disaster recovery

Sorry boss, a solar storm has wiped out our data center here on earth.

CIOs are always looking for disaster recovery options that don’t break the bank. Members from the CIO Executive Council share their tactics. Add your opinion and advice.

Disaster - is your IT continuity and contingency plan ready for another 9/11?

Unusual scenario stories help Google Enterprise security chief keep disaster drills interesting, turn up new potential problems and maybe sell security of the cloud to nervous users.

Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to a total data center outage. Amazon had its only European data center located there.

You certainly have a disaster recovery plan for your company's IT systems and applications, right? But are you testing it to be sure it will work as planned in an emergency? If not, trouble could be lurking.

From the better safe than sorry files: sources of survival tools designed for many environments, but a sad lack of those purpose-built to repel infernal hordes.

Even the best cloud services can crash and leave you stuck if your DR doesn't extend beyond the enterprise to cover the apps you run on someone else's cloud.

Hype makes it easy to forget the cloud requires the same skills and includes the same risks as n-tier applications and data-center computing anywhere.

It was only a drill, but Verizon Communications' emergency response team brought in its serious equipment for a hazardous materials test in Cockeysville, Maryland, Monday and Tuesday.

The perfect technology to deal with a disaster like Japan's earthquake, tsunami and developing nuclear meltdown, just isn't up to the job.

The multiple disasters afflicting Japan--earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear--have created an outpouring of charity around the world. As part of the effort, several Apple-oriented software developers are donating services and money to ease the suffering of victims and their families.