It’s no secret that proper communication is vital to running successful business operations. Throw in a category 5 hurricane or other natural disaster and communications can come to a screeching halt. Here are five little known ways to keep lines of communication open.

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Tags: business continuity, communications, Disaster Recovery, dr planning, fibertown, sms messaging, social media messaging, voice over IP, vonage

Proper storage is essential to infrastructure design and disaster recovery planning. After determining your RTO and RPO, the next step is investing in infrastructure objectives. How can you be sure to choose the right kind of storage?

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Tags: business continuity, data storage, Disaster Recovery, dr planning, fibertown

If money were no object, all large organizations would have fully developed hot sites, dual or triple-cored data centers and the latest technology enhancements to ensure instantaneous failovers are imperceptible to the end customer. The reality is that IT budgets are shrinking, and we are all faced with doing more with less. Understanding the basics of DR and BC planning arms IT directors and CTOs with the confidence that allows for a good night sleep.

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Tags: Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery, DR plan, recovery point objective, recovery time objective, RPO, RTO

With hurricane season right around the corner, many Gulf Coast-based companies are revamping their disaster recovery procedures and testing their BC plans. The unfortunate truth is many of them will wait until the last minute and key elements will be missed. In a five part series, we discuss the essential pieces of an effective and affordable DR/BC plan – RPO/RTO, Communications, People, Data and Testing.

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Tags: BC plan, colocation houston, communications, data center houston, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery, DR Office Space, DR plan, RPO, RTO