Two key components of a modern disaster recovery plan are backup and replication. Ben Weinberger of Lathrop & Gage describes how his firm, with sophisticated IT leadership and the right management of ...

With that ominous question, Google spotlighted the disaster recovery and data backup capabilities of its Google Apps cloud computing platform and unveiled a new disaster recovery feature to Google ...

Disaster recovery (DR) is one of the most critical insurance policies in which a business can invest. A high-quality disaster recovery strategy can be the difference between a minor speed bump and a ...

No business expects to experience a major loss of data, but because the unexpected happens, the safest thing is to plan for the worst and hope for the best. Even the most cautious and prepared ...

While the press concentrates on IP-based storage-area networks, it seems that every conversation with vendors or end users about IP storage eventually turns to a discussion of IP-based data ...

Historically, building and maintaining a disaster recovery (DR) site, while critical to ensure business continuity, was often too costly and complex for most companies. As Rajiv Mirani, chief ...

When is a backup not a backup? When you can't get information out of that backup. Backups are worthless if you can't actually restore from them, a truism that underlies much of the real-world planning ...

Setting up a replication configuration is a fairly standard way to enable disaster recovery (DR) for business-critical databases. In such a configuration, changes from a production or primary system ...

The Islandia, N.Y.-based software vendor on Wednesday unveiled BrightStor ARCServe Backup/WANSyncHA, a software bundle that includes WANSync high-availability and Assured Recovery disaster-recovery ...

Medical facilities face unique risks, from cyberattacks to natural disasters, that can disrupt patient care and compromise sensitive data. Selecting the right disaster recovery solution ensures ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...