disaster recovery

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.

"He was always accident prone," according to the mother of a British man who held his own head in place with one hand as colleagues lowered him to the ground for emergency treatment.

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.

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

Unlimited free or very low-cost online storage was one of those things you knew had to go away at some point, like when Pets.com thought it was more convenient and cheaper to ask customers to pay to have a 50lb.

Both 3X Systems and Global Data Vault allow you to purchase a backup server that you can temporarily locate to your own office network, and then move to a secured offsite location. This way you get started a lot quicker on the initial backup process, but still have the benefit of an offsite solution.

Okay, all you Yankees, I'm going to talk again about the British Standard 25999, or British Standard for Business Continuity again. But before you click somewhere else, let me remind you that even if it doesn't apply directly to you, it still has some very useful information that pertains to everybody on both sides of the pond.