Disaster Recovery
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Four tiers isn’t enough
502 BC/DR leaders told DPM that their orgs average 3.4 tiers of IT workloads to recover in a crisis — here are the two things most of them forgot to count.
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10 Hard Questions to ask IT — 2026 edition
Business Resilience stakeholders and their IT teams are often disconnected because they’re not grasping how their IT strategies are creating or affecting their risk posture, often because they don’t share taxonomy or metrics. Here’s 10 hard questions from a workshop I ran at MIT and am paring down for customer events, roadshows, CABs, PACs, SKOs,…
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Why I love DRaaS – and you should too
There are several reasons that I love DRaaS for Disaster Recovery using Managed Services – especially when it’s part of your Cyber Resilience plan. Let’s talk about a few of them and why you should love DRaaS too.
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If you aren’t testing, then you don’t have a plan
If you aren’t testing, then you don’t have a plan … you have a hope (and not much of one). One of the most consistent complaints I hear among BC/DR professionals is the lack of support from senior leaders to enable more testing for Cyber Resilience or Disaster Recovery. Here are some hard truths…
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Orchestration is the hero for IT resilience!
Orchestration is the hero for IT resilience! Here are 4 reasons why orchestrated workflows are needed for every IT resilience scenario that requires speed or scale.
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The Resilient Journey Podcast – Organizational Resilience
Was delighted to join Mark Hoffman’s podcast to start 2026 by discussing findings from DPM’s Organizational Resilience Trends research from last fall. We took the top ten takeaways and split them between episodes 216 & 217. Episode 216 January 5, 2026 First four takeaways : methods and metrics Episode 217 January 12, 2026 Six More…
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Understanding BaaS-DRaaS-CRaaS
The more time I spend with Managed Service Providers offering Backup and Disaster Recovery with a backdrop of Cyber Resilience, the more differentiated some MSPs’ solutions are across the BaaS > DRaaS > CRaaS spectrum.
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You are the last line of defense
An EMT is taught “You’re not studying to pass the exam, but to stand in the way of death“ … there’s a lesson in here for those that do Cyber Resilience, Data Resilience, or Disaster Recovery.
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Disaster Recovery Journal Fall 2025 — Wrapup on Backup
One of my favorite conferences of the year is Disaster Recovery Journal. They do two per year in different parts of the US to enable Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Crisis Management leaders to learn not just from experts, but from each other.
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Why BaaS or DRaaS matters for Data & Cyber Resilience
One of the most important things you can do to ensure data or cyber resilience is to get your data out of the building or cloud region – i.e., the production environment. Get your data out of the building because if you don’t have at least one survivable copy, then you don’t have a recovery…
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