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ControlMonkey aims to bring order to cloud disaster recovery chaos

Network World

How many of those components, across multiple cloud environments, is the typical enterprise actually backing up for proper disaster recovery ? ControlMonkey isnt looking to replace Terraform, rather its trying to augment it for disaster recovery. ControlMonkey is in the business of helping to improve cloud automation.

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Does Your Disaster Recovery Plan Really Work?

Information Week

Most companies have a disaster recovery plan, but few test theirs with any regularity. What if you discover the hard way that the plan doesn’t work?

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Is your disaster recovery a house of cards? Why BIA, BCP, and DRP are your foundation

CIO Business Intelligence

Disaster recovery is more than just an IT issue. In fact, successful recovery from cyberattacks and other disasters hinges on an approach that integrates business impact assessments (BIA), business continuity planning (BCP), and disaster recovery planning (DRP) including rigorous testing.

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Revisiting Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Information Week

Unfortunately, in many companies, the emphasis for recovery is on the IT, and not on business operations. Best-of-class DR/BC plans cover both IT and the business.

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Why You Need to Consider Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

CIO Business Intelligence

Investing in a robust disaster recovery program upfront can save considerable costs down the road. According to FEMA, nearly a quarter of businesses never re-open following a major disaster—a sobering statistic. [i] Without a robust disaster recovery plan in place, it can take days, weeks, or even months to recover.

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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

Network World

OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in place or who purchased the off-site backup and disaster-recovery services offered by OVHcloud have been able to resume operations. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.

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Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery

CIO Business Intelligence

They also know that without a reliable disaster recovery (DR) solution to protect business-critical applications, all their modernization efforts could be rendered moot in a matter of seconds. An IDC survey across North America and Western Europe highlights the need for effective disaster recovery.