MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources We business continuity professionals spend a lot of time telling our colleagues and clients about the negative impacts an organization can experience if it gives short shrift to the need to become resilient and plan for outages.

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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

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

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Online Computers

MARCH 30, 2022

In this blog post, we will discuss some of the most common causes of server downtime and how you can prevent them from affecting business productivity. Network outages. In a network outage, the server can't communicate with other computers, causing work to grind to a halt. Third-party or cloud vendor outages.

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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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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 .

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everbridge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In this blog, we will provide valuable insights for both private and public sectors and a comprehensive checklist to navigate through the challenges posed by severe winter weather. Prepare for power outages Ensure you have accurate contact information for employees, customers, and stakeholders to stay connected during power outages.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Pure Storage Now a 10X Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Primary Storage by Pure Storage Blog This blog on Pure Storage being named A Leader for Primary Storage was co-authored by Shawn Hansen, Vice President and General Manager of FlashArray, and Prakash Darji, Vice President and General Manager, Digital Experience.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

10 Ways the Pure Storage Data Platform Uncomplicates Data Storage, Forever by Pure Storage Blog One of the biggest enterprise IT headaches? Preparedness for the Unexpected In the IT world, the unexpected isn’t just inconvenient, it can be disastrous and mean things like service outages, reputational damage, data breaches, and lawsuits.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 24, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog When you design a distributed system or enterprise server, you need storage to preserve data. Journaling is a form of metadata written to memory when a file changes in case of drive crashes or power outages. appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. XFS vs. Ext4: Which Linux File System Is Better?

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. People new to our field are often puzzled by one of its key terms: “continuity.” Today we’ll provide a comprehensive definition of this foundational word.

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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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Pure Storage

JANUARY 10, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog This blog on operationalization and its benefits is part two in a two-part series. Click here to read part on e on eradicating change management outages. appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. Enhancing Data Protection and Recovery: What Is Operationalization and What Are Its Benefits?

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A detailed discussion of Zero Trust is outside scope of the blog, but here’s an introduction pitched to the needs of BC practitioners. So what happens when, during an outage, employees start attempting to use backup devices, such as their home computers, to access the network? Traditional network security is perimeter-based.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Closing the Circle Most of the people who read this blog work for organizations that have developed recovery plans that incorporate manual workarounds for their mission-critical business processes. Unprecedented outages occur all the time. And not only making sure you have these things, but validating your capability by doing the task.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 4, 2024

In this second part of our blog series, we’ll further explore the critical stages of the incident lifecycle, emphasising how organisations can gear up for the inevitable: their next incident. Part 2: Mobilise: From Signal to Action TL;DR Incident management requires organisations to cater to the diverse needs of stakeholders.

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Pure Storage

JULY 28, 2022

This blog was also written by Rahul Shah. Will That Cause an Outage? A modern cloud-like storage service should never require “planned downtime” or require outage windows to perform routine software, hardware upgrades and maintenance. Real SLAs should be clear and transparent, that you can monitor and visualize for yourself.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Pure Storage Now a 10X Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Primary Storage by Pure Storage Blog This blog on Pure Storage being named A Leader for Primary Storage was co-authored by Shawn Hansen, Vice President and General Manager of FlashArray, and Prakash Darji, Vice President and General Manager, Digital Experience.

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Pure Storage

MAY 18, 2022

With many organisations delivering customer-facing applications, any outage can have a significant impact on service availability, revenue, and customer satisfaction. The post Oracle Database Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution with Storage Snapshots appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. Data Loss and Corruption.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Readers of this week’s blog will never again be in doubt about the meaning of these two critical terms. The larger point is, this is the zone where BC and IT/DR meet.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 25, 2023

10 Ways to Improve Data Management with Automation by Pure Storage Blog “That’s why they call it work, Son.” System Monitoring and Alerting Monitoring and alerting allows IT teams to detect and respond to critical issues in real time, helping to prevent costly failures or outages.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 3, 2022

It helps keep your multi-tier applications running during planned and unplanned IT outages. For those organizations that choose to migrate and run their mission-critical applications on the cloud, Pure Cloud Block Store ™ offers built-in protection against outages of availability zones, regions, and even clouds.

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OffsiteDataSync

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

After all, while cloud outages aren’t very common, they do occur. AWS, November 2020: AWS experienced an outage in the Eastern United States region for much of a day, and service wasn’t fully restored until early the next morning. Microsoft Azure, March 2020: Azure experienced a six-hour outage in the Eastern U.S.

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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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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If you’ve suffered a breach, outage, or attack, there’s one thing you should have completed and ready to go: a staged recovery environment (SRE). I cover that in my blog post on why air gaps give a false sense of security. The post How to Set Up a Staged Recovery Environment appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. After an event.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 14, 2023

Winner for APJ by Pure Storage Blog From the family-friendly Qashqai SUV to the all-electric Leaf compact, Nissan Australia has a mobility solution for every Australian. The manufacturing processes they support—like the aluminum casting required to produce powertrain and engine components—are energy-intensive and prone to outages.

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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 26, 2022

With the right development partner by their side, it should be possible to engineer a solution that doesn’t have issues whenever there’s a connection outage. Ideally, it should hold I/O the moment it detects a service outage and reconnect automatically once normal service is resumed.

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PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In this blog, we’ll cover how we prepare our teams for disaster and how we use PagerDuty internally for our “Harden the Target” initiative aimed at addressing the gaps in critical physical security events in the hybridized world. It’s interactive, cross-functional, fun and endorsed by our Senior Leadership. .

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

According to the Uptime Institute , electricity is the largest operational cost for data centers, and, for the last two years, it’s been the leading cause of outages in them. The latest annual outage analysis by the Uptime Institute shows that the top three causes of data center downtimes are power related.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 22, 2024

As our exploration of 2023 continues from the third-part of our blog series, Dismantling Knowledge Silos , one undeniable fact persists: Incidents are an unavoidable reality for organisations, irrespective of their industry or size. When an IT outage strikes, the primary concern is the rapid restoration of services.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 9, 2023

We write a lot about BIAs in our blog and ebooks, and no wonder: the business impact analysis is the cornerstone of a sound business continuity program. It helps them prioritize which of their processes and systems they should protect the most and restore the fastest in order to minimize the impact of an outage on the organization.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It’s a strategy that has enabled us to draw insights from across our install base so we can predict and resolve issues before they become outages. The post Improving Customer Satisfaction with Data appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. (Visit our Pure1 ® AIOps page for more detail.).

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 17, 2021

Data center outages come in many forms and often occur at the most unfortunate of times. The post Modern Enterprise Data Protection: A How-To Guide appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. Yet the risk of a cyberattack isn’t the only reason to keep data protection top of mind. Download the Guide.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.

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PagerDuty

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When critical applications suffer performance degradation—or worse yet, a full outage—engineers rush to find the (apparent) cause of the incident, such that they can remediate the issue as fast as possible. This is the first in a multi-part blog series. Stay inquisitive, my fellow detectives.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The transformation is at the mercy of an inadequate solution, with teams facing an extensive, expensive redesign, introducing new risks and multiple outages. Empower Them with Flexible Services appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. Only, as early as year two, significant changes to the business mean different demands from the solution.

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