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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

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 Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity is not a data backup. The Managed Services Providers (MSPs) industry has managed to h ij ack the Business Continuit y term , and it became all about data backup. A data backup is only one component of I T D i s a s t e r R e c o v e r y P l a nn i n g , which we address in Section 7.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity is not a data backup. The Managed Services Providers (MSPs) industry has managed to h ij ack the Business Continuit y term , and it became all about data backup. A data backup is only one component of I T D i s a s t e r R e c o v e r y P l a nn i n g , which we address in Section 7. ARTICLE SECTIONS.