Topic:business continuity

Disaster Recovery VS Backup: What You Need to Know

5 Reasons You Need a Cloud Business Assessment and Continuity Plan

How To Establish Business Continuity After A Tornado

How to Develop a Mitigation Strategy

How to Create a Business Impact Analysis

Cloud VS On Premises: The Disaster Recovery Battle

CLOUD COMPUTING

2021 State of the Cloud- Big Rocks include Cloud Security, Spend, Governance and Expertise

The 2021 Flexera State of the Cloud report was released earlier this year, and boasts some interesting findings for both enterprise and small businesses around cloud adoption,...

RANSOMWARE

Colossal REvil / Sodinikibi Event; Data Protection Can Save Your Company!

Otava has alerted all clients of a new malware / ransomware threat that was strategically released over the 4th of July National Holiday weekend....

DISASTER RECOVERY

Disaster Recovery Lessons from the Recent Crisis in Texas

A wish for rapid recovery and condolences to those who have experienced loss..... with over 3.5 million people without power, 14+ million people ordered to boil water, and ...

DISASTER RECOVERY

Work From Home Applications Drive Requirements For Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

IDC states there was a global increase of 211% in Work From Home (WFH) employees, pre-pandemic 2020 to now. This raises the current WFH total to 45% of the global workforce. ...

CYBERSECURITY

Revisiting 2020’s Three IT New Year’s Resolutions

When the year 2020 was newly born, Otava shared 3 IT New Year's Resolutions that actually proved to be relevant IT and business survival rules as the year wore on. The three r...

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The Essential Relationship: Digital Transformation and Disaster Recovery

“97% Of Executives Say Covid-19 Sped Up Digital Transformation” reads the title of a September 2020 Forbes article. Regardless of the level of priority digital transformation ...

CYBERSECURITY

Cyber-attacks on Healthcare Continue Unabated

In just the past few weeks news reports show that the rate of cyber-crime targeted at healthcare and the public health sector has risen dramatically. An analysis of the increa...

Analysis

Cloud and SMB Deriving Long Term Benefits From Pandemic IT Decisions

According to a recent Analysis Mason survey, 28% of US small/medium businesses (SMB) adopted collaboration tools for the first time due to the pandemic, with 43% of businesses...

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

What is Downtime? A 2020 Guide

So far, 2020 has introduced significant changes in the form of new or expanded network operations, security and IT. ...

Comparison

Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery: Key differences

Disaster recovery focuses on restoring network, infrastructure, and the operations that support them. Business continuity focuses on the ability of the organization to continu...

Allocating budgets:

What are CIOs doing before, during and after a pandemic?

In recent years leading up to the early 2020 pandemic, some of the top CIO budget priorities were implementation of analytics, application modernization and various forms of c...

Disaster recovery and business continuity

in the remote workforce environment

In the decades-long evolution of the remote worker, policy, data protection, security and compliance all kept pace with the rollout of users and applications. Today, there is ...

Ransomware preparedness with

Cloud Solutions

According to a recent IDC survey, about 50 percent of organizations said they could not survive a disaster event, with 91 percent of respondents experiencing a tech-related bu...

Business continuity and Coronavirus 2019:

Business tips for employee health and safety

The novel COVID-19 (coronavirus), first identified December 2019, has fairly exploded and raised many fears about the health and safety of our family and friends, and rightly ...

Disaster recovery plans: the key for success

What is the difference between a cold, warm and hot disaster recovery site?

Disaster recovery: Steps in a business continuity plan

As an integral part of business continuity plan development, creating an IT disaster recovery plan is essential to keep businesses running....