Determining the type of disaster recovery that is the best fit for your company - cold, warm, or hot - can be one of the toughest DR issues to resolve.

The reality is that any of these options will help your organization recover from a disaster and protect your critical data, but choosing the best one will depend on your own specific needs and infrastructure.

Check out this first 2012 issue of Storage Magazine for in-depth analysis of the factors you need to consider when choosing the best type of DR site for your organization, including balancing costs against risks. Other must-read articles include:

• Predicting that storage predictions will be forgotten in 2012
• It’s all about IOPS
• Solid-state goes mainstream
• Under the hood of scale-out NAS
• How do you manage all that data?

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