MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. It helps organizations identify gaps, train their teams, and respond effectively during outages.

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Solutions Review

JULY 26, 2022

In this submission, SIOS Technology Solutions Architect Ian Allton outlines the four keys to disaster recovery implementation, as well as 7 steps to proper business continuity planning. 1) Business Continuity Plan. Step 6: Test the Plan – Use scheduled power outages or major upgrades as a chance to test the plan.

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CCEM Strategies

APRIL 17, 2017

However, an emergency will set off a chain reaction bringing pieces of your business to a halt and the dominoes scattered on the ground. If the last one falls your business could be finished. A Business Continuity Plan is designed to keep your lights on, the doors open, and your customers satisfied during an emergency.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. 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. Unrealistic tests.

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Zerto

JANUARY 31, 2024

Despite basic out-of-the-box protection from SaaS vendors, data residing in SaaS applications is your responsibility, not the vendor’s. This data is exposed to potential risks like outages, accidental deletion, and ransomware attacks that can lead to loss or downtime. Why Monitoring and Analyzing your SaaS Backup Data is important?

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LogisManager

JULY 22, 2021

Over this past critical year, we’ve collected over 200 value stories from our customers about how they’ve leveraged our guidance to drive their businesses forward. This series delves deeper into those stories in hopes of helping other businesses throughout these challenging times. What vendors or applications do they rely on?

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If IT Resilience is the cornerstone of business resilience as seen in part three , in today’s digital world, cyber resilience is an extension of it, and one of its other pillars. Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), What Is Cyber Resilience?

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans need to keep pace with increasing business demands and growth in physical and compute infrastructures. For a hyperconnected digital business, even a small disruptive event can ripple through the entire organization. Today most businesses have BCDR plans.

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Zerto

JULY 25, 2023

Educators need their applications available to reliably teach to our children, while constituents need access to emergency, financial and social services in their most critical time of need. An IT outage of any sort can adversely impact people’s lives. Seeking help planning or updating your data protection strategy?

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

FFIEC in our industry is best known for providing the business continuity management standard that U.S. However, of the five, the FFIEC Business Continuity Management booklet is widely regarded as the toughest and best. financial institutions are required to meet. marketplace.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The Future of Business Continuity The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies In an era of rapid technological advancement, the landscape of business continuity is evolving, embracing innovations and emerging technologies to enhance resilience.

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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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Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Businesses do not have to go through the lengthy and costly process of developing all of their applications from scratch. They can simply use SaaS, which allows them to subscribe to the specific software applications they need. Examples of PaaS are Heroku and Azure AI.

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Assurance IT

JUNE 15, 2021

Protection Against Failed Hard Drives Protection Against Power Outages Recovery if Operating System Fails. There is also a difference in the following aspects: Service levels Application impact Reverse protection. Having accessibility to your data at all times is the key to business continuity. What’s The Difference?

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Online Computers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For instance, businesses in New Jersey may be affected by severe hurricanes and flooding, so these disasters should be high on your list. A good way to visualize threats to business continuity is to create a risk map , which is a graphical representation of all risks and their impacts. Appoint key personnel.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 1, 2022

As companies continue to invest in digital transformation, there are several actions they should take to ensure their data is secure, one of the most important being a data backup and recovery strategy. When it comes to SaaS applications running in the cloud, there are a number of unique considerations.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Just like that, access to the SaaS applications that have become so ingrained in your daily business operations and that contain the institutional knowledge critical to run the business are now gone. Backup’s Role in Business Continuity. Accidental deletion came in second at 20 percent.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Exceeding both has the same result: business suffers.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Exceeding both has the same result: business suffers.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Approaching maintenance in this way allows your organization to be prepared for planned outages within your infrastructure, including patch installation, security updates, and service packs. If this is a common occurrence for your business, it may be time to update your data recovery plan. Incompatible Infrastructure.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 26, 2023

Experts predict that over 70% of companies will ultimately experience business disruption due to data loss from SaaS applications. 2023 could be the year we see the first major SaaS outage. For starters, what measures does the provider have in place for business continuity and disaster recovery?

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Online Computers

JANUARY 8, 2023

If you own a small- or mid-sized business (SMB), you know that IT is essential to your organization's success. You also need various applications to connect with your customers, vendors, and employees. Guaranteeing business continuity (BC). For one, you need technology to be able to manage your operations with ease.

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Solutions Review

JUNE 16, 2023

Modern applications are powered by ephemeral compute, yet persistent data—vast data lakes and data warehouses. As this data continues to grow exponentially, the attack surface for breaches, ransomware, and even accidental deletions keeps increasing.

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FS-ISAC

JUNE 30, 2022

On the other hand, enterprise risk management organizations have historically focused on identifying critical business processes and identifying business continuity plans for each process. For many organizations this is a far-off pipe dream - it requires completely containerizing each application.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Working from home: Is your business continuity problem solved? There seemed to be a moment sometime last year, when many issues associated with business continuity were solved, and the world became more resilient. The go-to issue associated with business continuity was always the building burning down.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Working from home: Is your business continuity problem solved? There seemed to be a moment sometime last year, when many issues associated with business continuity were solved, and the world became more resilient. The go-to issue associated with business continuity was always the building burning down.

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Backup Outsourcing Business Continuity Resilience 52

Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

Disaster Recovery: Cause and Scope This key difference of intent also means how they occur and their impact on the business are different, requiring different measures and technologies to investigate, respond, and recover in a way that is efficient and effective. In general, disaster recovery is business continuity.

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NexusTek

AUGUST 4, 2021

Emails, messaging applications, and video conference calls utilize cloud computing. Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, or DRaaS, utilizes cloud computing to backup and restore data and IT infrastructure in a timely manner after a disaster to maintain business continuity. Telecommunications.

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Assurance IT

JULY 15, 2021

Veeam evolution Kuberneties Data protection All about data protection and VMware Cloud MacOS Office 365 VMs Endpoint Backups Linux Data protection and secured data New features Security Response Advanced SaaS-Based applications Cloud Connect Image based-backups? And we talk about tier one applications, tier two, and so on.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. This ensures that the control plane stays available via the AWS Singapore Region even if there is an outage in AWS Mumbai Region affecting control plane availability.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 30, 2023

Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. Cybersecurity: IT departments should bolster their cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive data and ensure business continuity. Security vulnerabilities: Complex IT environments often have multiple points of entry for cyber threats.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. What’s the Difference Between Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment? What Is Risk Assessment?

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

As generative AI applications like chatbots become more pervasive, companies will train them on their troves of internal data, unlocking even more value from previously untapped information. The result is that large sections of corporate datasets are now created by SaaS applications.

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Backup Disaster Recovery Application Security 119

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

As a refresher from previous blogs, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. It is a monolithic application (application server and web server) that runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. The monolith application is tightly coupled with the database.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Savvy organizational leaders employ corporate strategies such as disaster recovery and business continuity to nimbly navigate through such emergencies and maintain functionality in the face of disasters. What is a Business Continuity Plan?

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Zerto

JANUARY 10, 2024

Why Securing SaaS Data for Google Workspace is a Must While Google Workspace is an exceptionally secure SaaS application platform, it cannot protect your workloads from data loss or corruption. This is vital for any organization that has its business-critical data on Google Workspace. What happens if there is an outage?

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