Your IT system is the lifeblood of your organization. Everything you do runs through your IT in some way, shape or form. With that in mind, are you ready in case *gasp* a disaster strikes your IT system? To avoid too much downtime, be sure your organization has an IT disaster recovery plan in place. This should be developed in conjunction…
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Many small and midsize businesses fall into a false sense of security with regard to their disaster recovery plans. However, there is no coming back from a disaster if there isn’t a plan in place to recover, or worse, earn back the trust of your clients. There are many common disasters that can affect a business and some may even…
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Azure is the first public cloud to offer native a Disaster Recovery solution for applications running on IaaS. With this offering, you can make your applications resilient to even regional-level failures by replicating virtual machines (VM) into another region. Along with Availability Sets and Availability Zones, Azure Site Recovery completes the resiliency continuum for applications running on Azure VMs. Microsoft…
Friday, October 12, 2018
Failover, by definition, is a backup operational mode in which the functions of a system component are assumed by secondary system components when the primary component becomes unavailable through either failure or scheduled down time. A single point of failure is a part of a system that if it fails will stop the entire system from working. One of the hardest, but…
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a 3rd party to provide fail-over in the event of a disaster. Disaster recovery is now one of the cloud’s leading workloads. With advanced capabilities and significant economies of scale, the cloud makes disaster recovery accessible to any size business. A disaster refers to a…
Monday, August 20, 2018
Disaster recovery trends are changing at a fast pace, and they will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Most businesses tend to develop an efficient disaster recovery plan which can help them work even in the event of a disaster. Whenever any disaster occurs, the first few minutes prove to be very crucial for any organization. It is during…
Monday, July 23, 2018
Natural disasters have taken over many of the World News topics, whether it’s a terrible earthquake in the mountains of rural China, or hurricanes that devastated Puerto Rico and wreaked soggy havoc to other places, such as Texas and Florida, or flooding and mudslide destruction in California. Thus, as more areas of the world continue to be decimated by extreme events,…
Monday, July 9, 2018
2W Tech worked with a few clients over the last month that got infected by CryptoLocker. The good news, is that each of these clients chose Axcient Fusion for their disaster recovery product. This ransomware typically propagated as an attachment to a seemingly innocuous e-mail message, which appears to have been sent by a legitimate company. While security software is designed to detect…
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Any organization that stores data electronically has a backup solution of some kind. Long gone are the days where you can gamble and go unprotected. The demands of the business world today not only require a backup solution, but a disaster recovery solution as well. Disasters are a matter of “when,” not “if.” Most organizations have a backup solution and a…
Monday, June 4, 2018
When you are a business owner, you have employees and their families that count on you. They count on you to keep your business running successfully to keep their paychecks coming. They count on you to make good business decisions to help ensure their job security. They count on you to ensure that you have planned for the unexpected and…
Monday, May 7, 2018
