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November 02, 2026 — 3 min read
UNM cyberattack diverts ambulances, disrupts care and raises HIPAA concerns
November 02, 2026 — 3 min read
UNM cyberattack diverts ambulances, disrupts care and raises HIPAA concerns
A cyberattack at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disrupted clinical and academic operations, prompted ambulance diversions and canceled classes. The incident highlights how health care downtime can affect patients, students and faculty while raising questions about protected health information, HIPAA safeguards and cyber resilience.
September 22, 2021 — 2 min read
Minimize business risk by aligning disaster recovery and cybersecurity
September 22, 2021 — 2 min read
Minimize business risk by aligning disaster recovery and cybersecurity
Disaster recovery solutions call for new thinking, architectures, and implementations – including alignment with cybersecurity to minimize business risk. At DRJ Fall 2021, a panel of experts will lead an exploration of modern disaster recovery solutions, how to best implement them, and how to build disaster recovery strategies that protect your MSP business and your clients.
September 13, 2021 — 4 min read
The 5 biggest mistakes in data recovery and how to avoid them
September 13, 2021 — 4 min read
The 5 biggest mistakes in data recovery and how to avoid them
Successful data recovery has many elements, and these must work on all cylinders to be sure your business recovers from a disaster without suffering unacceptable consequences. Unfortunately, many businesses are not adequately prepared for a disaster because they make these data recovery mistakes.
August 09, 2021 — 4 min read
How to sell data recovery to your clients?
August 09, 2021 — 4 min read
How to sell data recovery to your clients?
Your clients need a data recovery solution, but many of them do not know it or if they do, they do not think data recovery is important. Here are some disturbing statistics that are proof to this point.
June 09, 2021 — 3 min read
What is data integrity?
June 09, 2021 — 3 min read
What is data integrity?
Data integrity refers to the information stored in any type of database or data center that is accurate, complete, consistent, and reliable, no matter how long it is stored or how often it is accessed. Maintaining data integrity means ensuring data remains intact, searchable, and recoverable over the course of its lifecycle. It is the job of data protection solutions to ensure data integrity by protecting sensitive and business-critical information from external and internal threats.
May 20, 2021 — 6 min read
How much can data loss really cost your business?
May 20, 2021 — 6 min read
How much can data loss really cost your business?
Data can be lost for a variety of reasons and the cost of data loss varies depending on the event type, the industry, and the location
March 30, 2021 — 4 min read
5 ways to protect your home network
March 30, 2021 — 4 min read
5 ways to protect your home network
Before we discuss what you need to do to protect your home network, computer, Wi-Fi connection, and data, let’s discuss why it is important. You may be surprised to understand the full repercussions of a cyberattack to you and to your company.
March 23, 2021 — 2 min read
Charting a low-risk path to modern disaster recovery
March 23, 2021 — 2 min read
Charting a low-risk path to modern disaster recovery
Several new forces have converged to highlight the urgent need for disaster recovery (DR) and to transform its business case. The sudden shift to remote work, the growing reliance on SaaS applications, and a surging cyberthreat environment have created daunting new challenges to preserving 24/7/365 business uptime. The high cost and relative inflexibility of traditional DR solutions call for new thinking, architectures, and implementations – including a path forward that minimizes business risks. With companies experiencing an average of 14 hours of IT downtime annually, resulting in 545 hours of lost employee productivity, there is a better way ... and we'll be sharing it at DRJ Spring 2021.
March 08, 2021 — 5 min read
What is offsite disaster recovery?
March 08, 2021 — 5 min read
What is offsite disaster recovery?
Offsite disaster recovery (DR) is a business continuity strategy where an organization’s production systems and data are replicated and maintained in a location away from the office and production systems themselves.
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
What types of businesses need a disaster recovery plan?
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
What types of businesses need a disaster recovery plan?
There was a time when only large corporations worried about disasters and developed disaster recovery (DR) plans. But those days are long gone. Whether your business is a global organization or a five-person shop, developing a company disaster recovery plan is a must.  If you work for a small-to-medium-sized business (SMB), you are probably wondering how your organization can afford the talent, time, and budget to develop and execute a DR plan. Read on and discover how.
March 08, 2021 — 5 min read
How to offer DRaaS as a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?
March 08, 2021 — 5 min read
How to offer DRaaS as a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?
Many organizations, including some of your clients, do not believe they need a disaster recovery (DR) solution because they already have backups – but this is a dangerous assumption. While backing up their systems protects their data, backup alone will not help your clients recover their data in the event of a disaster.
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Why every MSP should invest in a disaster recovery solution?
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Why every MSP should invest in a disaster recovery solution?
As a managed service provider (MSP), you offer your clients a variety of IT resources to remotely manage part or all of their IT infrastructures, which can include managing their operating systems, applications, databases, networks, endpoints, as well as ensuring security, compliance, and backup. Many organizations will buy your services because it is a less expensive option or, more importantly, because you bring the right tools, expertise, and best practices to support more complex, mission-critical IT functions.
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Alternative to Azure Disaster Recovery
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Alternative to Azure Disaster Recovery
Site Recovery is an Azure disaster recovery (DR) solution that replicates workloads running on your Windows/Linux servers or VMware/Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) into Azure and orchestrates failover and failback events when a disaster happens. Replicating to Azure eliminates the costs and complexity of maintaining a secondary data center and includes the ability to: