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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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8 ingredients of an effective disaster recovery plan

Network World

Which just goes to show that “not all disasters come in the form of major storms with names and categories,” says Bob Davis, CMO, Atlantis Computing. That’s why it is critical for all businesses to have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. Earlier this month, a monkey caused a nationwide power outage in Kenya.

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BC & DR Pros, We Need Your Help!

Forrester IT

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. Each year, we focus on a particular resiliency domain: IT disaster recovery, business continuity, or overall enterprise risk management. Read more Categories: Business continuity.

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Lessons Learned From The Recent British Airways Outage

Forrester IT

Here's what you should do: Read more Categories: Automation. Disaster recovery. BA execs will get to the root-cause analysis soon, but the event (and historical failures at airlines in general) provides a bonanza of lessons for execs everywhere who want to better equip their organizations to handle such exigencies.

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OVH datacenter disaster shows why recovery plans and backups are vital

Venture Beast

OVH announced today that a major fire destroyed one of its Strasbourg datacenters, highlighting why disaster recovery plans are so important. Read More.

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Forrester’s Security & Risk Research Spotlight - Governance, Risk And Compliance

Forrester IT

Below, I've highlighted some of our most recent and exciting GRC research: Read more Categories: Brand Risk. Disaster recovery. I also recently finished a series of reports on the state of business continuity (which I have creatively named part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ) to give you a jump start on your GRC efforts.

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TechTalk 9: Copy data solutions

Virtualized Greek

By 2015 and Storage Field Day 7 ([link] Catalogic ([link] software presented their solution, I become dismissive of the category. The concept has potential for infrastructure specific such as backup and non-real time disaster recovery.