Misery loves company. If you want plenty of both, don’t bother developing a disaster recovery plan. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about a quarter of businesses do not reopen after suffering a disaster. That’s a lot of closures when you consider how many hurricanes, wildfires and floods have swept the country over the past couple…

Microsoft Azure adoption grew nearly 35 percent over the past year, to 58 percent of the enterprises surveyed in the “RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report.” That’s good news for companies considering whether and how to migrate to Azure. They have plenty of opportunities to learn from real-world examples. At CDW, the most common…

Across industries, organizations are moving workloads between on-premises data centers and the public cloud, creating a hybrid computing environment that combines the efficiencies of on-premises equipment with the agility and scalability of the cloud. While this approach delivers an optimized, flexible computing environment, it also creates headaches for IT professionals responsible for coordinating backups across…

In a world of automation and set it and forget it IT resources, there is something quaint about physically handling a piece of equipment nightly, especially equipment based on technology that was invented nearly 70 years ago, back in 1951. What equipment am I talking about? Nope, I’m not talking about the phone system or…

I have been fortunate to work for some very complex and mature IT departments throughout my career, and one of the more important practices I saw within these IT shops was a solid disaster recovery and business continuity strategy. As an IT business person that has participated on all sides of the disaster recovery and…

The Discovery Channel has been airing a show since 2003 titled, “MythBusters.” The show’s hosts use elements of science and the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths and news stories. There’s been a lot of chatter about healthcare and the cloud, so let’s run our own MythBusters-style experiment on cloud technology and…