Backups and disaster recovery are well-worn topics for which there exists an unlimited amount of conflicting guidance. Everyone has an opinion about how to go about it, but in the end each ...

Many companies that we engage mistakenly believe that their routine backup operations have them covered in an outage or disaster. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard a CIO say, “Our data is ...

We do backups because we know we have to – in case we lose the primary versions of data and/or the systems that create and manage that data. It could just be that the original gets accidentally ...

During the first six months of 2021, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported more than 2,000 ransomware complaints, resulting in nearly $17M in losses — a 62% year-over-year increase.

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

I have been tasked with implementing a disaster recovery plan for a production server here at work.<BR><BR>I came into this project about half way. So far they have two identical servers running a ...

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 ...

The technology behind ARCserve has been around for some time, evolving through upgrades to add features and additional platform support. But those enhancements often bogged down the popular backup ...

James writes books, articles and jokes about technology from his Dallas-area home office. He also consults for those who don’t read his books and articles. “Back up! Back up! Back up!” Computer users ...

Microsoft Exchange server downtime costs companies millions of dollars a year. Technically savvy IT organizations are therefore working to eliminate or lessen the impact of both planned and unplanned ...