Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. A system administrator who has actually been through a real disaster told me in a recent podcast interview that most of the challenges he had were more about basic infrastructure like internet, lodging, and food. In this final article in the series, I want to focus […]
Lessons from a Real Disaster Recovery: Plan for Basic Infrastructure (Part II)
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. You might think that restoring the operating system and data for hundreds of computers would be your primary challenge in a disaster recovery; however, a recent podcast interview with someone who went through an actual disaster recovery says otherwise. This is the second in a series […]
Lessons from a Real Disaster Recovery: You’ve got to Recover the Network First
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Being forced to perform a complete disaster recovery under duress is an incredibly difficult thing; it’s also a great way to learn. On my Restore it All podcast, I recently interviewed an IT professional who was the man on the ground after a hurricane took out […]
It’s Time to Admit It: Backup is Your Job
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Salesforce finally made it official: Backup is the customer’s responsibility. To be clear, it always was the customer’s responsibility, but Salesforce used to provide a safety net that some used as an excuse not to back up their Salesforce account. As of July 31, 2020, that […]
How GDPR Has Influenced the World
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The General Data Protection Regulations (the GDPR) of the European Union may not have solved all data privacy issues in the European Union, but it has definitely cemented the all-important idea of data privacy into the world’s collective consciousness. On this two-year anniversary of the GDPR, […]
Disaster Recovery Lessons from Tiger King: Why the 3-2-1 Rule Rules
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. You had to have been living under a rock to have not heard of Tiger King, Netflix’s latest true crime documentary. Watched by more than 34 million people in its first ten days, it’s the story of the self-proclaimed “Tiger King,” Joe Exotic. Spoiler alert: Don’t […]
Backup is a Solid Foundation of Data Management
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. I find myself preparing for World Backup Day at a time that companies around the world are still reeling from the effects of the coronavirus. IT professionals from China to Italy and everywhere in between are having to adapt to our new normal. It seemed impossible […]
Why GDPR Compliance Does Not Mean You’re Ready for CCPA
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is not GPDR. If you made sure your company complied with GDPR, the good news is you won’t have to start from scratch for CCPA. But they are very different laws with subtle (and some not so subtle) differences that […]
The Myth of Permanence: Why Backing Up Could Save Your Business
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Office 365 is one of the top enterprise SaaS applications and has become a staple technology across nearly every sector.However, there’s a common and costly misconception that cloud-based apps are automatically backed up and recoverable. While these apps have some native protection for incidents like server […]
The Armageddon That Wasn’t: GDPR One Year Later
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. If the first year’s existence of the GDPR has shown us anything, it’s that the European Commission is serious about its successful implementation. It levied over €56 million in fines against 91 companies – €50 million of that was against a single company. We can also […]