On Aug 23, 2011, at around 1:50 p.m. EST, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake that centered in Virginia started to roll across Pennsylvania covering the mid-Atlantic region. Though the earthquake caused little ...

If you work for a very large enterprise with a multi-million dollar annual budget for disaster recovery systems, you’ve probably already got your DR system in place for your Microsoft Exchange ...

'Chaos Monkey brings chaos to your cloud and ControlMonkey brings control,' said Aharon Twizer, CEO of the cloud infrastructure automation startup. There are a lot of different components that make up ...

XOsoft last week introduced software based on the premise that data replication and mirroring software isn’t any good if it isn’t working. The company, which sells replication and mirroring tools, ...

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 two ...

Disaster recovery planning is vital for smaller businesses. The rise of cyber attacks, especially ransomware, has increased the risk of disruption and data loss to smaller firms. SMEs are also ...

I simulate controlled outages to reveal hidden dependencies and harden recovery. I use tc, namespaces, iptables/nftables and mock services; automate setup and teardown. I plan scope, log everything, ...

As Dan Roche, CEO of E.magination Network, drives to his office, the street lights and all other forms of electrical power appear to be out. Roche's BlackBerry pager, however, shows new e-mail, and ...