Recovering when it all goes down: backup strategies that actually restore, recovery time objectives that reflect reality, and disaster lessons learned in production, not tabletop exercises.
Disaster RecoverySeptember 1, 2026
When a vendor has been working on your problem for a week without a theory, that is your signal to bring in somebody else. One firm spent a week on a slowdown that had stopped our business. A second firm…
Disaster RecoverySeptember 1, 2026
A tested system and a proven system are different things, and most companies say covered when they mean tested. I built a disaster recovery site over several years with no budget and no headcount, tested it regularly, and never once…
ConsultingSeptember 1, 2026
Before you commission a technical assessment, find out what decision it is going to be used in. Honest engineers doing honest work can still produce a report that exists to strengthen somebody's position in a negotiation, and the outcome will…
Business ContinuityJuly 4, 2026
My consultant called while I was driving to a Renaissance fair: the power had failed, the generator had not come on, one UPS was missing, a coin-sized battery had died, the DR link had been down for two days, and…
Business ContinuityJuly 4, 2026
Lightning fried a computer room around me. Backhoes cut my DR links. A tabletop exercise with a truck bomb and an active shooter taught a room of professionals that half of them could not authorize anything. Twenty years of disaster…
Change ManagementJuly 4, 2026
The system that worked yesterday would not come up today, and there were no logs to explain why, because the failure was the logging. We spent three days awake hunting an earthquake. The cause was a punctuation mark, and the…
Business ContinuityJuly 4, 2026
The consultant's heroics got the disks back. Then came the part the first article only promised: bringing up applications that had been written on the assumption they would never stop. No restart procedures, no known states, dependencies documented in nobody's…
Disaster RecoveryJune 28, 2026
Breathless at the top of a canyon at eight at night, explaining to a fireman named Kurt what had happened and where my father was.
Disaster RecoveryMay 21, 2026
Fire on both sides of the road, and when I looked back it had jumped behind me. Years of camping experience and nothing in the car that helped.
Disaster RecoveryOctober 12, 2024
Milton dropped a record 14.5 inches of rain and spawned two dozen tornadoes. Here is the firsthand aftermath and what it confirmed about readiness.
Disaster RecoveryOctober 9, 2024
Milton reached Category 5 with 155 mph winds. Drawing on decades of disasters, here is my complete preparation routine and why pets belong at the center.
Disaster RecoveryOctober 6, 2024
With Milton strengthening in the Gulf days after Helene, I ran my whole preparedness checklist again. Here is exactly what I did to get ready.
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