article thumbnail

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? It’s important to understand the distinctions between business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP) because they each entail a different set of problems, priorities, and solutions. Get the Guide What Is Disaster Recovery Planning?

article thumbnail

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? It’s important to understand the distinctions between business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP) because they each entail a different set of problems, priorities, and solutions. What Is Disaster Recovery Planning?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage

Plan B Consulting

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. If air flights only ran from 9-5, then airlines could do some evening work to catch up. Can airlines ever provide enough information?

Outage 52
article thumbnail

Scary DR Stories 2023 Recap

Zerto

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! However, a power outage and backup generator failure led to a communication breakdown. Our disaster recovery testing is so easy now.

Outage 101
article thumbnail

Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. Alternately, they might acknowledge the possibility of outages but resist investing in BC on the theory that their people are good enough to improvise their way out of trouble if anything does go wrong. This led to a delay of almost 2,000 Southwest flights.