Essential Guide

Essential guide to disaster recovery and business continuity

Everything you need to know about business continuity and disaster recovery, planning and prevention.

Introduction

Planning for business continuity and disaster recovery can be a real challenge, so we have pulled this guide together to make things a bit easier for you.

This guide includes everything you need to know about planning or recovering from a disaster/unexpected event, to ensure you resume operations quickly without too much disruption or none at all.

In this guide you will find information on business continuity and disaster recovery management, storage and servers, networking, security, facilities and templates.

Disaster recovery and business continuity: Essential guide (PDF)

1Management -

Good planning and management are key for business continuity and disaster recovery success

Everything you need to know about the management of your business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

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Disaster recovery: Risk assessment and business impact analysis

Disaster recovery: Risk assessment and business impact analysis are key stages in disaster recovery planning, but where do they fit into the DR planning process? Continue Reading

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Disaster recovery awareness and testing require training, strategic plans

After you develop DR plans, disaster recovery awareness and testing strategies ensure the plan works and that everyone knows their role within it. Continue Reading

2Storage and servers-

Recent storage and server developments ease BC/DR planning

Everything you need to know about storage and servers for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

3Security-

Security an important part of BC/DR planning

Everything you need to know about security for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

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Manage identity and access to improve business processes

Streamlining identity and access management is essential to exploiting your organisation’s assets and employees’ productivity. Continue Reading

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Protecting Intellectual Property: Best Practices

Organizations need to implement best practices to protect their trade secrets from both internal and external threats. Continue Reading

4Networking-

Network disaster recovery planning and building resilient networks

Everything you need to know about networking for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

5Facilities-

BC/DR planning considerations for facilities

Everything you need to know about facilities for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

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FM-200 systems: What data centre managers need to know

Get the lowdown on using FM-200 systems for data center fire suppression, and whether or not they're a good choice for your company. Continue Reading

6Templates-

Business continuity/disaster recovery planning templates

Everything you need to know about templates for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.