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ALSO CALLED: Disaster Management, IT Disaster Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning
DEFINITION: A disaster recovery plan (DRP) - sometimes referred to as a business continuity plan (BCP) or business process contingency plan (BPCP) - describes how an organization is to deal with potential disasters. Just as a disaster is an event that makes the continuation of normal functions impossible, a disaster recovery plan consists of the precautions taken so that the effects of a disaster will be minimized  … 
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Disaster Planning Reports
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Best Practices for Backup Disaster Recovery for SMBs
sponsored by Symform
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides best practices regarding backup and disaster recovery operations for SMBs. In this paper you'll learn about the importance of DR, discover what options are currently available for SMBs, and learn how emerging virtualization and cloud technologies can help keep your backup and DR costs low. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

Symform

Virtualizing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WEBCAST: Natural disasters, attacks by hackers, a new application gone bad - any or all of these could result in costly disruptions and missed opportunities. Yet many businesses overlook business continuity planning. Learn how savvy enterprises are employing virtualization to strengthen disaster recovery plans.
Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Premiered: 06 Feb 2012

Dell and VMware

The Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index: 2012
sponsored by Acronis NEMEA
WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn about the latest trends in disaster recovery and business continuity planning. This paper, featuring the survey results of companies across the globe, discusses recent developments in the DR market space and also attempts to discover the underlying causes of DR failure.
Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012

Acronis NEMEA

Achieve Workforce Continuity and Keep Your Business Running—No Matter What
sponsored by Citrix and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: Business disruptions can come in many forms. A good business continuity plan will keep your company up and running through interruptions of any kind.
Posted: 19 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

Citrix and Microsoft

Key Considerations for Leveraging Virtualization and Keeping Your Applications Available
sponsored by SunGard Availability Services
WHITE PAPER: Discover how you can leverage virtualization for more effective disaster recovery in your data center. Virtualized DR enables local availability within a single data center and promises to increase flexibility and responsiveness. However, there are various challenges associated with virtualized DR.
Posted: 18 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

SunGard Availability Services

Disaster Recovery E-Brief
sponsored by QuorumLabs
EGUIDE: Featuring a detailed list of everything you need to establish an effective DR strategy, this resource featuring expert Paul Kirvan has all of the information you need to get started developing and managing a successful DR plan. Read on for today's best practices and newest DR strategies.
Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

QuorumLabs

Symmetry Serves Up Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Solution for Edward Don
sponsored by Symmetry Corporation
WHITE PAPER: These days, janitorial supply company Edward Don & Company takes most of its orders online, making 24x7 customer availability for its ordering system extremely important. Read this paper to learn how the company integrated cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) with its SAP systems in order to ensure high availability of its online ordering.
Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

Symmetry Corporation

Cloud Based Disaster Recovery for SAP®
sponsored by Symmetry Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The impacts of a system outage are felt within minutes of the incident and range from production and shipping stoppages to lost business, industry penalties and failed audits. Read this paper to learn how a disaster recovery (DR) plan based in the cloud mitigates these risks and protects the interests of shareholders, investors and customers.
Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

Symmetry Corporation

Customer Video - Pump Solutions Group
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
VIDEO: Pump Solutions Group needed to build a common DR framework for the organization. It became an early adopter of Whitewater™ cloud storage accelerators from Riverbed and was able to deduplicate data 12X before transporting it over the WAN for public cloud storage and DR. Watch the video to learn more.
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 12 Jan 2012

Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Chalk Talk for Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
VIDEO: One of the most complicated and expensive endeavors that an IT organization ever undertakes is disaster recovery. If you have DR requirements that aren’t being met, before you think about buying more bandwidth or looking at other complex solutions, you should really look at Riverbed WAN Optimization. Watch the video to learn more.
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 12 Jan 2012

Riverbed Technology, Inc.

IDC - Best Practices in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Business continuity and disaster recovery can mean a rapid return to operations or financial downfall. This IDC white paper highlights the challenges and best practices for implementing continuity and recovery solutions, and details how Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable firms to meet their recovery requirements.
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

Riverbed Technology, Inc.

How to Improve Disaster Recovery for the Enterprise: Advanced Replications Powered by WAN Optimization - Taneja Group
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Ready to accelerate disaster recovery across your entire enterprise? Read this Taneja report to find out how you can increase WAN efficiency, overcome latency, and optimize IT performance for disaster recovery by deploying WAN optimization.
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Planning For Failure
sponsored by Co3 Systems
WHITE PAPER: This Forrester Research report explores the risks of data breaches and why an effective incident management program is essential to staying in business.
Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

Co3 Systems

How to Minimize Risk with a Software Vendor ‘Prenup’
sponsored by Iron Mountain
WHITE PAPER: Explore the results of a recent IDG survey gauging IT leaders’ perspectives on technology escrow agreements with software vendors, as well as the importance of including verification services within them.
Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

Iron Mountain

Disaster Preparedness: Is there a hole in your disaster recovery plan?
sponsored by Iron Mountain
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how software escrow agreements can be a critical tool to help ensure application continuity within your business continuity plan.
Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

Iron Mountain

Disaster Recovery 101: Assessing Risk & Preventing Human-made Disasters
sponsored by QuorumLabs
EGUIDE: This SearchDisasterRecovery.com E-Guide will provide you with the necessary steps for evaluating risk in you DR plan, and offer insight into the high-level threats you need to watch out for today. Read on for a deep dive into the risk evaluation process, information on preventing human-made disasters and more.
Posted: 01 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2012

QuorumLabs

Orchestrating your Disaster Recovery with QuorumLabs onQ: Video
sponsored by QuorumLabs
VIDEO: Check out this video for a hands-on introduction to a complete disaster recovery solution that can automate the backup and protection of your servers and ensure full recovery within minutes from an intuitive, one-click interface. This video will walk you through the basic functions of this appliance, and outline the benefits it can bring you today.
Posted: 01 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 01 Jan 2012

QuorumLabs

Creating and Testing Your IT Recovery Plan
sponsored by QuorumLabs
WHITE PAPER: Featuring tips and best practices regarding DR strategies and testing, this paper will help you define your objectives and get started developing an efficient and reliable DR solution today. You'll learn the key factors of a successful DR strategy, and learn what questions your organization should be attempting to answer during testing.
Posted: 01 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2012

QuorumLabs

Meet Your Disaster Recovery Goals with Less Complexity and Cost
sponsored by VMware and Dell
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the ways virtualization can address the challenges of traditional disaster recovery and help your enterprise meet the key goals of a viable disaster recovery plan.
Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

VMware and Dell

When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll learn about some of the most common pitfalls associated with backups and how to avoid them. You'll learn about the repercussions of poor/failed backups, and learn how to establish a backup strategy that can ensure minimal downtime during a disaster. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

Symantec Corporation

Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper features the results of Symantec's second SMB disaster preparedness survey, and provides recommendations to help your organization establish and maintain a successful disaster recovery strategy.
Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

Symantec Corporation

Strategy Guide to Business Risk Mitigation for Healthcare
sponsored by HP and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to discover how you can maintain an effective disaster recovery strategy with a converged infrastructure solution.
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

HP and Intel

Strategy Guide to Business Risk Mitigation for Financial Services
sponsored by HP and Intel
WHITE PAPER: An unplanned interruption can have significant impact on operations, revenue and reputation. Yet using the right technology can significantly reduce the labor of recovering from a disruption or disaster. Access this resource to discover how you can maintain an effective disaster recovery strategy with a converged infrastructure solution.
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

HP and Intel

CW+: IDC Report - Enterprise disaster recovery for SMBs
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
WHITE PAPER: Data protection and recovery are mature technologies today, and businesses of all shapes and sizes are busy protecting their data in any way they can.
Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

ComputerWeekly.com

Recovering from a disaster: Over 40 tips and steps to take
sponsored by Dell Compellent
EGUIDE: DR plans must be flexible and scalable to address a wide range of things that can go wrong. This exclusive SearchDisasterRecovery.com E-Guide provides you with everything disaster recovery from A-Z - including over 40 tips and steps to help ensure your DR plan functions successfully.
Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

Dell Compellent
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DISASTER PLANNING DEFINITION (continued): …  and the organization will be able to either maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions. Typically, disaster recovery planning involves an analysis of business processes and continuity needs; it may also include a significant focus on disaster prevention.Ask your questions about disaster recovery at ITKnowledgeExchange.comDisaster recovery is becoming an increasingly important aspect of enterprise computing. As devices, systems, and networks become ever more complex, there are simply more things that can go wrong. As a consequence, recovery plans have also become more complex. According … 
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