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Disaster Recovery

  • Why I love DRaaS – and you should too

    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.

  • If you aren’t testing, then you don’t have a plan

    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…

  • Orchestration is the hero for IT resilience! 

    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.

  • The Resilient Journey Podcast – Organizational Resilience

    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…

  • Understanding BaaS-DRaaS-CRaaS

    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.

  • You are the last line of defense

    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.

  • Disaster Recovery Journal Fall 2025 — Wrapup on Backup

    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.

  • Why BaaS or DRaaS matters for Data & Cyber Resilience

    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…

  • DRJ 2025

    DRJ 2025

    Excited to be speaking at Disaster Recovery Journal’s 2025 Fall event … in Dallas, Texas This will serve as the ‘debut’ of not only Data Protection Matters as an analyst firm, but also our first research project under the DPM brand — surveying on how Organziational Resilience is aligned and facilitated within institutions with insights…