Disaster Recovery Journal

Best Practices for Disaster Recovery Scenarios

What happens when backup alone isn't enough? When data is stored in the cloud, on physical devices, virtual devices, and in multiple locations, this can create challenges.

This Disaster Recovery Best Practices brief will describe how to leverage data protection and best practices for disaster recovery scenarios. After reading this brief, you will understand how to protect businesses' most critical data where backups alone simply will not meet the recovery need.

Download this brief to learn more about:

• Application, Site, Large Data Protection
• Archiving and Vaulting - recovery of data from a point in time
• Protection of physical, virtual and cloud-based strategies

ON Demand - Before, During & After: 5 Critical Steps for Disaster Recovery

If you had an unplanned outage how quickly could you recover? Planning for the unexpected, preparing for various disaster recovery scenarios, testing that plan, and recovering as quickly as possible, ensure businesses remain resilient and continuous. Register For This Free Webinar Today!

The Education You Need. The Resource You Trust. The DRJ Live Learning Center

DRJ is excited to announce the launch of its newest resource for industry education- The DRJ Live Learning Center. This online resource connects you to valuable educational session recordings from DRJ conferences. If you were unable to attend the Spring or Fall World Conferences this year, here’s your chance to find out what you missed. Review presentations from top industry leaders and keep up to date on the latest trends in your industry with the DRJ Live Learning Center.

Are you attending the Spring World Conference in March? Recordings from the conference through the Live Learning Center are complimentary when you register.

Visit the DRJ Live Learning Center now.

Find Outstanding Sessions At Spring World 2013!

Our agenda is packed with sessions that bring you the solutions and strategies you need in the New Year. Discover expert tips from some of the industry’s best and network with hundreds of practitioners from around the globe. Our General Sessions are held each morning and geared towards all attendees. In the afternoon, participants may choose breakout sessions to attend.

General Session 2 - Monday, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
An Interview with the CEO: Business, Technology and What’s Next
William Brennan, Forsythe
Michael Croy, Forsythe

Discover a better understanding of how your role as a BC/DR professional has changed, how you must adjust your strategic outlook to remain successful, and best practices for keeping your business resilient.

Discover More Sessions Available at DRJ's Spring World ⇒

Reputational risk and IT: How security and business continuity can shape the reputation and value of your company

Reputational risk and IT is an IBM study that investigates how organizations around the world are managing their reputations in today's digital era. IT risk can imperil companies' productivity, damage customer relations and ultimately erode trust. Read the research report to find out the three principal forces that drive corporate reputations

Join Us Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Right now, everyone is talking about how to prepare for a major disaster like Hurricane Sandy. And they're right. When the unthinkable happens, you need to be ready. But how do you do that? Talking in hypotheticals won't help you when your systems crash.

Find out how real organizations faced a once-in-a-lifetime disaster and got their operations back up and running when everything was in chaos around them. Learn the lessons they had to learn firsthand.

Find out what to do when you face this:

• Your office is flooded.

• The power goes out and your backup generators are running out of fuel.

• Your primary and secondary data centers fail.

How do you get to your critical systems, applications, and data?

Bottom line, how do you get back in business?

Want some answers? Join EVault experts Shawn Swanson and John Margiolas for "When Disaster Strikes: Real Life Lessons From the Front Lines."

Find Outstanding Sessions At Spring World 2013!

Our agenda is packed with sessions that bring you the solutions and strategies you need in the New Year. Discover expert tips from some of the industry’s best and network with hundreds of practitioners from around the globe. Our General Sessions are held each morning and geared towards all attendees. In the afternoon, participants may choose breakout sessions to attend.

General Session 1 - Monday, 8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Achieving Success Through Responsibility
Kit Grant, Comfort Zone Infiltration

Strong leadership skills and decision making is imperative in our industry. Build your personal power and actions with tips from expert speaker Kit Grant. Learn a step-by-step action to create a motivated and productive environment.

Discover More Sessions Available at DRJ's Spring World ⇒

Join the great Backup and DR experts over at Unitrends for a tech demo on Wednesday, December 19th at 2 pm ET. One lucky attendee will win a 32 GB Microsoft Surface. The drawing will be held at the end of the session.

Five Things You Need to Know About Disaster Recovery Planning

You can't afford to be caught off guard or without a plan when a man-made or natural disaster strikes. Take the next step to ensuring your systems and data are safe if an emergency hits when you least expect it. Download this short, easy-to-digest Disaster Recovery eBook today. You'll learn unique planning approaches to make your data center less vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters. A few minutes of your time today could make all the difference if a disaster strikes your Data Center.

Today, your company's digital presence is your reputation and your brand.

But websites and other IT assets are vulnerable to security breaches, downtime and data loss-all of which can negatively affect your reputation and competitive position. Read this paper, commissioned by IBM with leading analyst Forrester to learn how IT security decision makers across the globe are doing more with less by outsourcing key security tasks.

It is the season of giving! DRJ is giving away outstanding prizes to attendees who register by December 18, 2012.

Treat yourself to an amazing gift by registering for Spring World 2013. There is no better gift than education. Our conference offers a multitude of sessions, networking events, exhibits and more! Industry experts are leading a variety of cutting-edge sessions. Browse the conference agenda.

Sign up for Spring World 2013 now and be eligible for great prizes - including an iPad, a Kindle Fire and a Samsung Galaxy tablet. Three winners will be selected from all registered attendees on Dec. 18, 2012.

You do not want to miss this conference - and the chance at fabulous prizes! DRJ's conferences are consistently rated as #1 in the industry.

Join Us Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Right now, everyone is talking about how to prepare for a major disaster like Hurricane Sandy. And they're right. When the unthinkable happens, you need to be ready. But how do you do that? Talking in hypotheticals won't help you when your systems crash.

Find out how real organizations faced a once-in-a-lifetime disaster and got their operations back up and running when everything was in chaos around them. Learn the lessons they had to learn firsthand.

Find out what to do when you face this:

• Your office is flooded.

• The power goes out and your backup generators are running out of fuel.

• Your primary and secondary data centers fail.

How do you get to your critical systems, applications, and data?

Bottom line, how do you get back in business?

Want some answers? Join EVault experts Shawn Swanson and John Margiolas for "When Disaster Strikes: Real Life Lessons From the Front Lines."

Join Us Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

With any disaster - whether a natural disaster, equipment failure, or site loss - businesses get a not-so-subtle reminder of how important it is to have resilient information technology systems that maintain near-continuous business operations, high systems availability, and guaranteed data protection. After all, your global market never sleeps.

Sandy delivered everyone a sense of reality. Incomplete Disaster Recovery (DR) thinking is a risk that can cost your organization dearly in both reputation and bottom line. When you depend on internal resources to deliver DR under the threat of a regional disaster there is a problem. People, technology and geography are critical points of failure in your decision to deliver disaster recovery internally. If you cannot guarantee the availability of your staff during a disaster, generate enough power for long-term support of your facilities critical loads, or if you have never successfully completed a test of your disaster recovery plan, than it is time to quit promising your executives and shareholders something that cannot be delivered. Your company may have plans that address equipment requirements and recovery processes but underestimates other variables that are required to successfully execute a recovery.

Re-directing your DR investment towards a managed solution that removes the uncertainty of staff availability during a regional disaster simply makes sense. Velocity delivers recovery to your business by professionals focused solely on disaster recovery. Join us to learn how organizations who plan with fingers crossed and hope that a disaster never happens, make the transition to a resilient solution.

The One Report Every Business Continuity Manager is Asking for

Continuity Software's dashboard report provides actionable information that allows business continuity and IT managers to ensure the highest level of technology resiliency for their organization.

Delivered directly to your inbox, this report presents a comprehensive, yet easy-to-digest snapshot of business continuity and disaster recovery readiness at any given time, including

• What business services are exposed to availability or data loss risks

• What new risks have been uncovered since the last report

• How your KPI's are tracking - including Replication Status, Configuration Gaps, and IT Response Time

Download a sample report and find out how you can get a similar one for your business.