03 Jul 2009

Companies offered disaster recovery advice

Companies have been offered a number of tips on improving their disaster recovery readiness.

Firms should always look to ensure the safety of their employees as their top priority during any times of crisis, according to eWeek.

Therefore, putting in place an efficient evacuation procedure should be their biggest concern.

In addition, the website noted that the safeguarding of company files should also be a major point of focus and, as such, it stated that outsourcing these responsibilities to a third party disaster recovery provider could help to reduce the stress of these situations, while ensuring as much information as possible is recovered.

SearchDataBackup.com recently noted that firms could improve their disaster recovery readiness by embracing continuous data protection (CDP) as a way of ensuring all files stored are as up-to-date as possible in the event of a crisis.

An added benefit of CDP, the website noted, is that these systems can be configured to work alongside other data management software such as Microsoft Hosted Exchange.