In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

Prepare, mitigate, respond, recover. It’s a cycle I have been through thousands of times. Navigating hundreds of disasters and crises ranging from small to seemingly impossible is all part of the job ...

When your IT systems go down, every second counts — and the costs can be staggering. Research shows that more than half of IT and data centre outages cost over $100,000, and 16% exceed $1 million. In ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Disasters are rising and ...

FEMA Administrator Brock Long, left, joins Regional Administrator Bob Fenton, center, and Mark Ghilarducci of Cal OES for tours of neighborhoods burned in October 2017 California wildfires. (Chanda ...

Luminex, developer and provider of the Channel Gateway Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape products, announced enhanced enterprise features of their Channel Gateway products. These new features and ...

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) said that mobile disaster recovery centers will begin opening across the ...

While overall demand for disaster planning services surged after the atrocities of 9/11 and then again with the rush to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, it is now cooling according to analyst firm Gartner.

The new Disaster Recovery Cards feature QR codes linking to FEMA and the Red Cross to help business owners recover quickly ...

Ryan has been a magazine and newspaper editor for 21 years, with the last 15 covering a variety of bases for CDW’s family of tech magazines. As Editor in Chief, he works on developing editorial ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced five storage management and disaster recovery services in a bid to take advantage of an uptick in storage-related consulting that’s being driven by tight IT ...

How could better application of information technology (IT) to disaster management reduce the human and economic costs of catastrophic events? This chapter outlines a vision for IT-enhanced disaster ...