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The Rise of “Quick and Dirty” DR Testing 

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Back then the most common testing scenario was total or partial loss of a DC, a concern that has faded significantly for most organizations in our current era of greater mitigations, improved fire controls, and cloud computing. Reading that now was like looking at a message in a bottle written a hundred years ago.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

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Related on MHA Consulting: Learning to Talk to Your IT/DR Colleagues Knowing How to Recover Is Still Important With the migration toward cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), many organizations have grown complacent about IT/DR. Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site.