Backups are a simple form of disaster recovery (DR) to be protected against contingencies like data corruption or deletion, system failures, faulty updates or cyberattacks. As the digital world slowly but surely integrates into our daily personal and professional lives, we have to learn to change the way we use, store and manage data in
Business continuity depends significantly on IT. So, if you want your business to be prepared against any contingency, you should get your Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) ready sooner rather than later. A DRP will allow you to recover your mission-critical data and applications in the shortest time possible. Therefore, it is important to properly adapt
Choosing a Disaster Recovery solution over another is an important decision for any company, considering the serious impact an attack or disaster has on business profits. Since more and more organizations and services are digitized, and the number of cyberattacks worldwide continue to rise, Disaster Recovery planning has become indispensable for ensuring business continuity. Therefore,
Georedundancy or geographical redundancy allows companies to increase availability, resilience and fault tolerance. Relying on geographically distributed data centers contributes to building a stronger business continuity strategy. It is also referred to as “geo-replication” or “geographical replication”. What is georedundancy? Georedundancy consists in replicating data and IT infrastructure in multiple remote data centers. Its goal
Data center fires are rare but they are also a good example of how important Disaster Recovery planning is. Most fires in data centers are quickly located at the source, allowing the equipment to be isolated and the damage contained to a small area. But their impact can be catastrophic if they are not quickly
How many important data might have been lost in ephemeral storage? The mission of the Arctic World Archive (AWA) is enabling data preservation for centuries. The Arctic World Archive was officially opened in March 2017 in Svalbard with the objective of protecting the world’s digital memory and knowledge against potential climatic or nuclear threats. This
