Disaster recovery planning is vital for smaller businesses. The rise of cyber attacks, especially ransomware, has increased the risk of disruption and data loss to smaller firms. SMEs are also ...

Research by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) suggests more than half of firms now use DRaaS. That’s because DRaaS allows customers to recover quickly from a disaster or other outage, but without the ...

The key reason: most enterprises rely on pretty much the same disaster recovery plan they’ve used for years — even though their environment has changed dramatically, thanks to SaaS, cloud, and AI. One ...

When systems go down, business grinds to a halt. Downtime leads to $9,000 in losses per minute on average, damaged reputation, and operational disruption. To that end, IT disaster recovery is more ...

As companies continue shifting mission-critical systems to the cloud, they’re discovering that 24/7/365 reliability isn’t a given. Even brief outages can interrupt sales, slow internal workflows and ...

One of us lived through Superstorm Sandy 10 years ago and hoped that our broken disaster recovery system would be fixed after the glaring problems in getting help to communities was laid bare. But it ...

A dozen core state agencies once again have a backup computer network in case a disaster knocked out service at Virginia’s main data center in Chester.

In the aftermath of every major disaster, Americans watch a familiar scene unfold, where communities are devastated, families displaced and survivors struggle to navigate a system that often feels ...

Dr. Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the author of “Disasterology: Dispatches From the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis.” This summer ...