disaster recovery

These tools are designed to help you and your IT shop plan for an influenza pandemic, and to familiarize yourself with the history of influenza in easy-to-understand terms.

Upcoming tools will help IT professionals plan and prepare in case the WHO raises the pandemic threat level to 5.

Mexican swine flu is real, and it is infecting and killing people down south. You need to be ready to move on your pandemic plans if this virus continues to spread.

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Carbonite sue its disk array manufacturer, while admitting it lost more than 7,500 customers' backups (ouch indeed). Not to mention how Australians make beer...

Use the cloud for a disaster recovery? The price is right.

This academic data center runs on redundant power feeds and a UPS that can keep the whole site going for 20 or 30 minutes -- and the assumption that it will never go down.

My Gmail account - and data - disappears without a trace. Who ya gonna call? Some days you just can't trust the cloud.

Welcome to a special IT Blogwatch EXTRA: as Richi Jennings watches bloggers wag a cautionary tale of backups, RAID1, and alleged sabotage by a disgruntled employee. Not to mention how the Aussies advertise newspapers...

Sometimes the decision as to whether to insource or outsource an IT task can hinge on a single job function.

Hurricane Ike's storm surge hits this Gulf Coast chemical plant and inundates it. The aftermath: lots of cleaning up -- and counting up.

An approaching hurricane fortuitously recalls the famous statement on planning from Eisenhower. We should heed his words.

What would you do if you woke up one day and everything on your computer had reverted to its state one year before?

Recent developments regarding human bird flu deaths put the archipelago nation (and H5N1) back into play.

San Francisco's mayor deserves kudos for convincing alleged network saboteur to release passwords; and Hurricane Dolly vindicates my blog of a few weeks ago.

This company's infrastructure group is running a disaster recovery exercise with a reluctant participant: an IT manager who's notorious as a bully.