The way businesses buy disaster recovery is changing – and rapidly. Over the last few years, the growth of cloud-based data storage – led by Amazon’s S3 but closely followed by Microsoft Azure and ...

Historically, building and maintaining a disaster recovery (DR) site, while critical to ensure business continuity, was often too costly and complex for most companies. As Rajiv Mirani, chief ...

Give managed cloud computing provider Rackspace points for timing. Coming right after the Uptime Institute issued a warning for data center operators to improve their environmental disaster plans, the ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced five storage management and disaster recovery services in a bid to take advantage of an uptick in storage-related consulting that’s being driven by tight IT ...

It’s not a question of if your business will experience data loss — it’s a matter of when. Backup is widely employed as the last line of defense to protect against threats like human error, hardware ...

According to a three-year-old study from Price Waterhouse Coopers, 70 percent of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year. It’s a sobering statistic. Yet despite ...

The outlook for small businesses that suffer a disaster of any kind—natural, man-made, or data-related—isn’t pretty. According to the Small Business Administration, 25 percent of businesses never ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...