disaster?

Continue reading Cloud disaster recovery: Can you trust your provider?

Tags: cloud computing, cloud disaster recovery, LDAP, XML

When developing a disaster recovery strategy, customers frequently ask to clarify the difference between disaster recovery and high availability. And now with the rise of cloud computing, they also ask, “How will cloud make a difference in what I should consider?”

Continue reading Understanding High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Your Overall Recovery Strategy

Tags: cloud computing, Disaster Recovery, high availability

When developing a disaster recovery strategy, customers frequently ask me to clarify the difference between disaster recovery and high availability. And now with the rise of cloud computing, they also ask, “How will cloud make a difference in what I should consider?” Continue reading Understanding High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Your Overall Recovery Strategy

Tags: cloud computing, Disaster Recovery, high availability, strategy