Why Stop at Just Disaster Recovery with Your DRP?
Do more with less. Who hasn’t already heard that in business? And just because something – like disaster recovery planning and management – is vital to ensuring enterprise survival does not mean that you cannot leverage your investment to get more out of it.
“Data, Data, Everywhere, nor Any Drop to Drink”
The literature buffs among you should recognise this paraphrase of Samuel Coleridge’s epic poem, ‘The Ancient Mariner’. Besides having to put up with an albatross hung round his neck, the Ancient Mariner despaired of a lack of drinking water while becalmed at sea (“Water, water, everywhere…”) Given today’s oceans of data, CIOs might feel much […]
Five Strategies to Prevent a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a trending and serious issue when it comes to Cyber Security across many industries in particular the banking and financial sectors. In a DDoS attack Botnets (usually referred to as a “Zombie army”) bombards a server or a network with thousands of system requests sent from infected […]
Validating your data backup plan
Having a plan for data backup as part of your disaster recovery strategy is the right thing to do, but it’s not the end of the story. Too many organisations have planned their data backups, only to find in situations of emergency that the backups were unavailable or insufficient. The reasons can be varied, but […]