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.
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?
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions Built For Managed Service Providers
Tech Republic
JANUARY 10, 2023
If any of that data is compromised or breached, companies are vulnerable to significant revenue loss and even failure.
Report: SMEs Are Prime Targets and Must Plan for Disaster Recovery
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
This is the gist of a new report titled " A New Age of Disaster Recovery Planning for SMEs " (download required) produced by MIT Technology Review Insights and sponsored by OVHcloud. The pandemic, geopolitical factors, and the new hybrid/work-from-home landscape put midsize companies at 500% more risk of being targeted in 2021.
What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery?
Galido
JUNE 13, 2019
Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? Blizzards, hurricanes, and rainstorms occur every year, affecting businesses, homes, and institutions. Almost everyone now is thinking about measures to mitigate disaster and to recover from the effects.
Avoid These 3 Disaster Recovery Mistakes
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 31, 2017
One in five organizations experiences an unplanned incident such as power outage, fire, flood or malicious attack in any given year, something that could impact business continuity. That's why a good disaster recovery plan is so important. However, not all companies implement security planning solutions
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery : spf13.com
SPF13
OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery. There are a variety of reasons businesses either do not have a disaster recovery plan or their current plan is substandard. This is problematic when the decision-makers have bought into one or more of the common myths surrounding disaster recovery.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Putting Your Plan in Place
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 27, 2014
One in 3 companies have declared a disaster in the past five years, writes Ray Emirzian of docSTAR. Where would your business be without electricity? So if you think it can’t happen to you, think again. Industry Perspectives'
Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 12, 2024
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.
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.
Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
As AWS expanded to 9 distinct AWS Regions and 25 Availability Zones across the world during the last few years, many of our customers started to leverage multiple AWS Regions to further enhance the reliability of their applications for disaster recovery.
What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 18, 2024
This piece of legislation in the European Union (EU) requires companies to be compliant by January 2025, meaning businesses have just under one year to ensure they’re prepared. And how can businesses ensure they’re ready? But what exactly does this policy mean for IT security?
14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2023
To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.
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Cyber Resilience: Building Immunity in the Face of Evolving Threats
SecureWorld News
JUNE 11, 2023
Awareness is critical to resilience; companies must create a culture of awareness around any potential vulnerabilities to increase preparedness for cyberattacks. Organizations must embed advanced tools such as Real-time monitoring through threat intelligence feeds, which are critical in detecting incidents with effective recovery plans.
The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2023
We went into disaster recovery failover mode, with everyone in IT focused on getting systems back up and running. And as any CIO who has dealt with a similar experience knows, the often-overlooked PR piece can put even the most bullet-proof of disaster recovery plans in peril.
HCI Breaks Through Traditional Barriers to Ensuring Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Nutanix
APRIL 10, 2020
HCI ushered in a new model for building IT solutions, causing a dramatic shift in the way companies are thinking about supporting business critical operations, both live and in the case of disaster.
HCI Breaks Through Traditional Barriers to Ensuring Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Nutanix
APRIL 10, 2020
HCI ushered in a new model for building IT solutions, causing a dramatic shift in the way companies are thinking about supporting business critical operations, both live and in the case of disaster.
The Increasing Demand for Telecoms During a Pandemic
Spearline Testing
JANUARY 7, 2021
“The demand for telecommunications services during the COVID-19 pandemic, for both business continuity and personal reasons, has never been greater.”
HCI Breaks Through Traditional Barriers to Ensuring Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Nutanix
APRIL 10, 2020
HCI ushered in a new model for building IT solutions, causing a dramatic shift in the way companies are thinking about supporting business critical operations, both live and in the case of disaster.
Routed: Being Committed to Sustainability Will Ultimately be a Non-Negotiable Attribute in Business
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 20, 2022
From the products we offer to the services we provide, our aim is to provide the highest levels of business continuity responsibly. These include Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, storage, and a wide array of modern, custom cloud-native applications.
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Enterprise Storage Solution Provider of Choice: The Case Studies
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Digitization has transformed traditional companies into data-centric operations with core business applications and systems requiring 100% availability and zero downtime. One company that needs to keep data on a tight leash is Petco, which is a market leader in pet care and wellness products. Infinidat rose to the challenge.
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Outages at Delta and Southwest Airlines hold valuable management lessons
ComputerWorld IT Management
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
What can your company learn from their unfortunate experiences? Because airlines are highly dependent on IT, both companies undoubtedly had a disaster recovery plan (DRP) and a business continuity plan (BCP.) Both airlines’ outages were massive, requiring days to fully recover.
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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 20, 2023
After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. It can also improve business continuity and disaster recovery and help avoid vendor lock-in.
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Fountainhead
APRIL 29, 2009
Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics. For example, if youre a salesperson, youre probably in an office 10% of your time, if that much -- so why do companies pay for that permanent office space? But how would this affect business operations? Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics.
Cigna Health Data Leak Exposes Massive Provider Information Database
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
In a recent revelation, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a significant data leak affecting one of the United States' largest health insurance companies, Cigna Health. The company boasts a vast network comprising more than 977,000 practitioners and 6,300 facilities. Operating in all 50 U.S.
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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 14, 2024
For Italo, this IT-business dialog is based on a flexible IT infrastructure that includes numerous automation and AI components, and provides the necessary groundwork for business continuity. It’s very advantageous to use RPA, and they’ll continue to automate the low-value-added mechanical and manual tasks.”
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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 28, 2022
We recently connected with Corriero to learn about IT Vortex’s commitment to the Zero Carbon Committed Initiative, what motivated the company to radically lower its carbon footprint, and why environmentally-friendly IT solutions are crucial. It’s a humanitarian goal.”.
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One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 28, 2022
Start off by doing a data protection assessment of all your company’s data sources. Each dataset brings a different value to the company. Before you make storage and protection decisions, you must know which category each piece falls into – and the value level it either provides or could cost the business.
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In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don't Neglect Home Site Restoration.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2013
In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data.
Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 18, 2022
They also know that without a reliable disaster recovery (DR) solution to protect business-critical applications, all their modernization efforts could be rendered moot in a matter of seconds. An IDC survey across North America and Western Europe highlights the need for effective disaster recovery.
8 data strategy mistakes to avoid
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 24, 2024
To break down silos , the company has created a unified data environment that integrates data across various systems for data sharing throughout the organization.
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8 big IT failures of 2023
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 26, 2023
IT provides the plumbing for just about every company in existence today. We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old.
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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Nonetheless, companies need to ensure that valuable corporate data is always available. Perform a comprehensive analysis of your corporate data, determine what data needs to be encrypted and infused with cyber resilience and what doesn’t, and figure out how the protection needs to keep your company in compliance.
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Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 5, 2022
Current headlines from Ukraine have many companies concerned about the safety of employees or contractors residing there. 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.
What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 30, 2022
Although Rogers – one of Canada’s major internet, broadcasting, and mobile wireless companies – restored service to most customers within a day, the catastrophic loss of service startled Canadian businesses. The company was rewarded for its farsightedness on July 8, 2022. Personally, my children and I had no way to communicate.
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Military Tips On Business Resiliency
Cloud Musings
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
If you think company strength will protect you from this type of adverse incident, you are mistaken. Since salary and benefits for the workforce represents one of the largest expenses for a company, the “Revenue per employee” ratio is often used by investor as a measure of company strength.
Cloud technologies for startups: Fuelling growth and innovation
Dataconomy
AUGUST 4, 2023
These investments were often large, expensive, and cumbersome, particularly for rapidly growing companies. Furthermore, cloud computing enhances data security and disaster recovery capabilities, protecting valuable information and ensuring business continuity.
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Trasformazione digitale e sostenibilità: ecco come i CIO affrontano la sfida
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 16, 2024
La trasformazione digitale è un percorso a tappe e, per molti CIO italiani, passare di livello due vuol dire sistematizzare i progetti in ottica di data-driven company mettendo al centro la sostenibilità. E il ruolo del CIO è ancora sostenibile?
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Should You Have a Business Email Compromise Incident Response Plan?
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
You have a Business Continuity Plan. You have a Disaster Recovery Plan and a Cyber Incident Response Plan. But do you have a Business Email Compromise (BEC) Incident Response Plan? As a result, the company must now also clean up their network and deal with the legal and financial implications of the breach.
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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?
Fountainhead
APRIL 20, 2009
And fast repurposing means you can deliver instant High Availability (HA), entire environment disaster recovery (DR), and near-instant scaling (capacity-on-demand). Today their DR site not only ensures business continuity, it plays an active role in daily computing requirements—notably improving utilization. (WCS),
What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
It demands a blend of foresight, strategic prioritization, and having effective disaster recovery plans in place. Parent company SingTel has since refuted that explanation , citing safety systems in routers at Optus being at fault, not the software upgrade. Don’t wait for something to happen.
NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference
Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
The company’s cloud brokerage, cyber analytics, IT. data center disciplines – servers, operating systems, storage, business. continuity and disaster recovery. enterprise management virtual storefront and platform-as-a-service. PaaS) tools will be featured at booth 511 on the exposition floor.
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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 4, 2023
From embedding malware or a phishing link in a document to manipulated or outright forged documents and other types of cyber fraud, the increase in document-related attacks cannot be ignored, especially if your company handles tax forms, business filings, or bank statements–the three types of most frequently manipulated documents.
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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 23, 2013
One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. With flexible “pay-as-you-grow” models, cloud computing can evolve with the needs of your business. Furthermore, some companies are bound by certain data retention policies.
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