Ontrack has advice on how victims can recover data from computers, hard drives, servers, and mobile devices that have been damaged in the fires to help rebuild businesses and family memories.

Data Specialties Inc. (DSI) offers Power Readiness Service, which enables an understanding of data center electrical systems, electric loads, and backup power supplies, and offers implementation of updated systems to mitigate risks from natural disasters like wildfires and power outages.

Amy Al-Katib, editor-in-chief of Mission Critical, interviews Bryan Kaplan, CTO of Juvare.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, we find ourselves impacted in ways we have not previously considered. Dealing with new challenges has pushed everyone out of their comfort zones and forced us to reconsider what is actually essential.

When staying home is the best solution to saving lives, business leaders and investors must ramp up efforts to make working from home more collaborative and safer from a technology perspective.

In the event of a widespread emergency, such as COVID-19, VCOM DRaaS enables users of critical communications systems to continue to work from home or other remote locations outside the office or studio.

As a result of COVID-19, we have to broaden our definition of disaster preparedness to include events that might not impact the physical world or our facilities but that still leave us operating in a changed environment — one that requires rapid responses and flexibility.

Whether it’s sudden disruption from innovation, a natural disaster, or a pandemic forcing people to stay home, business must continue, and this means networking systems and processes must anticipate unexpected change.

As organizations in all sectors have rapidly emptied their offices and sent their employees home to comply with ever more expansive shelter-in-place and quarantine mandates, replicating the full breadth of services remotely has been IT’s singular priority.

Detecting fires early or, ideally, before they happen, is always critical, but this is especially important for data centers.