Company Downtime

RenovoData was featured in the 3PL Perspectives publication (October 2022 Edition) with this article: Preparing for Resilience: Disaster Recovery Plans. 3PL Perspectives is a third-party logistics magazine provided by the Transportation Intermediaries Association. Read on...

A RenovoData customer was recently featured in this Toggle Magazine article, Ensuring Upgrades Work When the Rubber Hits the Road. George Lawman, Director of Information Technology at Decker Truck Line, discusses how they recently upgraded their IT Disaster Recovery with RenovoData. These enhanced services, along with other technology upgrades, make their business infrastructure more efficient and secure. Read on...

RenovoData was featured in the 3PL Perspectives publication (June 2022 Edition) with this article: Fight Ransomware with Cyber Resiliency. 3PL Perspectives is a third-party logistics magazine provided by the Transportation Intermediaries Association. Read on...

RenovoData was featured in the 3PL Perspectives publication (May 2022 Edition) with this article: Strengthen Your Cyber-Resilience with an Acceptable Use Policy. 3PL Perspectives is a third-party logistics magazine provided by the Transportation Intermediaries Association. Read on...

The swelling trend of working from home coupled with the growing impact and frequency of cyber-attacks and data breaches has left organizations of all sizes searching for ways to improve their IT resilience and recovery capabilities from cyberthreats. One of the leading causes of cyberattacks is employee negligence. One of many steps to do to improve an organization’s security posture is for management to create and adopt an Acceptable Use Policy. Click on the link to learn more.

Multiple cloud solutions can serve you effectively, but only if you fully understand their functions and integrate them properly. You are responsible for the security of your data, so you should take great care in blending disparate components into a smoothly performing whole. Learn about leveraging multi-cloud tech...

Your organization likely has some degree of data backup which is a foundational element in creating a resilient IT infrastructure. However, backups are simply not enough these days to ensure a fortified environment with agile recovery capabilities. Learn about a better backup strategy for your company...

While most types of malware attacks are leveling off in frequency, ransomware is on the rise. Ransomware costs for 2020 are estimated to have reached $20 billion for organizations worldwide. Don't pay the ransom, invest in better recovery instead. Learn better ways to better protect your company...

Online security for a remote landscape. The growth of remote workforces has weakened many organizations’ normal protections, resulting in a new generation of malware. New varieties of fraudulent clickbait appear in the form of fictitious cures and bogus pandemic services, along with the usual scams. Learn more about some steps you can take while your employees work remotely.

The COVID-19 outbreak may have caught the world off guard and will end and one day. The actions your company takes now will affect its future. For Guidance in planning your company's powerful response to the pandemic, please click on the link.

During these unprecedented times, many organizations are enduring business interruption and uncertainty like they’ve never seen before, but workaround procedures can be put in place to help. To learn more about continuity planning basics, click on the link.

When emergencies arise, people are thrust into fight-or-flight mode. At these times the speed, accuracy, and thoroughness of the team’s responses can mean the difference between a company’s survival and its destruction. Learn what to do when hacker assaults, weather events, or other catastrophes threaten your data and systems.

Effective data backup and disaster recovery are imperative in our current technological environment. When disasters strike, whether through malicious cyber-attacks, natural events, or unforeseen accidents, systems and backed-up data need to be recovered quickly if the company is to avoid losses of productivity, performance, and reputation. Read more on the ideal use case for cloud...

RenovoData was featured in the 3PL Perspectives publication (September 2019 Edition) with this article: The Cloud Can’t Eliminate Your Responsibility for Data Protection.  3PL Perspectives is a third-party logistics magazine provided by the Transportation Intermediaries Association. Read on...

The TIA (Transportation Intermediaries Association) Conference and Tradeshow always has incredible education series. This year, once again, we were asked to join an  industry panel of experts, including our own Chuck Cook (CEO of RenovoData), plus Ben Barnes, Chief Information Security Officer at McLeod Software, Alex Hamerstone, Practice lead for Governance, Risk & Compliance at TRUSTEDSEC and moderator Brian Evans, President & CEO, L&L Freight Services, Inc.. Read more and view the video.

The article provides expert-level detail on guiding 3PL and Trucking Companies through the importance of having a solid plan and helping them to prepare for a disaster.  Read more...

Last month (June 2017), RenovoData were once again featured in The Logistics Journal. The article provides expert-level detail on helping 3PL and Trucking Companies to get a grasp on the realities of data backup and to avoid the traps of common misconceptions that often circulate. Learn more.

The TIA (Transportation Intermediaries Association) Conference and Tradeshow always has incredible education series. This year we were able to not only attend the conference but our CEO, Chuck Cook, RenovoData joined an  industry panel of experts, including Ben Barnes, IT Director at McLeod Software, Chris Hauser, Vice President, Travelers Risk Control, Cyber Program and moderator Bill Cassidy, Senior Editor, Trucking & Domestic Transport. Read more and view the video.

The cost of server downtime can be overwhelming. To estimate just how expensive it could be for your business, take a moment to calculate your potential losses. You’ve probably taken steps to guard against major hardware failure, but if you’re relying solely on a data backup solution to recover your server, you might be setting yourself up for future problems.  Read more about protecting your server and using the correct tools.

Data protection is nothing less than business protection, and to be effective it must be as nearly invincible as possible. Yet even the most technically sophisticated organizations, those familiar with the fine points of data backup, can make a particularly dangerous mistake: not noticing a single point of failure. This means any significant part of a system that is without redundancy. If one major component ceases to function, it can set off a cascade of collapse and the system can stop cold.

In August, RenovoData again were once again featured in the leading publication from the Transport Intermediaries Association, The Logistics Journal.  The article, written by our own Chuck Cook, provides expert-level detail on recent downtime scenarios that have made the news as well as looking at the possible assessments a company can take to gauge their potential downtime.  Learn more and read the full article. 

The objective of ransomware is simple: using invasive encryption to extort money by holding an organization’s network and data hostage. But ransomware technology is far from simple, and it can inflict severe damage on businesses and institutions of any size.

Read "Guarding Against Ransomware: Some Essentials" now.

What is downtime?

Simply put, downtime is an interruption of your business. This interruption can be caused by a multitude of factors, both internal and external. How downtime affects your business is also influenced by the industry you are in, whether you are service-based, product-based, brick-and-mortar or online. Read more...