5 Tips for DR and BC Managers
Tips for DR and BC Managers:How to Evaluate your Disaster Recovery Plan Evaluating your disaster recovery plan To ensure the protection of your critical data, applications, and the continuous...
View ArticlePlanning for weather related business interruptions
Hurricanes, tornadoes, storms, flooding and other severe weather events are an unavoidable fact of life. In the last 12 months, severe weather caused more than $120 billion in damages within the United...
View ArticleDisasters have long lasting economic impact
Japan's economy contracted between July and September, official data showed Monday, reversing two previous quarters of growth and underscoring fears that its post-disaster recovery has stalled....
View ArticleBusiness Continuity and Disaster Recovery Briefs
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Briefs10 Backup Best Practices supplementing a disaster recovery and business continuity solution with the cloud10 Backup best practices - supplementing a...
View ArticleReviews of natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide
The report reveals that late-season winter weather affected much of Europe throughout the month, bringing an extended period of heavy snowfall, sub-freezing temperatures, high winds, ice and flooding....
View ArticleJust in time manufacturing disaster recovery impacts
Just-in-time manufacturing techniques, under which components are delivered to factories for assembly into larger components or final products only as needed, are key to eliminating the cost of...
View ArticleTrends in Business Continuity according to Continuity Central
Trends that are emerging in terms of the changes that business continuity professionals expect to see include: 10 percent are anticipating changes in incident / crisis management processes;8 percent...
View ArticleWhat level of changes do CIOs expect to see in the way thier organization...
Only 16.8% expect no changes in infrastructure and organizational business continuity in 2014.Almost half (49.6%) expect to see small changes; and a third (33.6%) anticipate large changes in the way...
View ArticleRecent DR study raises a number of concerns
The results of a recent study indicate an urgent need for organizations to make significant improvements to their backup strategies with one in five organizations experiencing back-up failures at least...
View ArticleRTO and SRO defined
RTO is the maximum length of time a process can go without being performed before there are unacceptable operational, financial, or regulatory impacts (et al). A service recovery objective is how soon...
View ArticleIT Infrastructure Archieture
Business leaders now understand that digital is central to their business and success. They are grasping that fact that their customers, products, and competitors are now fundamentally digital....
View ArticleDisaster recovery and business continuity infrastructures are lacking in many...
Disaster recovery and business continuity infrastructures are just like an onion - layers that you peel and make you cry! That's the heritage of year and years of focusing on backup, often on the basis...
View ArticleOver 20% of all organizations faced a business disruption last year
Janco has found that over 20 percent of all enterprises faced a business disruption last year. While short outages are common, longer service disruptions, due to weather, human error or even squirrels,...
View ArticleMany not prepared for disasters
A survey of small and medium enterprises found that only 8 percent are prepared to recover from an unplanned IT outrage, while 23 percent of them report it would take more than a day to resume...
View ArticleBusiness Continuity Plans - Paper or Electronic?
In advisory issued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commissions (CFTC) Division of Swap Dealer...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery Risks Reduced
Disaster recovery risks have been reduced with the recent Adobe fix to nine vulnerabilities in Flash Player that allow attackers to record users keystrokes or take complete control of their...
View ArticleTop 10 Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Lists
Top 10 Disaster Recovery Business Continuity ListsTop 10 Disaster Recovery Best Practices As requirements for avoiding downtime become increasingly stringent, administrators need tools and platforms...
View Article10 step disaster recovery planning testing plan
10 step disaster recovery planning test planIdentify people who will participate in the testIdentify the enterprise operations that will be testeTrain people before the test Establish test...
View ArticleSetting Business Continuity test conditions
The choice of business continuity exercise test conditions is an important factor in its success, but how do you go about deciding what you should focus on? Start by determining the top risks for your...
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