Revisiting Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Information Week
JUNE 10, 2020
Best-of-class DR/BC plans cover both IT and the business. Unfortunately, in many companies, the emphasis for recovery is on the IT, and not on business operations.
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COVID-19 demonstrates the need for disaster recovery and business continuity plans
Tech Republic Security
MARCH 19, 2020
The coronavirus may put organizations at risk through short staffing or unavailable workers and services, but disaster recovery and business continuity plans can help sustain business operations.
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7 Business Continuity Lessons Any Organization Can Learn
Information Week
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Here are some habits that organizations can apply to overcome the challenges, keep employees safe, manage risk and come through any crisis, stronger than ever.
Business Continuity Planning: The Pandemic Wake-Up Call
Information Week
AUGUST 3, 2020
Ensuring continuity of operations in the face of unforeseen disruptions must be a top priority going forward. Is your organization in good shape?
How to create an effective business continuity plan
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 7, 2023
A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?
Rob Ferrill Details How Innovation and Cyber Resilience Enable Business Continuity
Information Week
DECEMBER 9, 2023
Driving innovation quickly while maintaining IT resiliency and cybersecurity in the modern enterprise is no small challenge.
Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 5, 2022
Events like this highlight the importance of developing contingency plans based on events in the world that can impact businesses. Business continuity is an essential part of the planning process for CIOs and CTOs. Black swan events can impact businesses in significant ways. How could we prevent that from happening?”
Weathering the Storm: A Guide to Preserving Business Continuity
Information Week
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Here are some ways IT leaders can maintain network connectivity and preserve business continuity in the face of a hurricane or other type of major disaster.
Ukraine's IT Pros Tell Their Stories of Bombing & Business Continuity
Information Week
APRIL 8, 2022
Tech workers tell us how they're using their talents to continue business, protect co-workers, and defend their country during wartime. People write in the corporate Slack about their air-raid warnings.'
Strong Business Continuity Management Brings Resilience
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 11, 2022
Business disruptions happen every day and can cause companies to lose millions of dollars and suffer reputational damage. When astute executives, including CIOs, cheat disruption by focusing on business continuity management (BCM) programs that build resilience, the enterprise transformation can prosper. Dugan Krwawicz.
SIRIS Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 10, 2023
The post SIRIS Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery appeared first on TechRepublic. Utilizing a cloud-first approach, managed service providers (MSPs) can offer their clients an all-in-one solution that incorporates local backup and recovery with a secure, cloud-based repository and full disaster recovery in the cloud.
Calling Business Resilience Pros: Our Latest State Of Business Continuity Survey Is Live!
Forrester IT
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. We alternate between two resilience domains each year: IT disaster recovery and business continuity. This is the year of business continuity!
How to support business continuity in the cloud
Tech Republic Cloud
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Combining cloud-based DR processes with on-premises data centers allows for improved business operations and improved recovery time if disaster strikes.
The Future of Work in a Post-COVID Era
Information Week
AUGUST 10, 2020
Advice for CIOs: With remote working here to stay, now is the time to advance cloud initiatives, consider uses for AI, and strengthen business continuity.
22 cybersecurity courses for aspiring and in-demand IT security pros
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
If you want to land a high-paying cybersecurity job or ace an IT security certification exam, check out these online training courses, which cover GDPR, business continuity, ethical hacking, and more.
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Great Resignation hits IT departments and companies are switching strategies
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 20, 2021
To ensure business continuity amid high turnover, many CIOs are planning to alter their strategies to make the company "less dependent on employee institutional knowledge," says PwC.
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Cloud Tech: The Make or Break in Today's Business Resiliency
Information Week
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Cloud is non-negotiable for business continuity in the COVID-19 era. Yet the scramble to get online has led businesses to forget about three key components.
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Measure Success: Key Cybersecurity Resilience Metrics
Information Week
JUNE 19, 2024
Cyber resilience is key to business continuity and profitability. Here are top cybersecurity metrics that can be used to measure cyber resilience effectively.
8 best business continuity software solutions
Tech Republic
AUGUST 11, 2022
Review the features of these business continuity software solutions to better understand their capabilities and limitations. The post 8 best business continuity software solutions appeared first on TechRepublic.
Why a Chief Cyber Resilience Officer is Essential in 2024
Information Week
JANUARY 25, 2024
eSentire’s CCRO Tia Hopkins offers an inside look at end-to-end cyber resilience and why business continuity is critical, particularly in an increasingly rigid regulatory landscape.
ControlMonkey aims to bring order to cloud disaster recovery chaos
Network World
MARCH 25, 2025
Part of SOC 2 and ISO 27001 talk about having disaster recovery and business continuity plans, Twizer noted. Compliance and governance integration Disaster recovery isnt just a nice to have type of technology, its also often part of regulatory compliance.
7 risk management rules every CIO should follow
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 8, 2025
Every enterprise needs an updated disaster recovery and business continuity plan , Sullivan advises. These plans help build resilience while focusing on restoring systems and an operational strategy to maintain mission-critical business functions, he explains.
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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?
Network World
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Cybersecurity has become a boardroom priority with far-reaching implications for business continuity and reputation. It requires a new mindset that acknowledges the decentralized nature of our digital world and emphasizes continuous verification and adaptation for security.
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Contact centers reacted to Covid-19 quite well. Its now time to respond with the same rigor.
Forrester IT
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
In my view, most contact centers dealt with Covid-19 challenges with an amazing tenacity and resourcefulness in solving for people, technology, and business continuity. I have had the opportunity to get up close and personal in managing crises at contact centers.
How IT Leaders Can Weather Geopolitical Unrest
Information Week
JANUARY 29, 2025
Ensuring business continuity in times of geopolitical unrest can be very challenging. Extreme agility helps.
Dependability Demands Of Your VDI Infrastructure Are Skyrocketing
Forrester IT
MAY 19, 2020
Either of these approaches is a rushed response to an evolving business continuity risk, as a significant percentage of employees are now forced to work remotely. Your IT continuity risks are […].
How to stop accruing technical debt and reduce cybersecurity risks
Tech Republic Security
JULY 7, 2021
Learn the three areas of technical-debt accumulation that business and IT leaders need to monitor in order to reduce cybersecurity or business continuity incidents.
About a third of cloud users need to learn resiliency lessons from Ian
Network World
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Beyond the human cost, natural disasters like hurricane Ian can take a high toll on business continuity, causing enterprise-infrastructure damage that takes days or weeks to fix while downtime costs in the six figures per hour.
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COVID-19: Latest News & Commentary for IT Leaders
Information Week
APRIL 10, 2020
Check here regularly for InformationWeek's updates on the coronavirus pandemic and related issues like business continuity, remote working, IT operational challenges and other technology considerations.
How WFH and RTO Burnout Differ
Information Week
MARCH 25, 2025
Employee burnout is a common thing as the pace of business continues to accelerate. However, the symptoms in WFH and RTO environments differ. Heres what CIOs should know.
Nutanix offers virtual private cloud HCI, multicloud workload management
Network World
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Nutanix is releasing enhancements to its AOS operating system and Era database-management service designed to make it easier for enterprises to manage data, workloads, and business-continuity security tools in hybrid cloud environments via software-defined networking capabilities AOS and Era are both components of the Nutanix Cloud Platform.
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Is Your Business Prepared to Operate After a Ransomware Attack?
Information Week
AUGUST 31, 2022
Three best practices to ensure business continuity and minimize data loss following a ransomware attack.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan
Tech Republic
JULY 21, 2024
Organizations, regardless of size, should have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Such a plan helps IT pros create policies that address critical elements and processes that should be considered and implemented before a crisis occurs.
SAP to give on-prem customers three-year reprieve — with a catch
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 27, 2025
The software manufacturer explained that it would facilitate the transition to Rise with SAP and support customers business continuity. SAP confirmed these plans upon request, reported Handelsblatt. The option is called SAP ERP, private edition, transition option.
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Technology and the Pandemic: Complete Coverage for IT Leaders
Information Week
JUNE 16, 2020
Check here regularly for InformationWeek's updates on the coronavirus pandemic and related issues like business continuity, remote working, IT operational challenges and other technology considerations.
AI platforms driving business transformation in the UAE: insights from industry experts
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
As businesses continue to explore the potential of AI, the integration of generative technologies is seen as essential to remaining competitive in a rapidly evolving market.
Calling Business Resilience Pros!
Forrester IT
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. We focus on a different, rotating resiliency domain each year: IT disaster recovery, business continuity, or overall enterprise risk management. In this survey, […].
IT resiliency: Running two different hypervisors
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Rather than wait for a storm to hit, IT professionals map out options and build strategies to ensure business continuity. Having a Plan B is table stakes for any IT team. This may involve embracing redundancies or testing new tools for future operations.
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Is your disaster recovery a house of cards? Why BIA, BCP, and DRP are your foundation
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 4, 2025
In fact, successful recovery from cyberattacks and other disasters hinges on an approach that integrates business impact assessments (BIA), business continuity planning (BCP), and disaster recovery planning (DRP) including rigorous testing. Disaster recovery is more than just an IT issue.
Can Kubernetes Navigate Disaster?
Forrester IT
JULY 12, 2021
Once you’ve got Kubernetes in production, those predictable business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) exercises get a lot more interesting — and not necessarily in a good way. That’s why I’m focusing on the challenges of Kubernetes disaster recovery and business continuity in my recently published research.
2018 state of resilience: The pressure is on
Network World
JANUARY 12, 2018
These surveys, conducted in 2017 by Vision Solutions, now part of Syncsort , collected responses from 5,632 professionals to determine their key business continuity concerns and their strategies for addressing high-profile hacking attacks, data breaches, disruptive natural disasters, and escalating storage and data accessibility needs.
Developing a Continuity Plan for the Post-Coronavirus World
Information Week
MARCH 16, 2020
These baseline business continuity strategies will help ensure your organization is positioned to keep operations going even as the business environment is up-ended.
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How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Investment in resilience is an investment in business continuity. The EU regulation, which will commence in early 2025, includes baseline resiliency requirements like supply chain audits, business continuity planning, internal training, and testing against common threats.
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5 Priorities for IT Leaders During this Summer of COVID
Social, Agile and Transformation
JULY 20, 2020
It's one compliance requirement to have business continuity plans, but an exponential challenge to quickly enable global. Somewhere a couple of rungs further down the ladder, most organizations owe plenty of thanks to CIOs, IT leaders, and especially the IT service desk.
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