Kelyn Technology

With the increasing frequency of ransomware attacks, it is crucial to ensure your organization has a solid data recovery strategy. Almost every news article about ransomware mentions the need for good backups. Maintaining a good set of backups is one of the key strategies for mitigating the damage caused by the attacks. But backups alone are not enough. One of the topics I find has not been discussed is the recovery plan. Pre-planning is critical to a successful data recovery strategy. Many organizations plan their systems to meet a specific “Backup Window”. When I talk to clients, often the first thing they want to discuss is “How fast can the data be backed up?”. In my experience, what many organizations fail to do is plan for the recovery window. Backups are worthless if you are unable to recover or recover quickly enough. Below are a few topics that should be considered when reviewing your organization's recovery plan: Do you have defined data types with Service Level Agreement...

For many IT professionals, disaster recovery planning is a pain – and a job requirement. Literally dozens of job descriptions outline DR as part of the job, yet it remains a challenge for many. Many organizations struggle with the cost, preparation and accountability of disaster recovery. At the same time, it is essential to any organization that wants to recover from any minor or major emergency and stay in business. Cloud Disaster Recovery: What’s your strategy? Talk with current and former IT leaders about cloud-based disaster recovery and you will hear some truly painful common stories: A telco IT architect spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on a co-location facility, reserving the resources for disaster recovery testing and any actual emergency. Working with multiple backup systems and many storage locations, the telco tested on weekends, reformatted plans and still struggled to make DR a smooth process. An enterprise had a written DR plan, but never tested it. A 7.0 ...