Agencies need to improve their recovery time objectives for applications, data sets and systems to ensure they continue to operate in the face of increased threats to their IT environments. Recovery ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

Last week’s column (see: “The data recovery expectations gap”) discussed the gap that often exists between end users and IT infrastructure, and suggested the need to distinguish between operational ...

Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations. When evaluating the ...

Multi-cloud disaster recovery is becoming essential for organizations that can’t afford downtime. By distributing workloads across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others, businesses reduce single points ...

The cloud makes your systems fast and scalable, but it doesn't make them bulletproof. If you don't have a tested plan to ...

For years, Amazon has made it possible to copy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), either within a region or across regions. These AMI copy operations are often a key step in disaster recovery operations.