Disaster recovery planning is essential for modern businesses. When IT systems suddenly go down, the incident triggers anxiety in users and customers, as well as unleashing operational chaos.

During our search for new team members, ProActive Solutions looks for IT professionals with extensive experience. When we chose Ken Foote as our new IT Infrastructure Leader, we were impressed by his credentials as a nearly 30-year IT infrastructure expert.

In Parts 1 and 2 of our IBM Power for Data Resiliency Series, we looked at why disaster recovery is important for today’s businesses and how to develop an effective disaster recovery plan. In the journey toward greater business resiliency, disaster recovery can be an entry point for achieving high availability.

In Part 1 of our IBM Power for Data Resilience series, we explored how disaster recovery has gained a cybersecurity focus and its importance in maintaining your company’s reliability and productivity.

To promote data resilience, organizations need to develop disaster recovery strategies that enable them to bounce back quickly after a traumatic incident. When companies think of disaster recovery, they typically see it as a solution for addressing the negative impact of natural disasters, such as wildfires, floods, or blizzards. Organizations make plans to back up and recover data when their systems are shut down by a traumatic event or equipment failure.

At ProActive Solutions, we are committed to expanding our team with professionals who bring valuable expertise to better serve our clients. We're excited to introduce Aaron Brown, a seasoned expert in IBM Power Systems with over 25 years of experience in engineering, architecture, and IT. 

The hybrid cloud is one of the most popular cloud models because of its flexibility and cost effectiveness. Forbesreported that hybrid cloud implementations are rising because they lead to operational efficiency, faster application development, and deeper business insights. 

Research shows that ransomware presents a formidable and increasing threat to companies’ backup data, causing most of the recoveries conducted by managed backup and disaster recovery services providers. The Achilles heel of backup data is that companies must use a multilayered approach to security to combat evolving ransomware attacks.

The research group Digital Society defines the digital world as a place in which technologies have become an integral part of the way we live our lives, making life easier and more efficient.

No company is safe from natural disasters or data breaches. Unfortunately, many businesses don’t have business continuity or disaster recovery (DR) solutions in place. The massive power outages in Texas this winter are a case in point. The power utility was not expecting severe winter weather and had to resort to rolling blackouts to prevent a total system failure.