November 14, 2024
Don’t Take a Vacation on Resiliency.
The leaves have turned, there’s a brisk bite to the air after the sun goes down, and I’m getting a ton of e-mails about Black Friday sales. That can only mean one thing: the holidays are coming. Regardless of what or how you choose to celebrate, the holidays make for a distinctly different time of year […]
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October 25, 2024
Key Considerations For IT Leaders During Mergers And Acquisitions
Merger and acquisition deals picked up the pace during the first half of this year, signaling a comeback from the prior year’s slower M&A market. Industries ranging from technology services and finance to retail and healthcare continue to join the deal-making. Expect more to come, as EY forecasts a 21% increase in the number of corporate deals […]
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October 18, 2024
The Best Defense is a Good Defense: Another Look at Secure Isolated Recovery Environments and Ransomware
It’s no secret that the frequency and severity of ransomware attacks has grown dramatically in the past few years. When attacked, about 80% of businesses pay the ransom, but over a fifth of those never get their data back. A large percentage even find themselves having to pay ransoms over and over again because they are never able to completely […]
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September 12, 2024
What’s Old is New: Pre-Staging Can Make All the Difference
When you’re in the middle of a business interruption, I think it’s safe to say time is your biggest enemy. Every minute vital systems are down it costs you money and lost productivity, and potentially puts your reputation at risk in the marketplace. Also, depending on the type of incident, minutes or seconds can make a life-or-death difference. […]
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May 16, 2024
What’s Old is New: Strengthening IT’s Role in Business Resilience
In all my years working in resiliency, when I was managing programs myself and now that I am helping other companies with their programs, it seems the two most scarce resources are always money and time. This is the first blog in my “What’s Old Is New” blog series. “Every year is getting shorter, never seem to […]
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April 25, 2024
Disaster Recovery: We’ve Done Tier Zero, How Do We Start Tier One?
I have talked to a lot of companies these days who have made the decision to take their Disaster Recovery (DR) program seriously. Maybe they haven’t done a full-blown Business Impact Analysis (BIA), but they do have a good idea of what the most critical parts of their infrastructure are. Many of these companies have put […]
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