The Cost of Losing Information

What is the proper concern of the IT department of a modern enterprise — backing data up or making sure that data is available? The answer to that is obvious — the primary information management concern in the enterprise today is to ensure that the knowledge necessary to drive critical business processes is available where it needs to be, when it needs to be. < more>

Practical Disaster Recovery Planning - A Step-by-Step Guide

This guide will do is to lay out a framework for DR planning that keeps things conceptually simple, and helps you know what steps must be carried out and why, without a lot of jargon or unnecessary formality. The framework we’ll use is equally relevant to disaster recovery planning for a division of a large, multi-national corporation and for an operation involving a dozen people in a small office. Of course the scales of the tasks involved in these two cases differ rather drastically. < more>