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How does the ISO 22316 standard cover resilience?

Definitions for business continuity and resilience sometimes clash, but both processes help an organization stay on its feet. A new ISO standard tackles the latter.

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Ten business continuity risks to monitor in 2018
Business continuity and disaster recovery threats vary by organization, but common threads can be found across the globe. Ten worrisome trends appear to be having a big year.
Take a chance on virtualized backup and disaster recovery
Virtualization has become a popular data protection tool and is now changing the way organizations back up their data and recover following a disaster.
JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform takes flight for DR, management
New vendor JetStream Software incorporated technology from flash caching developer FlashSoft and worked with VMware on its initial cloud data management releases.

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crisis management plan (CMP)
A crisis management plan (CMP) is a document that outlines the processes an organization will use to respond to a critical situation that would negatively affect its profitability, reputation or ability to operate.
business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) are closely related practices that describe an organization's preparation for unforeseen risks to continued operations.
business continuity plan (BCP)
A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event.

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Cloud disaster recovery

As cloud-based disaster recovery expands and options grows, you can find the latest information on evaluating and implementing disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) and other aspects of moving to a DR in the cloud strategy.

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third party to provide failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe.
cloud disaster recovery (cloud DR)
Cloud disaster recovery (cloud DR) is a backup and restore strategy that involves storing and maintaining copies of electronic records in a cloud computing environment as a security measure.
cloud outage
A cloud outage is a period of time during which cloud services are unavailable.

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Facilities & Operations

A disaster recovery (DR) plan can only be as effective as the operations and facilities that serve the plan. This topic section provides up-to-date news and how-to information for ensuring that the operational processes and housing of a DR plan are effective in the event of a disaster. Check out this section to learn more about failover and failback protection, server virtualization, power as well as best practices for maintaining recovery site systems and data.

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Skype for Business
Skype for Business, formerly known as Microsoft Lync Server, is a unified communications (UC) platform that integrates common channels of business communication and online meetings, including instant messaging (IM), presence, voice over IP (VoIP), video conferencing, file transfer, web conferencing, voicemail and email.
call tree
A call tree -- sometimes referred to as a phone tree -- is a telecommunications chain for notifying specific individuals of an event.
mass notification system (MNS)
A mass notification system is a platform that sends one-way messages to inform employees and the public of an emergency.

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Networking

Communication is obviously vital to your business, so networking is a critical element in disaster recovery planning. This topic section offers up-to-date news and how-to information about voice and data communications, WAN acceleration/optimization, network services and recovery site configuration.

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business continuity plan (BCP)
A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event.
call tree
A call tree -- sometimes referred to as a phone tree -- is a telecommunications chain for notifying specific individuals of an event.
disaster recovery (DR)
Disaster recovery strategies are critical, as many businesses fail following an unforeseen event. DR may require an internal or external site when a main data center is down.

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Planning & Management

The planning phase is crucial to the success of any disaster recovery (DR) initiative. This topic section provides administrators with up-to-date news and how-to information about the personnel, staffing, training and documentation needs related to DR. In addition, this section discusses the best practices for mitigating risks, analyzing potential business impacts, personnel issues, documentation, change control and performing RTO and RPO assessments.

Recent Definitions

crisis management plan (CMP)
A crisis management plan (CMP) is a document that outlines the processes an organization will use to respond to a critical situation that would negatively affect its profitability, reputation or ability to operate.
business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) are closely related practices that describe an organization's preparation for unforeseen risks to continued operations.
business continuity plan (BCP)
A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event.

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Services & Outsourcing

Disaster recovery (DR) services can provide an organization with an effective option for addressing their DR needs. This topic section discusses the affordability and effectiveness of various services to help you decide which will best address the needs of your business. Check out this section for up-to-date news and how-to information surrounding electronic vaulting, hosting services, hot sites and mobile sites.

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third party to provide failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe.
disaster recovery (DR)
Disaster recovery strategies are critical, as many businesses fail following an unforeseen event. DR may require an internal or external site when a main data center is down.

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Storage

Disaster recovery (DR) and data storage go hand-in-hand and a good DR plan must carefully consider how data is stored and protected. This topic section offers news and how-to information about data storage for disaster recovery. Learn about replication, DR testing tools, virtualization, tape backup, disk backup, global file systems, clustering and archiving.

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data protection
Data protection is the process of safeguarding important information from corruption, compromise or loss.
application-aware storage
Application-aware storage is a storage system with built-in intelligence about relevant applications and their utilization patterns.
business continuity plan (BCP)
A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event.

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Small business disaster recovery

Explore pertinent information for small businesses that want to create a successful disaster recovery plan, including tips on using disaster recovery services for small business and a disaster recovery plan template, as well as other testing, policy and tool advice.