Disaster Recovery Tape Storage Myths

Tape storage of information sometimes has an image of being out-dated, outmoded and out-performed by disk storage. That’s true enough – in the living room of your home, where audio cassettes and the VHS system for video cassettes are now antiques compared to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray media. However, a living room is not a…

Disaster Recovery Templates

What does “disaster” mean to you, in the context of a disaster recovery template? Explosion, storm, power outage? The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has an interesting take on this in its “Emergency Management Guide for Business & Industry”.  Not only does it also list “loss of key supplier or customer” in its sample list…

Disaster Recovery Repackaged for SMEs

Small businesses typically don’t have much in the way of an IT department. Often as not, IT is somebody’s part-time responsibility while holding down the rest of a job. Neither do they necessarily have the funds to splash out on elaborate disaster recovery solutions, or the time to sit down and figure out how to…