Advances in technology and computing platforms have enabled the of complete disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) solutions that can be used instead of internal IT teams, but every business need to ...

The way businesses buy disaster recovery is changing – and rapidly. Over the last few years, the growth of cloud-based data storage – led by Amazon’s S3 but closely followed by Microsoft Azure and ...

Give managed cloud computing provider Rackspace points for timing. Coming right after the Uptime Institute issued a warning for data center operators to improve their environmental disaster plans, the ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced five storage management and disaster recovery services in a bid to take advantage of an uptick in storage-related consulting that’s being driven by tight IT ...

It’s not a question of if your business will experience data loss — it’s a matter of when. Backup is widely employed as the last line of defense to protect against threats like human error, hardware ...

According to a three-year-old study from Price Waterhouse Coopers, 70 percent of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year. It’s a sobering statistic. Yet despite ...

The outlook for small businesses that suffer a disaster of any kind—natural, man-made, or data-related—isn’t pretty. According to the Small Business Administration, 25 percent of businesses never ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Discover how disaster recovery sites keep businesses operational in crises. Learn about crucial factors and examples that can help you choose the right backup site.