BCP/DR Primer – Part 2 – BCP Tiers and recovery requirements

In Part1 of our BCP/DR Primer series we defined some key terminology that we will use as we build up our plans and document our systems as they map against our ability to recovery them. The BCP Tiers are common among many organizations although you may seem some deviation in the specific time-frames that they … Read more

BCP/DR Primer – An introduction to planning your IT recovery strategy – Part 1

You see the acronyms all over the place, and it can be very overwhelming. There are so many articles about cloud, SPOF, RPO, RTO, five 9 up-time and in the end it is really all meaningless unless you understand your own environment. A common misconception is that by putting your data “in the cloud” that … Read more

Welcome Veeam to the DiscoPosse!

Please join me in welcoming Veeam Software (http://www.veeam.com) as a sponsor to the DiscoPosse website. I’ve been working with the Veeam products in my lab as well as using the Veeam Backup Free Edition for production backups and cross-datacenter migrations which has really impressed me with its great features and ease of use. For those … Read more