MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. Pursued purposefully these are all worthwhile activities. However, there is one activity that most BC offices tend to neglect—and pound for pound it is one of the most worthwhile ways a BC professional can spend his or her time.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There are two types of HA clustering configurations that are used to host an application: active-passive and active-active. The standby servers act as a ready-to-go copy of the application environment that can be a failover in case the primary (active) server becomes disconnected or is unable to service client requests.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Though ransomware has dominated conversations in the data protection sphere for quite some time, stories of recent outages due to this threat still circulate. While basking in the lively atmosphere of the event, one dominant theme echoed throughout our booth discussions – ransomware.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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Business Continuity Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram had a six-hour global outage late last year, Facebook shares fell by 5%, costing founder Mark Zuckerberg an estimated $6 billion in personal wealth. Software maker Adobe was the victim of a cyberattack that compromised about 38 million active users. The company had initially declared that 2.9

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. The loss of the Microsoft Active Directory prevented staff access to some systems even although the main systems are all working correctly. We don’t look at routers and the gateway into our systems.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. The loss of the Microsoft Active Directory prevented staff access to some systems even although the main systems are all working correctly. We don’t look at routers and the gateway into our systems.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

Using multiple Regions ensures resiliency in the most serious, widespread outages. The Amazon EKS control plane and data plane will be created on demand in the secondary Region during an outage via Infrastructure-as-a-Code (IaaC) such as AWS CloudFormation , Terraform, etc. DR Strategies. Architecture overview. OpenSearch Service.

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everbridge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Prepare for power outages Ensure you have accurate contact information for employees, customers, and stakeholders to stay connected during power outages. It should include clear guidelines on assessing risks, activating emergency operations centers, and coordinating with relevant authorities.

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Fusion Risk Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Whether it’s supplier challenges, extreme weather, an unplanned outage, or an increased threat of cyberattacks, it seems the next disruption is just around the corner. What happens when a hurricane causes damage to an entire region, causing several sites to go down along with unplanned network outages? Activate Response.

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Business Continuity Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram had a six-hour global outage late last year, Facebook shares fell by 5%, costing founder Mark Zuckerberg an estimated $6 billion in personal wealth. Software maker Adobe was the victim of a cyberattack that compromised about 38 million active users. The company had initially declared that 2.9

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Traditional Storage Array Approaches Storage arrays primarily take one of two approaches to address this challenge: active/active or scale-out. Active-Active: Advantages and Disadvantages Active/active allows both controllers to simultaneously serve IO to hosts. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It has to do with the activation and use of the incident management team. Many clients activate their incident management teams once a year, when they conduct their annual tabletop exercise. Some organizations we work with utilize their incident management team whenever there is a potential issue or non-DR outage.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Doing this work is one of the most productive activities a BC professional can undertake. Sorting out such problems can take hours if not days, an expensive proposition if the issue is prolonging an outage. This can be crippling during an outage. This cuts across all areas of BC activity. Having these items is not enough.

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PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Global Preparedness Month is our World Cup of employee safety where we bring all of our enablement activities home. When facing a critical breach or outage in physical security systems, teams need to understand the where and when in real-time. It’s interactive, cross-functional, fun and endorsed by our Senior Leadership. .

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The activity of crisis management is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.) Its criticality points up the need for everyone involved in improving the organization’s resilience to have a clear understanding of these two fundamental terms and activities.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation. Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Remember, after an outage, every minute counts…. Pure SafeMode is a built-in feature of the Purity Operating Environment that prevents data from being manually deleted before the policy/timer expires, allowing you to recover quickly in the event of a mistake or malicious activity.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

When considering IT systems, a SLA helps organizations conduct high-level risk assessments by detailing the requirements for availability, reliability, and the acceptable number of outages for the service provided. guaranteed uptime and allow a maximum of two outage events per year, lasting not more than three hours each.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since then, so much more value has been added to our all-flash platform with innovative releases such as ActiveCluster ™ (active-active synchronous replication), FlashArray//X ™ (the first enterprise-class all-NVMe FlashArray™), ActiveDR ™ continuous replication , and FlashArray//XL ™.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Manufacturers must be prepared for all types of disruptive events such as severe weather activity, natural and man-made disasters, hazardous materials incidents, supply chain disruptions, and equipment and technology failures. With so much reliance on electricity and computers, one outage can wreak havoc on your processes.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

is a stateful protocol, all state information is stored on both the client and the server when they’re active and recovered mutually in the event of an outage. An improved file locking mechanism eliminates the need to manually clear orphaned locks that existed in NFS 3.0—a Because NFS 4.1

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 14, 2024

Enterprise Risk Management is the activity of identifying and mitigating the hazards that threaten an organization (definition from Strong Language: The MHA Glossary of Essential Business Continuity Terminology , available for free download with registration). ERM provides a framework for doing this in a systematic, results-oriented fashion.

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OffsiteDataSync

MAY 18, 2022

Then, regardless of how much SaaS has benefited your company, it’ll only be talk when the data you thought was backed up isn’t there or when productivity grinds to a halt because an outage is keeping users from the resources they need to get their job done. Outages with major SaaS providers do happen. You Got a Problem?

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

. ​Here are two high-value low-investment end-of-year activities to keep your Business Continuity programs on track and ready to face the unexpected in 2020! Exercises Winter presents significant potential for business interruptions and outages.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. We at MHA are happy to participate in these types of conversations and activities. BC strategy development is not a “one and done” activity.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2021

As a result, businesses were on an ever-revolving turntable of purchasing new arrays, installing them, migrating data, juggling weekend outages, and managing months-long implementations. For our early customers, it has meant a decade without the hassles of migrations, storage refreshes, weekend outages, or application outages.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the context of business and organizations, “continuity” refers to the ability of a company or other type of organization to quickly restore its essential functions, operations, and services in the face of unexpected disruptions or outages.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 14, 2023

The manufacturing processes they support—like the aluminum casting required to produce powertrain and engine components—are energy-intensive and prone to outages. Two physical tape libraries comprised of hundreds of cartridges used to occupy two entire racks of data center floor space and required hours of storage administration.

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everbridge

MARCH 20, 2023

With CEM, organizations can react faster to unplanned interruptions and outages, communicate with appropriate stakeholders faster, and overall decrease the impact of a critical event. Increasingly complex IT environments require intelligent solutions that help identify and alert responders to outages as they happen.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Higher availability: Synchronous replication can be implemented between two Pure Cloud Block Store instances to ensure that, in the event of an availability zone outage, the storage remains accessible to SQL Server. . Cost-effective Disaster Recovery . Figure 2: Asynchronous replication of volume snapshots from a source to a target.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

Therefore, if you’re designing a DR strategy to withstand events such as power outages, flooding, and other other localized disruptions, then using a Multi-AZ DR strategy within an AWS Region can provide the protection you need. Active/passive and active/active DR strategies. In Figure 3, we show how active/passive works.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So what happens when, during an outage, employees start attempting to use backup devices, such as their home computers, to access the network? Just as with equipment, BC and IT need to work together in advance to make sure all alternate workers whose participation is anticipated by the recovery plan will have system access during an outage.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases. Since most businesses today are heavily IT reliant, DRP tends to focus on business data and information systems by addressing one or several points of failure including application downtime, network outages, hardware failure, data loss, etc.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. Building a relationship with these knowledgeable and dedicated folks ahead of time can make all the difference when and if you experience an outage or disaster.

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