The public cloud offers a myriad of options for providing high availability and disaster recovery protections for SQL Server database applications. Conversely, some of the options available in a ...

Underestimate the complexity and cost of cloud computing backup and recovery and you risk missing data and lost customers. Here’s what to do. It’s late on a Friday. You get a call from your CIO that ...

Although the cloud is well known for its potential use as a backup target, public clouds are increasingly being used as a disaster recovery platform. Although the cloud is well known for its potential ...

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

For many years, a central component of Allan Hancock College’s disaster recovery planning was ensuring mission-critical data was backed up and readily available to be restored. But a shift in payroll ...

Big data is a relatively new discipline. In its initial days, only a handful of large-scale IT enterprises had the infrastructure and resource to support big data initiatives. But the scenario is ...

Backups and disaster recovery are well-worn topics for which there exists an unlimited amount of conflicting guidance. Everyone has an opinion about how to go about it, but in the end each ...

Only the luckiest IT professionals will go through their careers without experiencing a major systems failure, outage or other incident that forces them to invoke a disaster recovery (DR) plan.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Just after midnight on March 10, 2021, a fire decimated OVHcloud's SBG2 data center—one of ...

It was spring 2019 in Grey County, Ontario, and Evan Davis was losing sleep. As the technology and infrastructure manager for the county, which includes nine municipalities in the Canadian province’s ...

Jessica works at a nursing home in rural Nevada. Most of the software upon which the nursing home depends is cloud-based, such as the electronic health records database Jessica consults before she ...