Our crack Services team has written a new technical solution brief about the pitfalls of doing DR for multi-tier applications. Seeing as how most apps these days are multi-tier, and those apps are usually the most critical to a business, figuring out how to backup or failover is paramount. We’ll serialize the tech brief for a few days here.

nScaled is now offering free accounts. We just rolled this out last week and we’re starting to see some good sign-ups. We hope you’ll give it a try too.

Rachel Dines is my hero! She wrote a dynamite piece on improving disaster recovery preparedness that is all about our favorite topic, Testing. Dines is an analyst at Forrester covering IT infrastructure issues like BC/DR, so she knows her stuff. In her article, she lays out 10 best practices for companies for exercising their DR plans. It’s all terrific advice. Go read it now.

This is the first of three posts we’ll do on a data/workload protection & recovery model we call Three Phase Workload Recovery.