The primary goal of this guide is not simply to provide a checklist of tasks, but to help you develop an understanding of the disaster recovery (DR) planning process and the principles that underlie it. Before getting into the details, let’s consider first just what this guide will do for you and equally importantly, what it will not do. What this guide will do is to lay out a framework for DR planning that keeps things conceptually simple and helps you know what steps must be carried out and why, without a lot of jargon or unnecessary formality.

Mid-sized businesses have long struggled to protect their IT systems. Many firms are inadequately protected and mistakenly think that a disaster is rare and won’t happen to them anytime soon. This custom Yankee Group Report uses customer interviews, statistical data and Yankee Group SMB survey results to examine disaster recovery (DR) issues.

Powerful backup and flexible deployment options, including enhanced software, backup appliances, and backup solutions in the cloud, offer flexibility and choice in how you manage backup, allowing you to deploy a modern infrastructure that best suits your IT requirements, business needs, and environment. But how do you know which backup strategy is right for your business? Read this whitepaper to better understand which deployment option could best suit your needs.

Read When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them to understand backup challenges, impacts, and solutions. Don't let your business fall victim to downtime because of a computer or system failure.

In this e-book, you'll find principles for effective and efficient disaster recovery, insights on how to ensure your backup solution meets your organization's needs, and what steps you should take to minimize business disruptions due to disasters.

In this whitepaper you'll why it is important to have a backup solution that protects your data - and that can restore it with a minimum of delay at a critical time.

Download this whitepaper to discover the four key things you should know about securing small to medium enterprises in the current business landscape.

In this whitepaper, Symantec offers seven tips for how business owners can beef up and protect their company.

Download this whitepaper to learn three useful steps to protect your virtual systems. There's no better time than the present to give your virtual systems top-of-the-line backup and restore protection.

This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-and illustrates how SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.

Download this HP white paper to learn how to reap virtualization's additional benefits, including built-in, cost-effective.

Learn how VMware virtualization solutions can help you address disasters quickly and easily. This white paper takes an in-depth look at some of the key features of virtualization that help defend your IT environment against disaster.

SMBs are making virtualization one of the hottest trends in IT. The reasons? Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of technology, frees up time to make their businesses more responsive and improves their ability to rebound from disasters.

This top ten list from VMware will help you understand what to consider, and help you be prepared for disaster if it strikes.

Although efficient and reliable backups form the foundation of a complete DR strategy, IT teams still face several hurdles to retrieve critical information from a restore operation. Download this paper to learn more.

Ensuring immediate access to business critical data following a disaster event is a top priority for IT management. More organizations are replicating their backups to remote locations for disaster recovery.

In this brief, IDC discusses the challenges of using tape and the benefits of disk-based data protection solutions with data deduplication, especially if a business is experiencing unabated data growth, a lack of recovery performance, and increased costs associated with physical tape. Read the brief.

This ESG white paper confirms that momentum continues to build around server virtualization. Learn about an in-depth survey of 463 senior IT professionals in both large midmarket and enterprise-class organizations in North America and resulting trends.

Read this whitepaper to learn about solutions like the EMC Data Domain Archiver and how it addresses many challenges organizations are struggling with

Layered Tech's engineers created a customized package of virtual private data centers (VPDCs), managed services and disaster recovery solutions that support KANA's clients, large and small. Layered Tech tailored the architecture to meet the highest enterprise security requirements, as well as ensuring that each KANA client can deploy applications that scale to ongoing volume fluctuations.

This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-and illustrates how SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.

For some companies, even a few hours of downtime can become a business disaster. IT risks must be considered as serious as any other significant business risk. When was the last time you assessed your business risks? Download this HP white paper to learn how to reduce the financial impact and maintain acceptable levels of productivity during an unplanned disaster.

Server virtualization reduces costs and enhances business agility. But for many companies, a focus only on cost reduction can become a problem if the company loses the ability to respond to new economic changes.

Closing the Virtualization Loop white paper identifies the objectives in the next phase of virtual machine backup and recovery and provides recommendations on how to improve backup and disaster recovery in a hybrid IT environment.

This white paper provides an annual worldwide ranking of international confidence in backup and disaster recovery (DR) readiness, capabilities and practices in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute.