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Data center, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud stocks are doing very well these days. Equinix, Coupa, Zoom and Microsoft are all trading at or near their 52-week highs. Why? Investors feel [...]

You’ve heard the downtime horror stories. You’ve seen the statistics from major research firms like Gartner, which found that businesses lose an average of $5,600 every minute they [...]

When they hear the term disaster recovery, most businesses think primarily about restoring access to their corporate data and IT infrastructure after a catastrophic event. And although that [...]

One of the surreal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is that many businesses for the first time ever are instructing employees to work from home. In some cases, companies are taking these measures [...]

If your company doesn’t have a solution for backing up your Microsoft Office 365 data at all times — and making sure you can retrieve lost data immediately — you should consider the risk this is [...]

Covid-19 could be the forcing issue that finally convinces upper management to put resources into a robust disaster plan. So as you prepare for the pandemic, don’t get tunnel vision about [...]

When Gartner surveyed businesses paying for some form of disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS), they found that 41% of these contracts don’t include any SLAs for recovery time objectives (RTOs) [...]

Ask anyone in IT, “What kind of recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) are you looking for?” and odds are they’ll answer, “As small as possible!” But show them the [...]

We touched on compliance, the right to be forgotten and backups in our predictions for 2020. However, we thought it would be a good idea to treat the topic in a bit more detail, especially now [...]

One of the reasons I enjoy tech so much is that it’s dynamic. There’s no resting on your laurels, regardless of how much success you’ve notched. For those with dreams of getting and staying [...]